The first table below looks at the demand for Splunk skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 67 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Splunk 7 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.947% 0.115% -
As % of the Systems Management category 8.434% 1.471% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
83 68 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 11.23% 7.825% 9.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 33
Average daily rate £300 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £448 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Splunk
West Yorkshire

Splunk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Splunk Daily Rate Trend

Splunk
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JBoss
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
1 7 (100.00%) Introscope
1 7 (100.00%) CA Wily
2 6 (85.71%) J2EE
3 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 5 (71.43%) Perl
3 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (71.43%) Terracotta
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) LAMP
5 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
6 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (14.29%) Java EE

Splunk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (85.71%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) LAMP
3 1 (14.29%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Introscope
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) JBoss
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) Terracotta