Zephyr Job Trends

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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 660 766
Rank change year-on-year -1 +106 +175
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 11 21 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.043% 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.28% 0.40% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 25
10th Percentile £38,125 £26,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,781 £31,925 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,625 £35,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +58.93% -50.41% +28.32%
75th Percentile £73,438 £49,415 £91,934
90th Percentile £79,375 £50,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +14.29% -50.41% +41.15%

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 3,918 5,217 8,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.77% 10.60% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,529 3,018 6,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.96% +4.44% -1.79%

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 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 9 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 18 February 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 +36 9 £55,625 +58.93% 14
UK excluding London -6 6 £40,000 +14.29% 14
London - 5 £72,500 - 2
Work from Home +38 3 £40,000 -3.01% 6
South West +3 2 £38,750 +10.71%
Wales -3 2 - -
South East +13 1 £46,250 -7.50% 4
Midlands +12 1 - - 7
West Midlands - 1 - - 7

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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Mixpanel
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) TestRail
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JMeter
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) TestDirector
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (9.09%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Fiddler
4 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
4 1 (9.09%) Locust
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Quality Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) ETL Tester
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Quality Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Playwright
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Test Management
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Regression Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Validation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Validation
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) BDD
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) ISTQB
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) CODA
1 2 (18.18%) Cognos
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Tealium