Accessibility Contracts in the Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 127 132
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 22 11 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.01% 0.37% 0.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.63% 2.67% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 23
10th Percentile £316 £328 £258
25th Percentile £325 £360 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -13.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £482 £425 £538
90th Percentile £553 £500 £624
England median daily rate £469 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £28.18 £34.26 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £18.13 £22.68
% change year-on-year +65.47% -20.06% -68.72%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

Accessibility falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 391 412 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.96% 13.91% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 275 306
10th Percentile £232 £240 £275
25th Percentile £350 £331 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £611 £575
90th Percentile £609 £757 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 21
10th Percentile £15.12 £11.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.10 £13.14 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £14.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.75% -46.91% +47.99%
75th Percentile £32.82 £34.20 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.20 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year +35.42% -39.12% +46.00%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +17 17 £425 +6.25% 48
East Midlands +6 5 £322 -9.61% 27
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (22.73%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (9.09%) R Markdown
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 2 (9.09%) AutoCAD
1 2 (9.09%) MicroStation
1 2 (9.09%) Revit
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) Figma
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) npm
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) Flink
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 2 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) Axure RP
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Grunt
2 1 (4.55%) gulp
2 1 (4.55%) JBehave
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Pa11y
2 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Automotive
2 2 (9.09%) Publishing
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Coordinator
2 3 (13.64%) Designer
2 3 (13.64%) UX Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Draughtsman
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Rig Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) UI Designer
3 2 (9.09%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Junior UI/UX Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Junior UX Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Knowledge Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (13.64%) CSS
1 3 (13.64%) HTML
1 3 (13.64%) PySpark
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) Shiny
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.55%) CSS3
3 1 (4.55%) HTML5
3 1 (4.55%) jQuery
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.55%) LESS
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Sass
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Infotainment
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) Analytics
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Wireframes
4 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
4 3 (13.64%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
4 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Prototyping
4 3 (13.64%) Storage Management
4 3 (13.64%) User Experience
4 3 (13.64%) UX Design
4 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
4 3 (13.64%) Workflow
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.09%) CAD
5 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) R
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) HNC
4 2 (9.09%) HND
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) WCAG
2 4 (18.18%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) COSHH
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) ISO 14001
4 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Adobe
1 2 (9.09%) Autodesk
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Perforce
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
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