Slack Contracts in England

Slack
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Slack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Slack over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 562 651
Rank change year-on-year +95 +89 -134
Contract jobs citing Slack 76 86 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 46 84
10th Percentile £244 £266 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% +1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £591
90th Percentile £630 £725 £663
UK median daily rate £501 £592 £525
% change year-on-year -15.38% +12.67% +15.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £20.95 £20.30 £24.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £20.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -32.86% +89.19%
75th Percentile £24.44 £27.50 -
90th Percentile £28.83 £32.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.38% -32.86% +60.11%

All Cloud Skills
England

Slack is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,863 18,484 27,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.63% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,546 13,521 20,067
10th Percentile £290 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 311 349
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.87 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in England

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack in England.

Daily rate trend for Slack in England

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in England

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Slack in England.

Hourly rate trend for Slack in England

Slack
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +116 68 £510 +2.00% 24
North of England +25 4 £375 -25.00% 2
Yorkshire +20 4 £375 -25.00% 1
South East +10 1 £500 -23.08% 1
Slack
UK

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (27.63%) Confluence
2 17 (22.37%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (19.74%) AWS
3 12 (15.79%) Google Workspace
4 7 (9.21%) Asana
4 7 (9.21%) GitHub
5 6 (7.89%) Azure
6 5 (6.58%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) WhatsApp
8 3 (3.95%) Zapier
9 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.32%) Google Sheets
10 1 (1.32%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) VoIP
1 5 (6.58%) VPN
2 3 (3.95%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (1.32%) Big Data
3 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (44.74%) JIRA
2 32 (42.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.26%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (5.26%) Burp Suite
4 3 (3.95%) Git
5 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.63%) Marketing
5 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Release Manager
2 10 (13.16%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) Lead
3 8 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.21%) Technical Leader
4 7 (9.21%) VMware Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.58%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.58%) Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) IT Support
6 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Service Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Collaboration Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.95%) React
3 2 (2.63%) .NET
3 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.32%) NestJS
4 1 (1.32%) Node.js
4 1 (1.32%) PySpark
4 1 (1.32%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.95%) Onboarding
2 10 (13.16%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) CentOS
1 17 (22.37%) Linux
1 17 (22.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (11.84%) Windows
3 3 (3.95%) Android
3 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.95%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) Agile
2 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.68%) Observability
4 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.05%) Project Management
6 15 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (17.11%) Change Management
7 13 (17.11%) Configuration Management
7 13 (17.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 13 (17.11%) Performance Testing
7 13 (17.11%) Release Management
7 13 (17.11%) SDLC
8 9 (11.84%) Process Improvement
9 8 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.21%) Customer Service
10 7 (9.21%) Customer-Centricity
11 5 (6.58%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 5 (6.58%) DevOps
11 5 (6.58%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 17 (22.37%) Shell Script
3 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.26%) Bash
4 4 (5.26%) Go
5 3 (3.95%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.32%) SQL
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
1 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) CISSP
3 1 (1.32%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.63%) PMO
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) vSphere
4 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Ansible
1 17 (22.37%) Grafana
1 17 (22.37%) Kibana
1 17 (22.37%) logstash
1 17 (22.37%) Prometheus
2 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.37%) Red Hat
3 16 (21.05%) Amdocs
3 16 (21.05%) Google
4 9 (11.84%) VMware
5 7 (9.21%) Okta
6 5 (6.58%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.58%) Zscaler
7 4 (5.26%) Splunk
8 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.63%) Apple
10 1 (1.32%) Databricks