WhatsApp Contracts in the South East

WhatsApp
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring WhatsApp skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WhatsApp over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 182 213
Rank change year-on-year +33 +31 -
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 4 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.20% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.84% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £360 £400 -
25th Percentile £375 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £469 £575 £538
90th Percentile £510 £635 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +23.53%

All Cloud Skills
South East

WhatsApp falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 899 1,314 1,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.93% 23.87% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 902 1,242
10th Percentile £281 £251 £253
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 51 56
10th Percentile - £16.25 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% +0.61% +8.46%
75th Percentile £47.15 £54.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

WhatsApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing WhatsApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for WhatsApp in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WhatsApp in the South East.

Daily rate trend for WhatsApp in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WhatsApp in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WhatsApp in the South East

WhatsApp
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WhatsApp within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +32 3 £400 -27.27% 1
Berkshire - 2 £375 -
Buckinghamshire +13 1 £525 -4.55% 1
Surrey +11 1 - -
WhatsApp
England

WhatsApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Junior
1 1 (25.00%) Junior IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Junior IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) Junior Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FHIR
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
1 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow