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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 469 538
Rank change year-on-year -44 +69 +116
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 39 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.035% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.80% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 7 10
10th Percentile £313 £444 £313
25th Percentile £350 £467 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £443 £538 £458
90th Percentile £500 £600 £489
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £419
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.40% -23.86%

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 4,880 3,396 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.38% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,160 3,082
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 58 202
10th Percentile £30.11 £39.75 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £74.69
90th Percentile £82.78 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 24 February 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 24 February 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
London -31 20 £400 -13.51% 2
West Midlands -46 11 £350 -28.35% 7
Midlands -48 11 £350 -28.35% 7
North of England -63 6 £374 -33.60%
Yorkshire -52 4 £374 -25.30%
North West -31 2 - -
South East - 2 £500 - 3
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 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Maximo
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) Azure
2 16 (41.03%) AWS
3 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) GitHub
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.26%) GCP
7 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (5.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (97.44%) JIRA
2 16 (41.03%) Postman
3 12 (30.77%) Git
3 12 (30.77%) TestRail
4 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
5 9 (23.08%) Selenium
6 7 (17.95%) Cucumber
7 6 (15.38%) SpecFlow
8 3 (7.69%) GitLab
9 2 (5.13%) JMeter
10 1 (2.56%) Appium
10 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (2.56%) Gatling
10 1 (2.56%) JUnit
10 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.56%) Maven
10 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.56%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Automotive
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Tester
2 8 (20.51%) Lead
2 8 (20.51%) QA Tester
3 7 (17.95%) Test Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) Automation Tester
5 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Test Leader
7 3 (7.69%) Test Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Manual Tester
8 2 (5.13%) Senior
9 1 (2.56%) Automation Test Lead
9 1 (2.56%) ETL Tester
9 1 (2.56%) Functional Tester
9 1 (2.56%) Quality Analyst
9 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Tester
9 1 (2.56%) Senior Test Manager
9 1 (2.56%) Systems Tester
9 1 (2.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Playwright
2 7 (17.95%) REST
3 6 (15.38%) JSON
3 6 (15.38%) XML
4 2 (5.13%) ADO
4 2 (5.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) .NET
5 1 (2.56%) CSS
5 1 (2.56%) HTML
5 1 (2.56%) LDAP
5 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.56%) OpenID
5 1 (2.56%) pytest
5 1 (2.56%) React
5 1 (2.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
1 25 (64.10%) Test Automation
2 23 (58.97%) Test Management
3 15 (38.46%) API Testing
4 13 (33.33%) DevOps
5 12 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
5 12 (30.77%) Test Scripting
6 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 10 (25.64%) ETL
7 10 (25.64%) Integration Testing
7 10 (25.64%) Scenario Testing
7 10 (25.64%) SDLC
7 10 (25.64%) System Testing
8 9 (23.08%) Data Migration
8 9 (23.08%) Defect Management
8 9 (23.08%) Functional Testing
8 9 (23.08%) Migration
8 9 (23.08%) Validation
9 8 (20.51%) Microservices
9 8 (20.51%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) C#
4 6 (15.38%) XPath
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) ISTQB
2 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (38.46%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) WCAG
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) Sage
4 2 (5.13%) HP
4 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.13%) Talend
5 1 (2.56%) Pega
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Workday