Slack Contracts

Slack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 508 609
Rank change year-on-year +48 +101 +46
Contract jobs citing Slack 59 92 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.65% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 79 60
10th Percentile £255 £255 £298
25th Percentile £341 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £501 £592
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -15.38% +12.67%
75th Percentile £703 £588 £653
90th Percentile £825 £630 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £765 £375 £650
% change year-on-year +104.00% -42.31% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.95 £20.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.63 £20.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -6.38% -32.86%
75th Percentile £17.00 £24.44 £27.50
90th Percentile - £28.83 £32.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 - £20.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Slack.

Hourly rate trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +44 57 £413 -19.12% 133
London +11 44 £410 -19.61% 92
Work from Home +43 26 £400 -8.57% 90
UK excluding London +49 12 £765 +104.00% 49
North of England +34 10 £765 +104.00% 16
Yorkshire +18 7 £765 +104.00% 4
North West - 3 - - 12
South East +43 1 - - 9
East of England - 1 - - 3

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (42.37%) Confluence
2 9 (15.25%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (8.47%) CMS
5 3 (5.08%) WordPress
6 1 (1.69%) Mattermost
6 1 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Trello
3 2 (3.39%) 1Password
3 2 (3.39%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.39%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.69%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) Cloud Computing
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (20.34%) Azure
3 11 (18.64%) Asana
3 11 (18.64%) SaaS
4 10 (16.95%) Google Workspace
5 9 (15.25%) AWS
6 7 (11.86%) Entra ID
6 7 (11.86%) Figma
7 6 (10.17%) OneDrive
8 4 (6.78%) GitHub
9 3 (5.08%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (5.08%) Heroku
9 3 (5.08%) Mimecast
9 3 (5.08%) Miro
10 2 (3.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) GCP
10 2 (3.39%) Yammer
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.69%) Discord
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) HTTP
2 8 (13.56%) VPN
3 4 (6.78%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (5.08%) DNS
5 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.29%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (30.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (30.51%) MongoDB
2 18 (30.51%) MySQL
3 3 (5.08%) Redis
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (55.93%) JIRA
2 20 (33.90%) Git
3 18 (30.51%) Cucumber
3 18 (30.51%) Jasmine
3 18 (30.51%) JUnit
4 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.39%) GitLab
6 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.69%) Postman
6 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.78%) Marketing
5 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.39%) Military
5 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Advertising
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
1 20 (33.90%) Senior
2 14 (23.73%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.03%) IT Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) IT Support
4 12 (20.34%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) Support Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Lead
6 8 (13.56%) Senior Developer
6 8 (13.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (11.86%) Senior IT Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Senior IT Support
7 7 (11.86%) Senior Support Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Lead Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (8.47%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) IT Manager
10 4 (6.78%) Designer
10 4 (6.78%) Java Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) RESTful
1 18 (30.51%) Spring
1 18 (30.51%) Spring Boot
1 18 (30.51%) Swagger
2 17 (28.81%) OpenAPI
2 17 (28.81%) Spring Security
3 16 (27.12%) Spring Batch
4 4 (6.78%) FastAPI
5 3 (5.08%) Alpine.js
5 3 (5.08%) Bootstrap
5 3 (5.08%) Celery
5 3 (5.08%) CSS
5 3 (5.08%) Laravel
5 3 (5.08%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (3.39%) React
7 1 (1.69%) .NET
7 1 (1.69%) Flask
7 1 (1.69%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (1.69%) REST
7 1 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 12 (20.34%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.78%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.08%) Social Media
5 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.59%) Linux
2 19 (32.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (25.42%) Windows
4 4 (6.78%) Android
4 4 (6.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) CI/CD
2 21 (35.59%) Containerisation
3 19 (32.20%) Test Automation
4 18 (30.51%) BDD
4 18 (30.51%) Microservices
4 18 (30.51%) OWASP
4 18 (30.51%) TDD
5 17 (28.81%) API Design
5 17 (28.81%) Continuous Delivery
6 16 (27.12%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (27.12%) Kernel Tuning
7 14 (23.73%) Software Engineering
8 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
9 11 (18.64%) Integration Testing
10 10 (16.95%) Agile
10 10 (16.95%) High Availability
11 9 (15.25%) Cloud Security
11 9 (15.25%) Coaching
11 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Java
2 19 (32.20%) Bash
2 19 (32.20%) SQL
3 5 (8.47%) Python
4 3 (5.08%) PHP
5 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) SC Cleared
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.69%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Docker
2 11 (18.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (33.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) Istio
3 1 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.69%) Plesk
3 1 (1.69%) Podman
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.64%) Google
3 8 (13.56%) Palo Alto
4 7 (11.86%) Zscaler
5 4 (6.78%) Adobe
5 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.08%) Netskope
6 3 (5.08%) Sage
7 2 (3.39%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (3.39%) Datto
7 2 (3.39%) Freshdesk
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle
8 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.69%) Meraki
8 1 (1.69%) Pega
8 1 (1.69%) Rackspace
8 1 (1.69%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.69%) SAP
8 1 (1.69%) Splunk