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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 552 667
Rank change year-on-year +54 +115 +107
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 20 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.042% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.48% 0.35% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 14
10th Percentile £346 £313 £413
25th Percentile £400 £337 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -37.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £694
90th Percentile £518 £519 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +11.67% -28.57% +22.66%
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 4,166 5,119 8,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.43% 12.04% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,804 3,447 5,803
10th Percentile £338 £353 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 216 228
10th Percentile £25.00 £29.63 £44.06
25th Percentile £47.21 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £71.58
90th Percentile £82.96 £77.75 £80.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +11.82%

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 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 11 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 24 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
England +69 17 £450 +5.88% 224
London +65 11 £450 -16.63% 16
UK excluding London +40 9 £419 +11.67% 241
Work from Home +47 7 £450 +20.00% 165
North of England +12 3 £400 +6.67% 49
North West +9 3 £400 +6.67% 21
Midlands +9 2 £450 +24.14% 48
Scotland +1 2 £425 +13.33% 14
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 26
South West +42 1 £475 - 27
Wales - 1 £413 - 9

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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (95.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 2 (10.00%) Git
4 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (10.00%) Postman
4 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (10.00%) TestNG
4 2 (10.00%) TestRail
4 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.00%) Appium
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (5.00%) JMeter
5 1 (5.00%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.00%) TestComplete
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) QA Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Selenium Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.00%) UAT Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Support
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) PDA
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Test Scripting
2 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Test Management
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Case Management
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Test Planning
6 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Validation
7 2 (10.00%) API Integration
7 2 (10.00%) API Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Defect Management
7 2 (10.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) ISEB
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.00%) Duck Creek
2 2 (10.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.00%) Concur
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) Workday