Slack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Slack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Slack over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 791 718 494
Rank change year-on-year -73 -224 +209
Permanent jobs citing Slack 103 268 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.27% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.62% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 73 72 155
10th Percentile £32,100 £32,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,101 £44,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -24.19% +40.91%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,438 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.11% -11.90% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,399 43,201 76,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.67% 42.82% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,752 28,421 41,369
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
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 £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
UK excluding London -63 72 £42,500 -8.11% 21
England -87 66 £62,783 +4.64% 30
Work from Home -56 58 £41,067 -36.58% 35
London +48 26 £77,500 +19.23% 9
Scotland -39 26 £28,500 -55.81% 3
North of England -14 17 £91,250 +65.91% 5
South West -23 13 £52,500 +25.13% 2
Yorkshire +70 11 £100,000 +81.82% 3
Wales +11 7 £41,067 -
South East +9 6 £42,500 - 4
North West -23 4 £37,500 -28.57% 1
North East -17 2 £62,783 - 1
Midlands -38 2 £38,750 -29.55% 6
East of England +5 1 £47,500 -13.64%
West Midlands -17 1 £42,500 -22.73% 3
East Midlands -21 1 £35,000 - 3

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 24 (23.30%) Apache Spark
2 21 (20.39%) Confluence
3 16 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (11.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.94%) CMS
5 2 (1.94%) WordPress
6 1 (0.97%) Apache
6 1 (0.97%) nginx
6 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (11.65%) Trello
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.94%) Notion
6 1 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Shopify
2 2 (1.94%) Eikon
3 1 (0.97%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.66%) AWS
2 34 (33.01%) GCP
3 29 (28.16%) SaaS
4 27 (26.21%) Azure
5 24 (23.30%) Amazon S3
5 24 (23.30%) Miro
6 23 (22.33%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (22.33%) Google Docs
6 23 (22.33%) Lucidchart
7 18 (17.48%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (16.50%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (12.62%) WhatsApp
10 10 (9.71%) Entra ID
11 7 (6.80%) OneDrive
12 6 (5.83%) GitHub
13 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.88%) Basecamp
14 3 (2.91%) Asana
14 3 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (6.80%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) SAN
2 7 (6.80%) VPN
3 6 (5.83%) DNS
3 6 (5.83%) Telepresence
4 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.88%) VLAN
5 3 (2.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.91%) LAN
5 3 (2.91%) SSL
5 3 (2.91%) WAN
5 3 (2.91%) Wireless
6 2 (1.94%) VoIP
7 1 (0.97%) NAS
7 1 (0.97%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.24%) Elasticsearch
2 25 (24.27%) Redis
3 24 (23.30%) Big Data
4 23 (22.33%) Hadoop
4 23 (22.33%) Scylla
5 9 (8.74%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.77%) Data Lake
6 8 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.88%) MySQL
8 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.97%) Looker
9 1 (0.97%) Metadata
9 1 (0.97%) Power BI
9 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (27.18%) JIRA
2 13 (12.62%) Git
3 11 (10.68%) GitLab
3 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.77%) CircleCI
4 8 (7.77%) Cucumber
4 8 (7.77%) JUnit
4 8 (7.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.97%) Gradle
5 1 (0.97%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.97%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (63.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (15.53%) Finance
4 11 (10.68%) Marketing
5 8 (7.77%) Banking
6 7 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.91%) Legal
10 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Retail
11 1 (0.97%) Games
11 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Software Engineer
2 23 (22.33%) Principal Engineer
2 23 (22.33%) Principal Software Engineer
3 19 (18.45%) Lead
4 17 (16.50%) Senior
5 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Project Manager
6 10 (9.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Administrator
9 5 (4.85%) IT Support
9 5 (4.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.24%) GraphQL
2 25 (24.27%) Kafka
3 9 (8.74%) RESTful
4 5 (4.85%) CSS
5 4 (3.88%) HTML
6 3 (2.91%) React
7 2 (1.94%) .NET
7 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.94%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.94%) JWT
7 2 (1.94%) Laravel
7 2 (1.94%) Next.js
7 2 (1.94%) Spring
8 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (0.97%) CSS3
8 1 (0.97%) HTML5
8 1 (0.97%) Node.js
8 1 (0.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.30%) Algorithms
2 23 (22.33%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.77%) Mobile App
3 8 (7.77%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.80%) CMDB
4 7 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.83%) Blackberry
5 6 (5.83%) BYOD
5 6 (5.83%) Digital Signage
5 6 (5.83%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.88%) PMI
7 3 (2.91%) Robotics
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.97%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.10%) Windows
2 15 (14.56%) Apple iOS
2 15 (14.56%) Linux
3 13 (12.62%) Android
4 10 (9.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (8.74%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.85%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.97%) CentOS
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.72%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (30.10%) User Experience
3 29 (28.16%) Software Engineering
4 25 (24.27%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (23.30%) Data Science
5 24 (23.30%) Project Management
6 23 (22.33%) Computer Security
6 23 (22.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 23 (22.33%) High Availability
6 23 (22.33%) Threat Intelligence
6 23 (22.33%) UX Research
7 20 (19.42%) Agile
7 20 (19.42%) DevOps
8 16 (15.53%) Migration
9 15 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 14 (13.59%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (11.65%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (11.65%) Decision-Making
13 11 (10.68%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.18%) Java
2 26 (25.24%) Bash
2 26 (25.24%) Python
3 24 (23.30%) Go
4 23 (22.33%) Scala
5 9 (8.74%) SQL
6 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.94%) PHP
8 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.97%) C#
9 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (21.36%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.85%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) APMP
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) GDPR
1 8 (7.77%) PSD2
2 4 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) Docker
4 2 (1.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (24.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.62%) Terraform
3 9 (8.74%) Ansible
4 7 (6.80%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.83%) ServiceCenter
6 4 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.97%) Grafana
7 1 (0.97%) Kibana
7 1 (0.97%) logstash
7 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (33.98%) Google
1 35 (33.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.33%) Dell
3 8 (7.77%) Duck Creek
4 6 (5.83%) Apple
4 6 (5.83%) HP
5 5 (4.85%) Okta
6 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.91%) VMware
7 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.94%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.94%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.94%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.94%) Trayport
8 1 (0.97%) FIS
8 1 (0.97%) Meraki
8 1 (0.97%) Spotify
8 1 (0.97%) WooCommerce