The first table below looks at the demand for Splunk skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Splunk over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Splunk
Rank 475 541 570
Rank change year-on-year
+66 +29
Contract jobs citing Splunk 38 18 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.091% 0.034% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.333% 0.547% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 1
Average daily rate £498 £423 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.75% -2.31%
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2851 3289 3255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.857% 6.166% 5.793%
Number of daily rates quoted 1633 1702 1593
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 157 222
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.73 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Splunk Daily Rate Histogram

Splunk
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Splunk across the England region.

England Splunk Hourly Rate Trend

Splunk
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +61 26 £525 +50.07%
Yorkshire +8 7 £400 +33.33%
East of England +20 3 £325 -23.52%
South East +8 2 £575 +36.90%
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 30 (54.55%) Java
2 27 (49.09%) Linux
3 25 (45.45%) Windows
4 23 (41.82%) UNIX
5 18 (32.73%) Python
5 18 (32.73%) SQL
6 17 (30.91%) Perl
7 15 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
8 13 (23.64%) E-Commerce
9 12 (21.82%) Oracle
10 11 (20.00%) Apache
10 11 (20.00%) Middleware
11 10 (18.18%) Introscope
11 10 (18.18%) CA Wily
12 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (16.36%) Hadoop
12 9 (16.36%) Nagios
12 9 (16.36%) Tomcat
12 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
12 9 (16.36%) ITIL
12 9 (16.36%) .NET
12 9 (16.36%) HP
13 8 (14.55%) Solaris
13 8 (14.55%) Finance
13 8 (14.55%) Puppet
13 8 (14.55%) Big Data
14 7 (12.73%) Ruby
14 7 (12.73%) TIBCO
14 7 (12.73%) Rendezvous
14 7 (12.73%) Red Hat

Splunk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 11 (20.00%) Middleware
2 9 (16.36%) .NET
3 6 (10.91%) J2EE
3 6 (10.91%) Web Services
4 4 (7.273%) LAMP
4 4 (7.273%) WebSphere
5 3 (5.455%) MapReduce
5 3 (5.455%) WSH
6 1 (1.818%) Google Maps API
6 1 (1.818%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (20.00%) Apache
2 9 (16.36%) Tomcat
3 7 (12.73%) Rendezvous
4 6 (10.91%) Confluence
5 5 (9.091%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (9.091%) IIS
6 2 (3.636%) MS Exchange
6 2 (3.636%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.636%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.636%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.818%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.818%) Apache Pig
7 1 (1.818%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Summit
1 2 (3.636%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.091%) SNMP
2 4 (7.273%) Firewall
3 2 (3.636%) DNS
3 2 (3.636%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.818%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.818%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.818%) NetScreen
4 1 (1.818%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) Hadoop
1 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) Big Data
3 5 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (7.273%) Data Mining
4 4 (7.273%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.455%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.455%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (5.455%) MySQL
6 2 (3.636%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.636%) DB2
6 2 (3.636%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (3.636%) HBase
7 1 (1.818%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.818%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Introscope
2 6 (10.91%) JIRA
3 4 (7.273%) ClearCase
3 4 (7.273%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (5.455%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.455%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.455%) Fiddler
4 3 (5.455%) Maven
4 3 (5.455%) Subversion
5 2 (3.636%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.636%) Rational Performance Tester
6 1 (1.818%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (14.55%) Finance
2 4 (7.273%) Back Office
3 3 (5.455%) Front Office
4 2 (3.636%) Banking
5 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Administrator
4 5 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.273%) Consultant
5 4 (7.273%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.273%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (7.273%) Operations Manager
6 3 (5.455%) Windows Server Engineer
6 3 (5.455%) Server Engineer
6 3 (5.455%) Analyst
6 3 (5.455%) Architect
7 2 (3.636%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.636%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (3.636%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Test Specialist
7 2 (3.636%) Lead Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (10.91%) Fixed Income
1 6 (10.91%) Open Source
2 2 (3.636%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.636%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (3.636%) Derivative
2 2 (3.636%) Statistics
2 2 (3.636%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.818%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.818%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.818%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.818%) Ontologies
3 1 (1.818%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Linux
2 25 (45.45%) Windows
3 23 (41.82%) UNIX
4 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (14.55%) Solaris
6 4 (7.273%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (7.273%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (7.273%) CentOS
7 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.636%) HPUX
9 1 (1.818%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (23.64%) E-Commerce
3 9 (16.36%) ITIL
4 5 (9.091%) Performance Testing
5 4 (7.273%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (5.455%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (5.455%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.455%) Analytics
6 3 (5.455%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (5.455%) Test Automation
6 3 (5.455%) Load Balancing
6 3 (5.455%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (5.455%) Data Security
6 3 (5.455%) Scrum
6 3 (5.455%) Configuration Management
6 3 (5.455%) OO
6 3 (5.455%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (3.636%) Change Management
7 2 (3.636%) Data Analysis
7 2 (3.636%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (54.55%) Java
2 18 (32.73%) Python
2 18 (32.73%) SQL
3 17 (30.91%) Perl
4 7 (12.73%) Ruby
5 6 (10.91%) Bash shell
6 4 (7.273%) C++
6 4 (7.273%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.455%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.455%) XQuery
8 2 (3.636%) VBA
8 2 (3.636%) C#
9 1 (1.818%) R
9 1 (1.818%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.455%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.455%) DV Cleared
2 3 (5.455%) CEH
2 3 (5.455%) CISSP
3 2 (3.636%) RHCE
3 2 (3.636%) Degree
4 1 (1.818%) MCSE
4 1 (1.818%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.818%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.636%) QA
2 1 (1.818%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.818%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.818%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 5 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.455%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.455%) Xen
3 2 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.818%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) CA Wily
2 9 (16.36%) Nagios
3 8 (14.55%) Puppet
4 4 (7.273%) BladeLogic
5 3 (5.455%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 3 (5.455%) YUM
5 3 (5.455%) HP SiteScope
5 3 (5.455%) SCOM
5 3 (5.455%) OVPI
5 3 (5.455%) OVPM
5 3 (5.455%) HP NNM
5 3 (5.455%) Tivoli
5 3 (5.455%) OpenView
6 2 (3.636%) ZABBIX
6 2 (3.636%) Ganglia
6 2 (3.636%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.818%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.818%) Cobbler
7 1 (1.818%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Oracle
2 9 (16.36%) HP
3 7 (12.73%) TIBCO
3 7 (12.73%) Red Hat
3 7 (12.73%) JBoss
3 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
4 6 (10.91%) CA
5 5 (9.091%) Terracotta
6 4 (7.273%) IBM
6 4 (7.273%) BMC
6 4 (7.273%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.273%) Tableau
7 3 (5.455%) Tealeaf
7 3 (5.455%) VMware
8 2 (3.636%) Murex
8 2 (3.636%) Sun
8 2 (3.636%) Cisco
8 2 (3.636%) Calypso
8 2 (3.636%) Sybase
8 2 (3.636%) NetIQ
City, London
You will be working across multiple IT and Operations teams to ensure that the 'big data' and surveillance of that data using SPLUNK is carried out effectively... To...
Harrington Starr
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
SPLUNK 'Big Data' Search/Surveillance Engineer is required by a large financial organisation. You should have a strong background in data mining and Business Intelligence solutions and possess...
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Rate: £450 - £600 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Montash is currently retained by a Global Investment Bank to source and Secure a Senior JAVA Developer. Overview: As the JAVA Developer you will be part of the...
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Rate: £650 - £750 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Essential Skills: Experience with software such as R, Graphite, Splunk, StatsD or similar tools. Experience with SQL (Postgres, Mysql), NOSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, or other similar tools...
Greythorn
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Home based with Travel to Belgium - 40% travel 10 weeks initially My client, a specialist information security consultancy, require a SIEM Consultant for an initial 10 week period...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 22 May 2013