WhatsApp Contracts in the UK excluding London

WhatsApp
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 340 424
Rank change year-on-year +2 +84 -
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 5 50 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.25% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.95% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 13
10th Percentile £360 £234 £148
25th Percentile £375 £311 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +3.89% -
75th Percentile £419 £575 £538
90th Percentile £430 £588 -
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 2
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile - £14.19 £13.25
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.41% -
75th Percentile - £14.75 £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year - +7.41% -47.06%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,070 5,251 7,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.62% 25.91% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,845 3,719 5,646
10th Percentile £235 £213 £248
25th Percentile £381 £371 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 221
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.09% -29.12% +25.00%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.33% -38.94% +56.25%

WhatsApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WhatsApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WhatsApp in the UK excluding London

WhatsApp
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WhatsApp in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WhatsApp in the UK excluding London

WhatsApp
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WhatsApp in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WhatsApp in the UK excluding London

WhatsApp
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WhatsApp within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +43 3 £375 -25.00% 11
North of England +14 1 £425 -26.09%
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
Scotland - 1 - -
WhatsApp
UK

WhatsApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (40.00%) LLM
1 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) MLOps
2 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
1 1 (20.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Avaloq
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow