The first table below looks at the demand for Splunk skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Splunk over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Splunk
Rank 192 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Splunk 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.142% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 2.514% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £538 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £433
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
358 418 465
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.665% 5.353% 4.808%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 263 293
Average daily rate £400 £390 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -8.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 31
Average hourly rate £30.50 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.55% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £16.60 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £34.20 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Splunk
London

Splunk
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Splunk across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

City of London Splunk Jobs Demand Trend

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Splunk across the City of London region.

City of London Splunk Daily Rate Trend

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Splunk across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Splunk Daily Rate Histogram

Splunk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Splunk also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Splunk.

1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Linux
3 7 (53.85%) Python
3 7 (53.85%) Oracle
4 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (38.46%) Middleware
5 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
6 4 (30.77%) UNIX
6 4 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
6 4 (30.77%) TIBCO
6 4 (30.77%) Rendezvous
6 4 (30.77%) Fixed Income
7 3 (23.08%) Nagios
7 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
7 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (23.08%) Big Data
8 2 (15.38%) Hortonworks
8 2 (15.38%) Cloudera
8 2 (15.38%) HBase
8 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
8 2 (15.38%) Analytics
8 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
8 2 (15.38%) MapReduce
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2

Splunk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Splunk also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Splunk. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) LAMP
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) MapReduce
3 1 (7.692%) .NET
3 1 (7.692%) Web Services
3 1 (7.692%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Rendezvous
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Azure
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
3 1 (7.692%) WebLogic
3 1 (7.692%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Summit
1 2 (15.38%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SNMP
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) HBase
3 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (7.692%) DB2
4 1 (7.692%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) ClearCase
1 1 (7.692%) LoadRunner
1 1 (7.692%) JIRA
1 1 (7.692%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Back Office
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (7.692%) Programmer
4 1 (7.692%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Data Programmer
4 1 (7.692%) Data Mining Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (30.77%) Fixed Income
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) UNIX
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Solaris
5 1 (7.692%) HPUX
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) Performance Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.692%) BPR
4 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.692%) Service Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Ruby
4 2 (15.38%) Bash shell
5 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.692%) C++
5 1 (7.692%) VBA
5 1 (7.692%) XQuery
5 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Nagios
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (7.692%) BladeLogic
3 1 (7.692%) SCOM
3 1 (7.692%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) TIBCO
3 2 (15.38%) Sybase
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Murex
3 2 (15.38%) Calypso
3 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
3 2 (15.38%) Hortonworks
3 2 (15.38%) Cloudera
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Sun
4 1 (7.692%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.692%) Tableau
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