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 13 August 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 104 117
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing Splunk 22 23 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.86% 1.12% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 2.00% 2.37% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £401 £359 £493
25th Percentile £447 £379 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.17% -13.91% -1.71%
75th Percentile £683 £563 £711
90th Percentile £743 £613 £786
London median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -10.00%

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 1,099 969 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.93% 47.15% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 630 716
10th Percentile £348 £313 £340
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £657
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 13
10th Percentile - £19.69 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +11.24% +20.00%
75th Percentile £39.69 £58.50 £92.50
90th Percentile £63.27 £69.02 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.25 £26.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.03% -4.36% -17.81%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -6 22 £580 +10.48% 12
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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (4.55%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) SaaS
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
4 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Datadog
5 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) DNS
2 4 (18.18%) VPN
3 2 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) SSL
4 1 (4.55%) Multicast
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) KDB
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Credit Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.09%) PCRE
1 2 (9.09%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.55%) JMS
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Equities
2 1 (4.55%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 8 (36.36%) Observability
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
3 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) AIOps
4 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 5 (22.73%) SIEM
4 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Grafana
2 7 (31.82%) Prometheus
2 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Dynatrace
2 4 (18.18%) AppDynamics
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (9.09%) ION Trading
5 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
5 1 (4.55%) Charles River
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.55%) Okta
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Qualys
5 1 (4.55%) Remedy
5 1 (4.55%) Tenable
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler