Slack Contracts in the City of London

Slack
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Slack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Slack over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 119 169
Rank change year-on-year +3 +50 +14
Contract jobs citing Slack 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.23% 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.59% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £681 £219 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -21.74% +76.92%
75th Percentile £694 £526 £588
90th Percentile - £555 -
Central London median daily rate £688 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +52.78% -21.74% +42.86%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 759 854 1,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.42% 39.30% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 606 921
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £533 £575
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +308.72%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in the City of London

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Slack in the City of London

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Celery
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Okta
1 1 (25.00%) Pega