Slack Contracts in England

Slack
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 466 567
Rank change year-on-year +38 +101 +83
Contract jobs citing Slack 57 76 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.64% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 46
10th Percentile £255 £244 £266
25th Percentile £325 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £510 £506
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +0.74% +1.25%
75th Percentile £694 £588 £600
90th Percentile £825 £630 £725
UK median daily rate £414 £501 £592
% change year-on-year -17.33% -15.38% +12.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.95 £20.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.63 £20.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -6.38% -32.86%
75th Percentile £17.00 £24.44 £27.50
90th Percentile - £28.83 £32.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% -6.38% -32.86%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +14 44 £410 -19.61% 111
North of England +25 10 £765 +104.00% 18
Yorkshire +11 7 £765 +104.00% 5
North West - 3 - - 13
South East +46 1 - - 31
East of England - 1 - - 4
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 25 (43.86%) Confluence
2 9 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (8.77%) CMS
5 3 (5.26%) WordPress
6 1 (1.75%) Mattermost
6 1 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.26%) Trello
3 2 (3.51%) 1Password
3 2 (3.51%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.51%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.75%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) Cloud Computing
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (21.05%) Azure
3 11 (19.30%) Asana
3 11 (19.30%) SaaS
4 10 (17.54%) Google Workspace
5 8 (14.04%) AWS
6 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
6 7 (12.28%) Figma
7 6 (10.53%) OneDrive
8 4 (7.02%) GitHub
9 3 (5.26%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (5.26%) Heroku
9 3 (5.26%) Mimecast
9 3 (5.26%) Miro
10 2 (3.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (3.51%) GCP
10 2 (3.51%) Yammer
11 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) HTTP
2 8 (14.04%) VPN
3 4 (7.02%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (5.26%) DNS
5 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (31.58%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (31.58%) MongoDB
2 18 (31.58%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Redis
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (57.89%) JIRA
2 20 (35.09%) Git
3 18 (31.58%) Cucumber
3 18 (31.58%) Jasmine
3 18 (31.58%) JUnit
4 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.51%) GitLab
6 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.75%) Postman
6 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.51%) Military
6 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 19 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (24.56%) Java Developer
4 13 (22.81%) IT Engineer
5 12 (21.05%) IT Support
5 12 (21.05%) IT Support Engineer
5 12 (21.05%) Support Engineer
6 9 (15.79%) Lead
7 8 (14.04%) Senior Developer
7 8 (14.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (12.28%) Senior IT Engineer
8 7 (12.28%) Senior IT Support
8 7 (12.28%) Senior Support Engineer
9 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (8.77%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (8.77%) IT Manager
11 4 (7.02%) Designer
11 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
11 4 (7.02%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) RESTful
1 18 (31.58%) Spring
1 18 (31.58%) Spring Boot
1 18 (31.58%) Swagger
2 17 (29.82%) OpenAPI
2 17 (29.82%) Spring Security
3 16 (28.07%) Spring Batch
4 3 (5.26%) Alpine.js
4 3 (5.26%) Bootstrap
4 3 (5.26%) CSS
4 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.26%) Laravel
4 3 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (3.51%) Celery
5 2 (3.51%) React
6 1 (1.75%) .NET
6 1 (1.75%) Flask
6 1 (1.75%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (1.75%) REST
6 1 (1.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 12 (21.05%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.02%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.26%) Social Media
5 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.84%) Linux
2 19 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (26.32%) Windows
4 4 (7.02%) Android
4 4 (7.02%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) CI/CD
2 20 (35.09%) Containerisation
3 19 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 18 (31.58%) BDD
4 18 (31.58%) Microservices
4 18 (31.58%) OWASP
4 18 (31.58%) TDD
5 17 (29.82%) API Design
5 17 (29.82%) Continuous Delivery
6 16 (28.07%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (28.07%) Kernel Tuning
7 14 (24.56%) Software Engineering
8 13 (22.81%) Mentoring
9 11 (19.30%) Integration Testing
10 10 (17.54%) High Availability
11 9 (15.79%) Agile
11 9 (15.79%) Cloud Security
11 9 (15.79%) Coaching
11 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (14.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) Java
2 19 (33.33%) Bash
2 19 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) Python
4 3 (5.26%) PHP
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 18 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.75%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 22 (38.60%) Docker
2 11 (19.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Istio
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) Plesk
4 1 (1.75%) Podman
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) Google
3 8 (14.04%) Palo Alto
4 7 (12.28%) Zscaler
5 4 (7.02%) Adobe
5 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.26%) Netskope
6 3 (5.26%) Sage
7 2 (3.51%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (3.51%) Datto
7 2 (3.51%) Freshdesk
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle
8 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.75%) Meraki
8 1 (1.75%) Pega
8 1 (1.75%) Rackspace
8 1 (1.75%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.75%) SAP
8 1 (1.75%) Splunk