Slack Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Slack
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Slack 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £400 - £163
% change year-on-year - - -64.85%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 787 686 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.07% 33.93% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 449 526
10th Percentile £262 £325 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £670 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.34% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £29.00 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -13.84% +60.29%
75th Percentile £88.25 £54.24 £70.13
90th Percentile £98.25 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £19.50 £28.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -32.17% +6.48% +35.00%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Slack job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Slack
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Slack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Slack

Slack
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 4 £575 - 1
Slack
South East

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (50.00%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BPMN
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Epics
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Order to Cash
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle