Splunk Engineer Contracts in London

Splunk Engineer
England > London

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 366 470
Rank change year-on-year +28 +104 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 15 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.14% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile £554 £461 £507
25th Percentile £593 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% -13.32%
75th Percentile £694 £578 £700
90th Percentile £697 £614 £750
England median daily rate £600 £588 £538
% change year-on-year +2.13% +9.30% -5.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Splunk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in London

Splunk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Splunk Engineer in London

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in London

Splunk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +4 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
Splunk Engineer
England

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Splunk
2 7 (46.67%) SIEM
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
4 5 (33.33%) Python
5 4 (26.67%) Linux
5 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
6 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
6 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (20.00%) Predictive Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Event Correlation
6 3 (20.00%) RESTful
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (20.00%) Marketing
6 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (20.00%) SAP

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Electronics
3 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Social Media
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) SIEM
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Event Correlation
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (20.00%) Observability
4 3 (20.00%) Predictive Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (13.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Cribl.io
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds