Splunk Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Splunk
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 23 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
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 50 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Splunk 12 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.76% 1.37% -
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 2.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £608 - -
25th Percentile £613 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% - -
75th Percentile £655 £738 -
90th Percentile £673 - -
South East median daily rate £435 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -24.35% +9.52% -4.55%

All Vendors
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 198 199 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 45.52% 54.52% 55.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 155 239
10th Percentile £254 £224 £225
25th Percentile £372 £367 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% -3.01% -
75th Percentile £562 £560 £614
90th Percentile £639 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £511
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.73% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 14
10th Percentile £18.00 £14.60 £13.29
25th Percentile £23.81 £18.50 £16.31
Median hourly rate £29.61 £25.00 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% +4.71% +54.03%
75th Percentile - £31.50 £28.50
90th Percentile - £35.40 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% -30.91% +121.86%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Splunk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Milton Keynes +11 10 £630 - 4
Newport Pagnell - 2 - -
Splunk
South East

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Lead
5 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (33.33%) Cyberattack
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (8.33%) CSOC
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Android
3 4 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) SIEM
2 7 (58.33%) Incident Response
2 7 (58.33%) Security Operations
3 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 1 (8.33%) AI
7 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Forensic Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) High Availability
7 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 1 (8.33%) Open Source
7 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (8.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable