Slack Contracts in England

Slack
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Slack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Slack over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 552 635
Rank change year-on-year +82 +83 -76
Contract jobs citing Slack 72 88 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 48 95
10th Percentile £255 £269 £315
25th Percentile £400 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +3.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £630 £705 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £21.10 £21.00 £24.50
25th Percentile - £22.50 £31.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -28.57% +89.19%
75th Percentile £31.75 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £32.95 £33.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -28.57% +60.11%

All Cloud Skills
England

Slack is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,703 17,473 27,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.19% 36.40% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,454 12,821 20,142
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 287 339
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.86 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% +51.16% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £68.13 £49.08
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

Slack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Slack in England

Slack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Slack in England.

Daily rate trend for Slack in England

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in England

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Slack in England.

Hourly rate trend for Slack in England

Slack
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +98 62 £510 +0.74% 14
North of England +23 4 £375 -23.08% 4
Yorkshire +19 4 £375 -23.08% 3
South East +12 3 £625 -3.85% 8
South West +7 2 £625 - 1
Slack
UK

Slack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (30.56%) Confluence
2 13 (18.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) AWS
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (18.06%) Google Workspace
3 7 (9.72%) Azure
4 6 (8.33%) Asana
4 6 (8.33%) GitHub
4 6 (8.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.56%) Zapier
6 3 (4.17%) WhatsApp
7 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.78%) PaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.39%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) VoIP
2 4 (5.56%) VPN
3 3 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.06%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.39%) Big Data
3 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (45.83%) JIRA
2 30 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.94%) Git
4 4 (5.56%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (5.56%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Aviation
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Release Manager
2 9 (12.50%) Architect
3 7 (9.72%) Lead
3 7 (9.72%) Senior
3 7 (9.72%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (9.72%) VMware Architect
4 4 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (5.56%) Analyst
4 4 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) IT Support
4 4 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Technical Leader
5 3 (4.17%) Administrator
5 3 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.17%) Senior Manager
5 3 (4.17%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.78%) .NET
2 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.78%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (2.78%) Loki
2 2 (2.78%) React
3 1 (1.39%) PySpark
3 1 (1.39%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Linux
2 13 (18.06%) CentOS
2 13 (18.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (13.89%) Windows
4 3 (4.17%) Android
4 3 (4.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.78%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Agile
2 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
2 17 (23.61%) Project Management
3 15 (20.83%) Configuration Management
3 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (20.83%) SDLC
3 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (19.44%) Observability
5 13 (18.06%) Change Management
5 13 (18.06%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 13 (18.06%) Performance Testing
5 13 (18.06%) Release Management
6 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.89%) Process Improvement
7 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 7 (9.72%) Customer Service
8 7 (9.72%) Customer-Centricity
9 6 (8.33%) DevOps
9 6 (8.33%) Workflow
10 5 (6.94%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.72%) Python
2 13 (18.06%) Shell Script
3 7 (9.72%) Bash
4 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.56%) Go
5 4 (5.56%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Ansible
1 15 (20.83%) Grafana
1 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 15 (20.83%) Prometheus
2 13 (18.06%) Kibana
2 13 (18.06%) logstash
3 2 (2.78%) Argo
3 2 (2.78%) Kustomize
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.22%) Google
3 13 (18.06%) Amdocs
3 13 (18.06%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.11%) VMware
5 7 (9.72%) Okta
6 4 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.56%) Splunk
6 4 (5.56%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.39%) Apple
8 1 (1.39%) Databricks