Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Splunk Engineer
England > London

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in London is £489, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 357 393
Rank change year-on-year -22 +36 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 2 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.13% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.14% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £350 £520 £467
25th Percentile £395 £550 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £600 £576
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% +4.12% -2.74%
75th Percentile £582 £688 £660
90th Percentile £627 £740 -
England median daily rate £525 £625 £616
% change year-on-year -16.00% +1.42% +12.05%

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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 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 13 December 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 - 1 £340 -
Splunk Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 London region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow