Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 426 461
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 -14
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 554 763 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.73% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 1.75% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 289 477 599
10th Percentile £42,238 £44,033 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,375 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.31% +6.74% +4.55%

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,615 43,503 60,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.23% 41.83% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 25,159 24,769 33,292
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,033 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
UK excluding London +54 424 £57,500 -6.31% 58
England -75 341 £60,000 -14.29% 94
Scotland +61 191 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Work from Home -111 144 £60,000 -17.24% 47
London -61 109 £72,500 -3.33% 41
North of England +3 98 £57,500 -0.54% 16
South East -2 62 £55,000 +4.76% 19
Yorkshire +92 52 £65,000 -6.40% 5
East of England +46 36 £65,000 +145.28% 8
North West -35 31 £50,000 -6.87% 10
Midlands +8 17 £50,000 -23.08% 6
North East +7 17 £52,500 -38.24% 1
South West -53 15 £55,000 -4.86% 4
East Midlands -5 12 £53,750 +13.16% 1
West Midlands +16 5 £50,000 -23.08% 5
Wales +5 3 - -
Isle of Man -18 1 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Splunk
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.79%) GemFire
2 7 (1.26%) Confluence
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.90%) Apache
3 5 (0.90%) IIS
3 5 (0.90%) Tomcat
3 5 (0.90%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.72%) JBoss
4 4 (0.72%) nginx
5 3 (0.54%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 183 (33.03%) AWS
2 135 (24.37%) Datadog
3 124 (22.38%) Azure
4 77 (13.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 37 (6.68%) Azure Sentinel
6 33 (5.96%) IaaS
7 28 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (4.33%) GCP
11 24 (4.33%) GitHub
12 21 (3.79%) BlazeMeter
12 21 (3.79%) PaaS
13 15 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (2.53%) SaaS
14 14 (2.53%) Serverless
15 12 (2.17%) Power Platform
16 10 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (10.11%) Firewall
2 55 (9.93%) TCP/IP
3 44 (7.94%) Network Security
4 27 (4.87%) WAN
5 24 (4.33%) VPN
6 20 (3.61%) LAN
7 16 (2.89%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.71%) SNMP
9 13 (2.35%) DNS
9 13 (2.35%) SSH
10 9 (1.62%) Internet
10 9 (1.62%) SAN
11 8 (1.44%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.26%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.72%) FTP
13 4 (0.72%) SMTP
13 4 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.03%) Relational Database
2 46 (8.30%) NoSQL
3 40 (7.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 29 (5.23%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.79%) Hazelcast
6 20 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.07%) MySQL
9 15 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.71%) SQL Server
10 12 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.17%) Power BI
11 8 (1.44%) Redis
12 6 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.90%) Pentaho
13 5 (0.90%) Tableau
14 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.72%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 51 (9.21%) Jenkins
2 38 (6.86%) JUnit
3 32 (5.78%) GitLab
4 29 (5.23%) Jaeger
5 27 (4.87%) JIRA
6 25 (4.51%) Git
7 18 (3.25%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.53%) Eclipse
9 11 (1.99%) Maven
10 10 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.44%) JMeter
11 8 (1.44%) Selenium
12 6 (1.08%) Postman
12 6 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.08%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.72%) Mockito
14 4 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 281 (50.72%) Finance
2 209 (37.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 199 (35.92%) Law
4 173 (31.23%) Social Skills
5 95 (17.15%) Marketing
6 80 (14.44%) Banking
7 55 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (6.32%) Investment Banking
9 33 (5.96%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.79%) Private Banking
11 19 (3.43%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.53%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.99%) Legal
14 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.54%) Retail
16 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.36%) Games
17 2 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 163 (29.42%) Software Engineer
2 116 (20.94%) Lead
3 82 (14.80%) Senior
4 75 (13.54%) Analyst
5 72 (13.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 60 (10.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (9.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 47 (8.48%) Java Engineer
8 47 (8.48%) Java Software Engineer
9 43 (7.76%) Security Engineer
10 40 (7.22%) SOC Analyst
11 30 (5.42%) Splunk Engineer
12 27 (4.87%) Support Engineer
13 26 (4.69%) Architect
13 26 (4.69%) SIEM Engineer
14 24 (4.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 24 (4.33%) Lead Java Engineer
15 23 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.61%) Developer
