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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 499 535
Rank change year-on-year -22 +36 +134
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 29 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.093% 0.048% 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.36% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 15
10th Percentile £318 £473 £371
25th Percentile £345 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £474
90th Percentile £515 £655 £560
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 4,724 3,896 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 13.28% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,442 3,353
10th Percentile £333 £341 £375
25th Percentile £410 £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 £644
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 90 204
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.06 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.81 £54.43 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.00 £90.00
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 14 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 14 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 +10 19 £400 -27.27%
North of England -33 7 £349 -38.04%
Yorkshire -39 6 £372 -25.60%
West Midlands -36 2 £550 +12.59%
Midlands -38 2 £550 +12.59%
North West -21 1 £275 -56.00%
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 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) EPiServer
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Maximo
1 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) GitHub
4 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 3 (10.34%) AWS
6 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (93.10%) JIRA
2 15 (51.72%) Selenium
3 11 (37.93%) TestRail
4 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
4 10 (34.48%) Postman
5 8 (27.59%) Cucumber
6 6 (20.69%) Git
6 6 (20.69%) SpecFlow
7 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
8 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
9 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (3.45%) GitLab
9 1 (3.45%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (3.45%) JMeter
9 1 (3.45%) JUnit
9 1 (3.45%) Maven
9 1 (3.45%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Tester
2 7 (24.14%) Automation Tester
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Test Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Test Leader
5 3 (10.34%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Manual Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.45%) QA Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) QA Leader
7 1 (3.45%) QA Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Automation Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Senior QA Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Playwright
2 7 (24.14%) REST
3 6 (20.69%) JSON
3 6 (20.69%) XML
4 4 (13.79%) SOAP
5 3 (10.34%) Kafka
5 3 (10.34%) RESTful
6 2 (6.90%) .NET
6 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.45%) ADO
7 1 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (3.45%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) LDAP
7 1 (3.45%) OpenID
7 1 (3.45%) pytest
7 1 (3.45%) React
7 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.45%) FMCG
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.45%) PDA
2 1 (3.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Agile
2 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
3 16 (55.17%) Test Management
4 13 (44.83%) API Testing
4 13 (44.83%) Validation
5 12 (41.38%) Defect Management
6 11 (37.93%) DevOps
7 10 (34.48%) SDLC
7 10 (34.48%) Test Strategy
8 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
8 9 (31.03%) Scrum
8 9 (31.03%) User Stories
9 7 (24.14%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (24.14%) Data Validation
9 7 (24.14%) Manual Testing
9 7 (24.14%) Software Testing
9 7 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (24.14%) Test Planning
9 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (20.69%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) C#
4 7 (24.14%) Python
5 6 (20.69%) XPath
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.90%) Ruby
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) JTAG
3 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) HP
3 2 (6.90%) Pega
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Optimizely
4 1 (3.45%) Workday