Splunk Specialist Contract Job Trends in England

Splunk Specialist
UK > England

The median Splunk Specialist daily rate in England is £690, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £685 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - -
75th Percentile £695 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £690 - -

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 25,202 30,334 40,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.05% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,241 19,130 28,481
10th Percentile £281 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,529 1,333
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.55 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Splunk Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Specialist in England

Splunk Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Specialist job vacancies in England

Splunk Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Splunk Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Splunk Specialist job vacancies in England

Splunk Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 9 September 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 - 1 £690 -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Splunk Specialist
UK

Splunk Specialist Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Splunk Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bash

Splunk Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io