Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 424 442
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 558 727 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 1.76% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 287 454 618
10th Percentile £42,238 £42,611 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £74,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% -

All Vendors
UK

Splunk is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,517 41,380 63,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.18% 42.01% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24,842 23,662 33,005
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Salary trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +60 424 £56,500 -13.08% 67
England -71 348 £60,000 -14.29% 91
Scotland +58 193 £90,000 +20.00% 13
Work from Home -127 140 £60,000 -14.29% 51
London -61 120 £72,500 -3.33% 38
North of England +13 96 £57,500 -0.54% 13
South East +10 68 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Yorkshire +78 48 £65,000 -6.40% 6
North West -33 33 £61,391 +11.62% 7
East of England +27 27 £60,000 +7.62% 10
South West -52 20 £50,000 -13.51% 4
North East +5 17 £52,500 -38.24%
Midlands -12 17 £50,000 -23.08% 7
East Midlands +1 12 £50,000 +5.26% 5
West Midlands -2 5 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Wales +1 1 - -
Isle of Man -14 1 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Splunk
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 21 (3.76%) GemFire
2 10 (1.79%) Apache
3 8 (1.43%) JBoss
4 7 (1.25%) Confluence
4 7 (1.25%) nginx
5 5 (0.90%) IIS
5 5 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.90%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.54%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 193 (34.59%) AWS
2 142 (25.45%) Datadog
3 138 (24.73%) Azure
4 77 (13.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 39 (6.99%) Azure Sentinel
6 33 (5.91%) IaaS
7 30 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
8 28 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.12%) GCP
11 23 (4.12%) GitHub
12 22 (3.94%) PaaS
13 21 (3.76%) BlazeMeter
14 15 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (2.69%) SaaS
15 14 (2.51%) Serverless
16 13 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.33%) OpenShift
17 10 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.75%) Firewall
2 53 (9.50%) TCP/IP
3 42 (7.53%) Network Security
4 22 (3.94%) VPN
4 22 (3.94%) WAN
5 18 (3.23%) LAN
6 17 (3.05%) DNS
6 17 (3.05%) Wireshark
7 15 (2.69%) SNMP
8 13 (2.33%) SSH
9 11 (1.97%) SAN
10 10 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (1.61%) Internet
12 7 (1.25%) SSL
13 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.72%) BGP
14 4 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
14 4 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (0.72%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.96%) Relational Database
2 47 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 42 (7.53%) Apache Cassandra
4 29 (5.20%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.76%) Hazelcast
5 21 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.23%) MySQL
7 17 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.87%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.79%) Power BI
10 10 (1.79%) Redis
11 6 (1.08%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.90%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.72%) Big Data
13 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 39 (6.99%) JUnit
3 32 (5.73%) GitLab
4 30 (5.38%) Git
5 29 (5.20%) Jaeger
6 27 (4.84%) JIRA
7 22 (3.94%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.87%) Eclipse
9 11 (1.97%) JMeter
9 11 (1.97%) Maven
10 10 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.61%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.43%) Selenium
13 6 (1.08%) Postman
14 5 (0.90%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.72%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.72%) Mockito
15 4 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
15 4 (0.72%) Robot Framework
General
1 280 (50.18%) Finance
2 211 (37.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 202 (36.20%) Law
4 179 (32.08%) Social Skills
5 96 (17.20%) Marketing
6 77 (13.80%) Banking
7 49 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (6.27%) Investment Banking
9 32 (5.73%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.76%) Private Banking
11 20 (3.58%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.51%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.15%) Legal
14 10 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.54%) Retail
16 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
18 1 (0.18%) German Language
Job Titles
1 167 (29.93%) Software Engineer
2 115 (20.61%) Lead
3 81 (14.52%) Senior
4 73 (13.08%) Analyst
4 73 (13.08%) Lead Software Engineer
5 63 (11.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (9.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 48 (8.60%) Java Engineer
7 48 (8.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 42 (7.53%) Security Engineer
9 40 (7.17%) SOC Analyst
10 32 (5.73%) Splunk Engineer
11 27 (4.84%) Architect
12 26 (4.66%) Support Engineer
13 24 (4.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 24 (4.30%) Lead Java Engineer
14 23 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.76%) Developer
16 20 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.41%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.64%) OpenTelemetry
