Slack Contract Job Trends

Slack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Slack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 479 515
Rank change year-on-year -137 +36 +41
Contract jobs citing Slack 58 79 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.64% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 53 39
10th Percentile £325 £213 £230
25th Percentile £398 £325 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £668 £615 £503
90th Percentile £717 £672 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £375
% change year-on-year -2.00% +40.00% -33.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.65
25th Percentile £85.00 - £23.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £28.50
75th Percentile £95.00 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £33.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 18,875 12,342 13,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.72% 37.50% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,517 8,222 8,956
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 305 203
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.44
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.73 £53.75 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Slack job vacancy trend in the UK

Slack
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slack

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slack

Slack
Top 11 Contract Job 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 13 September 2026. 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 -136 47 £515 +3.00% 134
London -106 29 £463 +5.83% 106
Work from Home -64 25 £645 +25.85% 575
UK excluding London -103 18 £515 -2.00% 38
North of England -66 12 £515 -2.00% 10
Yorkshire -37 6 £515 -12.43% 1
North West -55 6 - - 9
South East -64 3 - - 6
Scotland -27 2 £483 -27.11% 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 - - 5

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (27.59%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.72%) Maya
3 1 (1.72%) Notion
3 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Figma
1 10 (17.24%) SaaS
2 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 8 (13.79%) Google Workspace
4 7 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.90%) Azure
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Google Gemini
7 2 (3.45%) Miro
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (5.17%) WebEx
2 2 (3.45%) Broadband
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.45%) Impala
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.72%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 32 (55.17%) JIRA
2 7 (12.07%) Git
3 5 (8.62%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.17%) GitLab
5 2 (3.45%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Finance
3 14 (24.14%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.79%) Marketing
4 8 (13.79%) Military
4 8 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Lead
2 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Consultant
3 5 (8.62%) User Researcher
4 4 (6.90%) Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Senior
4 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) User Experience Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Lead Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Desktop Support
6 2 (3.45%) Incident Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Incident Coordinator
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) Node.js
2 10 (17.24%) REST
3 8 (13.79%) React
4 6 (10.34%) Terraform
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.72%) ADO
6 1 (1.72%) CSS
6 1 (1.72%) HTML
6 1 (1.72%) OAuth
6 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.72%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.72%) SAML
6 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.72%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) CMDB
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Mobile Computing
4 2 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.72%) Social Media
5 1 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Android
2 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) AI
3 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (13.79%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 8 (13.79%) ITSM
6 8 (13.79%) Prototyping
6 8 (13.79%) User Experience
6 8 (13.79%) User Research
6 8 (13.79%) User Stories
6 8 (13.79%) Wireframes
6 8 (13.79%) Workflow
7 7 (12.07%) Customer Service
7 7 (12.07%) DevOps
7 7 (12.07%) Inclusive Design
7 7 (12.07%) LLM
7 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.07%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) Python
1 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
2 9 (15.52%) Java
3 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) Scala
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) Ruby
5 1 (1.72%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) Degree
5 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) Accessibility
1 8 (13.79%) WCAG
2 2 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Apache Ranger
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (1.72%) Argo
2 1 (1.72%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) Istio
2 1 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.69%) Google
3 9 (15.52%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.90%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) PagerDuty
5 3 (5.17%) Citrix
6 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.45%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.45%) Okta
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Adobe
7 1 (1.72%) Apple
7 1 (1.72%) Meraki
7 1 (1.72%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.72%) SAP