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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 479 540
Rank change year-on-year -41 +61 +132
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 29 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.089% 0.034% 0.051%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 13
10th Percentile £325 £444 £375
25th Percentile £359 £467 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £481 £538 £465
90th Percentile £500 £600 £527
UK median daily rate £405 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -19.00% +17.65% -19.05%

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 4,720 3,592 4,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.52% 13.44% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,281 2,228 3,140
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -5.02% -6.43%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 67 204
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.71 £44.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.94 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.77
90th Percentile £75.75 £75.65 £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 24 January 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 January 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 +1 19 £410 -11.35% 3
North of England -56 6 £372 -33.87% 25
Yorkshire -54 5 £372 -25.60% 12
Midlands -46 2 £550 +12.59% 21
West Midlands -48 2 £550 +12.59% 4
South East - 2 £500 - 30
North West -30 1 - - 10
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%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Maximo
1 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) GitHub
4 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (17.24%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 2 (6.90%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) BigQuery
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (93.10%) JIRA
2 11 (37.93%) TestRail
3 10 (34.48%) Selenium
4 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (31.03%) Postman
5 6 (20.69%) Cucumber
5 6 (20.69%) Git
5 6 (20.69%) SpecFlow
6 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.45%) GitLab
7 1 (3.45%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (3.45%) JMeter
7 1 (3.45%) JUnit
7 1 (3.45%) Maven
7 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.45%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Tester
2 8 (27.59%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Test Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Test Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Automation Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Test Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Manual Tester
8 1 (3.45%) Automation Test Lead
8 1 (3.45%) Mobile Test Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Security Tester
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Tester
8 1 (3.45%) Systems Tester
8 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Playwright
2 6 (20.69%) JSON
2 6 (20.69%) REST
2 6 (20.69%) XML
3 4 (13.79%) Kafka
4 2 (6.90%) ADO
4 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) LDAP
5 1 (3.45%) OpenID
5 1 (3.45%) pytest
5 1 (3.45%) React
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (3.45%) FMCG
1 1 (3.45%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Agile
1 16 (55.17%) API Testing
2 15 (51.72%) Test Automation
3 13 (44.83%) Test Management
4 11 (37.93%) DevOps
5 10 (34.48%) Validation
6 9 (31.03%) Defect Management
6 9 (31.03%) SDLC
7 8 (27.59%) User Stories
8 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Functional Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Manual Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Microservices
9 6 (20.69%) Scrum
9 6 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (20.69%) System Integration Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Test Planning
9 6 (20.69%) Test Scripting
9 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) C#
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) XPath
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) JTAG
3 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) HP ALM
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Pega
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Workday