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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 722 488
Rank change year-on-year -63 -234 +240
Permanent jobs citing Slack 99 257 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.26% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.60% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 70 68 162
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,101 £43,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £58,750 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -17.54% +35.71%
75th Percentile £87,188 £82,188 £91,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,250
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 35,437 42,898 78,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 43.13% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,650 28,186 41,598
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 £96,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -73 71 £42,500 -8.11% 22
England -74 65 £62,783 +4.64% 35
Work from Home -57 54 £41,067 -36.58% 31
London +33 25 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Scotland -46 25 £28,500 -55.81% 1
North of England -17 17 £91,250 +65.91% 4
South West -16 13 £52,500 +25.13% 1
Yorkshire +70 11 £100,000 +81.82% 3
Wales +13 7 £41,067 -
South East +15 6 £42,500 - 8
North West -29 4 £37,500 -28.57% 1
North East -14 2 £62,783 -
Midlands -37 2 £38,750 -29.55% 6
East of England -9 1 £47,500 -13.64% 1
West Midlands -13 1 £42,500 -22.73% 3
East Midlands -22 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 23 (23.23%) Apache Spark
2 19 (19.19%) Confluence
3 16 (16.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (13.13%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.02%) CMS
5 2 (2.02%) WordPress
6 1 (1.01%) Apache
6 1 (1.01%) nginx
6 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (13.13%) Trello
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.02%) Notion
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Shopify
2 2 (2.02%) Eikon
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 44 (44.44%) AWS
2 33 (33.33%) GCP
3 28 (28.28%) SaaS
4 24 (24.24%) Azure
5 23 (23.23%) Amazon S3
5 23 (23.23%) Miro
6 22 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.22%) Google Docs
6 22 (22.22%) Lucidchart
7 18 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (12.12%) WhatsApp
10 9 (9.09%) Entra ID
11 7 (7.07%) OneDrive
12 6 (6.06%) GitHub
13 4 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (4.04%) Basecamp
14 3 (3.03%) Figma
14 3 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.07%) Firewall
2 7 (7.07%) SAN
2 7 (7.07%) VPN
3 6 (6.06%) DNS
3 6 (6.06%) Telepresence
4 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.04%) VLAN
5 3 (3.03%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.03%) LAN
5 3 (3.03%) SSL
5 3 (3.03%) WAN
5 3 (3.03%) Wireless
6 2 (2.02%) VoIP
7 1 (1.01%) NAS
7 1 (1.01%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.25%) Elasticsearch
2 24 (24.24%) Redis
3 23 (23.23%) Big Data
4 22 (22.22%) Hadoop
4 22 (22.22%) Scylla
5 9 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.08%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.04%) MySQL
8 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.01%) Looker
9 1 (1.01%) Metadata
9 1 (1.01%) Power BI
9 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (24.24%) JIRA
2 13 (13.13%) Git
3 11 (11.11%) GitLab
3 11 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.08%) CircleCI
4 8 (8.08%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.08%) JUnit
4 8 (8.08%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) Gradle
5 1 (1.01%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (13.13%) Finance
4 12 (12.12%) Marketing
5 8 (8.08%) Banking
6 7 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Legal
8 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Games
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Software Engineer
2 22 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
2 22 (22.22%) Principal Software Engineer
3 18 (18.18%) Lead
4 15 (15.15%) Senior
5 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.12%) Project Manager
6 10 (10.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Administrator
9 5 (5.05%) Developer
9 5 (5.05%) IT Support
9 5 (5.05%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.24%) GraphQL
1 24 (24.24%) Kafka
2 9 (9.09%) RESTful
3 5 (5.05%) CSS
4 4 (4.04%) HTML
5 3 (3.03%) React
6 2 (2.02%) .NET
6 2 (2.02%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.02%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.02%) JWT
6 2 (2.02%) Laravel
6 2 (2.02%) Next.js
6 2 (2.02%) Spring
7 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.01%) Ajax
7 1 (1.01%) jQuery
7 1 (1.01%) JSON
7 1 (1.01%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.01%) Web Services
7 1 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.23%) Algorithms
2 22 (22.22%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.08%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.07%) CMDB
4 7 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.06%) Blackberry
5 6 (6.06%) BYOD
5 6 (6.06%) Digital Signage
5 6 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (4.04%) PMI
7 3 (3.03%) Robotics
8 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.01%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.31%) Windows
2 15 (15.15%) Apple iOS
2 15 (15.15%) Linux
3 13 (13.13%) Android
4 10 (10.10%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.09%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.05%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.01%) CentOS
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.41%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (30.30%) User Experience
3 27 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 24 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (24.24%) Project Management
5 23 (23.23%) Data Science
6 22 (22.22%) Computer Security
6 22 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 22 (22.22%) High Availability
6 22 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
6 22 (22.22%) UX Research
7 17 (17.17%) Agile
7 17 (17.17%) DevOps
8 16 (16.16%) Migration
9 14 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (12.12%) Decision-Making
12 11 (11.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.27%) Java
2 25 (25.25%) Bash
2 25 (25.25%) Python
3 23 (23.23%) Go
4 22 (22.22%) Scala
5 9 (9.09%) SQL
6 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.01%) C#
9 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Degree
2 7 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.05%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) APMP
7 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) GDPR
1 8 (8.08%) PSD2
2 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.02%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.02%) Docker
4 2 (2.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.13%) Terraform
3 9 (9.09%) Ansible
4 7 (7.07%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.06%) ServiceCenter
6 4 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.01%) Grafana
7 1 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (1.01%) logstash
7 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (35.35%) Microsoft
2 33 (33.33%) Google
3 22 (22.22%) Dell
4 8 (8.08%) Duck Creek
5 6 (6.06%) HP
6 5 (5.05%) Apple
6 5 (5.05%) Okta
7 3 (3.03%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.03%) VMware
8 2 (2.02%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.02%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.02%) HubSpot
8 2 (2.02%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.02%) OneLogin
8 2 (2.02%) Trayport
9 1 (1.01%) Amdocs
9 1 (1.01%) BEA
9 1 (1.01%) Red Hat