The first table below looks at the demand for Splunk skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Splunk over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Splunk
Rank 489 553 599
Rank change year-on-year
+64 +46
Contract jobs citing Splunk 52 17 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.108% 0.029% 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.516% 0.451% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 1
Average daily rate £475 £423 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.42% -2.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £423 £433
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3430 3773 3822
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 7.129% 6.501% 6.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 1931 1868 1842
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 180 245
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.63 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.64% -12.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.90 £36.20 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%

Splunk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Splunk Daily Rate Trend

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

Splunk Hourly Rate Trend

Splunk
Top 21 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +46 50 £475 +12.42% 11
London +60 38 £475 +22.58% 7
City of London +15 14 £575 +35.29% 1
Yorkshire +11 7 £400 -3.61% 2
West Yorkshire +8 7 £400 -3.61% 2
Leeds +1 7 £400 -3.61% 2
East of England +20 3 £325 -23.52%
Hertfordshire - 3 £325 -
South East +21 2 - - 2
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Reading - 2 - - 1
York - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Caerphilly - - - -
Cardiff - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
North Yorkshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
South Wales - - - -
Wales - - - -
Canary Wharf - - - -

Splunk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 36 (52.17%) Java
2 35 (50.72%) Windows
3 29 (42.03%) UNIX
4 27 (39.13%) Linux
5 24 (34.78%) Python
6 21 (30.43%) SQL
7 18 (26.09%) Perl
8 16 (23.19%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (21.74%) Finance
10 14 (20.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (18.84%) Hadoop
11 13 (18.84%) ITIL
11 13 (18.84%) E-Commerce
12 12 (17.39%) Oracle
12 12 (17.39%) Nagios
12 12 (17.39%) Middleware
12 12 (17.39%) Big Data
13 11 (15.94%) Puppet
14 10 (14.49%) CA Wily
14 10 (14.49%) Introscope
14 10 (14.49%) Active Directory
14 10 (14.49%) HP
14 10 (14.49%) Red Hat
15 9 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
15 9 (13.04%) .NET
15 9 (13.04%) Apache
15 9 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (13.04%) CentOS
16 8 (11.59%) Hyper-V

