Slack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 582 646
Rank change year-on-year +95 +64 -86
Contract jobs citing Slack 89 102 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 0.49% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 58 139
10th Percentile £255 £293 £318
25th Percentile £353 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +15.07%
75th Percentile £600 £658 £600
90th Percentile £630 £676 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -42.31% +23.81% +20.00%
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% +60.11%
75th Percentile £31.75 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £32.95 £33.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slack over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slack within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +101 73 £510 -1.69% 33
London +106 63 £510 +0.74% 13
Work from Home +105 33 £500 -16.67% 29
UK excluding London +39 19 £375 -42.31% 19
Scotland +35 12 £375 -43.78% 1
North of England +22 4 £375 -23.08% 5
Yorkshire +12 4 £375 -23.08% 3
South East +7 3 £625 -3.85% 5
South West +7 2 £625 - 1

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 27 (30.34%) Confluence
2 13 (14.61%) OpenStack
3 12 (13.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (10.11%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (23.60%) AWS
3 13 (14.61%) Google Workspace
4 11 (12.36%) Canva
5 9 (10.11%) Azure
5 9 (10.11%) GitHub
6 8 (8.99%) SaaS
7 6 (6.74%) Asana
8 4 (4.49%) WhatsApp
8 4 (4.49%) Zapier
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.25%) Miro
9 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.25%) PaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Intranet
2 5 (5.62%) VoIP
3 4 (4.49%) VPN
4 3 (3.37%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.25%) Firewall
6 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.49%) Metadata
3 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) Big Data
4 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (43.82%) JIRA
2 31 (34.83%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.74%) Git
4 4 (4.49%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (4.49%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.25%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Marketing
7 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 14 (15.73%) Release Manager
2 10 (11.24%) Content Manager
3 9 (10.11%) Architect
4 8 (8.99%) Senior
5 7 (7.87%) IT Manager
5 7 (7.87%) Lead
5 7 (7.87%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.87%) VMware Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Communications Manager
6 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.49%) Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) IT Support
7 4 (4.49%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.37%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.37%) .NET
3 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.25%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (2.25%) Loki
3 2 (2.25%) React
4 1 (1.12%) PySpark
4 1 (1.12%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Onboarding
2 11 (12.36%) Video Editing
3 9 (10.11%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) CentOS
2 13 (14.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (11.24%) Windows
4 3 (3.37%) Android
4 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.37%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Agile
2 26 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (28.09%) Project Management
4 18 (20.22%) CI/CD
5 17 (19.10%) Configuration Management
6 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (17.98%) SDLC
7 14 (15.73%) Change Management
7 14 (15.73%) Observability
7 14 (15.73%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 14 (15.73%) Performance Testing
7 14 (15.73%) Release Management
8 10 (11.24%) Copywriting
8 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.24%) Process Improvement
9 9 (10.11%) DevOps
9 9 (10.11%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.11%) Wireframes
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.99%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.46%) Python
2 13 (14.61%) Shell Script
3 9 (10.11%) Bash
4 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.49%) Go
5 4 (4.49%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.25%) SQL
8 1 (1.12%) C#
8 1 (1.12%) Java
8 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) CISSP
5 1 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) PMO
1 4 (4.49%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) Docker
3 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) Ansible
1 17 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.85%) Grafana
2 15 (16.85%) Prometheus
3 13 (14.61%) Kibana
3 13 (14.61%) logstash
4 5 (5.62%) Terraform
5 3 (3.37%) Argo
6 2 (2.25%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.25%) Opsgenie
6 2 (2.25%) Packer
7 1 (1.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) Google
3 13 (14.61%) Amdocs
3 13 (14.61%) Red Hat
4 9 (10.11%) VMware
5 8 (8.99%) Okta
6 6 (6.74%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.74%) Splunk
7 5 (5.62%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.49%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.25%) Apple
9 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.12%) Databricks