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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 358 399
Rank change year-on-year +30 +41 +88
Contract jobs citing Slack 43 20 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 0.30% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 13 37
10th Percentile £213 £189 £193
25th Percentile £300 £220 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -24.53%
75th Percentile £615 £488 £519
90th Percentile £688 £601 £600
England median daily rate £500 £413 £463
% change year-on-year +21.21% -10.81% -11.90%
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 5,863 6,580 8,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.75% 41.13% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 4,512 6,020
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £503 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 38 61
10th Percentile £21.00 £23.26 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.57 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -20.99% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.31 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £69.08 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +6 5 £610 +63.38% 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 13 (30.23%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.65%) Traefik
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Trello
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.65%) Maya
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.33%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (18.60%) Google Workspace
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub
4 4 (9.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.98%) Asana
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) Dropbox
7 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) DNS
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.65%) VPN
1 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.33%) Calico
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) LAN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) Hasura
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (44.19%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Gradle
2 4 (9.30%) Maven
2 4 (9.30%) Selenium
2 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.33%) TestRail
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Electronics
4 3 (6.98%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Advertising
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Games
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Administrator
1 7 (16.28%) Salesforce Administrator
2 6 (13.95%) IT Support
2 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) IT Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Sales Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Training Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Mac Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior
7 1 (2.33%) Application Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Lead
7 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Applications Support
7 1 (2.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Node.js
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.33%) Jest
2 1 (2.33%) Playwright
2 1 (2.33%) React
2 1 (2.33%) React Native
2 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) iPad
4 2 (4.65%) Life Science
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Mac OS
2 3 (6.98%) VMS
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
2 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (16.28%) Agile
3 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) Migration
4 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
4 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
5 5 (11.63%) GitOps
6 4 (9.30%) Application Packaging
6 4 (9.30%) Business Enablement
6 4 (9.30%) Customer Service
6 4 (9.30%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.30%) Observability
6 4 (9.30%) Project Management
6 4 (9.30%) Sales Enablement
6 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (9.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) Java
1 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
1 4 (9.30%) Python
2 3 (6.98%) Bash
2 3 (6.98%) Go
3 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.33%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.33%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CCNA
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) MCP
4 1 (2.33%) MCSA
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) PMO
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) etcd
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
1 7 (16.28%) Terraform
2 5 (11.63%) Argo
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Istio
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Google
1 12 (27.91%) Salesforce
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.95%) Apple
4 4 (9.30%) Okta
4 4 (9.30%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.33%) New Relic
6 1 (2.33%) Nintex
6 1 (2.33%) OneTrust
6 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.33%) Tenable
6 1 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (2.33%) VMware