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 28 November 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 105 117
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +50
Contract jobs citing Splunk 27 31 27
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.37% 1.28% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 2.80% 2.94% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 21
10th Percentile £359 £437 £413
25th Percentile £431 £494 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -8.98% -5.41%
75th Percentile £738 £613 £713
90th Percentile £766 £764 £738
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -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 965 1,056 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 49.06% 43.51% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 673 870
10th Percentile £325 £313 £299
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +1.38% -1.36%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 9
10th Percentile £19.14 £19.10 £16.05
25th Percentile £21.50 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.99 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.03% +163.16% -7.32%
75th Percentile £51.00 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £137.50 £57.90
London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £39.38
% change year-on-year -34.68% -2.22% +53.15%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -9 23 £600 +6.19% 4
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
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 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) GCP
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
4 3 (11.11%) Stackdriver
5 2 (7.41%) Apigee
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.70%) OSPF
3 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (14.81%) Redis
2 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) Git
3 5 (18.52%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) Maven
4 4 (14.81%) JIRA
4 4 (14.81%) JUnit
4 4 (14.81%) Postman
4 4 (14.81%) REST Assured
4 4 (14.81%) SonarQube
5 3 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (11.11%) Mockito
5 3 (11.11%) SoapUI
5 3 (11.11%) Subversion
5 3 (11.11%) Xcode
5 3 (11.11%) XCTest
6 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (7.41%) Gradle
7 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.70%) Jaeger
7 1 (3.70%) Serenity BDD
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Salesforce Architect
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) Swagger
2 4 (14.81%) Web Services
3 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 3 (11.11%) CSS
3 3 (11.11%) CSS3
3 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 3 (11.11%) HTML
3 3 (11.11%) HTML5
3 3 (11.11%) J2EE
3 3 (11.11%) JPA
3 3 (11.11%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) Loki
3 3 (11.11%) Node.js
3 3 (11.11%) SOAP
3 3 (11.11%) Spring
3 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 3 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.41%) Derivative
3 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.41%) IVR
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.70%) Media Streaming
4 1 (3.70%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Incident Response
3 8 (29.63%) Microservices
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) High Availability
4 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (22.22%) Security Operations
5 6 (22.22%) SIEM
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (18.52%) Observability
7 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (14.81%) Architectural Design
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (14.81%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (14.81%) SDLC
7 4 (14.81%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) Java
4 5 (18.52%) Bash
4 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
5 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.81%) Perl
6 3 (11.11%) Go
6 3 (11.11%) Groovy
6 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (7.41%) PromQL
8 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.70%) JCL
8 1 (3.70%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
3 6 (22.22%) Ansible
3 6 (22.22%) Grafana
4 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.11%) Puppet
6 2 (7.41%) Argo
6 2 (7.41%) Istio
6 2 (7.41%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.70%) QRadar
7 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Google
2 5 (18.52%) Dynatrace
3 3 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.41%) MarketAxess
4 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.41%) Tradeweb
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Exabeam
5 1 (3.70%) F5
5 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Qualys
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) Zscaler