Splunk Engineer
UK

The median Splunk Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 866 968 1178
Rank change year-on-year +102 +210 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 32 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.012% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.013% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 32 12 14
10th Percentile - £48,000 £72,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,375 £77,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -17.19% +60.00%
75th Percentile £66,778 £78,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £98,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Splunk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Splunk Engineer.

Salary trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 32 £62,500 -5.66% 3
UK excluding London +18 30 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Work from Home +77 19 £65,066 -7.05% 5
North of England - 18 £65,066 - 2
South East +17 9 £55,000 +4.76%
Yorkshire - 9 £65,066 -
North West - 9 £65,066 - 2
West Midlands +2 3 £50,000 -9.09%
Midlands -13 3 £50,000 -9.09%
London +108 2 £72,250 +3.21% 1

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Splunk Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Splunk
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Banking
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (34.38%) Performance Management
3 11 (34.38%) Coaching
3 11 (34.38%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
4 9 (28.13%) Use Case
5 8 (25.00%) SIEM
5 8 (25.00%) iPad
5 8 (25.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (6.25%) Python
7 1 (3.13%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.13%) Operations Management
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) Docker
7 1 (3.13%) DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.13%) Azure
7 1 (3.13%) AWS
7 1 (3.13%) Security Operations
7 1 (3.13%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (3.13%) Task Automation
7 1 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.13%) Static Application Security Testing

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) AWS
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) GitHub
1 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (3.13%) SonarCloud
General
1 12 (37.50%) Banking
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) iPad
1 8 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
1 11 (34.38%) Coaching
1 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (34.38%) Performance Management
1 11 (34.38%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (28.13%) Use Case
3 8 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (3.13%) CI/CD
4 1 (3.13%) Containerisation
4 1 (3.13%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (3.13%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (3.13%) DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) DevSecOps
4 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.13%) Observability
4 1 (3.13%) Operations Management
4 1 (3.13%) Security Operations
4 1 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (3.13%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (3.13%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Splunk