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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 756 663 774
Rank change year-on-year -93 +111 -17
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 37 10 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.020% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.82% 0.26% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 28 4 8
10th Percentile £42,500 - £38,250
25th Percentile £43,125 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £40,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £48,125 £62,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,750 £68,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +18.75% -25.58% +19.44%

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 4,502 3,778 6,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 7.62% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,860 2,253 3,944
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,650 £38,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,218 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.49% +4.03% -6.78%

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 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 14 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 13 September 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 -78 30 £50,000 +25.00% 13
UK excluding London -84 30 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 1
South East - 7 £48,125 - 5
Work from Home -40 5 £48,750 +21.88% 4
London -44 5 £70,000 - 6
Wales -71 4 £47,500 -
South West -72 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 £38,772 -
Scotland - 1 £48,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 -
North East - 1 £38,772 -

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 7 (18.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (13.51%) BrowserStack
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (5.41%) Siteimprove
8 1 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.70%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (89.19%) JIRA
2 19 (51.35%) Selenium
3 13 (35.14%) Cucumber
4 11 (29.73%) Git
4 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
5 10 (27.03%) GitLab
5 10 (27.03%) JMeter
5 10 (27.03%) Postman
5 10 (27.03%) TestRail
6 9 (24.32%) SoapUI
7 6 (16.22%) Cypress.io
8 5 (13.51%) Gatling
9 4 (10.81%) REST Assured
10 3 (8.11%) JUnit
10 3 (8.11%) Newman
11 2 (5.41%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (5.41%) NeoLoad
11 2 (5.41%) Toad
11 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
12 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
1 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
2 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Lead
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Test Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) QA Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Quality Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Test Leader
4 4 (10.81%) Tester
5 3 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) QA Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) Playwright
2 8 (21.62%) SOAP
3 6 (16.22%) XML
4 5 (13.51%) ADO
4 5 (13.51%) JSON
5 4 (10.81%) Node.js
5 4 (10.81%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.11%) Jest
6 3 (8.11%) React
6 3 (8.11%) Spring
7 1 (2.70%) .NET
7 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.70%) REST
7 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.22%) Virtual Team
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.41%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (94.59%) Test Automation
2 30 (81.08%) Agile
3 28 (75.68%) Test Management
4 22 (59.46%) CI/CD
5 19 (51.35%) DevOps
6 18 (48.65%) Software Testing
7 17 (45.95%) Scrum
8 16 (43.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (40.54%) Defect Management
10 14 (37.84%) Test Strategy
11 13 (35.14%) API Testing
11 13 (35.14%) BDD
11 13 (35.14%) Regression Testing
12 12 (32.43%) Scenario Testing
12 12 (32.43%) SDLC
13 11 (29.73%) Defect Tracking
13 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (29.73%) Test Scripting
14 10 (27.03%) Manual Testing
14 10 (27.03%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
4 7 (18.92%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.51%) C#
6 4 (10.81%) Ruby
7 2 (5.41%) C
7 2 (5.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) ISTQB
2 9 (24.32%) Degree
3 5 (13.51%) ISEB
4 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (62.16%) QA
2 13 (35.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (13.51%) WCAG
4 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 2 (5.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) SAP
2 7 (18.92%) Pega
2 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) HP
4 2 (5.41%) YouTube
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce