Splunk Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Splunk
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 11 February 2026, 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
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 -14
Contract jobs citing Splunk 2 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.28% 3.19% 1.61%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 7.74% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £561 £478 -
25th Percentile £578 £525 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -1.03% -
75th Percentile £678 - £650
90th Percentile £684 £810 -
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £606
% change year-on-year - -1.03% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
East of England median hourly rate - £72.50 -

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 328 155 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 45.94% 41.22% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 76 178
10th Percentile £329 £265 £277
25th Percentile £423 £422 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +1.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £700
90th Percentile £768 £638 £775
East of England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 33 61
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.06 £24.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £61.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.33% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £20.35 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £95.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £21.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.22% -4.62% +4.63%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Splunk job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
Hemel Hempstead -7 1 £600 - 11
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £675 - 1
Splunk
East of England

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic