Splunk Contracts in Chester

Splunk
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Splunk 10 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 14.93% - 14.55%
As % of the Vendors category 21.74% - 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £604 - £288
25th Percentile £609 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 - £550
75th Percentile £626 - £575
90th Percentile £632 - £588
Cheshire median daily rate £481 £588 £570
% change year-on-year -18.13% +3.16% -9.60%

All Vendors
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 46 20 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 68.66% 35.09% 55.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 32
10th Percentile - £220 £288
25th Percentile £325 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £716 £531 £578
90th Percentile £735 £625 £599
Cheshire median daily rate £460 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -9.19% +1.20% +7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £19.75
25th Percentile £50.00 - £23.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.00%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £37.75
Cheshire median hourly rate £50.00 £17.29 £22.21
% change year-on-year +189.27% -22.16% +45.04%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in Chester

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk in Chester

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (80.00%) Mattermost
1 8 (80.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Skype
1 8 (80.00%) Softphone
1 8 (80.00%) Unified Communications
1 8 (80.00%) WebEx
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (10.00%) DMZ
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) DWDM
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) L2TP
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) Multicast
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Messaging Support
1 8 (80.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Operations Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Operations Support Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Operational Support Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Operations Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Operations Support Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) XMPP
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) B2B
2 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 8 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Product Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) SCOM
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Arista
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee