Slack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Slack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 582 764
Rank change year-on-year -65 +182 -46
Permanent jobs citing Slack 55 59 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27 35 74
10th Percentile £46,250 - £32,150
25th Percentile £46,875 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -36.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,500 £73,000 £97,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% -2.25%

All Cloud Computing 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 26,443 15,012 33,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 36.59% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,976 11,072 26,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -9.09%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Slack job vacancy trend in the UK

Slack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slack

Slack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 13 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 11 April 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
England -81 43 £65,000 +85.71% 37
Work from Home +20 34 £62,500 +8.70% 14
London +4 31 £75,000 +4.17% 24
UK excluding London -90 17 £47,500 +35.71% 17
Wales -26 5 £47,500 +39.71%
Midlands -56 5 £52,500 +50.00% 5
West Midlands -11 4 £51,250 -14.58% 1
North of England -69 3 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North West -34 2 £65,000 +13.04% 6
South West -49 2 - -
East of England - 2 - - 1
North East -29 1 £65,000 +18.18%
East Midlands -65 1 £52,500 +50.00% 4

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (14.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.64%) Google Workspace
1 13 (23.64%) SaaS
2 5 (9.09%) GitHub
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.27%) Asana
3 4 (7.27%) AWS
4 3 (5.45%) Azure
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.45%) Google Docs
4 3 (5.45%) IaaS
4 3 (5.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Broadband
1 5 (9.09%) LAN
1 5 (9.09%) VPN
1 5 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) CockroachDB
2 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (32.73%) JIRA
2 5 (9.09%) Claude Code
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
2 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) Checkstyle
3 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.64%) ESLint
3 2 (3.64%) Gradle
3 2 (3.64%) JUnit
3 2 (3.64%) Maven
3 2 (3.64%) Mockito
3 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.64%) TestNG
General
1 21 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Marketing
3 10 (18.18%) Law
4 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Advertising
5 4 (7.27%) Games
5 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Finance
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (12.73%) Senior
2 5 (9.09%) Customer Support Manager
2 5 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 5 (9.09%) Head of Support
2 5 (9.09%) Lead
2 5 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
2 5 (9.09%) Support Manager
2 5 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
3 4 (7.27%) Architect
3 4 (7.27%) Integration Specialist
3 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.45%) Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) Incident and Problem Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Incident Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Problem Manager
5 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 5 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 5 (9.09%) React
1 5 (9.09%) RxJS
1 5 (9.09%) Symfony
1 5 (9.09%) TensorFlow
1 5 (9.09%) TFX
1 5 (9.09%) Vue
2 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.64%) JWT
2 2 (3.64%) OAuth
2 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.64%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.64%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) Spring
2 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.64%) Spring MVC
2 2 (3.64%) Spring Security
2 2 (3.64%) Swagger
3 1 (1.82%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Onboarding
2 8 (14.55%) Social Media
3 5 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 5 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.09%) Over-the-Top Content
3 5 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Anti-Piracy
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (25.45%) AI
3 13 (23.64%) Mentoring
4 12 (21.82%) Customer Service
5 11 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.55%) Content Marketing
7 8 (14.55%) People Management
8 7 (12.73%) Agile
8 7 (12.73%) Customer Experience
8 7 (12.73%) DevOps
8 7 (12.73%) Project Management
8 7 (12.73%) User Experience
9 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
9 6 (10.91%) Workflow
10 5 (9.09%) CRM
10 5 (9.09%) Deep Learning
10 5 (9.09%) Identity Management
10 5 (9.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.09%) Google Apps Script
3 5 (9.09%) PHP
3 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.27%) Bash
5 2 (3.64%) Go
5 2 (3.64%) Java
5 2 (3.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Grafana
1 5 (9.09%) Kubeflow
1 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 5 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (7.27%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) Google
2 6 (10.91%) Salesforce
3 5 (9.09%) Logitech
3 5 (9.09%) Yealink
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.45%) PagerDuty
6 2 (3.64%) Oracle
6 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.64%) Splunk
6 2 (3.64%) Tenable
7 1 (1.82%) Apple
7 1 (1.82%) Meraki
7 1 (1.82%) Progress