D Software Zephyr
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Zephyr skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 744 682 815
Rank change year-on-year -62 +133 -8
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 37 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.010% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.82% 0.12% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31 4 12
10th Percentile £42,500 - £41,750
25th Percentile £44,063 - £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £48,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,750 £82,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +11.11%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,532 4,149 7,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.38% 8.36% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,997 2,619 4,659
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,261 £63,150 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +5.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -4.35%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Zephyr job vacancy trend in the UK

Zephyr
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zephyr.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zephyr

Zephyr
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zephyr within the UK over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -54 29 £50,000 +25.00% 14
UK excluding London -50 28 £47,500 +18.75% 12
Midlands - 12 £57,500 - 5
West Midlands - 11 £70,000 - 3
London -31 7 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Work from Home -19 6 £47,500 +18.75% 5
South East - 6 £48,125 - 1
Wales - 4 £47,500 -
North of England - 2 £38,772 - 3
Scotland - 2 £55,500 -
South West -68 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 2
North East - 1 £38,772 - 1
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 8 (21.62%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) AWS
3 13 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.51%) BrowserStack
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) Serverless
7 3 (8.11%) Siteimprove
7 3 (8.11%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.70%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.70%) LTE
1 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (89.19%) JIRA
2 17 (45.95%) Selenium
3 12 (32.43%) TestRail
4 11 (29.73%) Cucumber
5 10 (27.03%) JMeter
6 9 (24.32%) Postman
7 8 (21.62%) Git
7 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
7 8 (21.62%) SoapUI
8 7 (18.92%) GitLab
9 5 (13.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (13.51%) Gatling
9 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
10 3 (8.11%) JUnit
10 3 (8.11%) Newman
10 3 (8.11%) Toad
11 2 (5.41%) NeoLoad
11 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
12 1 (2.70%) Appium
12 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Electronics
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Lead
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Analyst
3 7 (18.92%) Test Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Test Leader
4 6 (16.22%) Tester
5 5 (13.51%) QA Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Test Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Tester
7 3 (8.11%) QA Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) UAT Tester
8 2 (5.41%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (5.41%) QA Tester
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (5.41%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) Playwright
2 6 (16.22%) SOAP
3 4 (10.81%) Node.js
3 4 (10.81%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.81%) XML
4 3 (8.11%) ADO
4 3 (8.11%) Jest
4 3 (8.11%) JSON
4 3 (8.11%) React
4 3 (8.11%) Spring
5 2 (5.41%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) .NET
6 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Team
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Android
1 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.70%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) ThreadX
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (89.19%) Test Automation
2 28 (75.68%) Agile
3 25 (67.57%) Test Management
4 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
5 18 (48.65%) DevOps
6 17 (45.95%) Software Testing
7 15 (40.54%) Scrum
7 15 (40.54%) Test Strategy
8 14 (37.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (37.84%) Defect Management
9 13 (35.14%) API Testing
9 13 (35.14%) SDLC
10 12 (32.43%) Regression Testing
11 11 (29.73%) Security Testing
11 11 (29.73%) Test Scripting
12 10 (27.03%) BDD
12 10 (27.03%) Manual Testing
12 10 (27.03%) Scenario Testing
13 9 (24.32%) Defect Tracking
13 9 (24.32%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 4 (10.81%) Ruby
6 2 (5.41%) C
7 1 (2.70%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) ISTQB
2 10 (27.03%) Degree
3 4 (10.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.11%) ISEB
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (54.05%) QA
2 15 (40.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (16.22%) WCAG
4 3 (8.11%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (5.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) HP ALM
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
2 6 (16.22%) SAP
3 5 (13.51%) Pega
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle
5 3 (8.11%) HP
6 2 (5.41%) YouTube
7 1 (2.70%) Salesforce