Zemax Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Zemax
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Zemax skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zemax 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.016% - -
As % of the Applications category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 - -

All Software Application Skills
North of England

Zemax falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 358 300 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 5.71% 9.13% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 158 174
10th Percentile £231 £157 £158
25th Percentile £350 £233 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £394 £405
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.78% +1.25%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £525
90th Percentile £700 £550 £646
England median daily rate £450 £415 £400
% change year-on-year +8.43% +3.75% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 29 159
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.51 £11.77
Median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +83.33% -62.50%
75th Percentile £34.46 £44.50 £26.45
90th Percentile £178.75 £60.00 £44.49
England median hourly rate £21.61 £24.66 £16.23
% change year-on-year -12.38% +51.94% -52.61%

Zemax
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zemax relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Zemax job vacancy trend in the North of England

Zemax
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zemax within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Zemax
England

Zemax
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ANSYS