Slack Contracts in London

Slack
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 309 323 434
Rank change year-on-year +14 +111 +85
Contract jobs citing Slack 44 68 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.38% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 1.01% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 59 33
10th Percentile £255 £255 £241
25th Percentile £322 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £641 £588 £600
90th Percentile £825 £630 £740
England median daily rate £413 £510 £506
% change year-on-year -19.12% +0.74% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £20.95 £21.80
25th Percentile - £21.63 £23.00
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile - £24.44 £30.00
90th Percentile - £28.83 £33.00
England median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% -6.38% -32.86%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Slack in London

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Slack in London

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in London

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Slack in London

Slack
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the London 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
Central London +3 4 £688 +52.78% 7
East London - 3 - - 1
West London +11 1 - - 3
Slack
England

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (29.55%) Confluence
2 8 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (11.36%) CMS
5 3 (6.82%) WordPress
6 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.82%) Trello
3 2 (4.55%) 1Password
3 2 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (4.55%) Photoshop
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) Asana
3 11 (25.00%) SaaS
4 10 (22.73%) Google Workspace
5 8 (18.18%) AWS
6 7 (15.91%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (15.91%) Figma
7 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
7 6 (13.64%) OneDrive
8 4 (9.09%) GitHub
9 3 (6.82%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (6.82%) Heroku
9 3 (6.82%) Mimecast
9 3 (6.82%) Miro
10 2 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (4.55%) GCP
10 2 (4.55%) Yammer
11 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) VPN
2 5 (11.36%) HTTP
3 4 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (6.82%) DNS
5 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (20.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (20.45%) MongoDB
2 9 (20.45%) MySQL
3 2 (4.55%) Redis
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (47.73%) JIRA
2 12 (27.27%) Git
3 9 (20.45%) Cucumber
3 9 (20.45%) Jasmine
3 9 (20.45%) JUnit
4 3 (6.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.27%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) Postman
5 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (43.18%) Finance
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.82%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) IT Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) IT Support
2 12 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior
4 8 (18.18%) Lead
5 7 (15.91%) Senior IT Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (15.91%) Senior Support Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) IT Manager
7 5 (11.36%) Lead Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Designer
8 4 (9.09%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) OpenAPI
1 9 (20.45%) RESTful
1 9 (20.45%) Spring
1 9 (20.45%) Spring Batch
1 9 (20.45%) Spring Boot
1 9 (20.45%) Spring Security
1 9 (20.45%) Swagger
2 3 (6.82%) Alpine.js
2 3 (6.82%) Bootstrap
2 3 (6.82%) CSS
2 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
2 3 (6.82%) Laravel
2 3 (6.82%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (4.55%) Celery
3 2 (4.55%) React
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) Flask
4 1 (2.27%) Nightwatchjs
4 1 (2.27%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (20.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.82%) Social Media
5 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Windows
2 11 (25.00%) Linux
3 10 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.09%) Android
4 4 (9.09%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.55%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (20.45%) BDD
3 9 (20.45%) Microservices
3 9 (20.45%) OWASP
3 9 (20.45%) TDD
4 8 (18.18%) API Design
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (18.18%) Kernel Tuning
4 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 7 (15.91%) Agile
5 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (15.91%) ITSM
5 7 (15.91%) Service Management
6 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.64%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Project Management
7 5 (11.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Java
2 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) PHP
4 3 (6.82%) Python
5 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
2 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Istio
4 1 (2.27%) Plesk
4 1 (2.27%) Podman
4 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.00%) Google
3 8 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 7 (15.91%) Zscaler
5 4 (9.09%) Adobe
5 4 (9.09%) Salesforce
6 3 (6.82%) Netskope
6 3 (6.82%) Sage
7 2 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (4.55%) Datto
7 2 (4.55%) Freshdesk
8 1 (2.27%) Cisco
8 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Okta
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle
8 1 (2.27%) Pega
8 1 (2.27%) Rapid7
8 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.27%) Splunk