Splunk Contracts in England

Splunk
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 251 172
Rank change year-on-year +50 -79 +69
Contract jobs citing Splunk 330 343 757
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 0.92% 1.50%
As % of the Vendors category 2.85% 2.19% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 213 556
10th Percentile £373 £413 £413
25th Percentile £433 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £635 £700
90th Percentile £750 £681 £799
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile £40.50 - £54.74
Median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% -4.32%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% +5.59%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in England

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk in England

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in England

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in England.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in England

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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 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 +30 161 £525 +3.70% 101
North of England +21 64 £600 +9.09% 41
South East +70 54 £550 +3.19% 49
North West +30 33 £543 -1.36% 23
Yorkshire -5 29 £709 +31.91% 15
Midlands +23 20 £537 -7.81% 14
West Midlands +17 14 £551 -12.02% 11
East of England +19 9 £600 -4.00% 31
East Midlands +8 6 £431 +19.83% 3
South West +24 5 £613 +2.08% 12
North East - 2 £750 - 3
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UK

Splunk
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 17 (5.15%) Confluence
2 16 (4.85%) nginx
3 12 (3.64%) Traefik
4 10 (3.03%) JBoss
5 5 (1.52%) Mattermost
5 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.52%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.21%) Apache
6 4 (1.21%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Endur
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 103 (31.21%) AWS
2 59 (17.88%) Azure
3 35 (10.61%) GCP
4 33 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (7.88%) GitHub
6 22 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 20 (6.06%) Serverless
8 19 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (5.76%) Entra ID
9 16 (4.85%) Datadog
10 15 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (4.24%) AWS Fargate
12 13 (3.94%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.42%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.21%) DNS
2 36 (10.91%) Firewall
3 34 (10.30%) TCP/IP
4 21 (6.36%) Network Security
5 13 (3.94%) VPN
6 12 (3.64%) HTTP
6 12 (3.64%) NAS
7 11 (3.33%) SAN
7 11 (3.33%) SSL
8 8 (2.42%) DHCP
8 8 (2.42%) SMTP
9 7 (2.12%) BGP
9 7 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.12%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.82%) OSPF
10 6 (1.82%) WAN
10 6 (1.82%) Wireless
11 5 (1.52%) MPLS
11 5 (1.52%) Softphone
11 5 (1.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.58%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.64%) RDBMS
6 9 (2.73%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.12%) Big Data
8 7 (2.12%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.82%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.52%) Looker
11 4 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.21%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.21%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.21%) Tableau
12 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.91%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.91%) Redis
13 2 (0.61%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 70 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 38 (11.52%) Git
3 32 (9.70%) JIRA
4 31 (9.39%) GitLab
5 25 (7.58%) TeamCity
6 18 (5.45%) SonarQube
7 16 (4.85%) Bitbucket Server
8 11 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (3.33%) JUnit
8 11 (3.33%) Subversion
9 10 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (2.73%) CA Release Automation
11 8 (2.42%) Maven
12 6 (1.82%) IntelliJ
13 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.52%) Gradle
13 5 (1.52%) JMeter
13 5 (1.52%) Postman
14 4 (1.21%) Jaeger
14 4 (1.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 69 (20.91%) Finance
2 64 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.12%) Banking
5 24 (7.27%) Telecoms
6 21 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.55%) Retail
8 11 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.42%) Marketing
10 7 (2.12%) Billing
10 7 (2.12%) Military
11 6 (1.82%) Front Office
11 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.52%) Electronics
12 5 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Back Office
13 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (11.82%) Analyst
2 36 (10.91%) Architect
3 35 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (10.30%) Senior
5 33 (10.00%) Developer
6 24 (7.27%) Splunk Engineer
7 21 (6.36%) Consultant
8 17 (5.15%) SOC Analyst
9 16 (4.85%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (3.94%) Lead
10 13 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.64%) Site Engineer
12 11 (3.33%) IT Manager
12 11 (3.33%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Administrator
13 10 (3.03%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.03%) Operations Manager
13 10 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.52%) Kafka
2 28 (8.48%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (5.76%) REST
4 18 (5.45%) Spring
5 17 (5.15%) Spring Boot
6 15 (4.55%) Keycloak
6 15 (4.55%) LDAP
7 14 (4.24%) cloud-init
8 12 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (3.03%) HTML
9 10 (3.03%) Web Services
10 7 (2.12%) .NET
10 7 (2.12%) JPA
10 7 (2.12%) Node.js
11 6 (1.82%) boto
11 6 (1.82%) JSON
11 6 (1.82%) React
11 6 (1.82%) XML
12 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 18 (5.45%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (4.85%) Clustering
5 16 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.55%) Replication
7 14 (4.24%) PKI
8 13 (3.94%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.94%) Management Information System
9 10 (3.03%) CSOC
10 7 (2.12%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.52%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.21%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 113 (34.24%) Linux
2 68 (20.61%) Windows
3 48 (14.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (12.12%) Unix
5 14 (4.24%) CentOS
6 11 (3.33%) Solaris
7 10 (3.03%) VMS
7 10 (3.03%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.91%) AIX
9 3 (0.91%) Android
9 3 (0.91%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) Debian
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.91%) CI/CD
2 94 (28.48%) DevOps
3 78 (23.64%) SIEM
4 62 (18.79%) Observability
5 59 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (15.15%) Agile
7 47 (14.24%) Cybersecurity
8 43 (13.03%) Microservices
9 42 (12.73%) Incident Response
10 40 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (10.30%) Continuous Integration
11 34 (10.30%) Migration
12 32 (9.70%) Cloud Security
13 31 (9.39%) Security Operations
14 30 (9.09%) Analytics
15 28 (8.48%) High Availability
16 23 (6.97%) Secrets Management
16 23 (6.97%) Test Automation
17 21 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 20 (6.06%) Event Correlation
Programming Languages
1 112 (33.94%) Python
2 46 (13.94%) SQL
3 40 (12.12%) Bash
4 39 (11.82%) Java
5 36 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.88%) Perl
7 23 (6.97%) Go
8 16 (4.85%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.55%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.64%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.03%) Groovy
12 7 (2.12%) C
12 7 (2.12%) C++
13 6 (1.82%) C#
13 6 (1.82%) Ruby
13 6 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.61%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.61%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.61%) Scala
15 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.97%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.85%) Degree
6 11 (3.33%) CISSP
7 7 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.52%) CCNP
9 5 (1.52%) GCIH
9 5 (1.52%) GIAC
9 5 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.52%) MCSE
9 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.21%) CEH
10 4 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.21%) GCIA
10 4 (1.21%) VCP5
10 4 (1.21%) VCP6
10 4 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.24%) GDPR
1 14 (4.24%) NCSC
2 13 (3.94%) NIST
2 13 (3.94%) QA
3 12 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.52%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 37 (11.21%) Docker
2 23 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.42%) NFS
6 5 (1.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (1.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (1.21%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.21%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (1.21%) vSphere
8 3 (0.91%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (0.91%) iptables
8 3 (0.91%) Lustre
8 3 (0.91%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 58 (17.58%) Grafana
3 54 (16.36%) Terraform
4 42 (12.73%) Ansible
5 38 (11.52%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.88%) QRadar
7 19 (5.76%) ZABBIX
8 17 (5.15%) Kibana
8 17 (5.15%) Packer
9 16 (4.85%) Istio
10 14 (4.24%) Consul
10 14 (4.24%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (4.24%) linkerd
10 14 (4.24%) Rancher
11 12 (3.64%) HAProxy
12 11 (3.33%) Progress Chef
12 11 (3.33%) Puppet
13 8 (2.42%) Control-M
13 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (2.42%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (13.94%) Microsoft
1 46 (13.94%) Red Hat
2 38 (11.52%) ServiceNow
3 34 (10.30%) VMware
4 31 (9.39%) AppDynamics
5 28 (8.48%) Cisco
5 28 (8.48%) Dynatrace
6 26 (7.88%) Palo Alto
7 23 (6.97%) Oracle
8 18 (5.45%) Okta
9 17 (5.15%) CyberArk
9 17 (5.15%) Fortinet
9 17 (5.15%) IBM
10 15 (4.55%) F5
11 13 (3.94%) EMC
12 12 (3.64%) Apple
12 12 (3.64%) ESET
12 12 (3.64%) Qualys
13 11 (3.33%) SolarWinds
14 10 (3.03%) NetApp