Slack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Slack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Slack over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 796 463
Rank change year-on-year +19 -333 +266
Permanent jobs citing Slack 65 91 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.11% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.27% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52 53 177
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £37,600
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,218 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% -28.13% +52.38%
75th Percentile £75,625 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,067 £46,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.21% -2.63% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Slack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Slack.

Salary trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +4 49 £55,000 -6.78% 12
UK excluding London -15 46 £41,067 -11.21% 6
Work from Home +20 31 £41,067 -34.29% 8
London +46 17 £67,500 +12.50% 6
North of England +7 10 £57,641 +21.35% 2
South West +2 10 £77,500 +72.22% 3
Scotland -36 8 £28,500 -
Wales +35 7 £41,067 -
Midlands -23 7 £35,000 -12.50%
East Midlands -22 6 £35,000 -
Yorkshire +58 4 £67,500 +42.11%
South East +10 4 £42,500 - 1
North East -10 3 £62,783 - 1
North West -11 3 £37,500 -28.57% 1
West Midlands -11 1 £42,500 +6.25%

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (13.85%) Confluence
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.31%) WordPress
3 6 (9.23%) CMS
4 5 (7.69%) SharePoint
5 4 (6.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.54%) Apache
6 1 (1.54%) nginx
6 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.23%) Trello
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (4.62%) Notion
5 1 (1.54%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Shopify
2 2 (3.08%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) AWS
2 12 (18.46%) GitHub
2 12 (18.46%) SaaS
3 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (13.85%) Azure
6 8 (12.31%) Entra ID
7 7 (10.77%) GCP
7 7 (10.77%) Zapier
8 6 (9.23%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (7.69%) WhatsApp
10 4 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.15%) Google Docs
10 4 (6.15%) Lucidchart
10 4 (6.15%) Miro
11 3 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.62%) Google Workspace
11 3 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) SAN
1 7 (10.77%) VPN
2 6 (9.23%) Telepresence
2 6 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (7.69%) DNS
3 5 (7.69%) Firewall
4 4 (6.15%) LAN
4 4 (6.15%) SSL
5 3 (4.62%) HTTPS
5 3 (4.62%) WAN
5 3 (4.62%) Wireless
6 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.08%) VLAN
6 2 (3.08%) VoIP
7 1 (1.54%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) MySQL
2 7 (10.77%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (9.23%) Redis
4 4 (6.15%) Big Data
4 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.15%) Scylla
5 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.54%) Looker
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Git
1 12 (18.46%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Gradle
3 1 (1.54%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.54%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Marketing
3 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.15%) Retail
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Law
5 3 (4.62%) Legal
5 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Finance
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Senior
2 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Lead
6 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Project Manager
9 4 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Support Specialist
10 3 (4.62%) Desktop Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) CSS
2 12 (18.46%) HTML
3 7 (10.77%) Laravel
4 6 (9.23%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.69%) .NET
5 5 (7.69%) Kafka
6 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
6 4 (6.15%) React
7 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.62%) Next.js
7 3 (4.62%) NgRx
7 3 (4.62%) RESTful
8 2 (3.08%) JWT
8 2 (3.08%) Spring
9 1 (1.54%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.54%) Hugging Face
9 1 (1.54%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) CMDB
2 6 (9.23%) Digital Signage
2 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.23%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.62%) Robotics
6 2 (3.08%) PMI
7 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.54%) iPad
7 1 (1.54%) iPhone
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (36.92%) Windows
2 17 (26.15%) Linux
3 9 (13.85%) Mac OS
4 7 (10.77%) Apple iOS
5 6 (9.23%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.69%) Android
7 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.54%) CentOS
9 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.15%) User Experience
3 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (20.00%) Project Management
5 12 (18.46%) E-Commerce
6 10 (15.38%) Change Management
6 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 10 (15.38%) Front End Development
6 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.85%) Agile
7 9 (13.85%) Computer Science
7 9 (13.85%) Migration
8 8 (12.31%) DevOps
8 8 (12.31%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (12.31%) Web Development
9 7 (10.77%) Customer Service
9 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (10.77%) Line Management
9 7 (10.77%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) Python
2 13 (20.00%) Java
3 8 (12.31%) Bash
3 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.77%) PHP
5 5 (7.69%) Go
6 4 (6.15%) Scala
6 4 (6.15%) SQL
7 3 (4.62%) C#
8 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.54%) APMP
6 1 (1.54%) MCSA
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.62%) Docker
3 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.08%) vSphere
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Terraform
2 9 (13.85%) Ansible
3 7 (10.77%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.23%) ServiceCenter
5 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.54%) Grafana
6 1 (1.54%) Kibana
6 1 (1.54%) logstash
6 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Google
3 7 (10.77%) Apple
4 6 (9.23%) HP
4 6 (9.23%) Okta
4 6 (9.23%) WooCommerce
5 5 (7.69%) Meraki
6 4 (6.15%) Dell
7 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.62%) VMware
8 2 (3.08%) Bloomberg
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco
8 2 (3.08%) HubSpot
8 2 (3.08%) Ivanti
8 2 (3.08%) OneLogin
8 2 (3.08%) SAP
8 2 (3.08%) Trayport
9 1 (1.54%) Amdocs
9 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.54%) Salesforce