Slack Contracts in the UK excluding London

Slack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 365 408
Rank change year-on-year +12 +43 +36
Contract jobs citing Slack 11 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 17
10th Percentile £554 £260 £260
25th Percentile £635 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +76.53% -34.78% +4.31%
75th Percentile £675 £544 £673
90th Percentile £683 £625 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -26.67% -14.29%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,645 5,393 7,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.26% 26.44% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,126 3,707 5,478
10th Percentile £250 £232 £233
25th Percentile £381 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.67% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 250 238
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.00 £14.44
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £16.94
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -25.23% +33.75%
75th Percentile £34.50 £43.75 £61.11
90th Percentile £66.90 £70.00 £75.65
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +55.56%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in the UK excluding London

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Slack in the UK excluding London

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in the UK excluding London

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Slack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Slack in the UK excluding London

Slack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Scotland -7 5 £662 +76.53% 7
North of England +1 3 £588 +56.67% 13
North West +5 2 £500 - 7
East of England - 2 - - 5
South East +32 1 - - 20
Yorkshire -12 1 £675 +80.00% 6
Slack
UK

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (63.64%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Help Desk Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) Express.js
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) Jest
1 1 (9.09%) Next.js
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Signage
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (36.36%) Coaching
4 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 4 (36.36%) GitOps
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Prototyping
4 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
4 4 (36.36%) Secrets Management
4 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Argo
1 4 (36.36%) Istio
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow