Slack Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Slack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 312 428
Rank change year-on-year +34 +116 +81
Contract jobs citing Slack 26 33 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 0.59% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 30
10th Percentile £255 £255 £462
25th Percentile £271 £341 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -27.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £417 £625 £676
90th Percentile £669 £644 £775
UK median daily rate £414 £501 £592
% change year-on-year -17.33% -15.38% +12.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.00
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £34.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% -6.38% -32.86%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Slack falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Slack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Slack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Slack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Slack over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.54%) CMS
3 3 (11.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.54%) Trello
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (34.62%) Asana
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 6 (23.08%) Figma
4 5 (19.23%) SaaS
5 4 (15.38%) Google Workspace
5 4 (15.38%) OneDrive
6 3 (11.54%) AWS
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (11.54%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (11.54%) GitHub
6 3 (11.54%) Heroku
6 3 (11.54%) Miro
7 1 (3.85%) Discord
7 1 (3.85%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) HTTP
1 6 (23.08%) VPN
2 4 (15.38%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 6 (23.08%) MySQL
1 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
2 6 (23.08%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) Jasmine
2 6 (23.08%) JUnit
3 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Senior
2 9 (34.62%) IT Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) IT Support
2 9 (34.62%) IT Support Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Support Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior IT Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior IT Support
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 4 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Applications Support
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) OpenAPI
1 6 (23.08%) RESTful
1 6 (23.08%) Spring
1 6 (23.08%) Spring Boot
1 6 (23.08%) Swagger
2 5 (19.23%) Spring Batch
2 5 (19.23%) Spring Security
3 3 (11.54%) Alpine.js
3 3 (11.54%) Bootstrap
3 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) Laravel
3 3 (11.54%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Onboarding
2 6 (23.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Social Media
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (15.38%) Android
3 4 (15.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) API Design
1 6 (23.08%) BDD
1 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
1 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
1 6 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
1 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (23.08%) High Availability
1 6 (23.08%) Kernel Tuning
1 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
1 6 (23.08%) Microservices
1 6 (23.08%) Operational Stability
1 6 (23.08%) OWASP
1 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
1 6 (23.08%) TDD
1 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (19.23%) Agile
2 5 (19.23%) Investment Management
2 5 (19.23%) ITSM
2 5 (19.23%) Service Management
2 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Bash
1 6 (23.08%) Java
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.85%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) Plesk
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 5 (19.23%) Google
3 5 (19.23%) Zscaler
4 3 (11.54%) Sage
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco
6 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.85%) Meraki
6 1 (3.85%) Netskope
6 1 (3.85%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.85%) Rapid7