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 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 444 486 542
Rank change year-on-year +42 +56 +88
Contract jobs citing Slack 48 65 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.54% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 56
10th Percentile £234 £255 £238
25th Percentile £305 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.36% +2.00% -1.28%
75th Percentile £542 £603 £600
90th Percentile £641 £630 £663
UK median daily rate £414 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -17.25% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £21.10 £26.00
25th Percentile £15.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -26.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £17.00 £31.75 £32.50
90th Percentile - £32.95 £34.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -26.67% -14.29%

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 9,441 12,030 17,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.68% 32.20% 36.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,413 8,594 12,530
10th Percentile £310 £306 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 335 287
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.06 £19.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% -33.44% +53.81%
75th Percentile £37.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +40 40 £410 -19.61% 463
North of England +23 3 £500 +33.33% 63
North West +9 2 £500 - 41
South East +45 1 - - 54
Yorkshire -2 1 - - 18
East of England - 1 - - 22
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 12 (25.00%) Confluence
2 9 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (10.42%) CMS
5 3 (6.25%) WordPress
6 1 (2.08%) Mattermost
6 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Trello
3 2 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (4.17%) Photoshop
4 1 (2.08%) Maya
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.08%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (22.92%) Google Workspace
2 11 (22.92%) SaaS
3 10 (20.83%) AWS
4 9 (18.75%) Asana
4 9 (18.75%) Azure
5 7 (14.58%) Entra ID
5 7 (14.58%) GitHub
6 6 (12.50%) OneDrive
7 4 (8.33%) Figma
8 3 (6.25%) DigitalOcean
8 3 (6.25%) Heroku
9 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.17%) Yammer
10 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.08%) GCP
10 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
10 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) VPN
2 5 (10.42%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) HTTP
3 2 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.17%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) Redis
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) GitLab
2 3 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.17%) Jasmine
3 2 (4.17%) JUnit
3 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.08%) Gradle
4 1 (2.08%) Maven
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Military
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Advertising
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) IT Support
2 12 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior
4 9 (18.75%) Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Senior IT Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (14.58%) Senior Support Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) IT Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Administrator
7 4 (8.33%) Applications Support
7 4 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Sales Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Salesforce Administrator
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) CSS
2 3 (6.25%) Alpine.js
2 3 (6.25%) Bootstrap
2 3 (6.25%) FastAPI
2 3 (6.25%) Laravel
2 3 (6.25%) React
2 3 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (4.17%) Celery
3 2 (4.17%) OpenAPI
3 2 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (4.17%) RESTful
3 2 (4.17%) Spring
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Batch
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Security
3 2 (4.17%) Swagger
4 1 (2.08%) Express.js
4 1 (2.08%) Flask
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.25%) Social Media
2 3 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) iPad
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Life Science
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Android
2 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (14.58%) Migration
3 6 (12.50%) Agile
3 6 (12.50%) Coaching
3 6 (12.50%) DevOps
3 6 (12.50%) Project Management
3 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (10.42%) Analytics
4 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
4 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.42%) Service Management
4 5 (10.42%) User Experience
5 4 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 4 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 4 (8.33%) IT Asset Management
5 4 (8.33%) ITSM
5 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) Bash
1 4 (8.33%) Java
1 4 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) PHP
2 3 (6.25%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.08%) C#
3 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
2 1 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.08%) MBA
2 1 (2.08%) MCP
2 1 (2.08%) MCSA
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Terraform
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Argo
4 1 (2.08%) Istio
4 1 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.08%) Plesk
4 1 (2.08%) Podman
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) Google
3 7 (14.58%) Salesforce
4 6 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.42%) Zscaler
6 3 (6.25%) Apple
6 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (6.25%) Sage
7 2 (4.17%) Adobe
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle
7 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.17%) Splunk
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco
8 1 (2.08%) Meraki
8 1 (2.08%) Okta
8 1 (2.08%) Pega
8 1 (2.08%) Rackspace
8 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
8 1 (2.08%) SAP