Zephyr Contract Job Trends in the North of England

D Software Zephyr
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Zephyr skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 157 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.084% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% 0.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £285 £511 -
25th Percentile £312 £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% - -
75th Percentile £384 £603 -
90th Percentile £428 £624 -
England median daily rate £400 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -15.00%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 905 510 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.94% 14.35% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 321 437
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £385 £388 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 40
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £44.98 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £63.45 £54.19 £64.06
90th Percentile £71.70 £78.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Zephyr job vacancy trend in the North of England

Zephyr
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Zephyr.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zephyr in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in the North of England

Zephyr
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 Zephyr within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Yorkshire -36 5 £372 -25.60% 11
North West -31 1 £275 -56.00% 15
Zephyr
England

Zephyr
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
3 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) Postman
4 3 (50.00%) TestRail
5 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (33.33%) Git
5 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
5 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
6 1 (16.67%) JUnit
6 1 (16.67%) Maven
6 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Defect Management
3 3 (50.00%) API Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Test Management
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Optimizely
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow