Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 266 239
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 +128
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 1,046 1,360 2,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.34% 1.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.69% 7.10% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 636 539 883
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.26% -3.43%
75th Percentile £66,816 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +15.54% -5.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,602 19,143 26,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.89% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,263 8,888 13,070
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,650
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% +0.32%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Accessibility.

Salary trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 803 £55,000 -4.35% 269
UK excluding London -1 725 £50,000 -8.90% 162
Work from Home +6 401 £57,500 -2.13% 127
North of England +135 229 £57,965 +5.62% 48
London -41 223 £64,500 -0.77% 117
Midlands -78 137 £51,250 -10.09% 35
North West +74 128 £57,500 -2.13% 26
Scotland +11 122 £58,800 +27.39% 10
South East -77 114 £40,000 -20.00% 34
West Midlands -39 97 £59,400 -2.20% 29
Yorkshire +110 66 £52,500 -4.34% 17
South West -38 55 £50,000 -9.09% 20
East of England +22 38 £34,500 -31.00% 12
East Midlands -80 36 £40,000 -20.00% 6
North East +18 35 £57,965 +2.59% 6
Wales +13 16 £55,900 +5.49% 4
Northern Ireland +32 14 £58,800 - 4

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.25%) CMS
3 25 (2.39%) IIS
4 24 (2.29%) Apache
5 21 (2.01%) Tomcat
6 20 (1.91%) Confluence
7 18 (1.72%) Umbraco
7 18 (1.72%) WordPress
8 8 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.57%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.57%) SAS
11 4 (0.38%) OpenZeppelin
12 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.29%) Moodle
12 3 (0.29%) Orchard CMS
13 1 (0.096%) Drupal
13 1 (0.096%) Totara
Applications
1 69 (6.60%) Sketch
2 56 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (2.58%) Adobe XD
5 23 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (1.53%) InVision
7 12 (1.15%) Adobe Captivate
8 8 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.76%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.48%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.48%) Revit
11 4 (0.38%) InDesign
12 3 (0.29%) Trello
12 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.096%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 56 (5.35%) NEC Housing
2 20 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.05%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.096%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.096%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 160 (15.30%) Azure
2 141 (13.48%) AWS
3 84 (8.03%) Figma
4 63 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 47 (4.49%) Miro
6 46 (4.40%) Heroku
7 42 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (3.54%) GCP
9 36 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (2.49%) SaaS
11 23 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.01%) Serverless
13 18 (1.72%) GitHub
14 14 (1.34%) Google Analytics
14 14 (1.34%) IaaS
15 12 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
16 11 (1.05%) SurveyMonkey
17 8 (0.76%) Amazon S3
17 8 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.43%) Intranet
2 14 (1.34%) Internet
3 12 (1.15%) HTTP
4 10 (0.96%) LAN
4 10 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.96%) WAN
5 8 (0.76%) DNS
6 5 (0.48%) Firewall
7 4 (0.38%) Broadband
7 4 (0.38%) DHCP
7 4 (0.38%) IPFS
7 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.38%) WPA
8 2 (0.19%) Network Security
8 2 (0.19%) SNA
8 2 (0.19%) Wireless
9 1 (0.096%) FTP
9 1 (0.096%) SAN
9 1 (0.096%) VoIP
9 1 (0.096%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 44 (4.21%) Power BI
3 43 (4.11%) Oracle Database
3 43 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.49%) Relational Database
4 26 (2.49%) Tableau
5 22 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.82%) Oracle Database 12c
7 17 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.53%) Big Data
9 12 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.96%) GIS
11 7 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.67%) Spatial Data
12 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.57%) EDMS
13 5 (0.48%) Looker
13 5 (0.48%) MySQL
13 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (10.90%) Git
2 52 (4.97%) JIRA
3 26 (2.49%) Visual Studio
4 25 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 23 (2.20%) Postman
6 20 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
7 19 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.63%) Jasmine
8 17 (1.63%) Selenium
9 16 (1.53%) JMeter
9 16 (1.53%) Karma Test Runner
9 16 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
10 15 (1.43%) Axure RP
11 14 (1.34%) Balsamiq
11 14 (1.34%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.34%) SpecFlow
12 13 (1.24%) webpack
13 11 (1.05%) SoapUI
13 11 (1.05%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.86%) JUnit
General
1 327 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 262 (25.05%) Finance
3 200 (19.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 183 (17.50%) Public Sector
5 170 (16.25%) Marketing
6 130 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (10.42%) Law
8 73 (6.98%) Banking
9 61 (5.83%) Police
10 60 (5.74%) Local Government
11 47 (4.49%) Investment Banking
12 39 (3.73%) Financial Institution
13 36 (3.44%) Retail
14 32 (3.06%) Legal
14 32 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (2.20%) Back Office
17 20 (1.91%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.91%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 250 (23.90%) Senior
2 195 (18.64%) Designer
3 155 (14.82%) Developer
4 111 (10.61%) Lead
5 88 (8.41%) UX Designer
6 84 (8.03%) Senior Designer
7 69 (6.60%) UI Designer
8 66 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 64 (6.12%) Senior UX Designer
9 64 (6.12%) UI/UX Designer
10 50 (4.78%) Interaction Designer
10 50 (4.78%) Senior UI Designer
11 48 (4.59%) Senior UI/UX Designer
12 46 (4.40%) User Researcher
13 39 (3.73%) Lead Software Engineer
14 36 (3.44%) Architect
15 35 (3.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 35 (3.35%) Senior User Researcher
16 34 (3.25%) Administrator
17 33 (3.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (27.53%) HTML
2 222 (21.22%) CSS
3 101 (9.66%) React
4 85 (8.13%) .NET
5 83 (7.93%) AngularJS
6 80 (7.65%) Node.js
7 79 (7.55%) RESTful
8 59 (5.64%) Web Services
9 57 (5.45%) REST
10 49 (4.68%) Vue
11 43 (4.11%) jQuery
12 41 (3.92%) Sass
13 40 (3.82%) ASP.NET
14 33 (3.15%) Spring
15 32 (3.06%) Spring Boot
16 31 (2.96%) HTML5
17 29 (2.77%) OAuth
18 28 (2.68%) ASP.NET Web API
19 25 (2.39%) Swagger
20 24 (2.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 41 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.87%) Mobile App
7 25 (2.39%) Social Media
8 21 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 21 (2.01%) NHS
9 19 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.82%) e-Learning
9 19 (1.82%) FMCG
10 15 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.34%) Animation
12 13 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.24%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.15%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.05%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.74%) Windows
2 47 (4.49%) Unix
3 37 (3.54%) Linux
4 21 (2.01%) Solaris
5 19 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.34%) Android
8 6 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (37.28%) Agile
2 260 (24.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 257 (24.57%) User Experience
4 235 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (19.50%) Coaching
6 175 (16.73%) UX Design
7 158 (15.11%) Actionable Insight
8 155 (14.82%) CI/CD
8 155 (14.82%) Prototyping
9 151 (14.44%) Mentoring
10 146 (13.96%) Software Engineering
11 133 (12.72%) User Research
12 126 (12.05%) Customer Experience
13 125 (11.95%) Workshop Facilitation
14 113 (10.80%) Front End Development
15 108 (10.33%) Analytics
16 106 (10.13%) Decision-Making
17 105 (10.04%) Digital Customer Experience
18 102 (9.75%) DevOps
19 99 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 255 (24.38%) JavaScript
2 133 (12.72%) SQL
3 111 (10.61%) C#
4 98 (9.37%) Python
5 96 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 53 (5.07%) Java
7 39 (3.73%) PHP
8 26 (2.49%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.82%) Go
11 16 (1.53%) R
12 14 (1.34%) Rust
13 6 (0.57%) Dart
14 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.38%) Scala
15 4 (0.38%) Solidity
16 3 (0.29%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.29%) Bash
16 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 236 (22.56%) Degree
2 208 (19.89%) Security Cleared
3 145 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 30 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
8 17 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.05%) PhD
11 10 (0.96%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.86%) CIPD
12 9 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.86%) MBA
13 6 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.38%) GIAC
14 4 (0.38%) ISEB
14 4 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (16.16%) WCAG
2 65 (6.21%) QA
3 39 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 30 (2.87%) GDPR
5 17 (1.63%) WAI
6 15 (1.43%) SLA
7 11 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.76%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) CDISC
10 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.096%) COBIT
12 1 (0.096%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.096%) NIST
12 1 (0.096%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.29%) Docker
3 11 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (1.63%) Terraform
2 12 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.48%) Grafana
4 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.096%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.096%) Plesk
5 1 (0.096%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 163 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.83%) Adobe
3 56 (5.35%) NEC
4 54 (5.16%) Oracle
5 31 (2.96%) Google
6 17 (1.63%) VMware
7 12 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.05%) Cisco
8 11 (1.05%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.67%) Databricks
10 7 (0.67%) Mapbox
10 7 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.57%) Hotjar
11 6 (0.57%) iManage
11 6 (0.57%) Marketo
11 6 (0.57%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.48%) ATG
12 5 (0.48%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.48%) Xamarin