WhatsApp Contracts with Work from Home Options

WhatsApp
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for WhatsApp skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WhatsApp over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 459 620
Rank change year-on-year +181 +161 -148
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 68 13 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.050% 0.007%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 0.13% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 12 2
10th Percentile £313 £204 £403
25th Percentile £469 £359 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £456
90th Percentile £825 - £468
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.13 - -
Median hourly rate £14.25 - -
75th Percentile £14.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £14.50 £13.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +7.41% -47.06% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

WhatsApp is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,535 10,239 18,490
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.23% 39.60% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,958 7,517 13,788
10th Percentile £350 £374 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £732 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.43 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -21.83%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £78.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

WhatsApp
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WhatsApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WhatsApp trend for jobs with a WFH option

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WhatsApp.

WhatsApp daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WhatsApp over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

WhatsApp daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WhatsApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (7.35%) Anypoint
1 5 (7.35%) Mule
1 5 (7.35%) Mule ESB
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.94%) SAS
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
4 1 (1.47%) Confluence
4 1 (1.47%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) Liferay
4 1 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.47%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 4 (5.88%) AWS
2 4 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.47%) GCP
5 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) ADSL
2 2 (2.94%) LAN
2 2 (2.94%) PSTN
2 2 (2.94%) Wireless
2 2 (2.94%) WLAN
3 1 (1.47%) IPv4
3 1 (1.47%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
1 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.94%) MySQL
2 2 (2.94%) SAP BW
2 2 (2.94%) SAS EBI
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.47%) Looker
3 1 (1.47%) Metadata
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.35%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.41%) Gradle
5 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 40 (58.82%) Finance
2 8 (11.76%) Legal
2 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Marketing
4 3 (4.41%) Retail
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Advertising
6 1 (1.47%) Back Office
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Project Manager
2 9 (13.24%) Consultant
3 6 (8.82%) Architect
3 6 (8.82%) IT Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Developer
4 5 (7.35%) MuleSoft Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Senior
5 4 (5.88%) Coordinator
5 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Project Coordinator
5 4 (5.88%) SailPoint Consultant
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 3 (4.41%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (4.41%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) REST
1 9 (13.24%) Web Services
2 5 (7.35%) LDAP
2 5 (7.35%) SOAP
3 4 (5.88%) SailPoint
4 3 (4.41%) Spring
4 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.41%) YAML
5 2 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.47%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.47%) CSS
6 1 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.47%) HTML
6 1 (1.47%) HTML5
6 1 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Credit Risk
2 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.94%) FMCG
3 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.47%) CentOS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
2 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (13.24%) Migration
4 7 (10.29%) Project Delivery
5 6 (8.82%) Agile
5 6 (8.82%) DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
6 5 (7.35%) API Management
6 5 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (7.35%) Data Migration
6 5 (7.35%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (7.35%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (7.35%) Project Management
6 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
6 5 (7.35%) SOA
7 4 (5.88%) Data Modelling
7 4 (5.88%) ERP
7 4 (5.88%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) SQL
2 7 (10.29%) Java
3 4 (5.88%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.41%) Bash
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.47%) PHP
6 1 (1.47%) Scala
6 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Degree
2 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) CloudHub
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.94%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.94%) Puppet
3 2 (2.94%) Terraform
4 1 (1.47%) Nagios
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.47%) Salt
4 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) SAP
2 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.35%) MuleSoft
5 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.94%) Aruba
6 2 (2.94%) Blue Coat
6 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.94%) Databricks
6 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.94%) Infoblox
6 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.47%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) Infor
7 1 (1.47%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.47%) VMware