Slack Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Slack
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Slack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 +52
Contract jobs citing Slack 6 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.32% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.81% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £335 £524 £219
25th Percentile £436 £550 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £597 £431
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +38.46% +32.69%
75th Percentile £615 £647 £513
90th Percentile - £675 £550
Central London median daily rate £610 £597 £431
% change year-on-year +2.16% +38.46% -31.66%

All Cloud Computing 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 779 743 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 39.52% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 472 699
10th Percentile £340 £404 £363
25th Percentile £414 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Slack job vacancy trend in the City of London

Slack
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Slack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Slack

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in the City of London

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Application Packaging
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Argo
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft