Splunk Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Splunk
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 39 54
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing Splunk 29 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 4.42% 2.66% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 7.18% 5.15% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 2
10th Percentile £308 £500 £517
25th Percentile £344 £509 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% +0.46% -12.75%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £569
90th Percentile £644 £588 £576
North West median daily rate £453 £563 £585
% change year-on-year -19.47% -3.85% -6.40%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 404 233 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.59% 51.66% 59.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 124 143
10th Percentile £275 £325 £265
25th Percentile £360 £422 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -2.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £553
90th Percentile £716 £668 £586
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.61 £16.96
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -32.22% +142.86%
75th Percentile £31.50 £26.89 £35.56
90th Percentile £73.85 £81.75 £38.08
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +74.43%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Splunk job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Cheshire

Splunk
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Knutsford -1 24 £433 -14.36%
Chester -10 3 £700 +27.27% 1
Crewe - 2 £600 -
Splunk
North West

Splunk
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (41.38%) JBoss
2 8 (27.59%) Apache
2 8 (27.59%) IIS
2 8 (27.59%) iPlanet
2 8 (27.59%) WebSphere
2 8 (27.59%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (6.90%) Mule
3 2 (6.90%) Mule ESB
3 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
4 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.45%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) OpenShift
3 10 (34.48%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) Azure
5 4 (13.79%) Apigee
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
1 8 (27.59%) Kerberos
2 4 (13.79%) HTTP
2 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
2 4 (13.79%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.90%) DNS
4 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (55.17%) Jenkins
2 15 (51.72%) Git
3 10 (34.48%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (34.48%) CA Release Automation
3 10 (34.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (17.24%) GitLab
5 4 (13.79%) Postman
6 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
6 3 (10.34%) TeamCity
7 2 (6.90%) JIRA
8 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.45%) JUnit
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Security Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Apigee Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Presales Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) OAuth
2 10 (34.48%) LDAP
3 9 (31.03%) Spring Boot
4 8 (27.59%) OpenID
4 8 (27.59%) SAML
5 6 (20.69%) JSON
5 6 (20.69%) Spring
5 6 (20.69%) XML
6 5 (17.24%) RESTful
7 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
7 4 (13.79%) JAX-RS
7 4 (13.79%) JWT
7 4 (13.79%) OAuth2
8 3 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (6.90%) J2EE
9 2 (6.90%) Web Services
10 1 (3.45%) Kafka
10 1 (3.45%) Middleware
10 1 (3.45%) Node.js
10 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 13 (44.83%) Windows
3 10 (34.48%) Unix
4 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
5 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Microservices
4 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 7 (24.14%) Cloud Security
5 7 (24.14%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
6 6 (20.69%) Observability
6 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (17.24%) Analytics
7 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (13.79%) API Design
8 4 (13.79%) API Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (13.79%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Groovy
1 8 (27.59%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) Shell Script
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) CISSP
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) CISM
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
3 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.90%) MCSA
4 2 (6.90%) MCSE
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CISA
5 1 (3.45%) GSEC
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (20.69%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
2 13 (44.83%) Active Directory
3 7 (24.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 10 (34.48%) Progress Chef
3 8 (27.59%) CA Single Sign-On
3 8 (27.59%) CA Wily
4 7 (24.14%) Tivoli
5 5 (17.24%) Fluentd
6 4 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (10.34%) Kibana
8 2 (6.90%) CASB
8 2 (6.90%) Nessus
8 2 (6.90%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) AppDynamics
2 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
3 11 (37.93%) Oracle
4 8 (27.59%) Broadcom
4 8 (27.59%) IBM
5 5 (17.24%) Cribl.io
6 3 (10.34%) Cloudera
6 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
6 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.90%) ArcSight
7 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
7 2 (6.90%) Remedy
7 2 (6.90%) Tenable
8 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft