Slack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Slack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Slack over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 593 646
Rank change year-on-year +97 +53 -90
Contract jobs citing Slack 89 100 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 0.47% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 58 133
10th Percentile £255 £318 £325
25th Percentile £354 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.29% +15.07%
75th Percentile £588 £658 £600
90th Percentile £630 £676 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -42.31% +23.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £20.95 £20.30 £24.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £20.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -32.86% +60.11%
75th Percentile £24.44 £27.50 -
90th Percentile £28.83 £32.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Slack 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 13,835 21,380 33,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 36.80% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,834 15,449 24,739
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 £632 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.80% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 343 416
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack.

Daily rate trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Slack.

Hourly rate trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +93 73 £510 -0.49% 34
London +96 65 £510 +0.74% 14
Work from Home +109 32 £500 -16.67% 32
UK excluding London +52 17 £375 -42.31% 20
Scotland +45 12 £375 -43.78% 3
Yorkshire +23 4 £375 -25.00% 3
North of England +21 4 £375 -25.00% 5
South East +12 1 £500 -23.08% 2

Slack
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 (29.21%) Confluence
2 15 (16.85%) OpenStack
3 12 (13.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (10.11%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (22.47%) AWS
3 12 (13.48%) Google Workspace
4 11 (12.36%) Canva
5 10 (11.24%) GitHub
6 7 (7.87%) Azure
6 7 (7.87%) SaaS
7 6 (6.74%) Asana
8 4 (4.49%) WhatsApp
9 3 (3.37%) Zapier
10 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.25%) Miro
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.12%) Sentry
11 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Intranet
2 5 (5.62%) VoIP
3 4 (4.49%) VPN
4 3 (3.37%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.25%) Firewall
6 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.85%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.49%) Metadata
3 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) Big Data
4 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (42.70%) JIRA
2 31 (34.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.49%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (4.49%) Burp Suite
3 4 (4.49%) Git
4 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.25%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Marketing
6 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.12%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 14 (15.73%) Release Manager
2 10 (11.24%) Architect
2 10 (11.24%) Content Manager
3 8 (8.99%) Lead
3 8 (8.99%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.87%) IT Manager
4 7 (7.87%) VMware Architect
5 6 (6.74%) Senior
6 5 (5.62%) Communications Manager
6 5 (5.62%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.49%) Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Developer
7 4 (4.49%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) IT Support
7 4 (4.49%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.37%) .NET
2 3 (3.37%) React
3 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.12%) NestJS
4 1 (1.12%) Node.js
4 1 (1.12%) PySpark
4 1 (1.12%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Onboarding
2 11 (12.36%) Video Editing
3 9 (10.11%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 15 (16.85%) CentOS
2 15 (16.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.99%) Windows
4 3 (3.37%) Android
4 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.37%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.96%) Agile
2 26 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (26.97%) Project Management
4 18 (20.22%) CI/CD
5 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (17.98%) Observability
6 15 (16.85%) Configuration Management
7 14 (15.73%) Change Management
7 14 (15.73%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 14 (15.73%) Performance Testing
7 14 (15.73%) Release Management
7 14 (15.73%) SDLC
8 10 (11.24%) Copywriting
9 9 (10.11%) Process Improvement
9 9 (10.11%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.11%) Wireframes
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.99%) DevOps
10 8 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.87%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) Python
2 15 (16.85%) Shell Script
3 7 (7.87%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.74%) Bash
5 4 (4.49%) Go
6 3 (3.37%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (2.25%) SQL
8 1 (1.12%) C#
8 1 (1.12%) Java
8 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) SC Cleared
1 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) Degree
3 1 (1.12%) CISSP
3 1 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) PMO
1 4 (4.49%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.25%) vSphere
4 1 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) Ansible
2 15 (16.85%) Grafana
2 15 (16.85%) Kibana
2 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.85%) logstash
2 15 (16.85%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.37%) Terraform
4 2 (2.25%) Opsgenie
4 2 (2.25%) Packer
5 1 (1.12%) Argo
5 1 (1.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) Google
3 15 (16.85%) Amdocs
3 15 (16.85%) Red Hat
4 9 (10.11%) VMware
5 7 (7.87%) Okta
6 6 (6.74%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.74%) Splunk
7 5 (5.62%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.49%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.25%) Apple
9 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.12%) Databricks