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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 487 582
Rank change year-on-year +21 +95 +64
Contract jobs citing Slack 56 89 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 75 58
10th Percentile £255 £255 £293
25th Percentile £305 £353 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £658
90th Percentile £825 £630 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 £650
% change year-on-year - -42.31% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £21.10 £21.00
25th Percentile £15.00 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £17.00 £31.75 £30.00
90th Percentile - £32.95 £33.00
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 11,033 13,828 20,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.49% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,582 9,830 15,157
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 348 336
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.05 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.30 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +20.09% -31.49% +31.80%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +43 54 £400 -21.57% 170
London +19 46 £400 -21.57% 111
Work from Home +34 23 £400 -20.00% 115
UK excluding London +35 7 - - 92
North of England +20 5 - - 32
North West - 3 - - 28
Yorkshire +12 2 - - 4
South East +43 1 - - 38
East of England - 1 - - 1

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 18 (32.14%) Confluence
2 9 (16.07%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (8.93%) CMS
5 3 (5.36%) WordPress
6 1 (1.79%) Mattermost
6 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.36%) Trello
3 2 (3.57%) 1Password
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.57%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.79%) Maya
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.79%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (23.21%) Google Workspace
3 12 (21.43%) Azure
4 11 (19.64%) Asana
4 11 (19.64%) SaaS
5 10 (17.86%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (14.29%) AWS
7 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 7 (12.50%) Figma
8 6 (10.71%) OneDrive
9 4 (7.14%) GitHub
10 3 (5.36%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (5.36%) Heroku
10 3 (5.36%) Mimecast
10 3 (5.36%) Miro
11 2 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (3.57%) GCP
11 2 (3.57%) Yammer
12 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.79%) Discord
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) VPN
2 6 (10.71%) HTTP
3 4 (7.14%) DNS
3 4 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (21.43%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 12 (21.43%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) Redis
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (46.43%) JIRA
2 14 (25.00%) Git
3 12 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 12 (21.43%) Jasmine
3 12 (21.43%) JUnit
4 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.57%) GitLab
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (32.14%) Finance
2 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.14%) Marketing
5 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.57%) Military
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Developer
1 16 (28.57%) Senior
2 15 (26.79%) IT Engineer
3 14 (25.00%) IT Support
3 14 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 14 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.50%) Lead
5 7 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (12.50%) Senior Support Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) IT Manager
6 5 (8.93%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (7.14%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) OpenAPI
1 12 (21.43%) RESTful
1 12 (21.43%) Spring
1 12 (21.43%) Spring Batch
1 12 (21.43%) Spring Boot
1 12 (21.43%) Spring Security
1 12 (21.43%) Swagger
2 4 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.36%) Alpine.js
3 3 (5.36%) Bootstrap
3 3 (5.36%) Celery
3 3 (5.36%) CSS
3 3 (5.36%) Laravel
3 3 (5.36%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (3.57%) React
5 1 (1.79%) Flask
5 1 (1.79%) REST
5 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 12 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.36%) Social Media
4 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) iPad
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Windows
2 15 (26.79%) Linux
3 13 (23.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.14%) Android
4 4 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 4 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
2 15 (26.79%) Containerisation
3 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
4 12 (21.43%) BDD
4 12 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
4 12 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (21.43%) Microservices
4 12 (21.43%) OWASP
4 12 (21.43%) TDD
5 11 (19.64%) API Design
5 11 (19.64%) Kernel Tuning
6 9 (16.07%) Agile
6 9 (16.07%) Integration Testing
7 8 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (14.29%) Migration
7 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.50%) ITSM
8 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 7 (12.50%) Project Management
8 7 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) Bash
1 13 (23.21%) Java
1 13 (23.21%) SQL
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) PHP
4 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Istio
3 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.79%) Plesk
3 1 (1.79%) Podman
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Google
3 8 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 7 (12.50%) Zscaler
5 4 (7.14%) Adobe
5 4 (7.14%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.36%) Netskope
6 3 (5.36%) Sage
7 2 (3.57%) Apple
7 2 (3.57%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (3.57%) Datto
7 2 (3.57%) Freshdesk
7 2 (3.57%) Okta
7 2 (3.57%) Oracle
8 1 (1.79%) Meraki
8 1 (1.79%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.79%) Pega
8 1 (1.79%) Rackspace
8 1 (1.79%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow