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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 368 390
Rank change year-on-year +46 +22 +125
Contract jobs citing Slack 46 30 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.45% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 46
10th Percentile £213 £213 £220
25th Percentile £300 £264 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £413 £431
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -4.35% -18.63%
75th Percentile £615 £515 £600
90th Percentile £646 - £600
England median daily rate £500 £425 £494
% change year-on-year +17.65% -13.92% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.57% +45.83%
England median hourly rate - £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -18.57% +45.83%

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 5,764 6,614 8,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.23% 41.24% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,924 4,623 6,514
10th Percentile £340 £350 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -1.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £785
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 65
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.62
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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% 5
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 (28.26%) Confluence
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (4.35%) CMS
4 2 (4.35%) Traefik
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Trello
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (4.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (4.35%) Maya
4 2 (4.35%) Photoshop
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (2.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (19.57%) Google Workspace
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Azure
4 5 (10.87%) Asana
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (8.70%) SaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.35%) Yammer
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.17%) Dropbox
8 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.17%) Calico
2 1 (2.17%) DHCP
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) Hasura
3 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) JIRA
2 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 4 (8.70%) Gradle
2 4 (8.70%) Maven
2 4 (8.70%) Selenium
2 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (2.17%) TestRail
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Electronics
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Front Office
6 1 (2.17%) Games
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) IT Support
1 8 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) IT Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Salesforce Administrator
3 5 (10.87%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) IT Manager
4 4 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Applications Support Manager
5 3 (6.52%) IT Support Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Sales Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Support
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.17%) Flask
2 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.17%) Jest
2 1 (2.17%) Playwright
2 1 (2.17%) React
2 1 (2.17%) React Native
2 1 (2.17%) REST
2 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) iPad
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Social Media
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.17%) Life Science
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Android
2 3 (6.52%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.52%) VMS
3 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (17.39%) Agile
2 8 (17.39%) Migration
2 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
3 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
4 6 (13.04%) DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (10.87%) Data Governance
5 5 (10.87%) GitOps
5 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (8.70%) Application Packaging
6 4 (8.70%) Change Management
6 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 4 (8.70%) Project Management
6 4 (8.70%) Sales Enablement
6 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) Python
2 4 (8.70%) Java
2 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.52%) Bash
3 3 (6.52%) Go
4 2 (4.35%) C#
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) MCP
3 1 (2.17%) MCSA
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) etcd
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Argo
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Grafana
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.35%) Istio
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Google
2 12 (26.09%) Salesforce
3 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
4 6 (13.04%) Apple
5 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.52%) Okta
7 2 (4.35%) Adobe
7 2 (4.35%) Virgin Media
8 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.17%) New Relic
8 1 (2.17%) Nintex
8 1 (2.17%) OneTrust
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) Tenable
8 1 (2.17%) VMware