Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Splunk Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.06% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £327 - -
25th Percentile £348 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile £514 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 - £626

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 650 649 681
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.29% 94.61% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 445 464
10th Percentile £213 £190 £255
25th Percentile £363 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.40% -2.89%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £638 £731 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 20
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.33 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.09 £23.78 £15.41
Median hourly rate £17.85 £30.45 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% -29.22% +126.42%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.63 £56.45 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.82 £22.29
% change year-on-year +5.58% +6.86% +25.79%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in Birmingham

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (100.00%) Migration
1 15 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 15 (100.00%) Splunk
2 14 (93.33%) Data Ingestion
2 14 (93.33%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (93.33%) Kibana
2 14 (93.33%) Observability
3 13 (86.67%) Containerisation
3 13 (86.67%) Docker
3 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
4 10 (66.67%) Ansible
4 10 (66.67%) Bash
4 10 (66.67%) Change Management
4 10 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 10 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
4 10 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 10 (66.67%) Degree
4 10 (66.67%) DevOps
4 10 (66.67%) Incident Response
4 10 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (66.67%) Linux
4 10 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
4 10 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (66.67%) Puppet
4 10 (66.67%) Python
4 10 (66.67%) Unix
4 10 (66.67%) Validation

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Migration
1 15 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 14 (93.33%) Data Ingestion
2 14 (93.33%) Observability
3 13 (86.67%) Containerisation
4 10 (66.67%) Change Management
4 10 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 10 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
4 10 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 10 (66.67%) DevOps
4 10 (66.67%) Incident Response
4 10 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
4 10 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (66.67%) Validation
5 4 (26.67%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Bash
1 10 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Kibana
2 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (66.67%) Ansible
3 10 (66.67%) Puppet
4 3 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Splunk