Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Splunk Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 79 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 -28 -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.00% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.17% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £535 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £635 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +8.09% -
75th Percentile £604 - £606
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £569 £635 £588
% change year-on-year -10.39% +8.09% +42.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 726 592 480
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 90.11% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 448 283
10th Percentile £277 £272 £323
25th Percentile £400 £358 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £443 £465
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% -4.84% -4.91%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £640
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 28 22
10th Percentile £15.93 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £35.82 £29.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -15.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile £85.00 £36.86 £43.75
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.25 £47.13
North West median hourly rate £46.18 £24.88 £37.00
% change year-on-year +85.58% -32.75% +5.71%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Splunk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Knutsford - 7 £569 -
Chester -5 1 £525 -17.32% 2
Splunk Engineer
North West

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Splunk
2 7 (87.50%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (37.50%) CASB
4 3 (37.50%) CISSP
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Cribl.io
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) GCFA
4 3 (37.50%) GCIH
4 3 (37.50%) GDPR
4 3 (37.50%) GitLab
4 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Kusto Query Language

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SOAR
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) GCFA
2 3 (37.50%) GCIH
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) CASB
1 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) Cribl.io
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
Splunk Engineer jobs