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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 492 548
Rank change year-on-year -22 +56 +133
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 30 15 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.049% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.64% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 16
10th Percentile £318 £462 £372
25th Percentile £345 £483 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £497
90th Percentile £515 £646 £556
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -15.00%

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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
London +7 21 £410 -21.90% 3
North of England -37 6 £325 -42.22% 3
Yorkshire -36 5 £350 -30.00% 2
West Midlands -26 2 £550 +12.59%
Midlands -32 2 £550 +12.59%
North West -16 1 £275 -56.00% 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 7 (23.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) EPiServer
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Maximo
1 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) GitHub
4 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.33%) AWS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (93.33%) JIRA
2 16 (53.33%) Selenium
3 13 (43.33%) TestRail
4 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 9 (30.00%) Postman
6 8 (26.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (23.33%) Git
8 6 (20.00%) SpecFlow
9 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
9 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
10 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (3.33%) GitLab
10 1 (3.33%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (3.33%) JMeter
10 1 (3.33%) JUnit
10 1 (3.33%) TestNG
10 1 (3.33%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Tester
2 8 (26.67%) Automation Tester
3 6 (20.00%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Test Leader
6 3 (10.00%) Test Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Manual Tester
7 2 (6.67%) QA Automation Tester
7 2 (6.67%) QA Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Automation Test Lead
8 1 (3.33%) Mobile Test Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Selenium Automation Tester
8 1 (3.33%) Software Tester
8 1 (3.33%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Playwright
2 7 (23.33%) REST
3 6 (20.00%) JSON
3 6 (20.00%) XML
4 5 (16.67%) SOAP
5 3 (10.00%) Kafka
5 3 (10.00%) RESTful
6 2 (6.67%) .NET
6 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.33%) ADO
7 1 (3.33%) CSS
7 1 (3.33%) HTML
7 1 (3.33%) pytest
7 1 (3.33%) React
7 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.33%) FMCG
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 18 (60.00%) Test Management
2 17 (56.67%) Agile
3 14 (46.67%) Validation
4 12 (40.00%) DevOps
5 11 (36.67%) API Testing
5 11 (36.67%) Defect Management
6 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 10 (33.33%) SDLC
6 10 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 8 (26.67%) Data Validation
7 8 (26.67%) Manual Testing
7 8 (26.67%) Scrum
7 8 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (26.67%) User Stories
8 7 (23.33%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (23.33%) Software Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (23.33%) Test Planning
8 7 (23.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Java
2 9 (30.00%) SQL
3 8 (26.67%) C#
3 8 (26.67%) Python
4 6 (20.00%) XPath
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) Ruby
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) JTAG
3 1 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) Pega
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.33%) Duck Creek
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Guidewire
5 1 (3.33%) Optimizely
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Workday