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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 381 434
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 +22
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 9 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.049% 0.044%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.51% 0.45% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £400 £313 £397
25th Percentile £402 £349 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -28.57% +22.66%
75th Percentile £466 £438 £600
90th Percentile £481 £468 -
UK median daily rate £425 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +13.33% -37.50% +33.33%
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 1,763 2,216 3,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.85% 10.94% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,446 2,206
10th Percentile £321 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £613 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 181 167
10th Percentile £23.76 £40.94 £45.61
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.89 £79.17 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +5.69% +17.14%

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 23 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
North of England +14 3 £400 +6.67% 49
North West +7 3 £400 +6.67% 21
Midlands +18 2 £450 +24.14% 48
Scotland +7 2 £425 +13.33% 14
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 26
South West +38 1 £475 - 27
Wales - 1 £413 - 9
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) UAT Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) UAT Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Test Management
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
5 2 (22.22%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Contingency Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) HP
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) Informatica
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) StreamSets