Slack Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Slack
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Slack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Slack 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.33% - 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £337 - £528
25th Percentile £449 - £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 - £558
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.16%
75th Percentile £649 - £574
90th Percentile £657 - £575
UK median daily rate £513 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +20.59% -12.82% -8.02%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 572 589 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.24% 34.98% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 366 499
10th Percentile £313 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Slack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Slack job vacancy trend in Scotland

Slack
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Slack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Slack

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in Scotland

Slack
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Glasgow - 3 £649 -
Edinburgh - 2 £275 - 1
Slack
UK

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) GitOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Argo
1 3 (60.00%) Istio
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) Google