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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 726 460
Rank change year-on-year -90 -266 +259
Permanent jobs citing Slack 91 224 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.24% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.55% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 69 61 169
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £38,050
25th Percentile £37,101 £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 £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £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 1 June 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 1 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 -102 66 £62,783 +4.64% 33
UK excluding London -89 63 £45,000 - 15
Work from Home -88 44 £41,067 -34.29% 20
London +46 26 £72,500 +11.54% 18
North of England -11 18 £91,250 +65.91% 3
Scotland -54 17 £28,500 -
Yorkshire +54 12 £100,000 +81.82% 1
South West -21 12 £65,000 +54.92% 2
Wales +13 7 £41,067 -
South East -3 6 £42,500 - 6
North West -28 4 £37,500 -28.57% 2
North East -21 2 £62,783 -
Midlands -38 2 £38,750 -29.55% 3
East of England -14 1 £47,500 -13.64%
East Midlands -22 1 £35,000 - 2
West Midlands -35 1 £42,500 -22.73% 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 18 (19.78%) Confluence
2 15 (16.48%) Apache Spark
2 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.20%) CMS
4 2 (2.20%) WordPress
5 1 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (1.10%) nginx
5 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (13.19%) Trello
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.20%) Notion
6 1 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Shopify
2 2 (2.20%) Eikon
3 1 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) AWS
2 25 (27.47%) GCP
3 23 (25.27%) Azure
4 21 (23.08%) SaaS
5 18 (19.78%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (19.78%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (16.48%) Amazon S3
6 15 (16.48%) Miro
7 14 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (15.38%) Google Docs
7 14 (15.38%) Lucidchart
8 12 (13.19%) WhatsApp
9 8 (8.79%) Entra ID
10 7 (7.69%) OneDrive
11 6 (6.59%) GitHub
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.40%) Basecamp
13 3 (3.30%) Figma
13 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) SAN
1 7 (7.69%) VPN
1 7 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.59%) Firewall
2 6 (6.59%) Telepresence
3 5 (5.49%) DNS
4 3 (3.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.30%) LAN
4 3 (3.30%) SSL
4 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.30%) VLAN
4 3 (3.30%) WAN
4 3 (3.30%) Wireless
5 2 (2.20%) VoIP
6 1 (1.10%) NAS
6 1 (1.10%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (17.58%) Redis
3 15 (16.48%) Big Data
4 14 (15.38%) Hadoop
4 14 (15.38%) Scylla
5 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.79%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.49%) MySQL
8 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.10%) Looker
9 1 (1.10%) Metadata
9 1 (1.10%) Power BI
9 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (24.18%) JIRA
2 13 (14.29%) Git
3 11 (12.09%) GitLab
3 11 (12.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.79%) CircleCI
4 8 (8.79%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.79%) JUnit
4 8 (8.79%) Selenium
5 1 (1.10%) Gradle
5 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.10%) Vagrant
General
1 56 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Marketing
3 12 (13.19%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.79%) Banking
6 7 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Games
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Software Engineer
2 17 (18.68%) Lead
3 16 (17.58%) Senior
4 14 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Principal Software Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Project Manager
6 10 (10.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Developer
9 5 (5.49%) IT Support
9 5 (5.49%) Support Specialist
10 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.58%) GraphQL
1 16 (17.58%) Kafka
2 10 (10.99%) RESTful
3 6 (6.59%) CSS
4 5 (5.49%) HTML
5 3 (3.30%) .NET
5 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.30%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.30%) React
6 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.20%) JWT
6 2 (2.20%) Laravel
6 2 (2.20%) Next.js
6 2 (2.20%) NgRx
6 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 1 (1.10%) Ajax
7 1 (1.10%) LAMP
7 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Algorithms
2 14 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.79%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.69%) CMDB
4 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.59%) Blackberry
5 6 (6.59%) BYOD
5 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.59%) Digital Signage
5 6 (6.59%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.40%) PMI
8 3 (3.30%) Robotics
9 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (32.97%) Windows
2 15 (16.48%) Linux
3 14 (15.38%) Apple iOS
4 12 (13.19%) Android
5 10 (10.99%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.79%) Mac OS
7 5 (5.49%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.10%) CentOS
9 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (26.37%) Project Management
3 22 (24.18%) User Experience
4 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.58%) Agile
5 16 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (17.58%) DevOps
5 16 (17.58%) Migration
6 15 (16.48%) Data Science
7 14 (15.38%) Computer Security
7 14 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 14 (15.38%) High Availability
7 14 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 14 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
7 14 (15.38%) UX Research
8 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (12.09%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) Java
2 17 (18.68%) Bash
2 17 (18.68%) Python
3 15 (16.48%) Go
4 14 (15.38%) Scala
5 10 (10.99%) SQL
6 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.20%) C#
8 2 (2.20%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (23.08%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.49%) PMI Certification
3 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) APMP
6 1 (1.10%) MCSA
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) GDPR
1 8 (8.79%) PSD2
2 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.20%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
4 2 (2.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.29%) Terraform
3 9 (9.89%) Ansible
4 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.59%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (6.59%) ServiceCenter
6 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.10%) Grafana
7 1 (1.10%) Kibana
7 1 (1.10%) logstash
7 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 26 (28.57%) Google
3 14 (15.38%) Dell
4 8 (8.79%) Duck Creek
5 6 (6.59%) HP
5 6 (6.59%) Okta
6 4 (4.40%) Apple
7 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.30%) VMware
8 2 (2.20%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.20%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.20%) HubSpot
8 2 (2.20%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.20%) OneLogin
8 2 (2.20%) Trayport
9 1 (1.10%) FIS
9 1 (1.10%) Spotify
9 1 (1.10%) WooCommerce