Zephyr Contract Job Trends

D Software Zephyr
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Zephyr skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 528 540
Rank change year-on-year -83 +12 +75
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 86 33 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.099% 0.061%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.32% 0.65% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 26 9
10th Percentile £319 £325 £345
25th Percentile £358 £381 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £547 £488 £519
90th Percentile £602 £501 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £400 £431
% change year-on-year -0.63% -7.25% +1.47%

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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Zephyr job vacancy trend in the UK

Zephyr
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zephyr.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zephyr.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Top 12 Contract Job 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 15 October 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
England -82 73 £410 -8.89% 20
UK excluding London -62 47 £398 -0.63% 16
Work from Home -56 27 £360 -17.71% 11
Midlands -23 26 £373 -17.11% 3
London -76 25 £500 +5.26% 6
West Midlands -21 24 £364 -19.11% 3
North of England -58 18 £538 +48.28% 2
Yorkshire -29 13 £563 +73.08% 1
North West -47 5 £431 +7.81%
South East - 4 £358 - 7
Scotland -21 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £428 -

Zephyr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (25.58%) Confluence
2 5 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) CICS
4 1 (1.16%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.72%) AWS
2 22 (25.58%) Azure
3 17 (19.77%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.47%) GCP
5 6 (6.98%) GitHub
5 6 (6.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (4.65%) Datadog
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.65%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.33%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.16%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.16%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.16%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (24.42%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (5.81%) Neo4j
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.33%) Db2
5 2 (2.33%) Power Query
5 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 86 (100.00%) JIRA
2 32 (37.21%) Postman
3 26 (30.23%) Git
4 22 (25.58%) Jenkins
5 14 (16.28%) GitLab
6 13 (15.12%) Selenium
7 12 (13.95%) TestRail
8 5 (5.81%) Appium
8 5 (5.81%) JMeter
8 5 (5.81%) REST Assured
8 5 (5.81%) Tricentis qTest
9 4 (4.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
9 4 (4.65%) JUnit
9 4 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (4.65%) TestNG
10 3 (3.49%) LoadRunner
11 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.33%) Gatling
11 2 (2.33%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.58%) Finance
3 13 (15.12%) Banking
4 12 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (22.09%) Analyst
1 19 (22.09%) Tester
2 16 (18.60%) Lead
3 15 (17.44%) Test Analyst
4 13 (15.12%) QA Tester
4 13 (15.12%) Test Leader
5 10 (11.63%) Test Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) QA Analyst
7 7 (8.14%) Consultant
7 7 (8.14%) QA Test Analyst
8 6 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Test Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (4.65%) Data Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) Data Migration Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) Migration Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) QA Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior
9 4 (4.65%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) REST
2 10 (11.63%) Playwright
3 7 (8.14%) pytest
4 5 (5.81%) Middleware
5 4 (4.65%) LDAP
5 4 (4.65%) OpenID
5 4 (4.65%) SOAP
6 3 (3.49%) Kafka
6 3 (3.49%) XML
7 2 (2.33%) JSON
7 2 (2.33%) RESTful
7 2 (2.33%) Terraform
7 2 (2.33%) Web Services
8 1 (1.16%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.65%) AS400
2 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.65%) Educational Technology
2 4 (4.65%) iSeries
3 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.16%) Contactless
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.98%) Linux
1 6 (6.98%) Windows
2 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.49%) Android
3 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.09%) Test Automation
2 52 (60.47%) Agile
3 46 (53.49%) Test Management
4 40 (46.51%) Migration
5 39 (45.35%) Integration Testing
6 38 (44.19%) Data Migration
7 35 (40.70%) Scenario Testing
8 34 (39.53%) End-to-End Testing
9 33 (38.37%) ETL
10 30 (34.88%) Test Scripting
11 29 (33.72%) CI/CD
11 29 (33.72%) DevOps
12 27 (31.40%) Manual Testing
12 27 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (30.23%) System Testing
14 25 (29.07%) Defect Management
15 24 (27.91%) User Acceptance Testing
16 21 (24.42%) Validation
17 20 (23.26%) Customer Requirements
18 17 (19.77%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) SQL
2 25 (29.07%) Python
3 12 (13.95%) Java
4 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.65%) Bash
5 4 (4.65%) Go
5 4 (4.65%) Groovy
5 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.49%) Perl
7 2 (2.33%) COBOL
7 2 (2.33%) Cypher
7 2 (2.33%) JCL
8 1 (1.16%) Ruby
8 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.40%) ISTQB
2 27 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.49%) Degree
6 2 (2.33%) IIBA
7 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.16%) ISEB
7 1 (1.16%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (63.95%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.49%) GRC
4 3 (3.49%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.33%) SEPA
5 2 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.98%) Grafana
3 4 (4.65%) Ansible
3 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.16%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 32 (37.21%) Oracle
2 11 (12.79%) Google
3 7 (8.14%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.81%) Splunk
5 4 (4.65%) DocuSign
5 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.65%) IBM
5 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.49%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.49%) Denodo
6 3 (3.49%) Talend
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco
7 1 (1.16%) Genesys
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.16%) New Relic
7 1 (1.16%) Sage