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 11 February 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
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 85 115
Rank change year-on-year -25 +30 +42
Contract jobs citing Splunk 22 35 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.05% 1.69% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 2.26% 3.85% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 16
10th Percentile £379 £443 £503
25th Percentile £419 £462 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £550 £671
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% -18.06% -4.11%
75th Percentile £743 £662 £925
90th Percentile £871 £741 -
London median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 974 909 1,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 46.63% 43.89% 41.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 573 780
10th Percentile £340 £313 £290
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £674 £660 £675
90th Percentile £775 £746 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 11
10th Percentile £18.96 £30.15 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.08 £37.29 £14.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £29.77 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.92 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £25.77 £34.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year -25.84% +32.38% +5.00%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -26 21 £613 +11.36% 9
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%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (9.09%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.55%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) Apigee
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Route 53
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) OSPF
2 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.55%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) Wireless
2 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Postman
3 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Gatling
4 1 (4.55%) Hamcrest
4 1 (4.55%) Jaeger
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Mockito
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (4.55%) Subversion
4 1 (4.55%) Xcode
4 1 (4.55%) XCTest
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Security Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Salesforce Architect
4 1 (4.55%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) Loki
3 2 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (9.09%) JMS
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 2 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) HTML5
4 1 (4.55%) ISPF
4 1 (4.55%) J2EE
4 1 (4.55%) JPA
4 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.55%) SAML
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Equities
2 2 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) APACS
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.55%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Incident Response
2 6 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Security Operations
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (18.18%) Microservices
4 4 (18.18%) Observability
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Threat Detection
5 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.64%) High Availability
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) Release Management
5 3 (13.64%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) JCL
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) CISM
2 2 (9.09%) CISSP
2 2 (9.09%) GIAC
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO 8583
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Grafana
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Argo
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (9.09%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.55%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) AppDynamics
1 4 (18.18%) Bloomberg
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Charles River
2 2 (9.09%) Cribl.io
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) MarketAxess
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Tradeweb
3 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) HP
3 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Zscaler