Slack Contracts in Scotland

Slack
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 107 161
Rank change year-on-year -11 +54 +12
Contract jobs citing Slack 5 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.29% 0.58% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 1.66% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £640 £350 £548
25th Percentile £649 £354 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £375 £665
Median % change year-on-year +76.53% -43.61% +1.14%
75th Percentile £669 £416 £676
90th Percentile £672 £534 -
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +2.70% -15.91% +4.76%

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 624 724 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.80% 34.99% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 485 760
10th Percentile £313 £213 £250
25th Percentile £413 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £628 £603
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.24% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £16.81
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.15% -36.71% +55.56%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in Scotland

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack in Scotland.

Daily rate trend 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 15 July 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 -20 4 £662 +89.14% 4
Edinburgh - 1 - - 3
Slack
UK

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Coaching
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Argo
1 4 (80.00%) Istio
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple