Splunk Contract Job Trends in London

Splunk
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 March 2026, 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
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 168 232
Rank change year-on-year -34 +64 -48
Contract jobs citing Splunk 209 197 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 1.49% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 2.97% 3.36% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 120 97
10th Percentile £413 £402 £432
25th Percentile £500 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £576 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +0.22% -11.20%
75th Percentile £700 £741 £675
90th Percentile £900 £810 £823
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,035 5,864 7,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.64% 44.25% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,644 3,704 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £319 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 80 145
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.48 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +37.00% -
75th Percentile £41.85 £60.94 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.66 £80.75 £69.20
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.81% +21.15% -23.62%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in London

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in London over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in London

Splunk
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Splunk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Splunk

Splunk
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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 -11 24 £690 +25.45% 11
South London -14 9 £425 -39.29% 1
West London - 5 £375 -
Splunk
England

Splunk
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.44%) Apache
2 3 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) Mattermost
2 3 (1.44%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.96%) SAS
3 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.91%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.91%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.48%) BASE24
3 1 (0.48%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.89%) AWS
2 62 (29.67%) Azure
3 45 (21.53%) GCP
4 33 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (9.57%) OpenShift
6 13 (6.22%) GitHub
7 9 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.31%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.83%) Datadog
9 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.35%) Route 53
9 7 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.87%) Akamai
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.39%) Cloud Run
11 5 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.44%) Firewall
2 22 (10.53%) Network Security
3 15 (7.18%) DNS
4 14 (6.70%) VPN
5 9 (4.31%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.83%) SSL
7 7 (3.35%) BGP
7 7 (3.35%) Wireless
7 7 (3.35%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.87%) Ethernet
8 6 (2.87%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (2.87%) InfiniBand
8 6 (2.87%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.39%) HTTP
9 5 (2.39%) MPLS
9 5 (2.39%) OSPF
10 3 (1.44%) