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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 468 533
Rank change year-on-year -61 +65 +78
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 68 21 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.085% 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.34% 0.60% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 13 8
10th Percentile £316 £346 £313
25th Percentile £350 £400 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.88% -29.17%
75th Percentile £443 £488 £495
90th Percentile £569 £518 £542
UK median daily rate £360 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% -34.78%
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 5,067 3,478 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.10% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,359 2,990
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 224
10th Percentile £34.64 £27.35 £33.02
25th Percentile £59.44 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £76.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -25 33 £358 -20.44% 4
West Midlands -23 32 £354 -21.33% 3
London -69 27 £435 -4.50% 2
North of England -63 5 £563 +40.63% 5
South East - 5 £358 -
Yorkshire - 3 £563 - 4
North West -41 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £418 - 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 16 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (4.41%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.47%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (48.53%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (47.06%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.94%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (100.00%) JIRA
2 27 (39.71%) Postman
3 21 (30.88%) Git
4 15 (22.06%) Selenium
5 9 (13.24%) Jenkins
6 7 (10.29%) GitLab
7 6 (8.82%) TestRail
8 4 (5.88%) Appium
9 2 (2.94%) JMeter
10 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.47%) Gatling
10 1 (1.47%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.47%) QADirector
10 1 (1.47%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (1.47%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.47%) TestDirector
General
1 41 (60.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Advertising
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Tester
2 20 (29.41%) QA Tester
3 18 (26.47%) Analyst
4 15 (22.06%) Test Analyst
5 10 (14.71%) Lead
5 10 (14.71%) Test Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Test Manager
7 5 (7.35%) Lead Test Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) QA Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Quality Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
9 3 (4.41%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) QA Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) QA Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Playwright
2 2 (2.94%) ADO
2 2 (2.94%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) pytest
2 2 (2.94%) REST
2 2 (2.94%) SOAP
3 1 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) Web Services
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Android
1 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Unix
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 47 (69.12%) Agile
3 43 (63.24%) Test Management
4 39 (57.35%) Migration
5 38 (55.88%) Integration Testing
6 37 (54.41%) Data Migration
7 36 (52.94%) End-to-End Testing
7 36 (52.94%) System Testing
8 34 (50.00%) ETL
9 33 (48.53%) Scenario Testing
10 30 (44.12%) Test Scripting
11 27 (39.71%) Customer Requirements
12 24 (35.29%) Manual Testing
13 14 (20.59%) Functional Testing
13 14 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
14 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
15 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (17.65%) Test Strategy
16 10 (14.71%) DevOps
16 10 (14.71%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.29%) SQL
2 12 (17.65%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) Java
4 2 (2.94%) C#
4 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (54.41%) Security Cleared
2 35 (51.47%) ISTQB
2 35 (51.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (4.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.94%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (58.82%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) HP ALM
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (54.41%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) Talend
3 6 (8.82%) Denodo
4 5 (7.35%) HP
4 5 (7.35%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.88%) Sage
6 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) New Relic
7 1 (1.47%) Splunk