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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 339 376
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 +100
Contract jobs citing Slack 39 38 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.59% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 30
10th Percentile £229 £213 £162
25th Percentile £327 £255 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% - -24.53%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £533
90th Percentile £725 £825 £600
England median daily rate £513 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +20.59% -8.11% -12.74%

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 6,245 6,397 7,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.69% 41.00% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,258 4,362 5,513
10th Percentile £349 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 38 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.37
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -6.67% +22.95%
75th Percentile £46.75 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 10 December 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 10 December 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%
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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.13%) Traefik
4 1 (2.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (12.82%) Trello
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.56%) Maya
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Actimize
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 4 (10.26%) Asana
5 4 (10.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (10.26%) Google Workspace
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) Miro
6 3 (7.69%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.13%) Smartsheet
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) Calico
2 1 (2.56%) LAN
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
2 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Metadata
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Ataccama
3 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) Hasura
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) JIRA
2 6 (15.38%) GitLab
3 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.82%) Maven
4 4 (10.26%) Gradle
4 4 (10.26%) Selenium
4 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.56%) Git
5 1 (2.56%) JUnit
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.56%) TestRail
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.82%) Electronics
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.69%) Legal
6 2 (5.13%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) Games
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (10.26%) Administrator
1 4 (10.26%) GCP Engineer
1 4 (10.26%) Salesforce Administrator
1 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
2 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
2 3 (7.69%) Senior
3 2 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) Developer
3 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) IT Support
3 2 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) Sales Manager
3 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) Training Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (2.56%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) React
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) Beautiful Soup
3 1 (2.56%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.56%) CSS
3 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.56%) HTML5
3 1 (2.56%) JMS
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) Playwright
3 1 (2.56%) React Native
3 1 (2.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) iPad
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.56%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) VMS
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (28.21%) DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (17.95%) Migration
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.38%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.38%) Validation
8 5 (12.82%) GitOps
8 5 (12.82%) Observability
8 5 (12.82%) Programme Management
8 5 (12.82%) Project Management
9 4 (10.26%) Application Packaging
9 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
9 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.69%) Go
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) C
6 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.13%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) PMO
3 2 (5.13%) MiFID
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) etcd
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 9 (23.08%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Argo
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Istio
4 2 (5.13%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Google
2 8 (20.51%) Salesforce
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 5 (12.82%) Apple
5 3 (7.69%) Okta
6 2 (5.13%) Bloomberg
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.13%) Proofpoint
6 2 (5.13%) SAP
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.13%) Veritas
6 2 (5.13%) Virgin Media
7 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.56%) New Relic
7 1 (2.56%) Nintex
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle
7 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) Sybase
7 1 (2.56%) Ubiquiti