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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 319 351
Rank change year-on-year -23 +32 +117
Contract jobs citing Slack 38 33 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.57% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 36
10th Percentile £206 £255 £216
25th Percentile £300 £264 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £615 £725 £575
90th Percentile £725 £830 £595
England median daily rate £450 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% +1.20%

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 6,339 5,747 6,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.27% 41.18% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 3,853 4,989
10th Percentile £346 £350 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 45 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.66 £17.40
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% -12.60% +35.42%
75th Percentile £56.00 £44.61 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.50 £68.80
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.67% -0.32%

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 14 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 14 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 -8 6 £610 +20.38% 11
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 9 (23.68%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.26%) Traefik
4 1 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (10.53%) Trello
2 1 (2.63%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Actimize
2 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Google Workspace
3 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
4 5 (13.16%) GCP
4 5 (13.16%) GitHub
5 4 (10.53%) SaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.89%) Asana
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.89%) Miro
6 3 (7.89%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.26%) Smartsheet
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) VPN
1 2 (5.26%) Wireless
2 1 (2.63%) Calico
2 1 (2.63%) Intranet
2 1 (2.63%) LAN
2 1 (2.63%) WAN
2 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (13.16%) Tableau
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) Metadata
2 2 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) Ataccama
3 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) Hasura
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (52.63%) JIRA
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Maven
5 2 (5.26%) Gradle
5 2 (5.26%) Selenium
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.63%) Git
6 1 (2.63%) JUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Postman
6 1 (2.63%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (2.63%) TestRail
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Legal
5 4 (10.53%) Marketing
6 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.26%) Electronics
7 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.63%) Advertising
8 1 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.63%) Games
8 1 (2.63%) Military
8 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Analyst
2 5 (13.16%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Incident Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Operational Support Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Operations Support Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Salesforce Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Salesforce Support
4 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Developer
5 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) HTML
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) React
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) Beautiful Soup
3 1 (2.63%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.63%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.63%) HTML5
3 1 (2.63%) Jest
3 1 (2.63%) JMS
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) Pandas
3 1 (2.63%) React Native
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.63%) iPad
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.63%) Life Science
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) VMS
2 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.05%) DevOps
6 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
6 7 (18.42%) Project Management
7 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.79%) ITIL
7 6 (15.79%) Migration
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.16%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (13.16%) Customer Service
8 5 (13.16%) Observability
8 5 (13.16%) Programme Management
8 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (10.53%) Validation
9 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
3 2 (5.26%) Go
3 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.63%) C
4 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.26%) PMP
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (7.89%) PMO
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) MiFID
4 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) etcd
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Argo
2 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Istio
3 2 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (5.26%) Kibana
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Google
2 9 (23.68%) Salesforce
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.89%) Okta
4 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.26%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.26%) Proofpoint
5 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) Veritas
5 2 (5.26%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.63%) Adobe
6 1 (2.63%) Apple
6 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.63%) Informatica
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) Sybase
6 1 (2.63%) VMware