WhatsApp Contracts

WhatsApp
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 398 667
Rank change year-on-year -95 +269 +158
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 29 193 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.45% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 1.39% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 131 34
10th Percentile £352 £188 £198
25th Percentile £406 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £613
90th Percentile £638 £800 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -14.44% +3.89% -
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% -47.06%
75th Percentile - £14.75 £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year - +7.41% -

All Cloud 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 10,914 13,844 21,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.48% 32.44% 36.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,510 9,832 15,319
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 345 340
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.34 £17.72 £25.00
% change year-on-year +20.40% -29.12% +27.39%

WhatsApp
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WhatsApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WhatsApp over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WhatsApp.

Hourly rate trend for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Top 8 Contract 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 15 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
England -89 27 £550 +4.76% 60
London -65 22 £588 +11.90% 49
Work from Home -12 12 £488 -15.22% 25
UK excluding London -3 5 £400 -14.44% 20
South East +39 3 £375 -25.00% 12
North of England +12 1 £425 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

WhatsApp
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 (10.34%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) Drupal
3 1 (3.45%) IIS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) NetWeaver
3 1 (3.45%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Fivetran
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (6.90%) dbt
4 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.90%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.45%) Figma
5 1 (3.45%) Google Sheets
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) Internet
2 2 (6.90%) SMS
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.90%) Big Data
2 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.45%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Toad
General
1 17 (58.62%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Junior
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Designer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Support
5 1 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Junior Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Junior IT Support
5 1 (3.45%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) CSS
2 2 (6.90%) FHIR
2 2 (6.90%) HTML
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) YAML
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.45%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.45%) Express.js
3 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.45%) jQuery
3 1 (3.45%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.45%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Blog
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Oculus
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Data Integration
2 7 (24.14%) Data Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Validation
3 6 (20.69%) ETL
3 6 (20.69%) Migration
4 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
5 4 (13.79%) Data Management
5 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Data Architecture
6 3 (10.34%) Data Collection
6 3 (10.34%) Data Validation
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
1 9 (31.03%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) C#
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) PHP
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) HL7
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.45%) Puppet
2 1 (3.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Informatica
3 2 (6.90%) Instagram
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.45%) BMC
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Facebook
4 1 (3.45%) GoCardless
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Remedy
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud