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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 489 514
Rank change year-on-year -75 +25 +66
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 76 28 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.45% 0.66% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 22 8
10th Percentile £316 £325 £428
25th Percentile £358 £381 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £542 £488 £539
90th Percentile £601 £500 £638
UK median daily rate £405 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% +17.65%

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 5,257 4,217 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 15.10% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,924 2,737
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 166
10th Percentile £24.08 £37.90 £40.02
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £54.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £76.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -14 30 £360 -20.00% 5
West Midlands -22 28 £359 -20.22% 4
London -79 25 £500 +7.47% 8
North of England -58 17 £538 +48.28% 5
Yorkshire -24 12 £563 +73.08% 2
North West -42 5 £431 +7.81% 1
South East - 4 £358 - 10
East Midlands - 2 £428 - 1
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 27 (35.53%) Confluence
2 5 (6.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.63%) CICS
4 1 (1.32%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.53%) AWS
2 12 (15.79%) Azure
3 9 (11.84%) GCP
4 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.58%) GitHub
5 5 (6.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (5.26%) Datadog
6 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.32%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.32%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.32%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (31.58%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (6.58%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.63%) Db2
4 2 (2.63%) Power Query
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 76 (100.00%) JIRA
2 35 (46.05%) Postman
3 25 (32.89%) Git
4 18 (23.68%) Jenkins
5 16 (21.05%) Selenium
6 11 (14.47%) GitLab
7 9 (11.84%) TestRail
8 5 (6.58%) Appium
8 5 (6.58%) JMeter
9 4 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.26%) JUnit
9 4 (5.26%) REST Assured
9 4 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (5.26%) TestNG
10 3 (3.95%) LoadRunner
10 3 (3.95%) Tricentis qTest
11 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.63%) Gatling
11 2 (2.63%) NeoLoad
General
1 38 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Finance
3 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.47%) Banking
5 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Analyst
2 17 (22.37%) Test Analyst
2 17 (22.37%) Tester
3 13 (17.11%) Lead
3 13 (17.11%) QA Tester
4 10 (13.16%) Test Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Test Leader
5 8 (10.53%) QA Analyst
6 7 (9.21%) QA Test Analyst
7 6 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior
9 3 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Salesforce Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.79%) REST
2 9 (11.84%) Playwright
3 7 (9.21%) pytest
4 4 (5.26%) LDAP
4 4 (5.26%) Middleware
4 4 (5.26%) OpenID
5 3 (3.95%) Kafka
5 3 (3.95%) XML
6 2 (2.63%) JSON
6 2 (2.63%) RESTful
6 2 (2.63%) SOAP
6 2 (2.63%) Terraform
6 2 (2.63%) Web Services
7 1 (1.32%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) AS400
2 4 (5.26%) iSeries
3 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.32%) Contactless
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) IVR
5 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Linux
1 6 (7.89%) Windows
2 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.95%) Android
3 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.63%) Unix
4 2 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (80.26%) Test Automation
2 52 (68.42%) Agile
3 42 (55.26%) Test Management
4 37 (48.68%) Migration
5 36 (47.37%) ETL
5 36 (47.37%) Integration Testing
5 36 (47.37%) Scenario Testing
6 35 (46.05%) Data Migration
7 33 (43.42%) End-to-End Testing
8 31 (40.79%) Test Scripting
9 29 (38.16%) System Testing
10 28 (36.84%) Manual Testing
11 24 (31.58%) CI/CD
12 23 (30.26%) Customer Requirements
13 19 (25.00%) DevOps
14 18 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (21.05%) Defect Management
16 15 (19.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 14 (18.42%) Test Strategy
18 12 (15.79%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (39.47%) SQL
2 22 (28.95%) Python
3 10 (13.16%) Java
4 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.26%) Bash
5 4 (5.26%) Go
5 4 (5.26%) Groovy
5 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.95%) Perl
7 2 (2.63%) COBOL
7 2 (2.63%) Cypher
7 2 (2.63%) JCL
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
8 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (43.42%) Security Cleared
2 30 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 24 (31.58%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Degree
6 2 (2.63%) IIBA
7 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.32%) ISEB
7 1 (1.32%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (61.84%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.95%) GRC
3 2 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Grafana
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.32%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 29 (38.16%) Oracle
2 11 (14.47%) Google
3 6 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 6 (7.89%) Talend
4 5 (6.58%) Splunk
5 4 (5.26%) DocuSign
5 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.26%) IBM
5 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.95%) Denodo
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco
7 1 (1.32%) Genesys
7 1 (1.32%) HP
7 1 (1.32%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.32%) New Relic
7 1 (1.32%) Sage