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 17 September 2025, 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +29
Contract jobs citing Splunk 27 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.39% 1.00% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.89% 2.31% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 19
10th Percentile £359 £493 £378
25th Percentile £378 £519 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -1.71% -4.88%
75th Percentile £563 £775 £713
90th Percentile £618 £786 £718
London median daily rate £525 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% -

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 933 996 1,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.92% 43.30% 41.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 655 949
10th Percentile £313 £340 £263
25th Percentile £408 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 8
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.50 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.31 £20.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% +30.12% -12.34%
75th Percentile £58.50 £92.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £64.66 £137.50 £60.35
London median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +8 21 £510 -11.30% 9
City of Westminster -1 1 £475 -34.48%
Splunk
London

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) GitHub
3 5 (18.52%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Stackdriver
5 3 (11.11%) Apigee
5 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) Datadog
6 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) BGP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) Wireless
2 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (22.22%) Redis
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Maven
2 7 (25.93%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (22.22%) JIRA
3 6 (22.22%) JUnit
3 6 (22.22%) Postman
3 6 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 5 (18.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (18.52%) GitLab
4 5 (18.52%) Mockito
4 5 (18.52%) REST Assured
4 5 (18.52%) SoapUI
4 5 (18.52%) Subversion
4 5 (18.52%) Xcode
4 5 (18.52%) XCTest
5 3 (11.11%) Gradle
6 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.70%) Hamcrest
7 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Finance
3 7 (25.93%) Banking
4 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Military
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Web Services
2 6 (22.22%) REST
2 6 (22.22%) Swagger
3 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
3 5 (18.52%) Bootstrap
3 5 (18.52%) CSS
3 5 (18.52%) CSS3
3 5 (18.52%) Hibernate
3 5 (18.52%) HTML
3 5 (18.52%) HTML5
3 5 (18.52%) J2EE
3 5 (18.52%) JPA
3 5 (18.52%) Kafka
3 5 (18.52%) Material-UI
3 5 (18.52%) SOAP
3 5 (18.52%) Spring
3 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
3 5 (18.52%) Spring Cloud
3 5 (18.52%) Spring MVC
4 4 (14.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
3 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (11.11%) IVR
4 2 (7.41%) CSOC
4 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
3 4 (14.81%) Windows
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (37.04%) Microservices
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 9 (33.33%) SIEM
4 8 (29.63%) Agile
4 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (29.63%) Incident Response
5 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Security Operations
6 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 6 (22.22%) TDD
7 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
7 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
7 5 (18.52%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
7 5 (18.52%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (18.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) Bash
3 7 (25.93%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
4 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 5 (18.52%) Groovy
6 2 (7.41%) Go
6 2 (7.41%) Perl
6 2 (7.41%) PromQL
7 1 (3.70%) COBOL
7 1 (3.70%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Grafana
4 4 (14.81%) Ansible
4 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.81%) Puppet
5 3 (11.11%) Istio
6 2 (7.41%) Argo
6 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
6 2 (7.41%) QRadar
7 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 5 (18.52%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) Google
4 3 (11.11%) MuleSoft
4 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco
6 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.70%) Exabeam
6 1 (3.70%) F5
6 1 (3.70%) Qualys
6 1 (3.70%) Tufin