Slack Contract Job Trends in London

Slack
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Slack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 357 380
Rank change year-on-year +30 +23 +108
Contract jobs citing Slack 44 22 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 0.34% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 34
10th Percentile £213 £186 £178
25th Percentile £300 £218 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £339 £400
Median % change year-on-year +41.86% -15.19% -24.53%
75th Percentile £615 £492 £514
90th Percentile £719 £613 £600
England median daily rate £500 £419 £463
% change year-on-year +19.40% -9.46% -12.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
England median hourly rate - £32.50 -

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 6,007 6,421 7,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.06% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,055 4,364 5,791
10th Percentile £350 £350 £343
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £533
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.47% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 37 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £23.80 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -13.58% +42.73%
75th Percentile £44.00 £55.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year -29.15% +9.91% +43.56%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Slack job vacancy trend in London

Slack
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Slack

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in London over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in London

Slack
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Slack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Slack

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 2 November 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 +5 5 £610 +63.38% 20
Slack
England

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (34.09%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) Traefik
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Trello
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.55%) Maya
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (18.18%) Google Workspace
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.82%) Asana
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.82%) Serverless
5 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.55%) Miro
6 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.55%) VPN
1 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.27%) Calico
2 1 (2.27%) DHCP
2 1 (2.27%) LAN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) Hasura
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (45.45%) JIRA
2 5 (11.36%) GitLab
2 5 (11.36%) Maven
3 4 (9.09%) Gradle
3 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) Selenium
3 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) JUnit
4 1 (2.27%) Postman
4 1 (2.27%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.27%) TestRail
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Electronics
4 4 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
6 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Advertising
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Front Office
7 1 (2.27%) Games
7 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Administrator
1 6 (13.64%) Salesforce Administrator
2 5 (11.36%) IT Support
2 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Sales Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Training Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Mac Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Senior
5 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Node.js
1 2 (4.55%) React
2 1 (2.27%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.27%) Bootstrap
2 1 (2.27%) CSS
2 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) HTML5
2 1 (2.27%) Jest
2 1 (2.27%) JMS
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) Playwright
2 1 (2.27%) React Native
2 1 (2.27%) Spring
2 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.55%) iPad
4 2 (4.55%) Life Science
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Mac OS
2 3 (6.82%) VMS
3 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.45%) Agile
3 9 (20.45%) DevOps
4 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 7 (15.91%) Migration
5 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.36%) Data Governance
7 5 (11.36%) GitOps
7 5 (11.36%) Observability
7 5 (11.36%) Project Management
8 4 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (9.09%) Programme Management
8 4 (9.09%) Sales Enablement
8 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (9.09%) Validation
8 4 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Java
2 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) Bash
3 3 (6.82%) Go
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
4 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.27%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CCNA
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) MCP
4 1 (2.27%) MCSA
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) PMO
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) etcd
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 8 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (11.36%) Argo
3 3 (6.82%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Istio
4 2 (4.55%) Kibana
5 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Google
2 11 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
4 6 (13.64%) Apple
5 4 (9.09%) Okta
5 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.55%) Virgin Media
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.27%) New Relic
7 1 (2.27%) Nintex
7 1 (2.27%) OneTrust
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle
7 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.27%) SAP
7 1 (2.27%) Sybase
7 1 (2.27%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (2.27%) VMware