Zephyr Contracts in the UK excluding London

D Software Zephyr
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Zephyr skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zephyr over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 390 444
Rank change year-on-year +58 +54 +18
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 4 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.043% 0.075%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.23% 0.40% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 13
10th Percentile - £313 £363
25th Percentile £463 £338 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -31.82% +29.41%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £600
90th Percentile - £478 £623
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Zephyr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Zephyr in the UK excluding London

Zephyr
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zephyr in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Zephyr in the UK excluding London

Zephyr
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zephyr within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +46 1 £475 - 2
Midlands +22 1 - - 3
North of England +16 1 - -
North West +14 1 - -
Scotland +12 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Zephyr
UK

Zephyr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets