WhatsApp
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WhatsApp skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WhatsApp over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 899 1029
Rank change year-on-year +277 +130 -140
Permanent jobs citing WhatsApp 279 78 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.079% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 226 59 9
10th Percentile £30,875 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,563 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,304 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -2.61% +64.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,375 £102,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £31,250
% change year-on-year -19.05% +68.00% -6.02%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WhatsApp.

Salary trend for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WhatsApp over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WhatsApp in the UK

WhatsApp
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WhatsApp within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +267 261 £47,500 -14.41% 19
UK excluding London +92 162 £42,500 -19.05% 10
Work from Home +166 130 £47,500 -15.56% 11
London +185 112 £60,000 -7.69% 11
South East +53 59 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Midlands +21 39 £44,250 +7.93%
South West -10 28 £49,000 -13.66% 2
East Midlands +15 24 £40,000 +23.08%
West Midlands +19 15 £52,500 +12.30%
North of England +55 11 £50,000 - 1
North West - 10 £45,000 -
Scotland - 9 £62,500 -
Wales - 9 £52,101 -
East of England +8 7 £32,000 -41.82% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £80,000 - 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 26 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.15%) Confluence
4 4 (1.43%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.72%) Drupal
5 2 (0.72%) WordPress
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 23 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.58%) Photoshop
4 9 (3.23%) Trello
5 7 (2.51%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (1.43%) Adobe XD
7 4 (1.43%) InDesign
7 4 (1.43%) Sketch
8 3 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.72%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.87%) Misys Midas
2 6 (2.15%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.43%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.72%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (29.75%) Azure
2 80 (28.67%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (13.26%) AWS
4 32 (11.47%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 27 (9.68%) SaaS
6 17 (6.09%) OneDrive
7 12 (4.30%) Slack
8 10 (3.58%) PaaS
9 9 (3.23%) PowerApps
10 8 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.87%) Figma
10 8 (2.87%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.15%) IaaS
12 5 (1.79%) GCP
12 5 (1.79%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.43%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.68%) DNS
2 21 (7.53%) TCP/IP
3 16 (5.73%) DHCP
4 14 (5.02%) Firewall
4 14 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (3.94%) LAN
6 10 (3.58%) VLAN
6 10 (3.58%) VoIP
6 10 (3.58%) VPN
7 9 (3.23%) WAN
8 6 (2.15%) NetScaler
9 5 (1.79%) FTP
10 4 (1.43%) Internet
10 4 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.43%) Skype
10 4 (1.43%) WebEx
11 3 (1.08%) NAS
11 3 (1.08%) SAN
11 3 (1.08%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.17%) Power BI
3 10 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.23%) MySQL
5 8 (2.87%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.79%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.43%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.72%) MS Access
9 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.58%) JIRA
2 8 (2.87%) GitLab
3 5 (1.79%) Git
3 5 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 120 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 90 (32.26%) Finance
3 69 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.54%) Retail
5 21 (7.53%) Marketing
6 20 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (5.38%) Legal
8 12 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.87%) Welsh Language
11 7 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.15%) French Language
13 5 (1.79%) Automotive
13 5 (1.79%) Front Office
13 5 (1.79%) Games
13 5 (1.79%) Publishing
14 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.08%) Aviation
14 3 (1.08%) German Language
15 2 (0.72%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 40 (14.34%) Analyst
2 33 (11.83%) Developer
3 27 (9.68%) IT Support
4 25 (8.96%) Senior
5 23 (8.24%) Support Engineer
6 20 (7.17%) IT Analyst
6 20 (7.17%) Lead
7 18 (6.45%) Administrator
8 17 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (5.73%) IT Manager
10 15 (5.38%) Support Analyst
11 11 (3.94%) Applications Support
11 11 (3.94%) IT Support Analyst
11 11 (3.94%) Systems Analyst
12 10 (3.58%) IT Technician
12 10 (3.58%) Support Technician
13 9 (3.23%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.23%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.23%) Systems Administrator
14 8 (2.87%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.73%) .NET
2 15 (5.38%) React
3 13 (4.66%) HTML
4 11 (3.94%) FastAPI
5 8 (2.87%) XML
6 6 (2.15%) CSS
7 5 (1.79%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.79%) EDI
7 5 (1.79%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (1.79%) Node.js
7 5 (1.79%) NumPy
7 5 (1.79%) Pandas
8 4 (1.43%) Express.js
8 4 (1.43%) REST
8 4 (1.43%) Svelte
8 4 (1.43%) Vue
8 4 (1.43%) WinForms
9 3 (1.08%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.87%) Housing Association
7 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.15%) Blackberry
8 6 (2.15%) BYOD
8 6 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.43%) iPhone
10 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (27.60%) Windows
2 33 (11.83%) Windows Server
3 19 (6.81%) Android
4 15 (5.38%) Apple iOS
4 15 (5.38%) Linux
5 13 (4.66%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.87%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.79%) Mac OS X
8 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.08%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.69%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (14.70%) Customer Service
3 39 (13.98%) ITIL
4 30 (10.75%) Project Management
5 28 (10.04%) Agile
6 27 (9.68%) Computer Science
7 26 (9.32%) Migration
8 20 (7.17%) Analytics
8 20 (7.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 20 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (7.17%) ERP
8 20 (7.17%) ITSM
9 19 (6.81%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (6.81%) CRM
9 19 (6.81%) Service Delivery
9 19 (6.81%) Time Management
10 18 (6.45%) Data Analysis
10 18 (6.45%) Service Management
10 18 (6.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (18.64%) SQL
2 38 (13.62%) Python
3 29 (10.39%) C#
4 17 (6.09%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.66%) Java
7 12 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.23%) C++
9 5 (1.79%) C
10 3 (1.08%) Clojure
10 3 (1.08%) Groovy
10 3 (1.08%) Scala
11 2 (0.72%) Bash
11 2 (0.72%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 88 (31.54%) Degree
2 19 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (6.81%) Master's Degree
3 18 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.94%) MCSE
6 7 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.15%) CCNA
7 6 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.08%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.08%) CISSP
9 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CISA
10 2 (0.72%) CISM
10 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.72%) MCSA
10 2 (0.72%) PhD
10 2 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.94%) QA
2 10 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.51%) GDPR
5 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.43%) NIST
6 4 (1.43%) SLA
7 3 (1.08%) GRC
7 3 (1.08%) MiFID
7 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.72%) COBIT
8 2 (0.72%) FISMA
8 2 (0.72%) GLBA
8 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.72%) ITGC
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (17.92%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.15%) XenDesktop
4 4 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.72%) Docker
5 2 (0.72%) vSphere
6 1 (0.36%) pfSense
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (3.23%) SCCM
2 9 (3.23%) Terraform
3 6 (2.15%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.72%) CASB
6 1 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.36%) WMI
Vendors
1 77 (27.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.45%) VMware
3 15 (5.38%) Apple
4 13 (4.66%) SAP
5 11 (3.94%) Cisco
5 11 (3.94%) Google
6 10 (3.58%) Adobe
7 8 (2.87%) Citrix
8 6 (2.15%) Databricks
8 6 (2.15%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (2.15%) Veeam
9 5 (1.79%) Sage
9 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.79%) SYSPRO
9 5 (1.79%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.79%) Xerox
10 4 (1.43%) Canon
10 4 (1.43%) Meraki
10 4 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto