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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 484 514
Rank change year-on-year -55 +30 +79
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 85 28 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.10% 0.057%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.60% 0.69% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 20 9
10th Percentile £313 £323 £402
25th Percentile £350 £364 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £474 £489 £596
90th Percentile £564 £524 £625
UK median daily rate £363 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -14.59% -10.53% -7.32%
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 5,306 4,045 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 14.55% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,797 2,845
10th Percentile £355 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.01
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £54.18
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -8 40 £358 -20.44% 6
West Midlands -16 38 £358 -20.44% 3
London -64 28 £475 +8.51% 6
North of England -59 15 £474 +18.50% 7
Yorkshire -25 10 £474 - 3
North West -38 5 £431 +7.81% 3
South East - 3 £358 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £428 - 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 25 (29.41%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.71%) AWS
2 12 (14.12%) Azure
3 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 6 (7.06%) GCP
6 5 (5.88%) GitHub
6 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.71%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.35%) Datadog
8 2 (2.35%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.88%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (41.18%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (5.88%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.35%) Power Query
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 85 (100.00%) JIRA
2 41 (48.24%) Postman
3 31 (36.47%) Git
4 17 (20.00%) Selenium
5 15 (17.65%) Jenkins
6 9 (10.59%) GitLab
7 7 (8.24%) TestRail
8 4 (4.71%) JMeter
9 3 (3.53%) Appium
9 3 (3.53%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.35%) Gatling
10 2 (2.35%) NeoLoad
10 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.18%) TestNG
11 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (55.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.35%) Finance
3 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Banking
5 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Advertising
6 1 (1.18%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (32.94%) Tester
2 23 (27.06%) Analyst
3 22 (25.88%) QA Tester
4 18 (21.18%) Test Analyst
5 11 (12.94%) Test Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) QA Analyst
7 8 (9.41%) Lead
7 8 (9.41%) QA Test Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 5 (5.88%) Test Manager
10 4 (4.71%) Consultant
10 4 (4.71%) Test Leader
11 3 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) QA Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Consultant
12 2 (2.35%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Python Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) Playwright
2 8 (9.41%) REST
3 6 (7.06%) pytest
4 3 (3.53%) LDAP
4 3 (3.53%) OpenID
4 3 (3.53%) SOAP
4 3 (3.53%) XML
5 2 (2.35%) Kafka
5 2 (2.35%) Middleware
5 2 (2.35%) RESTful
5 2 (2.35%) Web Services
6 1 (1.18%) ADO
6 1 (1.18%) JSON
6 1 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.71%) AS400
2 4 (4.71%) iSeries
2 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) IVR
5 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Android
2 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 64 (75.29%) Agile
3 52 (61.18%) Test Management
4 49 (57.65%) Integration Testing
4 49 (57.65%) Migration
5 47 (55.29%) Data Migration
5 47 (55.29%) ETL
6 46 (54.12%) Scenario Testing
7 43 (50.59%) End-to-End Testing
8 40 (47.06%) System Testing
9 37 (43.53%) Test Scripting
10 31 (36.47%) Manual Testing
11 30 (35.29%) Customer Requirements
12 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
13 20 (23.53%) DevOps
14 18 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (17.65%) Defect Management
15 15 (17.65%) Regression Testing
16 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (16.47%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.18%) SQL
2 16 (18.82%) Python
3 6 (7.06%) Java
3 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.35%) Bash
5 2 (2.35%) Cypher
5 2 (2.35%) Go
5 2 (2.35%) Groovy
5 2 (2.35%) Perl
5 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.18%) Ruby
6 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 43 (50.59%) SC Cleared
3 38 (44.71%) ISTQB
4 6 (7.06%) Degree
5 5 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.35%) IIBA
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) ISEB
7 1 (1.18%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (67.06%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) GRC
3 2 (2.35%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Grafana
3 3 (3.53%) HP ALM
4 2 (2.35%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.18%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (49.41%) Oracle
2 8 (9.41%) Google
2 8 (9.41%) Salesforce
3 7 (8.24%) Talend
4 6 (7.06%) Denodo
5 5 (5.88%) Sage
6 4 (4.71%) DocuSign
6 4 (4.71%) IBM
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.53%) HP
7 3 (3.53%) Splunk
8 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.18%) Cisco
9 1 (1.18%) Genesys
9 1 (1.18%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.18%) New Relic