Splunk Contracts 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 29 May 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 51 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 -24 +30
Contract jobs citing Splunk 20 5 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.13% 0.94% 6.68%
As % of the Vendors category 7.84% 1.97% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 25
10th Percentile £391 £453 £313
25th Percentile £393 £569 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £588 £564
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +4.17% -10.48%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £588
90th Percentile £634 - £607
North West median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -12.00%

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 255 254 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 52.69% 47.83% 45.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 158 152
10th Percentile £317 £254 £276
25th Percentile £375 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £550 £592 £567
90th Percentile £638 £638 £599
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 7
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £10.97
25th Percentile £15.21 £14.00 £12.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +182.17% -20.93% +46.37%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £22.53
90th Percentile - £23.11 £29.52
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +97.76% -57.17% +87.50%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in Cheshire

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in Cheshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 May 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
Chester - 10 £618 - 4
Knutsford -6 8 £393 -33.11% 2
Splunk
North West

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (40.00%) Mattermost
1 8 (40.00%) Skype for Business
2 6 (30.00%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Skype
1 8 (40.00%) Softphone
1 8 (40.00%) Unified Communications
1 8 (40.00%) WebEx
2 1 (5.00%) BGP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (5.00%) DMZ
2 1 (5.00%) DWDM
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) IPsec
2 1 (5.00%) L2TP
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) Multicast
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) OSPF
2 1 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (30.00%) RDBMS
1 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 6 (30.00%) CA Release Automation
2 6 (30.00%) Git
2 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (30.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Messaging Support
1 8 (40.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Operations Support Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Operational Support Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Operations Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Operations Support Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) XMPP
2 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Insider Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) B2B
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) ITIL
3 8 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 8 (40.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 6 (30.00%) Build Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) Change Management
6 5 (25.00%) Observability
7 4 (20.00%) Runbook
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) Perl
4 4 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCIE
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) SCOM
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (30.00%) Kibana
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (45.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) AppDynamics
5 5 (25.00%) Cloudera
6 1 (5.00%) Arista
6 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) Imperva
6 1 (5.00%) McAfee
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle