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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 794 708
Rank change year-on-year +160 -86 -211
Permanent jobs citing Slack 58 102 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.29% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 36 72 72
10th Percentile - £32,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,888 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -6.38% -24.19%
75th Percentile £63,125 £86,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £43,479
% change year-on-year -17.65% -2.25% -17.18%

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 15,072 35,400 44,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.96% 35.94% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,031 26,787 29,292
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,670 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,738 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +160 50 £37,500 -40.27% 153
UK excluding London +168 30 £35,000 -17.65% 70
Work from Home +162 24 £47,500 +15.66% 102
London +105 21 £70,000 -9.68% 110
Midlands +94 14 £35,000 -9.68% 4
East Midlands +62 13 £35,000 -
North of England +78 8 £55,000 -45.00% 17
South East +109 6 - - 29
North West +33 5 £57,500 +53.33% 13
North East +51 3 £55,000 -12.40%
South West +95 1 £37,500 -28.57% 8
West Midlands +50 1 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Wales +40 1 £34,000 -17.21% 2

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 16 (27.59%) CMS
1 16 (27.59%) WordPress
2 11 (18.97%) Confluence
3 7 (12.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (5.17%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.72%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Trello
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.90%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.90%) Notion
4 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Google Workspace
2 16 (27.59%) GitHub
3 13 (22.41%) Azure
3 13 (22.41%) Zapier
4 12 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (18.97%) AWS
6 10 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (17.24%) Amazon S3
6 10 (17.24%) Figma
7 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
7 8 (13.79%) Miro
7 8 (13.79%) SaaS
8 7 (12.07%) Google Docs
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.90%) Canva
11 4 (6.90%) Google Sheets
11 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (6.90%) LAN
3 3 (5.17%) DNS
3 3 (5.17%) SSL
4 2 (3.45%) Internet
4 2 (3.45%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.72%) Intranet
5 1 (1.72%) VLAN
5 1 (1.72%) VPN
5 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (34.48%) MySQL
2 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (41.38%) Git
2 15 (25.86%) JIRA
3 6 (10.34%) GitLab
4 4 (6.90%) Balsamiq
4 4 (6.90%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.45%) git-flow
5 2 (3.45%) NUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Marketing
3 11 (18.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (13.79%) Electronics
4 8 (13.79%) Manufacturing
4 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.07%) Finance
6 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.90%) Advertising
7 4 (6.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Developer
2 7 (12.07%) Software Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Digital Product Owner
3 5 (8.62%) IT Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) IT Support
3 5 (8.62%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Product Owner
3 5 (8.62%) Senior
3 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Content Strategist
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) SEO Strategist
5 3 (5.17%) Web Producer
6 2 (3.45%) Business Development Executive
6 2 (3.45%) Development Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Product Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Product Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) CSS
1 14 (24.14%) HTML
1 14 (24.14%) Laravel
2 9 (15.52%) React
3 6 (10.34%) Django
3 6 (10.34%) Flask
3 6 (10.34%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (6.90%) .NET
4 4 (6.90%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.90%) 802.1X
5 3 (5.17%) Web Services
6 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.45%) Preactjs
6 2 (3.45%) REST
6 2 (3.45%) SignalR
7 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.72%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.72%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.34%) Molecular Biology
3 5 (8.62%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.90%) iPad
4 4 (6.90%) NHS
5 3 (5.17%) iPhone
5 3 (5.17%) Social Media
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Blog
7 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.45%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) CentOS
4 1 (1.72%) Debian
4 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Project Management
2 23 (39.66%) User Experience
3 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (31.03%) Web Development
4 17 (29.31%) SEO
5 15 (25.86%) Computer Science
5 15 (25.86%) Front End Development
5 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (24.14%) Agile
7 13 (22.41%) Content Management
7 13 (22.41%) E-Commerce
7 13 (22.41%) Responsive Web Design
7 13 (22.41%) Server Management
7 13 (22.41%) UX Design
8 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
9 10 (17.24%) DevOps
10 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (15.52%) Scrum
11 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.07%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Python
2 15 (25.86%) PHP
3 14 (24.14%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.90%) C#
7 3 (5.17%) Bash
7 3 (5.17%) SQL
8 2 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Degree
2 15 (25.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) GDPR
1 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.34%) Kustomize
2 4 (6.90%) Terraform
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.72%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (41.38%) Google
2 21 (36.21%) Microsoft
3 13 (22.41%) WooCommerce
4 7 (12.07%) Cisco
5 6 (10.34%) Meraki
5 6 (10.34%) Sawtooth Software
6 5 (8.62%) HubSpot
6 5 (8.62%) SAP
7 4 (6.90%) Apple
7 4 (6.90%) Zscaler
8 3 (5.17%) Concur
9 2 (3.45%) Facebook
9 2 (3.45%) Hootsuite
9 2 (3.45%) Instagram
9 2 (3.45%) VMware
10 1 (1.72%) Okta
10 1 (1.72%) Proofpoint
10 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.72%) Varonis
10 1 (1.72%) Xero