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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 469 527
Rank change year-on-year -54 +58 +120
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 62 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.053% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.24% 0.39% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 7 7
10th Percentile £316 £320 £313
25th Percentile £350 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.39% +5.88% -29.17%
75th Percentile £425 £513 £528
90th Percentile £511 £553 £561
UK median daily rate £366 £438 £375
% change year-on-year -16.46% +16.67% -37.50%
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 5,008 3,315 4,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.39% 13.58% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,220 2,910
10th Percentile £341 £350 £355
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 62 183
10th Percentile £38.39 £27.54 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +7.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £82.20
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -46 31 £410 -3.53% 7
West Midlands -37 25 £350 - 5
Midlands -45 25 £350 - 5
North of England -58 3 £372 - 2
South East - 3 £500 - 6
North West -37 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £372 - 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 15 (24.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) AWS
2 14 (22.58%) Azure
3 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.29%) GitHub
5 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.45%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.61%) SaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) FTP
1 2 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (40.32%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (38.71%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (98.39%) JIRA
2 27 (43.55%) Postman
3 20 (32.26%) Git
4 18 (29.03%) Selenium
5 9 (14.52%) TestRail
6 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
7 5 (8.06%) Cucumber
8 4 (6.45%) SpecFlow
9 3 (4.84%) Appium
10 2 (3.23%) GitLab
10 2 (3.23%) JMeter
11 1 (1.61%) Gatling
11 1 (1.61%) JUnit
11 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.61%) Maven
11 1 (1.61%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (1.61%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.61%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (1.61%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Automotive
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Analyst
1 19 (30.65%) Tester
2 16 (25.81%) Test Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Lead
3 12 (19.35%) QA Tester
4 9 (14.52%) Test Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Test Manager
6 5 (8.06%) Lead Test Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) QA Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) QA Test Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Test Leader
8 3 (4.84%) Automation Tester
8 3 (4.84%) Quality Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Senior
10 1 (1.61%) ETL Analyst
10 1 (1.61%) ETL Tester
10 1 (1.61%) Payments Test Manager
10 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Tester
10 1 (1.61%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) REST
2 5 (8.06%) Playwright
3 4 (6.45%) JSON
3 4 (6.45%) XML
4 2 (3.23%) ADO
4 2 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) .NET
5 1 (1.61%) LDAP
5 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.61%) OpenID
5 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.23%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Android
1 3 (4.84%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Agile
2 41 (66.13%) Test Automation
3 38 (61.29%) Test Management
4 31 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 31 (50.00%) Migration
5 29 (46.77%) Data Migration
6 28 (45.16%) Integration Testing
6 28 (45.16%) Scenario Testing
7 27 (43.55%) ETL
7 27 (43.55%) System Testing
8 24 (38.71%) Test Scripting
9 20 (32.26%) Customer Requirements
10 19 (30.65%) Manual Testing
11 14 (22.58%) Functional Testing
12 12 (19.35%) API Testing
12 12 (19.35%) DevOps
12 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (17.74%) Test Strategy
14 10 (16.13%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) SQL
2 11 (17.74%) Java
3 9 (14.52%) Python
4 7 (11.29%) C#
5 4 (6.45%) XPath
6 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (43.55%) ISTQB
1 27 (43.55%) SC Cleared
1 27 (43.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (46.77%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (51.61%) Oracle
2 7 (11.29%) Talend
3 5 (8.06%) HP
4 4 (6.45%) Sage
4 4 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.84%) Denodo
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Workday