Slack Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Slack
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 542 689
Rank change year-on-year -71 +147 -87
Permanent jobs citing Slack 18 19 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.056% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.21% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 43
10th Percentile £39,711 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £38,563 £67,968
90th Percentile - £55,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -11.76% -27.97%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,509 9,259 22,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.52% 27.40% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11,375 6,458 16,551
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Slack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Slack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Slack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Slack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Slack

Slack
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Slack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Slack in the UK excluding London

Slack
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Midlands -31 5 £52,500 +50.00% 3
Wales -44 5 £47,500 +39.71% 5
East Midlands -29 4 £52,500 +50.00% 1
East of England - 3 - - 1
North of England -37 2 £45,848 +31.00% 2
South West -62 2 - - 21
South East -21 1 - - 7
West Midlands -21 1 £27,500 -54.17% 2
North East -52 1 £39,197 -28.73% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £52,500 -
Slack
UK

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) SaaS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
2 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (27.78%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Broadband
2 1 (5.56%) DKIM
2 1 (5.56%) DMARC
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Law
1 5 (27.78%) Marketing
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Support Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Head of Support
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Support Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Associate Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Lambda Expressions
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 5 (27.78%) TensorFlow
1 5 (27.78%) TFX
2 1 (5.56%) Express.js
2 1 (5.56%) MERN Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 5 (27.78%) Over-the-Top Content
2 5 (27.78%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) AI
2 10 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Coaching
3 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (27.78%) Content Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Customer Experience
4 5 (27.78%) Customer Retention
4 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (27.78%) Data Science
4 5 (27.78%) DataOps
4 5 (27.78%) Feature Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
4 5 (27.78%) High Availability
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Google Apps Script
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubeflow
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Logitech
2 1 (5.56%) Okta
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) UiPath
2 1 (5.56%) Yealink