WhatsApp Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

WhatsApp
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 273 458
Rank change year-on-year -15 +185 +158
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 17 71 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.47% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 1.29% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 50 15
10th Percentile £394 £313 £215
25th Percentile £445 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £578 £694 £538
90th Percentile £599 £828 £560
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.38 -
UK median hourly rate - £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year - +7.41% -47.06%

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 3,924 5,505 10,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.79% 36.16% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 3,965 7,414
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 88 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.60 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £45.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £65.31 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%

WhatsApp
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WhatsApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WhatsApp trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WhatsApp
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing WhatsApp over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

WhatsApp daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WhatsApp
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WhatsApp.

WhatsApp hourly rate 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 1 (5.88%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Fivetran
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Matillion
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) ITSM Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Qlik Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Qlik Sense Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
2 1 (5.88%) FHIR
2 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) FMCG
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Blog
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
1 5 (29.41%) Data Management
1 5 (29.41%) ETL
1 5 (29.41%) Validation
2 4 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) Data Validation
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) MCSE
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) BMC
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow