Splunk Engineer Contracts in England

Splunk Engineer
UK > England

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in England is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 612 736
Rank change year-on-year +105 +124 -174
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 38 47 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.093% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.098% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 13
10th Percentile £478 £495 £463
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -7.89% +14.00%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £660
90th Percentile £636 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £588 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +11.90% -4.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Splunk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in England

Splunk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk Engineer in England

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in England

Splunk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
London +113 25 £513 -6.82%
Midlands +31 5 £625 -10.71%
North of England +28 5 £588 +17.50% 3
North West +23 5 £588 +42.42% 3
West Midlands +33 4 £626 -10.54%
South West +20 1 £618 +17.62%
East Midlands - 1 £625 -
Splunk Engineer
UK

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Splunk
2 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
3 15 (39.47%) SIEM
3 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
4 13 (34.21%) Python
5 12 (31.58%) Analytics
6 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
6 11 (28.95%) CISSP
7 9 (23.68%) Onboarding
8 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
8 8 (21.05%) Search Processing Language
8 8 (21.05%) DevOps
9 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.42%) ETL
9 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
9 7 (18.42%) SQL
9 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
9 7 (18.42%) Data Analytics
9 7 (18.42%) Tableau
9 7 (18.42%) Data Mapping
10 6 (15.79%) Bash
11 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
11 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
11 5 (13.16%) Degree
11 5 (13.16%) Windows
11 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
12 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
12 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (10.53%) Security Posture

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 2 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.63%) OCI
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Gatling
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) JMeter
2 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Java EE
1 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.53%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.89%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) SIEM
2 12 (31.58%) Analytics
3 8 (21.05%) DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) Data Analytics
4 7 (18.42%) Data Mapping
4 7 (18.42%) ETL
4 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
4 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
5 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
6 4 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.53%) Event Correlation
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (10.53%) ITSM
6 4 (10.53%) Log Analytics
6 4 (10.53%) Security Operations
7 3 (7.89%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (7.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Search Processing Language
3 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
3 7 (18.42%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) Bash
5 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) CISSP
4 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (13.16%) Degree
5 4 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Ansible
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe
2 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.63%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) Omniture
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle