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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 687 724
Rank change year-on-year +65 +37 +210
Permanent jobs citing Zephyr 13 22 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.042% 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.35% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 20
10th Percentile £37,750 £26,500 £37,500
25th Percentile - £31,925 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -50.41% +28.32%
75th Percentile £73,750 £49,415 £91,934
90th Percentile £80,500 £50,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +14.29% -50.41% +34.43%

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 3,740 5,460 7,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.31% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,408 3,113 5,758
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

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 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 8 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 21 January 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 +62 11 £40,000 +14.29% 77
UK excluding London +37 7 £40,000 +14.29% 83
London +59 6 £78,750 - 2
Work from Home +60 4 £40,000 -3.01% 3
South West +15 4 £40,000 +14.29% 12
Wales +5 2 - - 5
Midlands +24 1 - - 14
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

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 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Datadog
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Mixpanel
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JIRA
2 6 (46.15%) Git
2 6 (46.15%) Selenium
3 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (30.77%) Postman
3 4 (30.77%) TestRail
3 4 (30.77%) WebDriver
4 3 (23.08%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (23.08%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (23.08%) Fiddler
4 3 (23.08%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) TestNG
5 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
5 2 (15.38%) Gatling
5 2 (15.38%) GitLab
5 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
5 2 (15.38%) Locust
5 2 (15.38%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Electronics
3 3 (23.08%) Law
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Quality Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Senior IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Quality Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) QA Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) ETL Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Playwright
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
1 1 (7.69%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
1 3 (23.08%) W3C
2 2 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Test Management
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Integration Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (46.15%) Regression Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Validation
6 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
6 5 (38.46%) SDLC
6 5 (38.46%) Test Strategy
7 4 (30.77%) BDD
7 4 (30.77%) DevOps
7 4 (30.77%) ETL
7 4 (30.77%) Functional Testing
7 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (23.08%) Analytics
8 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
8 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) C
4 2 (15.38%) C++
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) ISTQB
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
2 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Adobe
1 3 (23.08%) Tealium
2 2 (15.38%) CODA
2 2 (15.38%) Cognos
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle