Zephyr Contracts

D Software Zephyr
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 581 680
Rank change year-on-year +76 +99 +76
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 14 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.044% 0.055%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.34% 0.37% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 20
10th Percentile £320 £313 £406
25th Percentile £366 £338 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £513 £478 £656
90th Percentile £553 £538 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +26.67% -31.82% +29.41%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zephyr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zephyr.

Daily rate trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +61 13 £450 +5.88% 12
London +38 10 £425 -21.26% 2
Work from Home +48 5 £450 +20.00% 10
UK excluding London +49 4 £475 +26.67% 12
South West +45 1 £475 - 1
North of England +25 1 - -
Midlands +24 1 - - 3
North West +8 1 - -
Scotland +8 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

Zephyr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 2 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Appium
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Tester
5 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Support
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PDA
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Management
5 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Case Management
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
6 3 (21.43%) SDLC
6 3 (21.43%) Test Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
6 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
7 2 (14.29%) Analytics
7 2 (14.29%) API Testing
7 2 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) HP ALM
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Concur
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) StreamSets
3 1 (7.14%) Workday