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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 96 117
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +40
Contract jobs citing Splunk 25 26 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.13% 1.28% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 2.89% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 14
10th Percentile £455 £439 £523
25th Percentile £538 £456 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £545 £688
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% -20.73% +1.10%
75th Percentile £738 £628 £925
90th Percentile £809 £698 -
London median daily rate £600 £558 £550
% change year-on-year +7.62% +1.36% -15.38%

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 1,005 900 1,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.52% 44.16% 42.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 592 792
10th Percentile £352 £313 £281
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -0.82% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 10
10th Percentile - £30.04 £12.70
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.56 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £30.69 £112.00 £23.06
90th Percentile £44.72 £149.75 £26.25
London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.99% +25.69% -2.76%

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 March 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 March 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 -7 25 £613 +12.39% 15
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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (12.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.00%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Apigee
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Datadog
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) BGP
4 1 (4.00%) IPsec
4 1 (4.00%) OSPF
4 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.00%) SSL
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
3 3 (12.00%) Git
4 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.00%) Gatling
5 1 (4.00%) Hamcrest
5 1 (4.00%) Jaeger
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Postman
5 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (4.00%) Snyk
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 5 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (12.00%) Front Office
7 1 (4.00%) Games
7 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Architect
1 4 (16.00%) Security Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 3 (12.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Applications Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Administrator
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (12.00%) JMS
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 3 (12.00%) Middleware
2 3 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.00%) ISPF
3 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.00%) Loki
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Equities
2 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 2 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (4.00%) APACS
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.00%) Media Streaming
4 1 (4.00%) NHS
4 1 (4.00%) Online Games
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (24.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (20.00%) Observability
3 5 (20.00%) SIEM
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Runbook
4 4 (16.00%) Threat Detection
5 3 (12.00%) Application Security
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Go
3 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) JCL
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) REXX
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) CISSP
3 3 (12.00%) CISM
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) GIAC
5 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) CCNP
5 1 (4.00%) CCSP
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Grafana
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.00%) Argo
5 1 (4.00%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 5 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 4 (16.00%) Google
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Charles River
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.00%) Cribl.io
4 2 (8.00%) MarketAxess
4 2 (8.00%) Tradeweb
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (4.00%) Remedy
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) Tenable