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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 172
Rank change year-on-year 0 +52 +17
Contract jobs citing Slack 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.093% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £613 £246 -
25th Percentile £624 £284 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £370 £250
Median % change year-on-year +75.22% +48.10% -23.08%
75th Percentile £674 £459 £425
90th Percentile £686 £499 £523
Central London median daily rate £649 £370 £250
% change year-on-year +75.22% +48.10% -37.89%

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 742 879 1,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.84% 40.98% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 615 889
10th Percentile £364 £363 £300
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £673 £658 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.23% -7.24% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 10
10th Percentile £23.84 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.00 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £22.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.44% -66.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £98.88 £36.30 -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +41.60% -57.14% +54.41%

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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Celery
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) Istio
3 1 (33.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Pega