Zephyr Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

D Software Zephyr
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 342 442
Rank change year-on-year +42 +100 +140
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 9 10 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.089% 0.068% 0.046%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.56% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £332 £306 £396
25th Percentile £373 £342 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -26.83% +17.14%
75th Percentile £499 £413 £625
90th Percentile £529 £458 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +28.50%
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
Work from Home

Zephyr falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,599 1,778 3,441
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.79% 12.14% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,260 2,461
10th Percentile £330 £360 £369
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £690 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 103
10th Percentile £29.10 £18.34 £40.04
25th Percentile £60.69 £40.00 £51.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £72.00 £75.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £86.68 £87.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.60%

Zephyr
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Zephyr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Zephyr trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Zephyr
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Zephyr.

Zephyr daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Zephyr daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Zephyr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) Appium
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
4 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
4 1 (11.11%) TestNG
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
4 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
2 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Tester
2 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Tester
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) SDLC
3 4 (44.44%) Test Management
4 3 (33.33%) Case Management
4 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
5 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) ISTQB
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP ALM
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Concur
2 1 (11.11%) Duck Creek
2 1 (11.11%) Guidewire
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) SAP