WhatsApp Contracts

WhatsApp
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 685 848
Rank change year-on-year +280 +163 -165
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 193 27 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.045% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.12% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 23 2
10th Percentile £188 £208 £403
25th Percentile £309 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £456
90th Percentile £803 £768 £468
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 -
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.19 £13.25 £24.25
Median hourly rate £14.50 £13.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -47.06% -
75th Percentile £14.75 £13.75 £26.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +7.41% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,062 21,949 34,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.88% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,984 15,862 24,903
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 345 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £61.60 £77.20 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -5.06%

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 1 May 2024.

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 14 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 1 May 2024. 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 +292 187 £525 - 29
London +213 132 £525 -4.55% 20
Work from Home +182 70 £575 +21.05% 7
UK excluding London +91 55 £425 -10.53% 8
South West +30 18 £286 -39.74% 3
South East +31 15 £500 -4.76% 3
East of England - 6 £563 -
North of England +34 5 £575 +27.78% 1
Midlands +32 5 £225 -57.14% 1
North West +31 5 £575 +27.78% 1
Wales - 5 £325 -
West Midlands +30 3 £225 -57.14%
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 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 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.59%) Anypoint
2 5 (2.59%) Mule
2 5 (2.59%) Mule ESB
3 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.04%) Drupal
4 2 (1.04%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) Liferay
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.04%) FileZilla
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.07%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.04%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.04%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.04%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.52%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.54%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (15.03%) Azure
3 11 (5.70%) AWS
4 6 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.07%) GCP
5 4 (2.07%) OneDrive
5 4 (2.07%) Slack
6 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.04%) SaaS
7 2 (1.04%) Serverless
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.52%) IaaS
8 1 (0.52%) PaaS
8 1 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Firewall
1 7 (3.63%) Wireless
2 6 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (2.07%) ADSL
3 4 (2.07%) DHCP
3 4 (2.07%) DNS
3 4 (2.07%) LAN
3 4 (2.07%) PSTN
3 4 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.07%) WLAN
4 2 (1.04%) FTP
4 2 (1.04%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.52%) DVB
5 1 (0.52%) IPv4
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SMS
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.15%) MySQL
2 6 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.11%) Power BI
2 6 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.04%) MS Access
4 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.04%) SAS EBI
4 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.52%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.52%) Looker
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) JIRA
2 6 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.59%) Git
4 4 (2.07%) GitLab
5 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.55%) Gradle
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 88 (45.60%) Finance
2 46 (23.83%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.44%) Legal
4 21 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.70%) Marketing
6 7 (3.63%) Retail
7 5 (2.59%) Advertising
7 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.52%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) French Language
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (13.47%) Support Engineer
2 22 (11.40%) Analyst
2 22 (11.40%) Project Manager
3 20 (10.36%) Consultant
4 14 (7.25%) Architect
5 12 (6.22%) 1st Line Support
5 12 (6.22%) Developer
6 8 (4.15%) 1st Line Engineer
6 8 (4.15%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 8 (4.15%) Coordinator
6 8 (4.15%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 8 (4.15%) IT Manager
6 8 (4.15%) Lead
6 8 (4.15%) Project Coordinator
7 7 (3.63%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (3.63%) IT Support
7 7 (3.63%) Mac Engineer
7 7 (3.63%) Senior
8 6 (3.11%) Service Analyst
8 6 (3.11%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.18%) REST
1 10 (5.18%) Web Services
2 8 (4.15%) SailPoint
3 6 (3.11%) LDAP
4 5 (2.59%) SOAP
5 4 (2.07%) CSS
5 4 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.07%) HTML
5 4 (2.07%) HTML5
6 3 (1.55%) .NET
6 3 (1.55%) Spring
6 3 (1.55%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.55%) YAML
7 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.04%) OLE
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.04%) React
7 2 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.52%) Kafka
8 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.15%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.59%) Smartphone
4 4 (2.07%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (1.55%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.55%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.55%) FMCG
5 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Social Media
7 1 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (19.69%) Windows
2 13 (6.74%) Linux
3 9 (4.66%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.07%) CentOS
5 4 (2.07%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.07%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.04%) Android
7 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.04%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (11.92%) Migration
3 18 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (8.81%) ERP
5 15 (7.77%) Project Management
6 14 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (7.25%) Customer Service
7 13 (6.74%) Data Migration
8 12 (6.22%) CI/CD
9 11 (5.70%) Project Delivery
10 10 (5.18%) Data Analysis
11 9 (4.66%) Computer Science
11 9 (4.66%) Data Protection
11 9 (4.66%) Resource Allocation
12 8 (4.15%) Decision-Making
12 8 (4.15%) DevOps
12 8 (4.15%) Risk Management
13 7 (3.63%) Agile
13 7 (3.63%) Analytics
13 7 (3.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.40%) SQL
2 11 (5.70%) Java
2 11 (5.70%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.66%) Python
4 7 (3.63%) Bash
4 7 (3.63%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.07%) PHP
5 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) Perl
7 1 (0.52%) R
7 1 (0.52%) Ruby
7 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (15.54%) Degree
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.59%) A+ Certification
3 5 (2.59%) MCITP
4 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) CCIE
7 1 (0.52%) CCNA
7 1 (0.52%) CCNP
7 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.22%) QA
2 7 (3.63%) SLA
3 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 37 (19.17%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.59%) Docker
5 3 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.04%) vSphere
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.59%) CloudHub
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.55%) SCCM
4 3 (1.55%) Terraform
5 2 (1.04%) Ansible
5 2 (1.04%) Puppet
6 1 (0.52%) Nagios
6 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Salt
6 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.40%) SAP
3 11 (5.70%) Oracle
4 8 (4.15%) VMware
5 7 (3.63%) Google
6 6 (3.11%) Databricks
6 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.59%) Apple
7 5 (2.59%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.59%) Okta
7 5 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.07%) Aruba
8 4 (2.07%) Blue Coat
8 4 (2.07%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.07%) Citrix
8 4 (2.07%) Facebook
8 4 (2.07%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.07%) Infoblox
8 4 (2.07%) Sage