Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 841 1001
Rank change year-on-year +135 +160 -161
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 200 105 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.45% 0.60% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 127 45 104
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,454 £22,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £49,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% +35.17% -45.28%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £71,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £52,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +10.41% +61.54% -23.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

WCAG 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 13,751 17,364 29,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 18.32% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,220 8,453 13,464
10th Percentile £26,500 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,100 £93,650 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +143 166 £57,965 +28.81% 14
UK excluding London +73 159 £57,965 +10.41% 11
Work from Home +88 91 £57,965 +10.41% 6
North of England +102 74 £57,965 +10.41% 3
South East +20 37 £66,250 +6.00% 3
North West +21 34 £57,965 +36.39% 1
London +102 33 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Yorkshire +83 26 £57,965 +10.41%
North East - 14 £57,965 - 2
Scotland - 13 - - 2
Midlands -2 11 £57,965 +54.57% 3
South West -49 10 £57,046 +20.10%
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
West Midlands -6 6 £57,965 +54.57% 2
Wales - 6 £67,500 -
East Midlands - 5 - - 1

WCAG
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 5 (2.50%) Moodle
2 4 (2.00%) CMS
3 3 (1.50%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Totara
Applications
1 53 (26.50%) Sketch
2 17 (8.50%) Adobe XD
3 7 (3.50%) InVision
4 3 (1.50%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.50%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.50%) Figma
2 46 (23.00%) Heroku
2 46 (23.00%) Miro
3 17 (8.50%) AWS
4 9 (4.50%) Azure
5 6 (3.00%) SaaS
6 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.50%) GCP
7 3 (1.50%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Storage
7 3 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.50%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.50%) Serverless
8 1 (0.50%) GitHub
8 1 (0.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) Intranet
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (16.50%) Selenium
2 30 (15.00%) Cypress.io
2 30 (15.00%) Git
3 14 (7.00%) Axure RP
4 13 (6.50%) Balsamiq
5 6 (3.00%) webpack
6 4 (2.00%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.50%) Moq
7 3 (1.50%) Postman
7 3 (1.50%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Babel
8 1 (0.50%) ESLint
8 1 (0.50%) GitKraken
8 1 (0.50%) gulp
8 1 (0.50%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.50%) Vite
General
1 75 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 28 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (8.50%) Marketing
5 13 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Finance
8 6 (3.00%) Banking
8 6 (3.00%) Law
8 6 (3.00%) Retail
9 3 (1.50%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.50%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 113 (56.50%) Senior
2 98 (49.00%) Designer
3 66 (33.00%) Senior Designer
4 61 (30.50%) UX Designer
5 58 (29.00%) UI Designer
5 58 (29.00%) UI/UX Designer
6 52 (26.00%) Developer
7 49 (24.50%) Senior UX Designer
8 46 (23.00%) Senior UI Designer
8 46 (23.00%) Senior UI/UX Designer
9 36 (18.00%) Interaction Designer
10 33 (16.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 27 (13.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 17 (8.50%) Senior Interaction Designer
13 16 (8.00%) Senior Developer
14 15 (7.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 13 (6.50%) Consultant
15 13 (6.50%) User Experience Consultant
16 7 (3.50%) Lead
16 7 (3.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (61.50%) HTML
2 65 (32.50%) CSS
3 41 (20.50%) React
4 32 (16.00%) HTML5
4 32 (16.00%) Jest
5 29 (14.50%) CSS3
6 7 (3.50%) Node.js
7 5 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.50%) REST
7 5 (2.50%) Vue
8 4 (2.00%) .NET
8 4 (2.00%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.00%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.00%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.00%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (1.50%) jQuery
9 3 (1.50%) Sass
9 3 (1.50%) Swagger
9 3 (1.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.00%) VLE
3 3 (1.50%) Graphic Design
3 3 (1.50%) NHS
3 3 (1.50%) W3C
4 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.50%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.50%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.50%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.50%) SCORM
5 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Android
1 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (63.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 112 (56.00%) Coaching
3 99 (49.50%) Prototyping
4 93 (46.50%) Agile
5 90 (45.00%) User Experience
6 74 (37.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 71 (35.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
8 70 (35.00%) Mentoring
8 70 (35.00%) UX Design
9 68 (34.00%) Design Patterns
10 64 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (29.50%) Workshop Facilitation
12 58 (29.00%) Actionable Insight
13 49 (24.50%) Customer Experience
13 49 (24.50%) Front End Development
14 47 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 46 (23.00%) Digital Customer Experience
15 46 (23.00%) Sprint Review
16 37 (18.50%) Analytics
17 36 (18.00%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.50%) JavaScript
2 38 (19.00%) TypeScript
3 36 (18.00%) C#
4 33 (16.50%) PHP
5 5 (2.50%) SQL
6 1 (0.50%) Go
6 1 (0.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 58 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 57 (28.50%) Degree
4 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (82.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 31 (15.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (14.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.50%) Adobe
3 5 (2.50%) Google
4 3 (1.50%) HP
4 3 (1.50%) Qualtrics
5 2 (1.00%) Monetate
5 2 (1.00%) Qubit
6 1 (0.50%) Salesforce