Splunk Contracts in the UK excluding London

Splunk
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 162 257
Rank change year-on-year -60 +95 -4
Contract jobs citing Splunk 182 360 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.53% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.08% 3.45% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 262 200
10th Percentile £366 £383 £343
25th Percentile £441 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £51.70 £36.49
25th Percentile - £54.74 £45.70
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £56.64
Median % change year-on-year -33.11% +5.59% +24.47%
75th Percentile - £60.25 £68.83
90th Percentile - £60.52 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £56.64
% change year-on-year -33.11% +5.59% +13.27%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,753 10,431 12,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.46% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 7,157 8,182
10th Percentile £208 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 477 626
10th Percentile £11.82 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -44 59 £550 -1.12% 15
Yorkshire -1 42 £538 -2.27% 6
South East -18 30 £533 -9.28% 16
South West -15 27 £600 +26.32% 6
Scotland +36 22 £535 -8.94% 9
East of England -3 20 £625 +4.17% 5
Midlands +24 18 £513 -21.15% 6
North West -35 17 £550 - 8
West Midlands +5 10 £625 -5.66% 5
East Midlands +26 8 £359 -48.68% 1
Wales +23 6 £645 -6.25%
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (9.89%) SAS
2 17 (9.34%) CMS
3 11 (6.04%) Confluence
4 6 (3.30%) JBoss
5 5 (2.75%) nginx
6 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.10%) Traefik
8 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.46%) AWS
2 38 (20.88%) Azure
3 24 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (9.34%) Amazon S3
5 16 (8.79%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (8.79%) GCP
5 16 (8.79%) GitHub
6 10 (5.49%) Serverless
7 6 (3.30%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (3.30%) Apigee
7 6 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (3.30%) Kong
7 6 (3.30%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.75%) Datadog
8 5 (2.75%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.93%) Firewall
2 17 (9.34%) TCP/IP
3 13 (7.14%) DNS
3 13 (7.14%) VPN
4 9 (4.95%) HTTP
5 7 (3.85%) Network Security
6 5 (2.75%) LAN
6 5 (2.75%) WAN
7 4 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.65%) FTP
8 3 (1.65%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.65%) SMTP
8 3 (1.65%) SSL
8 3 (1.65%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.10%) BGP
9 2 (1.10%) Broadband
9 2 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.10%) OSPF
9 2 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.24%) MySQL
1 15 (8.24%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.59%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (5.49%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.95%) Tableau
6 6 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.20%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.65%) Big Data
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.10%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.10%) Presto
10 1 (0.55%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (18.13%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.84%) JIRA
3 24 (13.19%) Git
4 17 (9.34%) GitLab
4 17 (9.34%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (3.30%) Burp Suite
6 6 (3.30%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.30%) Travis CI
7 5 (2.75%) AppScan
7 5 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.75%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.75%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.65%) JMeter
9 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.10%) JUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 67 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.69%) Banking
4 13 (7.14%) Finance
5 10 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.85%) Legal
7 5 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.65%) Games
9 3 (1.65%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (25.82%) Analyst
2 28 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
3 24 (13.19%) Senior
4 20 (10.99%) Security Engineer
5 17 (9.34%) Programmer
5 17 (9.34%) Systems Programmer
5 17 (9.34%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 16 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (6.59%) Data Analyst
10 11 (6.04%) Architect
10 11 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Lead
10 11 (6.04%) Site Engineer
11 10 (5.49%) Developer
12 8 (4.40%) Compliance Analyst
12 8 (4.40%) Data Compliance Analyst
12 8 (4.40%) SOC Engineer
12 8 (4.40%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.19%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (10.44%) ISPF
3 10 (5.49%) Kafka
3 10 (5.49%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.85%) JSON
4 7 (3.85%) YAML
5 6 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (3.30%) XML
6 4 (2.20%) Spring
7 3 (1.65%) LDAP
7 3 (1.65%) REST
8 2 (1.10%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.10%) Web Services
9 1 (0.55%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.55%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.55%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.55%) HTML
9 1 (0.55%) jQuery
9 1 (0.55%) OLE
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.54%) Public Cloud
1 21 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
2 19 (10.44%) Mainframe
3 17 (9.34%) Cyberattack
4 11 (6.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.04%) Security Posture
5 10 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.95%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.20%) PKI
8 4 (2.20%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.10%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 65 (35.71%) Linux
2 58 (31.87%) Windows
3 22 (12.09%) zOS
4 10 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.40%) Unix
5 8 (4.40%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.75%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.20%) CentOS
8 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.67%) DevOps
2 50 (27.47%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (27.47%) Incident Response
3 38 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 33 (18.13%) Security Operations
6 29 (15.93%) SIEM
7 26 (14.29%) Agile
8 24 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (10.99%) Analytics
10 20 (10.99%) Containerisation
10 20 (10.99%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (10.99%) Performance Monitoring
10 20 (10.99%) Risk Management
10 20 (10.99%) Use Case
11 18 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (9.34%) Project Management
13 15 (8.24%) Incident Management
13 15 (8.24%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.62%) Python
2 27 (14.84%) Bash
3 23 (12.64%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.64%) SQL
4 19 (10.44%) JCL
4 19 (10.44%) REXX
5 15 (8.24%) Assembly Language
6 11 (6.04%) Search Processing Language
6 11 (6.04%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.49%) Java
8 9 (4.95%) Go
9 8 (4.40%) Perl
10 5 (2.75%) Ruby
11 4 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.65%) C
12 3 (1.65%) C++
13 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.55%) Groovy
14 1 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.20%) Degree
3 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.65%) CISSP
4 3 (1.65%) SANS
5 2 (1.10%) CCNA
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CCNP
6 1 (0.55%) CCSP
6 1 (0.55%) CEH
6 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.55%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.44%) QA
2 10 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.49%) NIST
3 7 (3.85%) NCSC
4 3 (1.65%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (20.88%) Docker
2 19 (10.44%) Time Sharing Option
3 15 (8.24%) ACF2
3 15 (8.24%) RACF
4 12 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.49%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.10%) XenApp
7 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.55%) HDFS
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.55%) Snort
7 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (23.63%) Kubernetes
2 36 (19.78%) Terraform
3 34 (18.68%) Ansible
4 25 (13.74%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.64%) Grafana
6 19 (10.44%) OMEGAMON
6 19 (10.44%) Progress Chef
7 17 (9.34%) Puppet
8 14 (7.69%) Kibana
9 12 (6.59%) Nagios
10 11 (6.04%) Graylog
10 11 (6.04%) HP Fortify
11 8 (4.40%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (4.40%) Nessus
12 7 (3.85%) SCCM
13 6 (3.30%) logstash
14 5 (2.75%) WebInspect
15 4 (2.20%) Istio
15 4 (2.20%) Trend Micro Deep Security
16 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.44%) Broadcom
2 19 (10.44%) IBM
2 19 (10.44%) LogRhythm
3 17 (9.34%) Darktrace
3 17 (9.34%) FireEye
4 14 (7.69%) VMware
5 12 (6.59%) Cisco
6 7 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.30%) Checkmarx
7 6 (3.30%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.75%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (2.75%) F5
8 5 (2.75%) Veracode
9 4 (2.20%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.20%) Qualys
10 3 (1.65%) IronPort
10 3 (1.65%) Sage
10 3 (1.65%) Salesforce