Splunk Contract Job Trends in Central London

Splunk
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 24 October 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
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 103 127
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +24
Contract jobs citing Splunk 28 28 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.51% 1.20% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 3.05% 2.73% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 20
10th Percentile £359 £447 £395
25th Percentile £400 £503 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £566 £606
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% -6.60% -6.37%
75th Percentile £588 £706 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £715
London median daily rate £543 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 917 1,025 1,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 49.35% 43.75% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 657 903
10th Percentile £322 £313 £283
25th Percentile £413 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -0.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £681
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 10
10th Percentile £18.87 £19.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +140.96% -12.34%
75th Percentile £54.46 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £55.45
London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -9.88% +62.00%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Central London

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Central London over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Central London

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
City of London +7 23 £525 -7.28% 5
City of Westminster 0 1 £475 -34.48%
Splunk
London

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
1 8 (28.57%) GCP
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub
4 4 (14.29%) Stackdriver
5 3 (10.71%) Apigee
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Functions
5 3 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.14%) SaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.57%) Datadog
7 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
3 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.86%) Redis
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Maven
2 6 (21.43%) Git
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 5 (17.86%) JIRA
3 5 (17.86%) JUnit
3 5 (17.86%) Postman
3 5 (17.86%) SonarQube
4 4 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (14.29%) Mockito
4 4 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 4 (14.29%) SoapUI
4 4 (14.29%) Subversion
4 4 (14.29%) Xcode
4 4 (14.29%) XCTest
5 3 (10.71%) Gradle
6 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.57%) Hamcrest
7 1 (3.57%) Mocha
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Banking
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Security Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Security Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Security Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) REST
2 5 (17.86%) Swagger
2 5 (17.86%) Web Services
3 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.29%) Bootstrap
3 4 (14.29%) CSS
3 4 (14.29%) CSS3
3 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 4 (14.29%) HTML
3 4 (14.29%) HTML5
3 4 (14.29%) J2EE
3 4 (14.29%) Kafka
3 4 (14.29%) Material-UI
3 4 (14.29%) Node.js
3 4 (14.29%) SOAP
3 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 4 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (14.29%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (10.71%) IVR
4 2 (7.14%) CSOC
4 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Unix
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) Incident Response
2 9 (32.14%) Microservices
2 9 (32.14%) Security Operations
2 9 (32.14%) SIEM
3 8 (28.57%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
6 5 (17.86%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (17.86%) TDD
7 4 (14.29%) High Availability
7 4 (14.29%) MVC
7 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (14.29%) Software Architecture
7 4 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bash
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
5 4 (14.29%) Groovy
6 2 (7.14%) Go
6 2 (7.14%) Perl
6 2 (7.14%) PromQL
7 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 5 (17.86%) Grafana
4 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.29%) Puppet
5 3 (10.71%) Istio
6 2 (7.14%) Argo
6 2 (7.14%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.57%) QRadar
7 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) Dynatrace
3 4 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (10.71%) MuleSoft
4 3 (10.71%) VMware
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.14%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.57%) Exabeam
6 1 (3.57%) F5
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) Qualys
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) Tufin