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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 408 483
Rank change year-on-year -7 +75 +31
Permanent jobs citing Slack 42 16 7
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.099% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.28% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £38,984 £29,250 £52,750
25th Percentile £45,371 £30,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £37,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.00% -50.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £100,625 £38,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £114,125 £49,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £43,750 £48,750
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.26% -15.22%

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 8,715 5,730 9,399
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.95% 35.61% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,383 4,143 6,796
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £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 £85,000
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 8 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 4 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Notion
2 1 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (14.29%) SaaS
5 5 (11.90%) GCP
5 5 (11.90%) Google Workspace
5 5 (11.90%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.76%) Asana
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.38%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Broadband
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) DKIM
3 1 (2.38%) DMARC
3 1 (2.38%) Internet
3 1 (2.38%) SSL
3 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.76%) MySQL
2 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 19 (45.24%) Finance
1 19 (45.24%) Public Sector
2 16 (38.10%) Legal
3 12 (28.57%) Local Government
4 10 (23.81%) Marketing
5 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
7 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Advertising
8 1 (2.38%) Games
8 1 (2.38%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Lead
2 8 (19.05%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Lead Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.76%) Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Support Assistant
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Terraform
2 6 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 6 (14.29%) React
2 6 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 6 (14.29%) TFX
3 4 (9.52%) .NET
3 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
3 4 (9.52%) CSS
3 4 (9.52%) OpenAPI
4 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) Express.js
5 2 (4.76%) JSON
5 2 (4.76%) MERN Stack
5 2 (4.76%) Next.js
5 2 (4.76%) OpenID
5 2 (4.76%) SAML
6 1 (2.38%) Kafka
6 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Blog
2 7 (16.67%) NHS
2 7 (16.67%) Social Media
3 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 6 (14.29%) Over-the-Top Content
3 6 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Anti-Piracy
6 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Community of Practice
3 15 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 15 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (26.19%) DevOps
5 11 (26.19%) Scrum
6 10 (23.81%) AI
6 10 (23.81%) Coaching
6 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.43%) High Availability
7 9 (21.43%) Kanban
7 9 (21.43%) Line Management
7 9 (21.43%) TDD
8 8 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (19.05%) Data Science
8 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
8 8 (19.05%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Bash
2 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.52%) C#
3 4 (9.52%) Java
3 4 (9.52%) Ruby
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) GDPR
1 3 (7.14%) NCSC
2 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) PMO
3 1 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubeflow
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Google
2 2 (4.76%) Databricks
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Okta
2 2 (4.76%) Progress
2 2 (4.76%) UiPath
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.38%) Pardot
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.38%) Zoho