Slack Contract Job Trends in Central London

Slack
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Slack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 125 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Slack 7 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £369 - £219
25th Percentile £521 - £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £507 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.38% +44.77% -44.53%
75th Percentile £615 - £461
90th Percentile - - £525
London median daily rate £400 £431 £400
% change year-on-year -7.25% +7.81% -24.53%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

Slack falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 840 898 1,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.56% 39.63% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 587 773
10th Percentile £340 £383 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £18.83 £28.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £34.44
90th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £35.63
% change year-on-year -15.63% -12.51% +30.75%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Slack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Slack job vacancy trend in Central London

Slack
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Slack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Slack

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in Central London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in Central London

Slack
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Slack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Slack

Slack
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
City of London 0 7 £610 +20.38% 9
Slack
London

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (42.86%) Google Workspace
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Gradle
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Argo
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft