Zephyr Contracts

D Software Zephyr
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Zephyr skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Zephyr over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 658 749
Rank change year-on-year +102 +91 -49
Contract jobs citing Zephyr 19 24 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.043% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 0.30% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 59
10th Percentile £313 £413 £313
25th Percentile £337 £488 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +37.14% +1.74%
75th Percentile £438 £694 £524
90th Percentile £519 £742 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -28.57% +23.53% -5.56%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zephyr.

Daily rate trend for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zephyr over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zephyr in the UK

Zephyr
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zephyr within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +84 15 £425 -29.17% 5
UK excluding London +34 9 £375 -28.57% 2
London +95 8 £540 -26.06% 2
Work from Home +107 5 £375 -37.50% 1
North West +20 4 £375 -37.50%
North of England +20 4 £375 -37.50%
Scotland +35 2 £375 -11.76%
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
Midlands - 2 £363 -
South West - 1 - - 1

Zephyr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Commercetools
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (84.21%) JIRA
2 5 (26.32%) Postman
2 5 (26.32%) Selenium
3 4 (21.05%) JMeter
3 4 (21.05%) SoapUI
4 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.79%) JUnit
4 3 (15.79%) Maven
4 3 (15.79%) TestComplete
4 3 (15.79%) TestNG
4 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
5 2 (10.53%) GitLab
5 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
5 2 (10.53%) TestCafe
6 1 (5.26%) Appium
6 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.26%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
1 8 (42.11%) Test Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Tester
4 3 (15.79%) Test Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) ETL Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Tester
5 2 (10.53%) QA Manager
5 2 (10.53%) QA Test Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Functional Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
1 4 (21.05%) XML
2 3 (15.79%) SOAP
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
3 2 (10.53%) PySpark
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.26%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
2 8 (42.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.79%) API Testing
4 3 (15.79%) BDD
4 3 (15.79%) CRM
4 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Functional Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Regression Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Test Management
4 3 (15.79%) Test Planning
4 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Kimball Methodology
5 2 (10.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Groovy
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Ruby
3 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) XPath
3 2 (10.53%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ISEB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.26%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.53%) HP
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow