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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 35 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing Splunk 23 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 8.10% 2.27% 9.57%
As % of the Vendors category 15.03% 6.67% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 7
10th Percentile £306 £399 £554
25th Percentile £344 £464 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £505 £593
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% -14.88% -3.14%
75th Percentile £554 £518 -
90th Percentile £635 £522 £600
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -18.18% -3.93% -8.40%

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 153 60 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 53.87% 34.09% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 50 33
10th Percentile £312 £356 £513
25th Percentile £358 £485 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £583
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -7.72% +6.00%
75th Percentile £492 £579 £593
90th Percentile £581 £715 £613
Cheshire median daily rate £457 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -14.61% +2.00% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.31 £22.09 £28.31
% change year-on-year -17.11% -21.96% +126.80%

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 4 November 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 12 (52.17%) JBoss
2 8 (34.78%) Apache
2 8 (34.78%) IIS
2 8 (34.78%) iPlanet
2 8 (34.78%) WebSphere
2 8 (34.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) OpenShift
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) Apigee
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Kerberos
2 7 (30.43%) Firewall
3 4 (17.39%) VPN
4 2 (8.70%) DNS
4 2 (8.70%) HTTP
4 2 (8.70%) HTTPS
4 2 (8.70%) SSL
4 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle Database
2 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Git
1 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (47.83%) CA Release Automation
2 11 (47.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (21.74%) GitLab
4 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
4 4 (17.39%) TeamCity
5 3 (13.04%) JIRA
6 2 (8.70%) Postman
7 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Security Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Apigee Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Monitoring Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) LDAP
1 10 (43.48%) OAuth
2 8 (34.78%) OpenID
2 8 (34.78%) SAML
3 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
4 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.70%) JAX-RS
5 2 (8.70%) JSON
5 2 (8.70%) JWT
5 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
5 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 2 (8.70%) Spring
5 2 (8.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Unix
3 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 15 (65.22%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
3 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (30.43%) Observability
4 6 (26.09%) Analytics
4 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (17.39%) Change Management
6 4 (17.39%) Code Quality
6 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) Risk Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Runbook
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Groovy
2 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
3 5 (21.74%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) CISSP
2 6 (26.09%) CISM
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) MCSA
4 2 (8.70%) MCSE
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CISA
5 1 (4.35%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (26.09%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Active Directory
2 13 (56.52%) Docker
3 7 (30.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
1 11 (47.83%) Progress Chef
2 8 (34.78%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (34.78%) CA Wily
3 7 (30.43%) Tivoli
4 5 (21.74%) Fluentd
5 4 (17.39%) Kibana
5 4 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (8.70%) CASB
6 2 (8.70%) Nessus
6 2 (8.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) AppDynamics
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Broadcom
2 8 (34.78%) IBM
2 8 (34.78%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) Cribl.io
4 4 (17.39%) Cloudera
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) ArcSight
5 2 (8.70%) CyberArk
5 2 (8.70%) Remedy
5 2 (8.70%) Tenable