Splunk Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Splunk
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Splunk 24 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 9.38% 2.63% 3.49%
As % of the Vendors category 15.48% 7.14% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 2
10th Percentile £306 £399 -
25th Percentile £336 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £505 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% -14.88% -5.08%
75th Percentile £534 £518 -
90th Percentile £634 £522 -
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £550 £582
% change year-on-year -18.91% -5.44% -7.31%

All Vendors
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 155 56 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 60.55% 36.84% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 45 31
10th Percentile £310 £356 £513
25th Percentile £358 £413 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £520 £582
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -10.65% +10.39%
75th Percentile £492 £576 £586
90th Percentile £580 £624 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £33.00
% change year-on-year -8.87% -30.17% +119.49%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Knutsford over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Knutsford

Splunk
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (45.83%) JBoss
2 8 (33.33%) Apache
2 8 (33.33%) IIS
2 8 (33.33%) iPlanet
2 8 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 8 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 9 (37.50%) GCP
4 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 4 (16.67%) Apigee
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 7 (29.17%) Firewall
3 4 (16.67%) HTTP
3 4 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 4 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) SSL
4 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Git
1 15 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (41.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 10 (41.67%) CA Release Automation
2 10 (41.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (20.83%) GitLab
4 4 (16.67%) Postman
5 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 2 (8.33%) JIRA
7 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Security Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Apigee Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Monitoring Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) OAuth
2 10 (41.67%) LDAP
3 8 (33.33%) OpenID
3 8 (33.33%) SAML
4 7 (29.17%) Spring Boot
5 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 4 (16.67%) JAX-RS
5 4 (16.67%) JSON
5 4 (16.67%) JWT
5 4 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 4 (16.67%) RESTful
5 4 (16.67%) Spring
5 4 (16.67%) XML
6 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Linux
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Unix
3 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 14 (58.33%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Cloud Security
3 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
3 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (29.17%) Microservices
4 6 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (25.00%) Observability
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
5 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (16.67%) API Design
6 4 (16.67%) API Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Groovy
2 7 (29.17%) Shell Script
3 6 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) Python
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) CISSP
2 6 (25.00%) CISM
2 6 (25.00%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) MCSA
4 2 (8.33%) MCSE
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CISA
5 1 (4.17%) GSEC
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Docker
2 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (29.17%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (41.67%) Progress Chef
3 8 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
3 8 (33.33%) CA Wily
4 7 (29.17%) Tivoli
5 5 (20.83%) Fluentd
6 4 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (12.50%) Kibana
8 2 (8.33%) CASB
8 2 (8.33%) Nessus
8 2 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) AppDynamics
3 8 (33.33%) Broadcom
3 8 (33.33%) IBM
3 8 (33.33%) Oracle
4 5 (20.83%) Cribl.io
5 3 (12.50%) Cloudera
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.33%) ArcSight
6 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
6 2 (8.33%) Remedy
6 2 (8.33%) Tenable