The first table below looks at the demand for Splunk skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Splunk over the 3 months to 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Splunk
Rank 221 233 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Splunk 2 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.026% 0.089% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.286% 1.308% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £575 £420 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.90% -
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
699 688 735
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 8.981% 6.766% 6.965%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 325 280
Average daily rate £330 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £456 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 62
Average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -28.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £13.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Splunk
England

Splunk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Splunk Daily 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Berkshire - 2 £575 -
Splunk
England

Splunk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Sourcefire
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cluster Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Imperva
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop

Splunk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Pig
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cluster Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) R
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Sourcefire
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Imperva
1 1 (50.00%) Tufin
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight