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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 315 332
Rank change year-on-year -43 +17 +132
Contract jobs citing Slack 43 39 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 53
10th Percentile £204 £255 £237
25th Percentile £235 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -19.12% -0.49%
75th Percentile £531 £694 £600
90th Percentile £650 £825 £630
England median daily rate £350 £415 £510
% change year-on-year -15.66% -18.63% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.65
25th Percentile £31.25 - £20.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £21.50
75th Percentile £33.75 - £21.88
90th Percentile - - £21.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £16.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +103.13% -25.58% -6.52%

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 7,208 5,374 6,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.05% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,941 3,723 4,961
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 78
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.96
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -14 5 £360 -47.64% 12
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 6 (13.95%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.33%) Maya
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Actimize
2 1 (2.33%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) Google Workspace
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (23.26%) SaaS
4 7 (16.28%) AWS
5 5 (11.63%) Asana
6 4 (9.30%) Azure
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) GCP
7 3 (6.98%) Google Docs
7 3 (6.98%) Google Drive
7 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Miro
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
8 2 (4.65%) Smartsheet
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.33%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) VPN
2 3 (6.98%) Wireless
3 2 (4.65%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) LAN
3 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (2.33%) Intranet
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Tableau
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.65%) Metadata
3 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) Ataccama
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) JUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Marketing
4 4 (9.30%) Legal
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.98%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Electronics
6 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) Desktop Support
3 4 (9.30%) Incident Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Operational Support Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Operations Support Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.30%) Salesforce Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Salesforce Support
4 3 (6.98%) Chief Operating Officer
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 3 (6.98%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Desktop Support Technician
5 2 (4.65%) Help Desk Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (4.65%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.65%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Support Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Kafka
1 3 (6.98%) OAuth
1 3 (6.98%) SAML
2 2 (4.65%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.33%) Beautiful Soup
3 1 (2.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.33%) CSS
3 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.33%) HTML5
3 1 (2.33%) JMS
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.33%) Pandas
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) Spring
3 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.33%) iPad
3 1 (2.33%) Life Science
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Mac OS
1 7 (16.28%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.65%) Android
3 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (20.93%) AI
3 8 (18.60%) ITIL
4 7 (16.28%) Incident Management
4 7 (16.28%) Migration
5 6 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (13.95%) ITSM
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) Project Management
7 4 (9.30%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.30%) CRM
7 4 (9.30%) Identity Management
7 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.30%) Validation
7 4 (9.30%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) C
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.65%) PMP
2 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.33%) ACSP
3 1 (2.33%) CCNA
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.65%) MiFID
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
2 3 (6.98%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
3 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (58.14%) Google
2 12 (27.91%) Salesforce
3 7 (16.28%) ServiceNow
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.98%) CODA
6 3 (6.98%) SAP
7 2 (4.65%) Apple
7 2 (4.65%) Bloomberg
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco
7 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
7 2 (4.65%) Okta
7 2 (4.65%) Proofpoint
7 2 (4.65%) Veritas
8 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.33%) Logitech
8 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.33%) Refinitiv
8 1 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (2.33%) Yealink