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 20 July 2026, 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
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 109 115
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +30
Contract jobs citing Splunk 24 28 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.91% 1.36% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 2.23% 2.87% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 11
10th Percentile £311 £359 £493
25th Percentile £422 £434 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -13.48% +1.32%
75th Percentile £629 £563 £733
90th Percentile £735 £649 £788
London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%

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 1,078 975 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.10% 47.22% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 623 752
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £439 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £762 £768
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 12
10th Percentile - £23.23 £13.08
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £17.88
Median hourly rate £21.75 £32.83 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% +21.57% +8.00%
75th Percentile £41.69 £62.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £63.88 £75.90 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.75 £26.97
% change year-on-year +32.71% -0.82% -15.51%

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 20 July 2026.

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 20 July 2026. 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 -14 24 £550 +4.76% 6
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 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (8.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.33%) Datadog
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) VPN
3 3 (12.50%) Network Security
4 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) BGP
5 1 (4.17%) IPsec
5 1 (4.17%) Multicast
5 1 (4.17%) OSPF
5 1 (4.17%) SSL
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) KDB
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Snyk
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office
5 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Credit Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (8.33%) JMS
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (8.33%) Equities
1 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Observability
2 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (29.17%) ITIL
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) SIEM
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) AIOps
4 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.83%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
4 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (16.67%) Runbook
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (12.50%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) CISSP
3 3 (12.50%) CISM
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) GIAC
5 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Grafana
2 8 (33.33%) Terraform
3 7 (29.17%) Prometheus
4 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
5 3 (12.50%) Ansible
6 2 (8.33%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (4.17%) QRadar
7 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) AppDynamics
1 5 (20.83%) Dynatrace
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 2 (8.33%) Charles River
4 2 (8.33%) Cribl.io
4 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (8.33%) ION Trading
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Qualys
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) Tenable
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler