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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing Slack 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.090% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £225 £625 £163
% change year-on-year -64.00% +283.44% -63.58%

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 681 679 789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.49% 30.71% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 456 562
10th Percentile £250 £363 £234
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £654 £661 £725
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 19
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £17.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.39 £18.88
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -46.85% +9.91% +53.81%
75th Percentile £32.18 £60.72 £45.75
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £66.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Slack 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 26 September 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 - 3 £575 - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Slack
South East

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (25.00%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BPMN
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Order to Cash
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (50.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 2 (50.00%) Epics
3 2 (50.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft