Slack Job Trends in the South West

Slack
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Slack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 190 218
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 +50
Permanent jobs citing Slack 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.040% 0.024% 0.084%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.075% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.62%
75th Percentile - - £43,438
90th Percentile - - £51,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £35,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

Slack falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,165 1,329 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.01% 31.98% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 784 716 1,517
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,375 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Slack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Slack job vacancy trend in the South West

Slack
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Slack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Slack

Slack
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dorset - 2 - - 4
Slack
England

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) ESLint
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk