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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 248 161
Rank change year-on-year +60 -87 +63
Contract jobs citing Splunk 345 349 757
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.44% 0.95% 1.59%
As % of the Vendors category 3.03% 2.27% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 220 577
10th Percentile £390 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £700
90th Percentile £775 £682 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year - -33.11% -13.40%
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year - -33.11% -4.32%

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 11,396 15,391 20,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.61% 41.93% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 9,828 13,797
10th Percentile £276 £263 £269
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -3.74% +1.90%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £741 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.87% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 1,033 558
10th Percentile £14.69 £12.15 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.48 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -38.36% +69.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 £57.33 £62.92
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in England

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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 29 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 +55 161 £526 +5.25% 119
North of England +2 65 £575 +4.55% 162
South East +54 44 £537 +0.75% 252
North West +27 39 £560 +1.82% 80
East of England +42 33 £550 -15.38% 123
Yorkshire -15 26 £590 +7.27% 65
Midlands +18 22 £537 +28.24% 131
West Midlands +24 17 £551 -15.23% 74
East Midlands +4 5 £391 +8.84% 48
South West +13 4 £613 +11.36% 93
Splunk
UK

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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 16 (4.64%) Confluence
2 12 (3.48%) JBoss
3 9 (2.61%) Mattermost
3 9 (2.61%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.87%) CMS
5 3 (0.87%) IBM Domino
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.58%) Apache
6 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.58%) Traefik
7 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Endur
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 113 (32.75%) AWS
2 55 (15.94%) Azure
3 36 (10.43%) GCP
4 31 (8.99%) GitHub
5 26 (7.54%) SaaS
6 25 (7.25%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.67%) OpenShift
8 21 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (5.80%) Cohesity
9 20 (5.80%) Datadog
9 20 (5.80%) Serverless
10 15 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.61%) Apigee
12 8 (2.32%) Nutanix
13 7 (2.03%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.17%) DNS
1 42 (12.17%) Firewall
2 30 (8.70%) SAN
3 20 (5.80%) Network Security
4 18 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.06%) VPN
6 13 (3.77%) SSL
7 12 (3.48%) NAS
8 9 (2.61%) Skype
8 9 (2.61%) Softphone
8 9 (2.61%) Unified Communications
8 9 (2.61%) WebEx
9 7 (2.03%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (1.74%) HTTP
10 6 (1.74%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.74%) WAN
11 5 (1.45%) BGP
11 5 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (4.64%) Relational Database
3 15 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.77%) RDBMS
5 10 (2.90%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.03%) Big Data
7 7 (2.03%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.03%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.74%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.45%) Redis
10 4 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.16%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.16%) Tableau
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.87%) DB2
12 2 (0.58%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 58 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 43 (12.46%) Git
3 33 (9.57%) JIRA
4 24 (6.96%) TeamCity
5 22 (6.38%) GitLab
6 19 (5.51%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
8 14 (4.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 14 (4.06%) JUnit
9 12 (3.48%) Subversion
10 11 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (2.90%) CA Release Automation
11 10 (2.90%) Maven
12 9 (2.61%) Bitbucket
13 7 (2.03%) IntelliJ
14 6 (1.74%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.74%) Gradle
14 6 (1.74%) Mockito
15 5 (1.45%) Cucumber
15 5 (1.45%) JMeter
General
1 71 (20.58%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.68%) Finance
3 40 (11.59%) Banking
4 33 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.32%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.32%) Marketing
9 7 (2.03%) Military
10 6 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.45%) Electronics
11 5 (1.45%) Front Office
11 5 (1.45%) Retail
12 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Games
13 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.58%) Back Office
14 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (16.52%) Architect
2 39 (11.30%) Analyst
3 33 (9.57%) Developer
4 28 (8.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (7.83%) Splunk Engineer
6 20 (5.80%) Senior
7 19 (5.51%) Security Architect
8 18 (5.22%) Consultant
9 17 (4.93%) Security Engineer
10 16 (4.64%) SOC Analyst
11 12 (3.48%) Administrator
11 12 (3.48%) Support Analyst
12 11 (3.19%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.19%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.19%) Operations Engineer
13 10 (2.90%) Lead
13 10 (2.90%) Linux Administrator
13 10 (2.90%) Operations Analyst
13 10 (2.90%) Site Engineer
13 10 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.41%) Kafka
2 23 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (6.67%) Spring
3 22 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 20 (5.80%) REST
5 15 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (4.06%) LDAP
7 12 (3.48%) Web Services
8 11 (3.19%) HTML
9 9 (2.61%) XMPP
10 8 (2.32%) JPA
10 8 (2.32%) JSON
10 8 (2.32%) XML
11 7 (2.03%) Node.js
12 6 (1.74%) .NET
12 6 (1.74%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.74%) React
13 5 (1.45%) J2EE
13 5 (1.45%) Middleware
13 5 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 32 (9.28%) Security Operations Centre
3 28 (8.12%) CSOC
4 19 (5.51%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (5.22%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.06%) Clustering
8 13 (3.77%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.77%) Replication
9 8 (2.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.16%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 95 (27.54%) Linux
2 90 (26.09%) Windows
3 34 (9.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (8.70%) Windows Server
5 29 (8.41%) Unix
6 27 (7.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (6.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (3.19%) Solaris
9 10 (2.90%) VMS
10 6 (1.74%) Android
11 5 (1.45%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.58%) CentOS
14 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (34.20%) SIEM
2 91 (26.38%) DevOps
3 86 (24.93%) CI/CD
4 69 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 68 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (18.55%) Observability
7 50 (14.49%) Agile
8 49 (14.20%) Security Operations
9 48 (13.91%) Microservices
10 47 (13.62%) Incident Response
11 39 (11.30%) Deployment Automation
11 39 (11.30%) SOAR
12 35 (10.14%) Migration
13 31 (8.99%) Build Automation
13 31 (8.99%) Use Case
14 28 (8.12%) Containerisation
15 27 (7.83%) High Availability
15 27 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (7.54%) Analytics
17 23 (6.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 95 (27.54%) Python
2 67 (19.42%) PowerShell
3 53 (15.36%) SQL
4 39 (11.30%) Java
5 33 (9.57%) Bash
6 23 (6.67%) Perl
7 14 (4.06%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.77%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.32%) Groovy
11 6 (1.74%) C#
11 6 (1.74%) Ruby
12 5 (1.45%) C
12 5 (1.45%) C++
12 5 (1.45%) Go
12 5 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.58%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.58%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.29%) JCL
14 1 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 112 (32.46%) Security Cleared
2 75 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.01%) DV Cleared
4 17 (4.93%) Degree
5 12 (3.48%) CISSP
6 10 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.03%) CEH
8 7 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.03%) MCSE
8 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.74%) GCIH
9 6 (1.74%) GIAC
9 6 (1.74%) VCP5
9 6 (1.74%) VCP6
9 6 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.45%) CCNP
10 5 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.16%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.35%) GDPR
1 15 (4.35%) NIST
2 14 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.03%) SLA
5 4 (1.16%) QA
6 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.87%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 47 (13.62%) Docker
3 40 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (5.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (5.80%) Virtual Servers
5 17 (4.93%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.90%) NFS
7 6 (1.74%) vSphere
8 5 (1.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (1.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.16%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.87%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.87%) iptables
10 3 (0.87%) Lustre
10 3 (0.87%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (21.16%) Kubernetes
2 62 (17.97%) Ansible
3 51 (14.78%) Grafana
4 41 (11.88%) Terraform
5 30 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 24 (6.96%) QRadar
6 24 (6.96%) SCCM
7 21 (6.09%) WSUS
8 17 (4.93%) Kibana
9 14 (4.06%) Puppet
10 12 (3.48%) Progress Chef
11 9 (2.61%) Control-M
11 9 (2.61%) SCOM
12 8 (2.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (2.32%) Tivoli
13 6 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.74%) Istio
13 6 (1.74%) Netcool
13 6 (1.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (1.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 56 (16.23%) VMware
3 52 (15.07%) Red Hat
4 35 (10.14%) Cisco
4 35 (10.14%) ServiceNow
5 31 (8.99%) NetApp
6 29 (8.41%) AppDynamics
7 25 (7.25%) Dynatrace
8 24 (6.96%) Palo Alto
9 23 (6.67%) Oracle
10 20 (5.80%) IBM
11 17 (4.93%) Fortinet
12 14 (4.06%) CyberArk
12 14 (4.06%) F5
13 12 (3.48%) Qualys
14 11 (3.19%) CrowdStrike
14 11 (3.19%) EMC
14 11 (3.19%) SolarWinds
15 9 (2.61%) SAP
16 8 (2.32%) Google