Splunk Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Splunk
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Splunk products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Splunk over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 96 109
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Splunk 26 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.76% 1.01% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 2.82% 2.07% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 8
10th Percentile £339 £508 £387
25th Percentile £382 £519 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +23.60% -15.24%
75th Percentile £514 £594 £541
90th Percentile £559 £613 £565
South East median daily rate £434 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -24.57% +9.52% -4.55%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Splunk falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 922 726 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.34% 49.09% 54.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 459 568
10th Percentile £296 £325 £205
25th Percentile £420 £441 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +14.50% -6.10%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £510
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.98% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 13 38
10th Percentile £14.63 £18.88 £24.80
25th Percentile £17.26 £26.25 £55.27
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.75 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -56.38% -8.16% +113.07%
75th Percentile £80.75 £62.56 £67.42
90th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £75.51
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £40.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.34% -26.82% +129.17%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Splunk job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Berkshire

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Reading +12 13 £450 -10.00% 1
Wokingham - 9 £380 - 3
Bracknell - 1 - -
Splunk
South East

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) SaaS
2 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Mocha
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Legal
4 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Analyst
2 11 (42.31%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) SIEM Architect
3 4 (15.38%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Security Incident Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Fastify
1 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
1 1 (3.85%) Jest
1 1 (3.85%) Middleware
1 1 (3.85%) Node.js
1 1 (3.85%) OAuth
1 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
1 1 (3.85%) OpenID
1 1 (3.85%) RESTful
1 1 (3.85%) Swagger
1 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (26.92%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (23.08%) Management Information System
4 4 (15.38%) CSOC
4 4 (15.38%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) SIEM
2 17 (65.38%) Incident Response
3 15 (57.69%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (50.00%) Security Operations
5 11 (42.31%) Forensic Analysis
6 10 (38.46%) Threat Intelligence
7 9 (34.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 9 (34.62%) Malware Analysis
8 8 (30.77%) Behavioural Analysis
9 7 (26.92%) Data Privacy
9 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
10 6 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
10 6 (23.08%) Task Automation
10 6 (23.08%) Threat Detection
11 5 (19.23%) DevOps
12 4 (15.38%) Digital Forensics
12 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
12 4 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) CISSP
2 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (42.31%) GCFA
3 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (38.46%) GCIA
4 10 (38.46%) GCIH
4 10 (38.46%) GIAC
5 8 (30.77%) CFCE
6 6 (23.08%) CEH
7 3 (11.54%) Degree
8 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (3.85%) CISM
9 1 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) NIST
2 9 (34.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (30.77%) GDPR
4 6 (23.08%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 5 (19.23%) QRadar
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) Nmap
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) ArcSight
2 10 (38.46%) CrowdStrike
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) LogRhythm
4 2 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.85%) Carbon Black
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.85%) FireEye
5 1 (3.85%) Intel
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Tanium
5 1 (3.85%) Tenable