16 20 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (18.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 83 (14.98%) Spring
3 80 (14.44%) Kafka
4 68 (12.27%) Spring Boot
5 59 (10.65%) REST
6 33 (5.96%) HTML
7 32 (5.78%) JPA
8 28 (5.05%) .NET
9 21 (3.79%) Web Services
10 20 (3.61%) CSS
11 18 (3.25%) RESTful
12 17 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.35%) Ajax
13 13 (2.35%) Fluent Bit
13 13 (2.35%) JDBC
13 13 (2.35%) ODBC
13 13 (2.35%) SOAP
13 13 (2.35%) XHTML
13 13 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 97 (17.51%) Public Cloud
3 69 (12.45%) Management Information System
4 45 (8.12%) Algorithms
5 39 (7.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 33 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (4.33%) Onboarding
8 22 (3.97%) Data Centre
9 21 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (3.79%) Replication
10 16 (2.89%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (2.35%) CMDB
12 13 (2.35%) PKI
13 11 (1.99%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.99%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.81%) Cyberattack
15 9 (1.62%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (21.48%) Windows
2 90 (16.25%) Linux
3 55 (9.93%) Unix
4 22 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.53%) Android
5 14 (2.53%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.62%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.44%) zOS
9 6 (1.08%) CentOS
9 6 (1.08%) Mac OS X
9 6 (1.08%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.08%) Windows 7
9 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.72%) Solaris
11 3 (0.54%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.36%) AIX
12 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (43.14%) Agile
2 231 (41.70%) CI/CD
3 206 (37.18%) Software Engineering
4 166 (29.96%) Community of Practice
5 156 (28.16%) Operational Stability
6 152 (27.44%) SDLC
7 139 (25.09%) Cybersecurity
8 135 (24.37%) Observability
9 134 (24.19%) SIEM
10 127 (22.92%) Continuous Delivery
11 119 (21.48%) Artificial Intelligence
12 104 (18.77%) Architectural Design
13 103 (18.59%) Machine Learning
14 102 (18.41%) DevOps
15 96 (17.33%) Information Architecture
16 93 (16.79%) Identity Access Management
17 91 (16.43%) Microservices
18 85 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
19 84 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
20 80 (14.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (34.48%) Java
2 136 (24.55%) Python
3 91 (16.43%) SQL
4 85 (15.34%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.78%) Bash
6 31 (5.60%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.87%) C#
8 21 (3.79%) Groovy
9 16 (2.89%) Perl
10 11 (1.99%) Go
10 11 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.90%) R
13 4 (0.72%) C++
13 4 (0.72%) JCL
13 4 (0.72%) REXX
14 3 (0.54%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.04%) CISSP
4 37 (6.68%) Degree
5 19 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.89%) CEH
7 16 (2.89%) SSCP
8 15 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (2.53%) CCSP
9 14 (2.53%) SANS
10 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.26%) GIAC
10 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.90%) CISA
11 5 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.90%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.68%) NIST
2 35 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.81%) NCSC
5 9 (1.62%) QA
6 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (0.90%) JSP 440
7 5 (0.90%) SLA
8 3 (0.54%) HMG Infosec
8 3 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.54%) RMADS
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) IASME
System Software
1 71 (12.82%) Docker
2 29 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.81%) vSphere
5 7 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.72%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.54%) ACF2
7 3 (0.54%) RACF
7 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.54%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.54%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.36%) Firmware
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 215 (38.81%) Grafana
2 118 (21.30%) Terraform
3 105 (18.95%) Prometheus
4 66 (11.91%) Kubernetes
5 43 (7.76%) Kibana
6 31 (5.60%) Ansible
7 26 (4.69%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (3.79%) HAProxy
8 21 (3.79%) Zipkin
9 20 (3.61%) QRadar
10 19 (3.43%) logstash
10 19 (3.43%) Nagios
11 17 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (2.53%) Nmap
13 13 (2.35%) Fluentd
13 13 (2.35%) WMI
14 12 (2.17%) Puppet
15 9 (1.62%) Graphite
15 9 (1.62%) Kiali
15 9 (1.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 197 (35.56%) Dynatrace
2 66 (11.91%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.23%) Cisco
3 29 (5.23%) Google
3 29 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 28 (5.05%) Oracle
5 26 (4.69%) VMware
6 25 (4.51%) IBM
7 22 (3.97%) Rapid7
8 20 (3.61%) Qualys
9 19 (3.43%) New Relic
10 17 (3.07%) AppDynamics
11 14 (2.53%) Thycotic
12 13 (2.35%) Juniper
13 12 (2.17%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.99%) LogicMonitor
14 11 (1.99%) Palo Alto
15 8 (1.44%) Ivanti
16 7 (1.26%) McAfee
17 6 (1.08%) ArcSight