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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 334 354
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +106
Contract jobs citing Slack 40 32 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 34
10th Percentile £208 £238 £219
25th Percentile £300 £264 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £431
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.35% -18.63%
75th Percentile £615 £725 £575
90th Percentile £725 £830 £598
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% -2.84%

All Cloud Computing 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 6,367 5,840 6,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 40.99% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 3,944 5,031
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +34.85%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.57%

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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 2026. 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 7 £610 +20.38% 8
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 10 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.00%) Traefik
4 1 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (12.50%) Trello
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) Maya
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.50%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Actimize
2 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) Google Workspace
3 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.00%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 5 (12.50%) GitHub
6 4 (10.00%) Asana
6 4 (10.00%) SaaS
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (7.50%) Miro
7 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) VPN
1 2 (5.00%) Wireless
2 1 (2.50%) Calico
2 1 (2.50%) Intranet
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
2 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.50%) Tableau
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) Metadata
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) Ataccama
3 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) Hasura
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) GitLab
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) Maven
4 3 (7.50%) Gradle
4 3 (7.50%) Selenium
4 3 (7.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Git
5 1 (2.50%) JUnit
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
3 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (10.00%) Marketing
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Advertising
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.50%) Front Office
7 1 (2.50%) Games
7 1 (2.50%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Analyst
2 4 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Developer
4 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) IT Support
4 2 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Operational Support Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Operations Support Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Support
4 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) HTML
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) React
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) Beautiful Soup
3 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) Jest
3 1 (2.50%) JMS
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
3 1 (2.50%) React Native
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.50%) iPad
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.50%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) VMS
2 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (25.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) Migration
5 8 (20.00%) Project Management
5 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.50%) Incident Management
7 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 5 (12.50%) ITIL
7 5 (12.50%) Observability
7 5 (12.50%) Programme Management
8 4 (10.00%) AI
8 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (10.00%) Validation
8 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Go
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.50%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (7.50%) PMO
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) MiFID
4 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) etcd
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Argo
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Istio
4 2 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (5.00%) Kibana
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Google
2 9 (22.50%) Salesforce
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.50%) Okta
4 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.00%) Proofpoint
5 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Veritas
5 2 (5.00%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.50%) Adobe
6 1 (2.50%) Apple
6 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.50%) Informatica
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Sybase
6 1 (2.50%) VMware