Zephyr Contract Job Trends in England

D Software Zephyr
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Zephyr skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 491 523
Rank change year-on-year -63 +32 +83
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 77 27 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.098% 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.46% 0.68% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 19 9
10th Percentile £313 £320 £402
25th Percentile £350 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £450 £491 £596
90th Percentile £561 £526 £625
UK median daily rate £360 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -17.71% +2.94% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.50 -

All Development Application Skills
England

Zephyr falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,263 3,948 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.30% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,357 2,719 2,886
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 93 205
10th Percentile £28.08 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.63 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zephyr relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Zephyr job vacancy trend in England

Zephyr
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Zephyr.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zephyr in England over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in England

Zephyr
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Zephyr.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zephyr within the England region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Midlands -20 34 £358 -20.44% 3
West Midlands -21 32 £354 -21.33% 1
London -47 29 £475 +4.28% 1
North of England -66 13 £450 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire -41 7 £450 - 1
North West -46 6 £431 +7.81%
South East - 3 £358 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £428 - 2
Zephyr
UK

Zephyr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (28.57%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.56%) AWS
2 11 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.09%) GitHub
4 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 5 (6.49%) GCP
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (5.19%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.30%) Datadog
7 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.30%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (41.56%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (6.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 77 (100.00%) JIRA
2 33 (42.86%) Postman
3 22 (28.57%) Git
4 18 (23.38%) Selenium
5 17 (22.08%) Jenkins
6 10 (12.99%) GitLab
7 8 (10.39%) TestRail
8 5 (6.49%) JMeter
9 4 (5.19%) Appium
10 3 (3.90%) Gatling
11 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.60%) NeoLoad
12 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.30%) Maven
12 1 (1.30%) QADirector
12 1 (1.30%) SoapUI
12 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (58.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.30%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) Automotive
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) Tester
2 21 (27.27%) Analyst
3 20 (25.97%) QA Tester
4 17 (22.08%) Test Analyst
5 10 (12.99%) Test Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) QA Analyst
7 8 (10.39%) QA Test Analyst
8 7 (9.09%) Lead
8 7 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.79%) Test Manager
10 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
11 4 (5.19%) Consultant
12 3 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.90%) QA Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
12 3 (3.90%) Quality Analyst
12 3 (3.90%) Salesforce Consultant
12 3 (3.90%) Senior
12 3 (3.90%) Test Leader
13 2 (2.60%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) Playwright
2 8 (10.39%) REST
3 5 (6.49%) pytest
4 3 (3.90%) SOAP
4 3 (3.90%) XML
5 2 (2.60%) LDAP
5 2 (2.60%) OpenID
5 2 (2.60%) RESTful
5 2 (2.60%) Web Services
6 1 (1.30%) ADO
6 1 (1.30%) JSON
6 1 (1.30%) Kafka
6 1 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) AS400
1 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.19%) iSeries
1 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.19%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Android
1 4 (5.19%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.90%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Unix
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (83.12%) Test Automation
2 55 (71.43%) Agile
3 47 (61.04%) Test Management
4 43 (55.84%) Migration
5 41 (53.25%) Data Migration
5 41 (53.25%) Integration Testing
6 40 (51.95%) ETL
6 40 (51.95%) Scenario Testing
7 36 (46.75%) End-to-End Testing
8 35 (45.45%) System Testing
9 31 (40.26%) Test Scripting
10 27 (35.06%) Customer Requirements
11 26 (33.77%) Manual Testing
12 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
13 16 (20.78%) DevOps
13 16 (20.78%) Regression Testing
14 15 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (18.18%) Defect Management
15 14 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
16 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.36%) SQL
2 17 (22.08%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Java
3 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.60%) C#
5 2 (2.60%) Cypher
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) Groovy
6 1 (1.30%) Perl
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
6 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (49.35%) Security Cleared
2 36 (46.75%) SC Cleared
3 32 (41.56%) ISTQB
4 6 (7.79%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) ISEB
6 1 (1.30%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (63.64%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) HP ALM
3 3 (3.90%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (46.75%) Oracle
2 8 (10.39%) Salesforce
3 7 (9.09%) Talend
4 6 (7.79%) Denodo
5 4 (5.19%) DocuSign
5 4 (5.19%) Google
5 4 (5.19%) HP
5 4 (5.19%) IBM
5 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.19%) Sage
6 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.60%) Splunk
8 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.30%) New Relic