Splunk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 12 (17.39%) Middleware
2 9 (13.04%) .NET
3 8 (11.59%) Rendezvous
4 6 (8.696%) J2EE
4 6 (8.696%) Web Services
5 4 (5.797%) MapReduce
5 4 (5.797%) LAMP
5 4 (5.797%) JMX
6 3 (4.348%) WSH
7 2 (2.899%) WebSphere
8 1 (1.449%) Java EE
8 1 (1.449%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 9 (13.04%) Apache
2 7 (10.14%) Tomcat
2 7 (10.14%) MS Exchange
3 6 (8.696%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (8.696%) Confluence
3 6 (8.696%) SharePoint
4 5 (7.246%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (4.348%) IIS
6 2 (2.899%) Apache Pig
6 2 (2.899%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.899%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (2.899%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.899%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.899%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) SNMP
1 7 (10.14%) DNS
2 6 (8.696%) LDAP
3 2 (2.899%) Firewall
3 2 (2.899%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.449%) Internet
4 1 (1.449%) NetScreen
4 1 (1.449%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.449%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.449%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Hadoop
2 12 (17.39%) Big Data
3 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 8 (11.59%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (11.59%) Data Mining
5 5 (7.246%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (5.797%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (2.899%) HBase
8 2 (2.899%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.899%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.899%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (2.899%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.899%) DB2
8 2 (2.899%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Introscope
2 6 (8.696%) JIRA
2 6 (8.696%) Git (software)
3 4 (5.797%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (5.797%) ClearCase
4 3 (4.348%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.348%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.348%) Subversion
4 3 (4.348%) Maven
4 3 (4.348%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.899%) Rational Performance Tester
5 2 (2.899%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (21.74%) Finance
2 6 (8.696%) Front Office
3 4 (5.797%) Banking
3 4 (5.797%) Back Office
4 3 (4.348%) Games
5 2 (2.899%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.449%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.449%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Developer
2 7 (10.14%) Analyst
2 7 (10.14%) Consultant
3 6 (8.696%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (8.696%) Administrator
4 5 (7.246%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (7.246%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.246%) Search Engineer
5 4 (5.797%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Operations Manager
5 4 (5.797%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.348%) Architect
6 3 (4.348%) Server Engineer
6 3 (4.348%) Windows Server Engineer
7 2 (2.899%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (2.899%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (2.899%) Big Data Architect
7 2 (2.899%) Data Scientist
7 2 (2.899%) Performance Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (10.14%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.696%) Open Source
3 5 (7.246%) Blackberry
4 3 (4.348%) Statistics
4 3 (4.348%) Computer Science
4 3 (4.348%) Online Games
5 2 (2.899%) Data Integration
5 2 (2.899%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.899%) Derivative
5 2 (2.899%) Ontologies
5 2 (2.899%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.899%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.899%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.449%) SaaS
6 1 (1.449%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.449%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.72%) Windows
2 29 (42.03%) UNIX
3 27 (39.13%) Linux
4 14 (20.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (13.04%) CentOS
6 7 (10.14%) Solaris
7 3 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.449%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (18.84%) ITIL
2 13 (18.84%) E-Commerce
3 8 (11.59%) Scrum
4 6 (8.696%) Kanban
4 6 (8.696%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (8.696%) Workflow
5 5 (7.246%) Performance Testing
6 4 (5.797%) Analytics
6 4 (5.797%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (4.348%) OO
7 3 (4.348%) Configuration Management
7 3 (4.348%) Data Security
7 3 (4.348%) Test Automation
7 3 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (4.348%) SIEM
7 3 (4.348%) Incident Management
7 3 (4.348%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.17%) Java
2 24 (34.78%) Python
3 21 (30.43%) SQL
4 18 (26.09%) Perl
5 7 (10.14%) Ruby
6 6 (8.696%) PHP
6 6 (8.696%) C#
6 6 (8.696%) XQuery
7 4 (5.797%) Bash shell
7 4 (5.797%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.797%) C++
8 3 (4.348%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.899%) R
9 2 (2.899%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.696%) MCSE
2 6 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.246%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.797%) CISSP
5 3 (4.348%) Degree
5 3 (4.348%) CEH
5 3 (4.348%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.899%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.449%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.449%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.899%) QA
1 2 (2.899%) SLA
2 1 (1.449%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.59%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.696%) Xen
3 6 (8.696%) NFS
4 2 (2.899%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Nagios
2 11 (15.94%) Puppet
3 10 (14.49%) CA Wily
4 8 (11.59%) SCOM
5 6 (8.696%) SCCM
5 6 (8.696%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 6 (8.696%) Cobbler
6 4 (5.797%) BladeLogic
6 4 (5.797%) Tivoli
7 3 (4.348%) OpenView
7 3 (4.348%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 3 (4.348%) YUM
7 3 (4.348%) HP SiteScope
7 3 (4.348%) HP NNM
7 3 (4.348%) OVPI
7 3 (4.348%) OVPM
8 2 (2.899%) ZABBIX
8 2 (2.899%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.899%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Oracle
2 10 (14.49%) HP
2 10 (14.49%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.59%) TIBCO
4 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.14%) JBoss
5 6 (8.696%) Infoblox
5 6 (8.696%) SolarWinds
5 6 (8.696%) BMC
5 6 (8.696%) CA
5 6 (8.696%) NetApp
5 6 (8.696%) Veritas
5 6 (8.696%) Dell
6 5 (7.246%) Terracotta
7 4 (5.797%) Tableau
8 3 (4.348%) IBM
8 3 (4.348%) VMware
8 3 (4.348%) Tealeaf
9 2 (2.899%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.899%) Rackspace
London
The core OSs supported by the team are RedHat, CentOS and VMWare. in order to be successful the Linux Systems Administrator will need to have good knowledge of...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
West London
MS Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (MCSE Preferred) SCOM/SCCM 2007 R2 Hyper-V... PHP/Perl knowledge GIT Python NFS, especially via NetApp Filers. Nagios (Opsview) Splunk. SharePoint...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £385 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
MS Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (MCSE Preferred) SCOM/SCCM 2007 R2 Hyper-V... PHP/Perl knowledge GIT Python NFS, especially via NetApp Filers. Nagios (Opsview) Splunk. SharePoint...
Experis IT
Rate: £325 - £385 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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