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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 489 515
Rank change year-on-year -74 +26 +74
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 74 31 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.11% 0.061%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.41% 0.75% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 24 11
10th Percentile £315 £325 £413
25th Percentile £358 £364 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £557
90th Percentile £600 £500 £600
UK median daily rate £400 £438 £488
% change year-on-year -8.57% -10.26% +14.71%

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 5,255 4,108 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.90% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,837 2,815
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 95 169
10th Percentile £24.79 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.25 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £78.25 £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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -18 30 £360 -20.00% 4
West Midlands -20 28 £359 -20.22% 2
London -82 24 £513 +12.51% 10
North of England -56 16 £506 +39.52% 4
Yorkshire -30 11 £518 +59.46%
North West -47 5 £431 +7.81% 3
South East - 4 £358 - 9
East Midlands - 2 £428 - 2
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 25 (33.78%) Confluence
2 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.19%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Azure
3 9 (12.16%) GCP
4 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 5 (6.76%) GitHub
7 4 (5.41%) Datadog
7 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (5.41%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.35%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.35%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (39.19%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (35.14%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (6.76%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.70%) Power Query
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 74 (100.00%) JIRA
2 33 (44.59%) Postman
3 26 (35.14%) Git
4 18 (24.32%) Jenkins
5 15 (20.27%) Selenium
6 11 (14.86%) GitLab
7 6 (8.11%) TestRail
8 5 (6.76%) JMeter
9 4 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (4.05%) Tricentis qTest
11 2 (2.70%) Appium
11 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.70%) Gatling
11 2 (2.70%) NeoLoad
12 1 (1.35%) Maven
12 1 (1.35%) QADirector
12 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.35%) TestNG
General
1 39 (52.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Finance
3 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Banking
5 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.35%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Analyst
2 18 (24.32%) Tester
3 17 (22.97%) Test Analyst
4 13 (17.57%) QA Tester
5 10 (13.51%) Test Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Lead
7 8 (10.81%) QA Analyst
8 7 (9.46%) QA Test Analyst
9 6 (8.11%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Test Leader
10 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) QA Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Consultant
11 3 (4.05%) QA Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Salesforce Consultant
11 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
11 3 (4.05%) Senior
12 2 (2.70%) Automation Test Lead
12 2 (2.70%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Playwright
1 9 (12.16%) REST
2 7 (9.46%) pytest
3 4 (5.41%) LDAP
3 4 (5.41%) OpenID
4 3 (4.05%) Kafka
4 3 (4.05%) XML
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) Middleware
5 2 (2.70%) RESTful
5 2 (2.70%) SOAP
5 2 (2.70%) Terraform
5 2 (2.70%) Web Services
6 1 (1.35%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.41%) AS400
2 4 (5.41%) iSeries
3 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Contactless
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) IVR
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Windows
3 3 (4.05%) Android
3 3 (4.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (79.73%) Test Automation
2 52 (70.27%) Agile
3 40 (54.05%) Test Management
4 38 (51.35%) Integration Testing
4 38 (51.35%) Scenario Testing
5 37 (50.00%) ETL
5 37 (50.00%) Migration
6 35 (47.30%) Data Migration
7 33 (44.59%) End-to-End Testing
8 30 (40.54%) System Testing
8 30 (40.54%) Test Scripting
9 26 (35.14%) Manual Testing
10 24 (32.43%) CI/CD
10 24 (32.43%) Customer Requirements
11 20 (27.03%) DevOps
12 17 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (20.27%) Defect Management
14 12 (16.22%) API Testing
14 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (37.84%) SQL
2 19 (25.68%) Python
3 7 (9.46%) Java
4 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.41%) Bash
5 4 (5.41%) Go
5 4 (5.41%) Groovy
5 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.05%) Perl
7 2 (2.70%) Cypher
8 1 (1.35%) Ruby
8 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (44.59%) SC Cleared
3 26 (35.14%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.41%) Degree
4 4 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.70%) IIBA
6 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.35%) ISEB
6 1 (1.35%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (63.51%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.05%) GRC
3 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.11%) Grafana
3 4 (5.41%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.70%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (41.89%) Oracle
2 11 (14.86%) Google
3 7 (9.46%) Salesforce
4 6 (8.11%) Denodo
4 6 (8.11%) Talend
5 5 (6.76%) Splunk
6 4 (5.41%) DocuSign
6 4 (5.41%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.41%) IBM
6 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.05%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.70%) HP
8 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.35%) Cisco
9 1 (1.35%) Genesys
9 1 (1.35%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.35%) New Relic
9 1 (1.35%) Sage