Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Splunk Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

As of 30 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Splunk Engineer daily rate in Knutsford.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.41% - 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £453
25th Percentile - - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £588
75th Percentile - - £606
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate - £618 £588
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 220 235 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 90.04% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 223 134
10th Percentile £362 £311 £326
25th Percentile £417 £357 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.52% -9.56% -21.33%
75th Percentile £617 £490 £537
90th Percentile £655 £534 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £437 £463
% change year-on-year +12.59% -5.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £15.73 - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £31.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.32% +77.74% -41.98%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 30 July 2026, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk