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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 733 686 822
Rank change year-on-year -47 +136 +20
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 36 4 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.008% 0.026%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 0.096% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 31 3 15
10th Percentile £42,500 - £43,250
25th Percentile £44,063 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £56,250 £62,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £66,000 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +22.22%

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 4,340 4,184 8,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.33% 8.52% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,919 2,649 5,427
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 13 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 July 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 -56 28 £50,000 +25.00% 8
UK excluding London -49 27 £47,500 +18.75% 7
West Midlands - 11 £70,000 - 1
Midlands - 11 £70,000 - 2
London -29 7 £65,000 -7.14% 2
South East - 7 £46,250 -
Work from Home -13 6 £47,500 +18.75% 5
Wales - 4 £47,500 -
Scotland - 2 £55,500 -
North of England - 2 £38,772 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 2
North East - 1 £38,772 - 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 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) AWS
2 14 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (13.89%) BrowserStack
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.11%) Serverless
6 3 (8.33%) Siteimprove
6 3 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (2.78%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.78%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.78%) LTE
1 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (88.89%) JIRA
2 17 (47.22%) Selenium
3 11 (30.56%) Cucumber
3 11 (30.56%) TestRail
4 9 (25.00%) JMeter
4 9 (25.00%) Postman
5 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 7 (19.44%) Git
6 7 (19.44%) GitLab
6 7 (19.44%) SoapUI
7 5 (13.89%) Gatling
7 5 (13.89%) REST Assured
8 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (8.33%) JUnit
9 3 (8.33%) Newman
9 3 (8.33%) Toad
10 2 (5.56%) NeoLoad
10 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
11 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
General
1 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Electronics
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Lead
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Test Leader
5 5 (13.89%) Tester
6 4 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Test Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Tester
7 3 (8.33%) QA Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) UAT Tester
8 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) QA Tester
8 2 (5.56%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) Playwright
2 5 (13.89%) SOAP
3 4 (11.11%) Node.js
3 4 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.33%) ADO
4 3 (8.33%) Jest
4 3 (8.33%) JSON
4 3 (8.33%) React
4 3 (8.33%) Spring
4 3 (8.33%) XML
5 2 (5.56%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) .NET
6 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.78%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.78%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) ThreadX
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 28 (77.78%) Agile
3 24 (66.67%) Test Management
4 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
4 19 (52.78%) DevOps
5 17 (47.22%) Software Testing
6 16 (44.44%) Scrum
6 16 (44.44%) Test Strategy
7 15 (41.67%) Defect Management
8 14 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (38.89%) SDLC
9 13 (36.11%) API Testing
10 12 (33.33%) Regression Testing
11 11 (30.56%) Manual Testing
11 11 (30.56%) Security Testing
11 11 (30.56%) Test Scripting
12 10 (27.78%) BDD
12 10 (27.78%) Waterfall
13 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
13 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Java
2 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
4 4 (11.11%) Ruby
5 2 (5.56%) C
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 10 (27.78%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) ISEB
4 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (55.56%) QA
2 15 (41.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (16.67%) WCAG
4 3 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) HP ALM
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 6 (16.67%) SAP
3 5 (13.89%) Pega
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) HP
6 2 (5.56%) YouTube
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce