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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 737 459
Rank change year-on-year -96 -278 +280
Permanent jobs citing Slack 89 210 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.23% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.52% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 67 61 169
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £41,700
25th Percentile £36,675 £40,853 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -14.81% +28.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

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 36,452 40,083 83,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 43.06% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,130 27,066 41,503
10th Percentile £30,140 £34,182 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Slack in the UK

Slack
Top 15 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 9 June 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
England -96 65 £62,783 +4.64% 22
UK excluding London -109 61 £42,500 -5.56% 15
Work from Home -64 43 £41,067 -31.56% 18
London -1 25 £70,000 +7.69% 9
North of England -11 18 £82,500 +50.00% 3
Scotland -53 16 £28,500 - 1
Yorkshire +57 12 £100,000 +81.82% 2
South West -24 12 £65,000 +54.92% 2
Wales +17 7 £41,067 -
South East -3 6 £42,500 - 5
North West -28 4 £37,500 -28.57% 1
North East -24 2 £62,783 -
Midlands -54 2 £38,750 -29.55% 3
West Midlands -29 1 £42,500 -22.73% 1
East Midlands -37 1 £35,000 - 2

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 17 (19.10%) Confluence
2 14 (15.73%) Apache Spark
2 14 (15.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (13.48%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.37%) WordPress
5 2 (2.25%) CMS
6 1 (1.12%) Apache
6 1 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (13.48%) Trello
3 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (2.25%) Notion
7 1 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Shopify
2 2 (2.25%) Eikon
3 1 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.33%) AWS
2 23 (25.84%) GCP
3 22 (24.72%) Azure
4 21 (23.60%) SaaS
5 17 (19.10%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (16.85%) Amazon S3
7 14 (15.73%) Miro
8 13 (14.61%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (14.61%) Google Docs
8 13 (14.61%) Lucidchart
9 11 (12.36%) WhatsApp
10 9 (10.11%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.74%) GitHub
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.62%) OneDrive
13 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (4.49%) Basecamp
14 3 (3.37%) Google Workspace
14 3 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.87%) SAN
2 7 (7.87%) VPN
3 6 (6.74%) DNS
3 6 (6.74%) Firewall
3 6 (6.74%) Telepresence
4 4 (4.49%) LAN
4 4 (4.49%) SSL
5 3 (3.37%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.37%) VLAN
5 3 (3.37%) WAN
5 3 (3.37%) Wireless
6 2 (2.25%) VoIP
7 1 (1.12%) NAS
7 1 (1.12%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.98%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (16.85%) Redis
3 14 (15.73%) Big Data
4 13 (14.61%) Hadoop
4 13 (14.61%) Scylla
5 8 (8.99%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.87%) Data Lake
6 7 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (6.74%) MySQL
8 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.12%) Looker
9 1 (1.12%) Metadata
9 1 (1.12%) Power BI
9 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) JIRA
2 12 (13.48%) Git
3 10 (11.24%) GitLab
3 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.87%) CircleCI
4 7 (7.87%) Cucumber
4 7 (7.87%) JUnit
4 7 (7.87%) Selenium
5 1 (1.12%) Gradle
5 1 (1.12%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (59.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Marketing
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.87%) Banking
5 7 (7.87%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Legal
6 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) Software Engineer
2 17 (19.10%) Senior
3 16 (17.98%) Lead
4 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Principal Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Principal Software Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Project Manager
6 10 (11.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Collaboration Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Developer
8 5 (5.62%) IT Support
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) GraphQL
1 15 (16.85%) Kafka
2 10 (11.24%) RESTful
3 7 (7.87%) CSS
4 6 (6.74%) HTML
5 4 (4.49%) .NET
5 4 (4.49%) ASP.NET
5 4 (4.49%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.37%) NgRx
6 3 (3.37%) React
7 2 (2.25%) JWT
7 2 (2.25%) Laravel
7 2 (2.25%) Next.js
7 2 (2.25%) Spring
8 1 (1.12%) LAMP
8 1 (1.12%) Web Services
8 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.73%) Algorithms
2 13 (14.61%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.87%) CMDB
3 7 (7.87%) Mobile App
3 7 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.74%) Digital Signage
4 6 (6.74%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (5.62%) Blackberry
5 5 (5.62%) BYOD
5 5 (5.62%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.49%) PMI
7 3 (3.37%) Robotics
8 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.12%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.58%) Windows
2 16 (17.98%) Linux
3 13 (14.61%) Apple iOS
4 11 (12.36%) Android
5 9 (10.11%) Mac OS
5 9 (10.11%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.62%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.12%) CentOS
8 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (25.84%) Project Management
3 21 (23.60%) User Experience
4 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.98%) Agile
5 16 (17.98%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (16.85%) DevOps
6 15 (16.85%) Migration
7 14 (15.73%) Data Science
7 14 (15.73%) Decision-Making
7 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (14.61%) Computer Security
8 13 (14.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 13 (14.61%) High Availability
8 13 (14.61%) Mentoring
8 13 (14.61%) Threat Intelligence
8 13 (14.61%) UX Research
9 12 (13.48%) CI/CD
10 11 (12.36%) Change Management
10 11 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.22%) Java
2 16 (17.98%) Bash
2 16 (17.98%) Python
3 14 (15.73%) Go
4 13 (14.61%) Scala
5 10 (11.24%) SQL
6 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.37%) C#
8 2 (2.25%) PHP
8 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.62%) PMI Certification
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) APMP
6 1 (1.12%) MCSA
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) GDPR
1 7 (7.87%) PSD2
2 3 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.25%) Docker
4 2 (2.25%) vSphere
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.61%) Terraform
3 9 (10.11%) Ansible
4 6 (6.74%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.74%) ServiceCenter
5 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.12%) Grafana
6 1 (1.12%) Kibana
6 1 (1.12%) logstash
6 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (26.97%) Google
3 13 (14.61%) Dell
4 7 (7.87%) Duck Creek
5 6 (6.74%) HP
5 6 (6.74%) Okta
6 5 (5.62%) Apple
7 3 (3.37%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.37%) HubSpot
7 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.37%) VMware
8 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.25%) Cisco
8 2 (2.25%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.25%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.25%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.25%) Meraki
8 2 (2.25%) OneLogin
8 2 (2.25%) SAP
8 2 (2.25%) Trayport