WhatsApp Contract Job Trends

WhatsApp
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WhatsApp skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 423 431
Rank change year-on-year -114 +8 +334
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 37 101 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.88% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 46 101
10th Percentile - £174 £170
25th Percentile £204 £413 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £303 £638 £638
90th Percentile £456 £738 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £13.25
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - - £14.75
75th Percentile - - £19.81
90th Percentile - - £21.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £14.75
% change year-on-year - - +37.02%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,788 11,490 14,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.46% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,471 7,633 10,499
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 168 258
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £80.50 £64.83 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +7.35% +16.42% +8.40%

WhatsApp
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WhatsApp relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

WhatsApp job vacancy trend in the UK

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WhatsApp.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WhatsApp

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WhatsApp over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WhatsApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WhatsApp

WhatsApp
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -128 33 £208 -60.48% 5
London -69 25 £208 -63.91% 3
UK excluding London -50 10 - - 3
Work from Home -51 5 £388 -26.19% 2
West Midlands -32 4 - -
Midlands -42 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South East -24 1 - - 3
North West -30 1 - -
North of England -48 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -

WhatsApp
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:

Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Chatbot
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (5.41%) SAP EWM
1 2 (5.41%) SAP MDG
1 2 (5.41%) SAP WM
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Functions
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (13.51%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (13.51%) Serverless
4 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.11%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Einstein
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Alation
7 1 (2.70%) Collibra
7 1 (2.70%) Dialogflow
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) SMS
2 2 (5.41%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Metadata
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) TestNG
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Marketing
4 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Consultant
2 8 (21.62%) Lead
3 5 (13.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Migration Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Product Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Remote Support Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) SAP MDG Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (2.70%) QA Tester
7 1 (2.70%) Security Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Kafka
1 5 (13.51%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) Middleware
2 2 (5.41%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) FMCG
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) IVR
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) DevOps
1 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (18.92%) Agile
3 5 (13.51%) Change Management
3 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
3 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
3 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
3 5 (13.51%) Scrum
3 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (10.81%) Analytics
4 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (10.81%) Kanban
4 4 (10.81%) Migration
5 3 (8.11%) AI
5 3 (8.11%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (8.11%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) PMO
3 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) SAP
2 4 (10.81%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (5.41%) Facebook
4 2 (5.41%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Genesys
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.70%) Informatica
5 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Rockwell
5 1 (2.70%) Siemens
5 1 (2.70%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) Zoho