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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 684 629 813
Rank change year-on-year -55 +184 +113
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 16 13 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.031% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.39% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 25
10th Percentile £40,313 £26,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £31,925 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £35,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -50.41% +34.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £48,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £73,625 £49,709 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £33,743 £55,000
% change year-on-year +37.07% -38.65% +10.00%

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 4,132 4,558 8,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.39% 10.73% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,688 3,072 6,729
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,988 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,300 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 23 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 11 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 23 March 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 -29 14 £47,500 +40.77% 19
UK excluding London -46 9 £46,250 +37.07% 16
London - 7 £65,000 - 5
Work from Home +15 5 £47,500 +46.22% 9
South West -22 2 £38,750 +10.71% 3
South East -27 2 £46,250 -5.13% 4
Midlands -39 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Scotland -14 1 £62,500 - 1
Wales -19 1 - -
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 5

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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (6.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Bluetooth
1 1 (6.25%) LTE
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) JIRA
2 7 (43.75%) TestRail
3 3 (18.75%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (12.50%) Selenium
4 2 (12.50%) TestDirector
5 1 (6.25%) Appium
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.25%) fastlane
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
5 1 (6.25%) Locust
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
5 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Tester
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 2 (12.50%) UAT Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) ETL Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) ThreadX
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Test Management
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 7 (43.75%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Regression Testing
4 6 (37.50%) Test Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Waterfall
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 4 (25.00%) ETL
6 4 (25.00%) SDLC
6 4 (25.00%) Validation
7 3 (18.75%) API Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) CODA
1 2 (12.50%) Cognos
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM