Slack Contracts with Work from Home Options

Slack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Slack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Slack over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 419 498
Rank change year-on-year +110 +79 -90
Contract jobs citing Slack 32 49 117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.49% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 87
10th Percentile £255 £463 £420
25th Percentile £350 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £626 £676 £588
90th Percentile £647 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -15.79% +14.29% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -28.57% +60.11%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Slack is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Slack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Slack trend for jobs with a WFH option

Slack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Slack.

Slack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Slack over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Slack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Slack
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Slack.

Slack hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (34.38%) Confluence
2 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (15.63%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure
4 6 (18.75%) Asana
5 5 (15.63%) Canva
6 4 (12.50%) GitHub
6 4 (12.50%) SaaS
7 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.25%) Google Workspace
7 2 (6.25%) Miro
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) Google Sheets
8 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) Sentry
8 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Intranet
2 4 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) VoIP
4 1 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Big Data
2 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (53.13%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Aviation
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Release Manager
2 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (12.50%) Content Manager
2 4 (12.50%) IT Support
3 3 (9.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Administrator
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Communications Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) PMO Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) .NET
1 1 (3.13%) NestJS
1 1 (3.13%) Node.js
1 1 (3.13%) PySpark
1 1 (3.13%) React
1 1 (3.13%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Video Conferencing
1 5 (15.63%) Video Editing
2 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
1 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (28.13%) Project Management
3 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 5 (15.63%) Copywriting
4 5 (15.63%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Release Management
4 5 (15.63%) SDLC
4 5 (15.63%) Wireframes
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Investment Management
5 4 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.25%) Budget Management
7 2 (6.25%) Infographics
7 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) Bash
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) C#
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Opsgenie
3 2 (6.25%) Packer
4 1 (3.13%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 4 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (12.50%) Zscaler
4 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks