D Software Zephyr
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Zephyr skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Zephyr over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 683 757
Rank change year-on-year +108 +74 -92
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 19 33 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.055% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 0.37% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 65
10th Percentile £313 £406 £325
25th Percentile £338 £503 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +26.32% +18.75%
75th Percentile £478 £656 £575
90th Percentile £538 £706 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% -9.57%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Zephyr is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,122 9,016 15,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 15.10% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,340 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 246 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zephyr.

Daily rate trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zephyr within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 15 £425 -29.17% 12
UK excluding London +56 9 £375 -31.82% 7
Work from Home +114 7 £375 -37.50% 6
London +104 7 £540 -22.89% 8
North of England +25 4 £375 -37.50% 1
North West +17 4 £375 -37.50% 1
Scotland +33 2 £375 -11.76% 2
South East +19 1 £525 +24.63% 1
South West +14 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1

Zephyr
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Commercetools
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) JIRA
2 5 (26.32%) Postman
2 5 (26.32%) Selenium
3 4 (21.05%) SoapUI
4 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.79%) JUnit
4 3 (15.79%) Maven
4 3 (15.79%) TestComplete
4 3 (15.79%) TestNG
4 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
5 2 (10.53%) JMeter
5 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
6 1 (5.26%) Appium
6 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.26%) SilkCentral
6 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.26%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Billing
5 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Test Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Test Leader
4 3 (15.79%) Tester
5 2 (10.53%) CRM Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) ETL Developer
5 2 (10.53%) QA Manager
5 2 (10.53%) QA Test Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Biometrics Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Functional Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) XML
2 3 (15.79%) SOAP
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.26%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
1 9 (47.37%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Test Scripting
3 4 (21.05%) CRM
3 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Test Planning
4 3 (15.79%) API Testing
4 3 (15.79%) BDD
4 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Manual Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Regression Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Test Management
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Ruby
3 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.53%) XPath
3 2 (10.53%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ISEB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
1 1 (5.26%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) HP
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow