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 16 April 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
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 100 115
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +40
Contract jobs citing Splunk 22 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.93% 1.21% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 2.17% 2.66% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £363 £405 £523
25th Percentile £464 £452 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £545 £695
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -21.58% -4.40%
75th Percentile £743 £634 £925
90th Percentile £871 £709 -
London median daily rate £583 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +11.12% -4.55% -13.39%

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 1,016 901 1,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.80% 45.30% 42.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 585 779
10th Percentile £356 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 8
10th Percentile £18.65 £28.55 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £29.07 £15.19
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.65 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -26.49% +82.70% -9.69%
75th Percentile £27.00 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 £117.50 £24.73
London median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.50
% change year-on-year +11.80% +18.65% -4.71%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -18 22 £593 +7.73% 3
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 3 (13.64%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (13.64%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.55%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) Azure
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Apigee
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Datadog
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) BGP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) IPsec
3 1 (4.55%) OSPF
3 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Jaeger
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Financial Institution
5 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (13.64%) Front Office
7 1 (4.55%) Games
7 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Electronics Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (13.64%) JMS
2 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 3 (13.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.55%) ISPF
3 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.55%) Loki
3 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Equities
1 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (4.55%) APACS
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Online Games
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
1 6 (27.27%) SIEM
2 5 (22.73%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (22.73%) Observability
3 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) High Availability
3 4 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (18.18%) ITIL
3 4 (18.18%) Microservices
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Runbook
4 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (13.64%) Application Security
4 3 (13.64%) Low Latency
4 3 (13.64%) Order Management
4 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) JCL
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) REXX
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CISSP
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) CISM
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) GIAC
4 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) CCSP
4 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 8583
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Grafana
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) AppDynamics
1 5 (22.73%) Bloomberg
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Charles River
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.09%) Cribl.io
4 2 (9.09%) MarketAxess
4 2 (9.09%) Tradeweb
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) HP
5 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (4.55%) Okta
5 1 (4.55%) Qualys
5 1 (4.55%) Remedy
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) Tenable
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler