Splunk Engineer Contracts in England

Splunk Engineer
UK > England

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 504 605
Rank change year-on-year +43 +101 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 24 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.10% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 30
10th Percentile £451 £478 £498
25th Percentile £563 £513 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +9.30% -5.70%
75th Percentile £689 £628 £644
90th Percentile £699 £636 £737
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £525
% change year-on-year +2.13% +11.90% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
London +28 15 £650 +26.83% 2
North of England +16 2 £600 +2.13%
South East - 2 £450 - 1
Midlands +18 1 - -
North West +13 1 £600 +2.13%
West Midlands +11 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Splunk Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 24 (100.00%) Splunk
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 8 (33.33%) SIEM
3 8 (33.33%) Onboarding
4 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Python
5 6 (25.00%) Observability
5 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) Client Onboarding
6 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
6 5 (20.83%) Predictive Analysis
6 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
6 5 (20.83%) Azure
7 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) SAP
7 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (16.67%) Linux
7 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
7 4 (16.67%) Marketing
7 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
7 4 (16.67%) Electronics
7 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
7 4 (16.67%) Public Sector

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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Electronics
3 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) RESTful
1 3 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Social Media
4 1 (4.17%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) SIEM
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) Migration
2 6 (25.00%) Observability
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Client Onboarding
3 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
3 5 (20.83%) Predictive Analysis
3 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
4 4 (16.67%) Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (16.67%) Event Correlation
4 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 3 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (12.50%) SOAR
6 2 (8.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (4.17%) C
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) Cribl.io
5 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds