Hybrid/Remote WhatsApp Contract Job Trends

WhatsApp
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WhatsApp skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 268 303
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 +240
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 5 53 71
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.049% 0.45% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 1.17% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 24 48
10th Percentile - £174 £309
25th Percentile £381 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% -4.55% -18.82%
75th Percentile £394 £588 £675
90th Percentile - £664 £850
UK median daily rate £406 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -22.62% +5.00% -20.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
75th Percentile - - £14.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £66.50 £14.75
% change year-on-year - +350.85% +37.02%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

WhatsApp falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,355 4,539 6,591
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.85% 38.83% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 3,046 4,778
10th Percentile £331 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 81
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.86 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.11% +35.71%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.67 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

WhatsApp
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WhatsApp and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

WhatsApp job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WhatsApp.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WhatsApp

WhatsApp
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WhatsApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WhatsApp

WhatsApp
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dialogflow
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Voice Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Campaign Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Journey Map
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dialogue System
2 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Generation
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (20.00%) Outbound Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Genesys
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) HubSpot
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Zoho