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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 326 358
Rank change year-on-year -87 +32 +54
Contract jobs citing Slack 32 46 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.34% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.79% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 23
10th Percentile £273 £210 £214
25th Percentile £353 £300 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £413 £463
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% -10.81% -6.33%
75th Percentile £644 £564 £515
90th Percentile £668 £615 -
England median daily rate £515 £415 £469
% change year-on-year +24.10% -11.47% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £31.75
90th Percentile - - £32.95
England median hourly rate £90.00 - £22.00
% change year-on-year - - -37.14%

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 8,326 5,819 6,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 43.01% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,668 3,979 4,777
10th Percentile £363 £336 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 52
10th Percentile £18.80 £22.95 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.12 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £77.11 £72.68 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
% change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%

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 August 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 August 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 -22 3 £529 -13.32% 4
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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.13%) Maya
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Google Workspace
2 9 (28.13%) SaaS
3 7 (21.88%) Figma
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) AWS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) Azure
6 2 (6.25%) Google Docs
6 2 (6.25%) Google Gemini
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.13%) Google Drive
7 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
1 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.25%) Tableau
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.25%) Gemini Tracker
3 2 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Marketing
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Military
7 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Lead
2 4 (12.50%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (9.38%) Lead Consultant
3 3 (9.38%) User Experience Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Coordinator
4 2 (6.25%) Incident Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Incident Coordinator
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
4 2 (6.25%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.13%) Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) React
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) OAuth
2 2 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) iPad
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
2 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Coaching
2 7 (21.88%) CRM
3 6 (18.75%) User Experience
4 5 (15.63%) AI
4 5 (15.63%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 5 (15.63%) Sales Enablement
4 5 (15.63%) User Research
4 5 (15.63%) Wireframes
5 4 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (12.50%) Fintech
5 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 4 (12.50%) Inclusive Design
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 4 (12.50%) Usability Testing
5 4 (12.50%) UX Design
5 4 (12.50%) UX Research
6 3 (9.38%) Performance Testing
6 3 (9.38%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) Scala
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
1 5 (15.63%) WCAG
2 1 (3.13%) GRC
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Google
2 6 (18.75%) Salesforce
3 4 (12.50%) PagerDuty
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.25%) Okta
5 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) Adobe
6 1 (3.13%) Apple
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco
6 1 (3.13%) Logitech
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki
6 1 (3.13%) Qualtrics
6 1 (3.13%) Yealink