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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 633 851
Rank change year-on-year +222 +218 -129
Contract jobs citing WhatsApp 192 62 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.11% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.31% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 52 2
10th Percentile £210 £203 £403
25th Percentile £325 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £669 £672 £456
90th Percentile £775 £773 £468
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £433 -
% change year-on-year +4.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 1
10th Percentile £14.01 - -
25th Percentile £14.22 £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 £21.25 £26.75
90th Percentile - £26.25 -
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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

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 9 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WhatsApp over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 June 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 +217 186 £525 +2.44% 24
London +183 140 £550 - 14
Work from Home +152 66 £563 +12.50% 13
UK excluding London +65 44 £450 +4.05% 9
South West +18 15 £286 -39.74% 3
South East +21 10 £500 +2.56% 4
North of England +29 5 £575 +27.78%
North West +17 5 £575 +27.78%
Wales - 5 £325 -
Midlands +21 4 - -
East of England +5 4 £550 +120.00% 2
East Midlands +13 2 - -
West Midlands +11 2 - -
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 5 (2.60%) Anypoint
1 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.60%) Mule
1 5 (2.60%) Mule ESB
2 2 (1.04%) Apache
2 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.04%) Drupal
2 2 (1.04%) IIS
2 2 (1.04%) nginx
2 2 (1.04%) SAS
2 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 6 (3.13%) NetSuite
1 6 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Loan IQ
2 2 (1.04%) SAP Business ByDesign
2 2 (1.04%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.63%) Azure
2 21 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.25%) AWS
4 6 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.60%) IaaS
6 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.56%) GCP
7 3 (1.56%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.56%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.56%) SaaS
7 3 (1.56%) Slack
8 2 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.04%) dbt
8 2 (1.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.04%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.04%) PaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Serverless
9 1 (0.52%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.21%) Firewall
2 7 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (3.13%) LAN
3 6 (3.13%) Wireless
4 4 (2.08%) VPN
4 4 (2.08%) WAN
5 3 (1.56%) ADSL
5 3 (1.56%) DHCP
5 3 (1.56%) DNS
5 3 (1.56%) PSTN
5 3 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.56%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.56%) WLAN
6 2 (1.04%) FTP
6 2 (1.04%) Internet
6 2 (1.04%) WinSCP
7 1 (0.52%) DVB
7 1 (0.52%) IPv4
7 1 (0.52%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.69%) MySQL
2 7 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.13%) Power BI
4 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.04%) Big Data
6 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.04%) MS Access
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.04%) SAS EBI
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (0.52%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.13%) JIRA
3 5 (2.60%) Git
3 5 (2.60%) GitLab
4 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.56%) Gradle
5 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (46.88%) Finance
2 50 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.73%) Marketing
5 8 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.65%) Retail
7 5 (2.60%) Advertising
7 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.08%) Legal
8 4 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.04%) Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) French Language
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (11.98%) Support Engineer
2 22 (11.46%) Consultant
2 22 (11.46%) Project Manager
3 21 (10.94%) Analyst
4 12 (6.25%) Architect
5 11 (5.73%) Developer
6 10 (5.21%) Lead
7 8 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
7 8 (4.17%) Coordinator
7 8 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
7 8 (4.17%) Mac Engineer
7 8 (4.17%) Project Coordinator
8 7 (3.65%) IT Manager
9 6 (3.13%) 1st Line Engineer
9 6 (3.13%) 1st Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.13%) Applications Support
9 6 (3.13%) IT Support
9 6 (3.13%) Senior
9 6 (3.13%) Service Analyst
9 6 (3.13%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.17%) REST
1 8 (4.17%) Web Services
2 6 (3.13%) SailPoint
3 5 (2.60%) CSS
3 5 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (2.60%) HTML
3 5 (2.60%) HTML5
3 5 (2.60%) LDAP
3 5 (2.60%) SOAP
4 4 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.56%) Spring
5 3 (1.56%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.56%) YAML
6 2 (1.04%) .NET
6 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.04%) React
7 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.69%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.60%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.60%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
4 3 (1.56%) Blockchain
4 3 (1.56%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.56%) FMCG
4 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.56%) Smartphone
5 2 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.04%) Life Science
5 2 (1.04%) Social Media
6 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) Insider Threat
6 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.27%) Windows
2 14 (7.29%) Linux
3 10 (5.21%) Mac OS
3 10 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.60%) CentOS
5 5 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.56%) Android
7 3 (1.56%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (10.94%) Migration
3 19 (9.90%) Project Management
4 18 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (8.33%) ERP
6 14 (7.29%) CI/CD
6 14 (7.29%) Data Migration
7 12 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 11 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (5.73%) Data Analysis
8 11 (5.73%) Project Delivery
9 10 (5.21%) Resource Allocation
10 9 (4.69%) Analytics
10 9 (4.69%) Data Protection
10 9 (4.69%) DevOps
10 9 (4.69%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (4.17%) Agile
11 8 (4.17%) Data Modelling
11 8 (4.17%) Decision-Making
11 8 (4.17%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.46%) SQL
2 13 (6.77%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.69%) Python
4 8 (4.17%) Bash
4 8 (4.17%) Java
4 8 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.60%) PHP
5 5 (2.60%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.52%) ABAP
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (11.46%) Degree
2 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.04%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.04%) MCITP
6 1 (0.52%) ACSP
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.52%) CCNA
6 1 (0.52%) CCNP
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.52%) PMP
6 1 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) SLA
3 3 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (15.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.60%) Docker
3 5 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.04%) vSphere
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.60%) CloudHub
3 4 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.08%) SCCM
3 4 (2.08%) Terraform
4 3 (1.56%) Ansible
4 3 (1.56%) Puppet
5 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.04%) Salt
6 1 (0.52%) Nagios
6 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.98%) SAP
3 12 (6.25%) Oracle
4 8 (4.17%) Databricks
5 7 (3.65%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.65%) VMware
6 6 (3.13%) Apple
6 6 (3.13%) Aruba
6 6 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 6 (3.13%) Google
7 5 (2.60%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.08%) Citrix
8 4 (2.08%) Facebook
8 4 (2.08%) Instagram
8 4 (2.08%) Sage
9 3 (1.56%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.56%) Commvault
9 3 (1.56%) Juniper