Slack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Slack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Slack over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 703 493
Rank change year-on-year -80 -210 +230
Permanent jobs citing Slack 100 261 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.26% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.61% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 70 69 159
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,101 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -20.69% +31.82%
75th Percentile £87,188 £81,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.11% -11.90% +5.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,402 42,720 77,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 43.05% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,668 28,038 41,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 16 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 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -80 72 £42,500 -8.11% 20
England -61 65 £62,783 +6.86% 34
Work from Home -75 55 £41,067 -36.58% 26
Scotland -37 26 £28,500 -55.81% 1
London +44 25 £75,000 +15.38% 15
North of England -6 17 £91,250 +65.91% 4
South West -11 13 £52,500 +25.13% 1
Yorkshire +61 11 £100,000 +81.82% 3
Wales +18 7 £41,067 -
South East +1 6 £42,500 - 6
North West -31 4 £37,500 -28.57% 1
North East -16 2 £62,783 -
Midlands -37 2 £38,750 -29.55% 6
East of England -3 1 £47,500 -13.64% 1
West Midlands -12 1 £42,500 -22.73% 3
East Midlands -14 1 £35,000 - 3

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 24 (24.00%) Apache Spark
2 19 (19.00%) Confluence
3 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (13.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.00%) CMS
5 2 (2.00%) WordPress
6 1 (1.00%) Apache
6 1 (1.00%) nginx
6 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (13.00%) Trello
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.00%) Notion
5 1 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Shopify
2 2 (2.00%) Eikon
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.00%) AWS
2 34 (34.00%) GCP
3 29 (29.00%) SaaS
4 24 (24.00%) Amazon S3
4 24 (24.00%) Azure
4 24 (24.00%) Miro
5 23 (23.00%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (23.00%) Google Docs
5 23 (23.00%) Lucidchart
6 18 (18.00%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (17.00%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (12.00%) WhatsApp
9 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
10 7 (7.00%) OneDrive
11 6 (6.00%) GitHub
12 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.00%) Basecamp
13 3 (3.00%) Figma
13 3 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.00%) Firewall
2 7 (7.00%) SAN
2 7 (7.00%) VPN
3 6 (6.00%) DNS
3 6 (6.00%) Telepresence
4 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.00%) VLAN
5 3 (3.00%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.00%) LAN
5 3 (3.00%) SSL
5 3 (3.00%) WAN
5 3 (3.00%) Wireless
6 2 (2.00%) VoIP
7 1 (1.00%) NAS
7 1 (1.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.00%) Elasticsearch
2 25 (25.00%) Redis
3 24 (24.00%) Big Data
4 23 (23.00%) Hadoop
4 23 (23.00%) Scylla
5 9 (9.00%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.00%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.00%) MySQL
8 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.00%) Looker
9 1 (1.00%) Metadata
9 1 (1.00%) Power BI
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (24.00%) JIRA
2 13 (13.00%) Git
3 11 (11.00%) GitLab
3 11 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.00%) CircleCI
4 8 (8.00%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.00%) JUnit
4 8 (8.00%) Selenium
5 1 (1.00%) Gradle
5 1 (1.00%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.00%) Vagrant
General
1 64 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (13.00%) Finance
4 12 (12.00%) Marketing
5 8 (8.00%) Banking
6 7 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Games
9 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Software Engineer
2 23 (23.00%) Principal Engineer
2 23 (23.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 18 (18.00%) Lead
4 15 (15.00%) Senior
5 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Project Manager
6 10 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Administrator
9 5 (5.00%) Developer
9 5 (5.00%) IT Support
9 5 (5.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 25 (25.00%) Kafka
2 9 (9.00%) RESTful
3 5 (5.00%) CSS
4 4 (4.00%) HTML
5 3 (3.00%) React
6 2 (2.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.00%) JWT
6 2 (2.00%) Laravel
6 2 (2.00%) Next.js
6 2 (2.00%) Spring
7 1 (1.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.00%) Ajax
7 1 (1.00%) jQuery
7 1 (1.00%) JSON
7 1 (1.00%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.00%) Web Services
7 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Algorithms
2 23 (23.00%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.00%) CMDB
4 7 (7.00%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.00%) Blackberry
5 6 (6.00%) BYOD
5 6 (6.00%) Digital Signage
5 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.00%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (4.00%) PMI
7 3 (3.00%) Robotics
8 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.00%) Windows
2 15 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 15 (15.00%) Linux
3 13 (13.00%) Android
4 10 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.00%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.00%) CentOS
8 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.00%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (31.00%) User Experience
3 28 (28.00%) Software Engineering
4 25 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (24.00%) Data Science
5 24 (24.00%) Project Management
6 23 (23.00%) Computer Security
6 23 (23.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 23 (23.00%) High Availability
6 23 (23.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 23 (23.00%) UX Research
7 17 (17.00%) Agile
7 17 (17.00%) DevOps
8 16 (16.00%) Migration
9 14 (14.00%) Mentoring
10 13 (13.00%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (12.00%) Decision-Making
12 11 (11.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) Java
2 26 (26.00%) Bash
2 26 (26.00%) Python
3 24 (24.00%) Go
4 23 (23.00%) Scala
5 9 (9.00%) SQL
6 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
8 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.00%) C#
9 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) APMP
7 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) GDPR
1 8 (8.00%) PSD2
2 4 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.00%) Docker
4 2 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.00%) Terraform
3 9 (9.00%) Ansible
4 7 (7.00%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.00%) ServiceCenter
6 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) logstash
7 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (34.00%) Google
3 23 (23.00%) Dell
4 8 (8.00%) Duck Creek
5 6 (6.00%) HP
6 5 (5.00%) Apple
6 5 (5.00%) Okta
7 3 (3.00%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.00%) VMware
8 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.00%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.00%) HubSpot
8 2 (2.00%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.00%) OneLogin
8 2 (2.00%) Trayport
9 1 (1.00%) Amdocs
9 1 (1.00%) BEA
9 1 (1.00%) Red Hat