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

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 316 406
Rank change year-on-year +29 +90 +101
Contract jobs citing Slack 20 30 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.56% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 33
10th Percentile £261 £255 £463
25th Percentile £323 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £420 £625 £676
90th Percentile £492 £629 £755
UK median daily rate £411 £510 £579
% change year-on-year -19.36% -11.92% +10.29%
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 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -26.67% -14.29%

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 3,972 5,363 9,406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 36.53% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,861 7,000
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £761 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 86 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £16.90 £21.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -48.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.19 £69.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%

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 17 June 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (15.00%) CMS
3 3 (15.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Trello
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (35.00%) Asana
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) SaaS
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
5 4 (20.00%) Google Workspace
5 4 (20.00%) OneDrive
6 3 (15.00%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (15.00%) Figma
6 3 (15.00%) Heroku
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.00%) Discord
8 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
8 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) HTTP
3 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) Jasmine
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) IT Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) IT Support
2 7 (35.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior IT Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior IT Support
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Applications Support
5 4 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support
6 3 (15.00%) Applications Support Manager
6 3 (15.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (15.00%) IT Support Manager
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Manager
6 3 (15.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) Alpine.js
2 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
2 3 (15.00%) Laravel
2 3 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Security
3 2 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) Express.js
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) Jest
4 1 (5.00%) Next.js
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Social Media
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Android
2 4 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
2 4 (20.00%) Project Management
2 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (15.00%) Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (15.00%) Coaching
3 3 (15.00%) CRM
3 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
3 3 (15.00%) ITSM
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (15.00%) Service Management
3 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (15.00%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Java
1 3 (15.00%) PHP
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Istio
3 1 (5.00%) Plesk
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.00%) Sage
4 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Netskope
5 1 (5.00%) Rackspace
5 1 (5.00%) Rapid7