Zephyr Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

D Software Zephyr
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Zephyr skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 23 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.57% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 11.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £345 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £360 - -
90th Percentile £371 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £350 - -

All Development Application Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 197 50 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 30.59% 38.17% 50.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 31 55
10th Percentile £352 £315 £353
25th Percentile £408 £452 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -4.31% -3.24%
75th Percentile £500 £537 £537
90th Percentile £527 £540 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.88 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.88 - -
90th Percentile £64.70 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.75 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +14.35% +2.22% +68.49%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Zephyr job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Zephyr
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Zephyr.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zephyr within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Telford - 23 £350 - 3
Zephyr
West Midlands

Zephyr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (39.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (91.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (100.00%) JIRA
2 21 (91.30%) Postman
3 13 (56.52%) Git
4 6 (26.09%) Selenium
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Advertising
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Tester
2 11 (47.83%) Analyst
2 11 (47.83%) QA Tester
2 11 (47.83%) Test Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) QA Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) ETL Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) ETL Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
1 23 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 23 (100.00%) ETL
1 23 (100.00%) Migration
1 23 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (95.65%) System Testing
3 21 (91.30%) End-to-End Testing
3 21 (91.30%) Integration Testing
4 20 (86.96%) Scenario Testing
4 20 (86.96%) Test Management
4 20 (86.96%) Test Scripting
5 18 (78.26%) Customer Requirements
6 15 (65.22%) Manual Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 1 (4.35%) Analytics
9 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 23 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (69.57%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Talend
3 4 (17.39%) Sage
4 2 (8.70%) Denodo