2 83 (14.87%) Spring
3 81 (14.52%) Kafka
4 68 (12.19%) Spring Boot
5 59 (10.57%) REST
6 33 (5.91%) HTML
7 32 (5.73%) JPA
8 29 (5.20%) .NET
9 23 (4.12%) CSS
10 22 (3.94%) Web Services
11 18 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (2.87%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.87%) RESTful
13 13 (2.33%) Ajax
13 13 (2.33%) JDBC
13 13 (2.33%) ODBC
13 13 (2.33%) SOAP
13 13 (2.33%) XHTML
13 13 (2.33%) XML
14 12 (2.15%) Fluent Bit
Miscellaneous
1 108 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 99 (17.74%) Public Cloud
3 74 (13.26%) Management Information System
4 45 (8.06%) Algorithms
5 36 (6.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 34 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (4.48%) Data Centre
8 21 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.76%) Replication
9 19 (3.41%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.69%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (2.33%) CMDB
11 13 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (2.15%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.79%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.61%) PKI
14 9 (1.61%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 120 (21.51%) Windows
2 97 (17.38%) Linux
3 56 (10.04%) Unix
4 22 (3.94%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.51%) Android
5 14 (2.51%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.61%) CentOS
6 9 (1.61%) zOS
7 8 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.08%) Mac OS X
8 6 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.08%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (0.90%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.90%) Solaris
10 3 (0.54%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (43.19%) Agile
2 234 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 210 (37.63%) Software Engineering
4 167 (29.93%) Community of Practice
5 157 (28.14%) Operational Stability
6 150 (26.88%) SDLC
7 139 (24.91%) Cybersecurity
7 139 (24.91%) Observability
8 129 (23.12%) SIEM
9 126 (22.58%) Continuous Delivery
10 119 (21.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 104 (18.64%) DevOps
12 103 (18.46%) Architectural Design
12 103 (18.46%) Machine Learning
13 98 (17.56%) Identity Access Management
14 96 (17.20%) Information Architecture
15 93 (16.67%) Microservices
16 88 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
17 84 (15.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 84 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 193 (34.59%) Java
2 139 (24.91%) Python
3 87 (15.59%) SQL
4 83 (14.87%) PowerShell
5 36 (6.45%) Bash
6 35 (6.27%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.48%) C#
8 21 (3.76%) Groovy
9 18 (3.23%) Perl
10 14 (2.51%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.97%) Go
12 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.90%) JCL
13 5 (0.90%) REXX
14 4 (0.72%) C++
15 3 (0.54%) Assembly Language
15 3 (0.54%) C
15 3 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 47 (8.42%) Degree
2 47 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.89%) CISSP
4 26 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (2.87%) CEH
6 16 (2.87%) SSCP
7 14 (2.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (2.51%) CCSP
7 14 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.51%) SANS
8 9 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.43%) GIAC
10 7 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.08%) CISA
11 6 (1.08%) JNCIA
12 5 (0.90%) CISM
12 5 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (6.99%) NIST
3 22 (3.94%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.79%) NCSC
5 9 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (1.43%) QA
7 6 (1.08%) SLA
8 5 (0.90%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.54%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.54%) RMADS
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.18%) IASME
System Software
1 78 (13.98%) Docker
2 28 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.97%) vSphere
6 6 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.90%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.72%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.54%) ACF2
9 3 (0.54%) RACF
9 3 (0.54%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.36%) Firmware
10 2 (0.36%) KVM
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.18%) LXC
11 1 (0.18%) Squid
11 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 215 (38.53%) Grafana
2 122 (21.86%) Terraform
3 108 (19.35%) Prometheus
4 74 (13.26%) Kubernetes
5 45 (8.06%) Kibana
6 38 (6.81%) Ansible
7 26 (4.66%) ITRS Geneos
8 25 (4.48%) Nagios
9 23 (4.12%) QRadar
10 21 (3.76%) HAProxy
10 21 (3.76%) Zipkin
11 18 (3.23%) logstash
12 17 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (2.87%) Puppet
14 14 (2.51%) Nmap
15 13 (2.33%) Progress Chef
15 13 (2.33%) WMI
16 12 (2.15%) Fluentd
17 10 (1.79%) Graphite
17 10 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 197 (35.30%) Dynatrace
2 70 (12.54%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.38%) Oracle
3 30 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 29 (5.20%) VMware
5 28 (5.02%) IBM
6 26 (4.66%) Google
7 25 (4.48%) Cisco
8 22 (3.94%) New Relic
8 22 (3.94%) Rapid7
9 20 (3.58%) Qualys
10 18 (3.23%) Red Hat
11 17 (3.05%) AppDynamics
12 14 (2.51%) Juniper
12 14 (2.51%) Thycotic
13 13 (2.33%) Palo Alto
14 11 (1.97%) LogicMonitor
15 10 (1.79%) Atlassian
16 8 (1.43%) Ivanti
17 7 (1.25%) McAfee