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 31 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 105 107
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing Splunk 18 27 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.72% 1.35% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 2.82% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 13
10th Percentile £345 £359 £494
25th Percentile £413 £362 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -19.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £535 £775
90th Percentile £713 £573 £785
London median daily rate £538 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%

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 1,091 959 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.52% 47.88% 43.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 632 680
10th Percentile £322 £313 £330
25th Percentile £450 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -2.41% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £651
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.42 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -25.52%
75th Percentile £39.69 £56.75 £92.50
90th Percentile £64.13 £64.48 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -16.67%

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 31 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 31 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 -14 18 £450 -9.09% 5
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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) SaaS
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
1 5 (27.78%) VPN
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) SSL
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (5.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) KDB
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Applications Support
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.11%) PCRE
3 2 (11.11%) Regular Expression
4 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Unix
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Observability
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) AIOps
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Grafana
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
3 3 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (11.11%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 3 (16.67%) ION Trading
3 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft