Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 27 October 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Zephyr skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Zephyr over the 6 months to 27 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

D Software Zephyr
UK
6 months to
27 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 982 687 956
Rank change year-on-year -295 +269 +118
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 69 23 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.046% 0.089%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.26% 0.22% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39 18 97
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,730
25th Percentile £43,750 £34,688 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £54,768 £51,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £58,625 £68,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -10.53%

Zephyr is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

All Development Application Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 26,338 10,394 25,707
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.74% 20.99% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16,141 8,661 20,605
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

Zephyr
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zephyr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Zephyr.

Salary trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 27 October 2021.

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 27 October 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -281 57 £51,250 +28.13% 13
UK excluding London -200 47 £45,000 +12.50% 12
London -244 22 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West -81 19 £38,750 +10.71%
North of England -112 19 £38,750 +10.71%
Work from Home -270 15 £45,000 -29.41% 3
South East -154 10 £50,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland -82 9 £47,161 -12.78% 1
South West - 3 £59,500 - 2
East of England -99 2 £60,000 +41.18% 5
Midlands - 2 £42,500 -
Wales - 2 £41,250 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 -

For the 6 months to 27 October 2021, IT jobs citing Zephyr also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Zephyr.

1 65 (94.20%) JIRA
2 44 (63.77%) Test Automation
3 34 (49.28%) Agile Software Development
4 33 (47.83%) Finance
5 30 (43.48%) Selenium
6 25 (36.23%) Oracle
7 24 (34.78%) Software Testing
8 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
9 20 (28.99%) Java
9 20 (28.99%) Cognizant
9 20 (28.99%) Cucumber
9 20 (28.99%) DevOps
10 18 (26.09%) Test Management
11 17 (24.64%) Test Scripting
11 17 (24.64%) System Integration Testing
11 17 (24.64%) Python
12 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
12 16 (23.19%) Confluence
12 16 (23.19%) Azure
13 15 (21.74%) Scrum
14 14 (20.29%) JMeter
14 14 (20.29%) Gherkin
15 13 (18.84%) Scenario Testing
16 12 (17.39%) GitHub
16 12 (17.39%) QA
17 11 (15.94%) SDLC
17 11 (15.94%) CRM
18 10 (14.49%) Maven
18 10 (14.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 10 (14.49%) User Acceptance Testing

Zephyr
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (23.19%) Confluence
2 4 (5.80%) Apache
3 1 (1.45%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle CRM
1 8 (11.59%) ResourceLink
2 4 (5.80%) NetSuite
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) Azure
2 12 (17.39%) GitHub
3 10 (14.49%) AWS
4 7 (10.14%) CloudBees
5 4 (5.80%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.90%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.90%) SaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Apigee
7 1 (1.45%) GCP
7 1 (1.45%) Slack
7 1 (1.45%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) DNS
2 2 (2.90%) Broadband
2 2 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.90%) DHCP
2 2 (2.90%) Internet
2 2 (2.90%) LAN
2 2 (2.90%) MPLS
2 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.90%) WAN
3 1 (1.45%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.90%) DB2
3 2 (2.90%) GIS
3 2 (2.90%) MySQL
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (94.20%) JIRA
2 30 (43.48%) Selenium
3 20 (28.99%) Cucumber
4 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
5 14 (20.29%) JMeter
6 10 (14.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (14.49%) Git (software)
6 10 (14.49%) Maven
7 8 (11.59%) Gatling
7 8 (11.59%) WebDriver
8 7 (10.14%) Cypress.io
8 7 (10.14%) GitLab
8 7 (10.14%) Gradle
8 7 (10.14%) Postman
8 7 (10.14%) SonarQube
9 6 (8.70%) TestNG
10 5 (7.25%) REST Assured
11 4 (5.80%) SoapUI
12 3 (4.35%) SpecFlow
12 3 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (47.83%) Finance
2 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.80%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Games
5 2 (2.90%) Law
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.45%) Electronics
6 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.29%) Test Leader
2 13 (18.84%) Analyst
3 12 (17.39%) Test Analyst
4 10 (14.49%) Test Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Tester
5 7 (10.14%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (7.25%) Automation Test Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Automation Test Lead
7 4 (5.80%) Consultant
7 4 (5.80%) Functional Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Functional Test Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Junior
7 4 (5.80%) Junior Tester
7 4 (5.80%) Test Consultant
8 3 (4.35%) Developer
8 3 (4.35%) QA Tester
8 3 (4.35%) Software Test Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) UAT Consultant
8 3 (4.35%) UAT Lead
8 3 (4.35%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) Gherkin
2 5 (7.25%) REST
3 4 (5.80%) Kafka
3 4 (5.80%) XML
4 3 (4.35%) CSS
5 2 (2.90%) Apache Flex
5 2 (2.90%) HTML
5 2 (2.90%) Middleware
5 2 (2.90%) SOAP
5 2 (2.90%) Spring
6 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.45%) jQuery
6 1 (1.45%) JSON
6 1 (1.45%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.45%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (1.45%) RESTful
6 1 (1.45%) Sass
6 1 (1.45%) Swagger
6 1 (1.45%) Web Services
6 1 (1.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.90%) Social Media
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.45%) Cybercrime
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Linux
2 3 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (1.45%) CentOS
3 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (63.77%) Test Automation
2 34 (49.28%) Agile Software Development
3 24 (34.78%) Software Testing
4 20 (28.99%) DevOps
5 18 (26.09%) Test Management
6 17 (24.64%) System Integration Testing
6 17 (24.64%) Test Scripting
7 15 (21.74%) Scrum
8 13 (18.84%) Scenario Testing
9 11 (15.94%) CRM
9 11 (15.94%) SDLC
10 10 (14.49%) BDD
10 10 (14.49%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (13.04%) API Testing
11 9 (13.04%) Defect Management
11 9 (13.04%) Functional Testing
12 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.14%) Integration Testing
13 7 (10.14%) Regression Testing
13 7 (10.14%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) Java
2 17 (24.64%) Python
3 9 (13.04%) SQL
4 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.90%) Bash Shell
5 2 (2.90%) Groovy
5 2 (2.90%) Scala
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) Go
6 1 (1.45%) Java 8
6 1 (1.45%) PHP
6 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.45%) Ruby
6 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.35%) ISEB
2 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.90%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.35%) IFRS
3 2 (2.90%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) Firmware
2 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) HP ALM
1 3 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) QRadar
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Opscode Chef
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Oracle
2 20 (28.99%) Cognizant
3 7 (10.14%) Coverity
4 6 (8.70%) Salesforce.com
5 4 (5.80%) HP
6 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.35%) SAP
7 2 (2.90%) Cisco
7 2 (2.90%) Citrix
7 2 (2.90%) Cramer
7 2 (2.90%) Dell
7 2 (2.90%) EMC
7 2 (2.90%) F5
7 2 (2.90%) Google
7 2 (2.90%) IBM
7 2 (2.90%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.90%) Radware
7 2 (2.90%) Trend Micro
7 2 (2.90%) VMware