WhatsApp Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

WhatsApp
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring WhatsApp skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 108 112
Rank change year-on-year -26 +4 -
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.17% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.36% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £239
25th Percentile - £174 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £175 £363
Median % change year-on-year - -51.86% -
75th Percentile - £175 £453
90th Percentile - - £496
England median daily rate £208 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -60.48% +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £66.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year - +343.33% -63.97%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 795 550 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.75% 33.25% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 368 441
10th Percentile £303 £210 £200
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £15.95 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £34.69 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 £35.00 £30.33
England median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £24.31
% change year-on-year -5.36% +18.29% +6.53%

WhatsApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

WhatsApp job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WhatsApp

WhatsApp
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WhatsApp

WhatsApp
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WhatsApp within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Birmingham -6 4 - - 1
WhatsApp
England

WhatsApp
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP EWM
1 2 (50.00%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens