Slack Contracts in the North West

Slack
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Slack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Slack over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 121 146
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +45
Contract jobs citing Slack 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.091% 0.042% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.13% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £180
25th Percentile - - £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -51.27%
75th Percentile - - £269
90th Percentile - - £273
England median daily rate £415 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +0.61% -17.50% -4.76%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 684 757 1,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.15% 31.62% 37.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 519 862
10th Percentile £313 £300 £276
25th Percentile £391 £393 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 51
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +17.98%
75th Percentile £47.12 £31.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.25 £71.61 £63.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% -31.82% +53.49%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in the North West

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Slack in the North West

Slack
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Manchester +8 2 £500 - 6
Slack
England

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP