Hybrid/Remote Slack Job Trends

Slack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Slack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 408 472
Rank change year-on-year -25 +64 +35
Permanent jobs citing Slack 37 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.080% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.23% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £38,984 £29,250 £64,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,750 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -57.14% +52.17%
75th Percentile £115,000 £46,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £116,500 £61,000 £103,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year +5.00% +29.03% -32.61%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,761 5,740 9,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.52% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,440 4,121 6,329
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Slack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Slack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Slack
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Slack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Slack

Slack
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Slack over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Slack salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Slack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Notion
2 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 7 (18.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (16.22%) Serverless
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 5 (13.51%) SaaS
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) Google Workspace
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.70%) Asana
8 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Broadband
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) Internet
2 2 (5.41%) VoIP
3 1 (2.70%) DKIM
3 1 (2.70%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
General
1 19 (51.35%) Finance
1 19 (51.35%) Public Sector
2 16 (43.24%) Legal
3 12 (32.43%) Local Government
4 7 (18.92%) Marketing
5 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Lead
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Lead Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Support Assistant
7 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) React
1 7 (18.92%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) PyTorch
2 5 (13.51%) TensorFlow
2 5 (13.51%) TFX
3 4 (10.81%) .NET
3 4 (10.81%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.81%) CSS
3 4 (10.81%) Node.js
3 4 (10.81%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.41%) Express.js
4 2 (5.41%) JSON
4 2 (5.41%) Kafka
4 2 (5.41%) MERN Stack
4 2 (5.41%) Next.js
4 2 (5.41%) OpenID
4 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.41%) SAML
5 1 (2.70%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Blog
2 7 (18.92%) NHS
3 5 (13.51%) Algorithms
3 5 (13.51%) Over-the-Top Content
3 5 (13.51%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (10.81%) Social Media
5 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) Software Engineering
3 16 (43.24%) Community of Practice
4 15 (40.54%) Mentoring
5 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
6 11 (29.73%) AI
6 11 (29.73%) DevOps
6 11 (29.73%) Scrum
7 10 (27.03%) Coaching
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (24.32%) Kanban
8 9 (24.32%) TDD
9 8 (21.62%) High Availability
9 8 (21.62%) Line Management
9 8 (21.62%) Pair Programming
9 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (18.92%) Data Science
10 7 (18.92%) Low Latency
10 7 (18.92%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) Bash
2 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.51%) Ruby
3 4 (10.81%) C#
3 4 (10.81%) Java
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) NCSC
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubeflow
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Databricks
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Okta
2 2 (5.41%) Progress
2 2 (5.41%) UiPath
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.70%) Pardot
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) Zoho