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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 473 527
Rank change year-on-year -61 +54 +84
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 73 29 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.11% 0.062%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.39% 0.75% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 20 11
10th Percentile £313 £323 £313
25th Percentile £350 £383 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -5.26% -25.49%
75th Percentile £448 £489 £557
90th Percentile £565 £524 £600
UK median daily rate £360 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.88% -22.73%
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 5,245 3,891 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.19% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 2,664 2,962
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £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 240 90 218
10th Percentile £26.30 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +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 20 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 20 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 -12 33 £358 -20.44% 1
West Midlands -31 32 £354 -21.33%
London -61 27 £475 +4.91% 1
North of England -69 12 £450 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire -46 7 £450 - 1
North West -48 5 £325 -18.75%
South East - 3 £358 -
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 19 (26.03%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.84%) AWS
2 9 (12.33%) Azure
3 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.59%) GitHub
4 7 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (9.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.37%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (45.21%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (43.84%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (6.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 73 (100.00%) JIRA
2 33 (45.21%) Postman
3 21 (28.77%) Git
4 18 (24.66%) Selenium
5 16 (21.92%) Jenkins
6 9 (12.33%) GitLab
7 7 (9.59%) TestRail
8 4 (5.48%) Appium
8 4 (5.48%) JMeter
9 3 (4.11%) Gatling
10 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.74%) NeoLoad
11 1 (1.37%) JUnit
11 1 (1.37%) Maven
11 1 (1.37%) QADirector
11 1 (1.37%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.37%) TestNG
11 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (57.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.37%) Advertising
6 1 (1.37%) Automotive
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Tester
2 20 (27.40%) QA Tester
3 18 (24.66%) Analyst
4 15 (20.55%) Test Analyst
5 11 (15.07%) Test Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Lead
7 7 (9.59%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) QA Analyst
8 6 (8.22%) QA Test Analyst
8 6 (8.22%) Test Manager
9 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
10 4 (5.48%) Consultant
11 3 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) QA Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) QA Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Quality Analyst
11 3 (4.11%) Salesforce Consultant
11 3 (4.11%) Senior
11 3 (4.11%) Test Leader
12 2 (2.74%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) Playwright
2 8 (10.96%) REST
3 5 (6.85%) pytest
4 2 (2.74%) LDAP
4 2 (2.74%) OpenID
4 2 (2.74%) RESTful
4 2 (2.74%) SOAP
4 2 (2.74%) XML
5 1 (1.37%) ADO
5 1 (1.37%) JSON
5 1 (1.37%) Kafka
5 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.37%) Middleware
5 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.48%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.74%) AS400
3 2 (2.74%) iSeries
3 2 (2.74%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Android
1 4 (5.48%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (83.56%) Test Automation
2 50 (68.49%) Agile
3 46 (63.01%) Test Management
4 41 (56.16%) Integration Testing
4 41 (56.16%) Migration
5 39 (53.42%) Data Migration
6 38 (52.05%) ETL
7 36 (49.32%) End-to-End Testing
7 36 (49.32%) Scenario Testing
8 35 (47.95%) System Testing
9 30 (41.10%) Test Scripting
10 27 (36.99%) Customer Requirements
11 26 (35.62%) Manual Testing
12 22 (30.14%) CI/CD
13 14 (19.18%) DevOps
14 13 (17.81%) Regression Testing
14 13 (17.81%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (16.44%) Functional Testing
15 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (16.44%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) SQL
2 16 (21.92%) Python
3 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.22%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.74%) C#
6 2 (2.74%) Cypher
7 1 (1.37%) Ruby
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (50.68%) Security Cleared
2 35 (47.95%) SC Cleared
3 32 (43.84%) ISTQB
4 6 (8.22%) Degree
5 2 (2.74%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) ISEB
6 1 (1.37%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (61.64%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) HP ALM
3 2 (2.74%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (49.32%) Oracle
2 8 (10.96%) Salesforce
3 7 (9.59%) Talend
4 6 (8.22%) Denodo
5 4 (5.48%) HP
5 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) Sage
6 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.11%) Google
7 2 (2.74%) DocuSign
7 2 (2.74%) IBM
8 1 (1.37%) New Relic
8 1 (1.37%) Splunk