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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 357 394
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 +127
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 5 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.49% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 23
10th Percentile £355 £216 £148
25th Percentile £363 £267 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £388 £569 £538
90th Percentile £395 £588 -
UK median daily rate £400 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 11
10th Percentile - £14.06 -
25th Percentile - £14.16 £13.25
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.41% +25.41%
75th Percentile - £14.75 £13.75
90th Percentile - £42.25 £22.04
UK median hourly rate - £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year - +7.41% +25.41%

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 4,697 5,106 7,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.12% 26.65% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,153 3,521 5,327
10th Percentile £252 £241 £225
25th Percentile £380 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 218 238
10th Percentile £14.80 £13.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.06 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -21.50% +33.75%
75th Percentile £35.34 £46.18 £60.66
90th Percentile £66.90 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.77% -37.14% +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 28 July 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 +22 2 £375 -23.08% 13
East of England +6 1 - -
West Midlands -2 1 - - 3
Midlands -9 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 2
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (20.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
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 DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
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
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
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 1 (20.00%) IVR
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
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%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (20.00%) MLOps
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
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%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (20.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (20.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Instagram
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Twitter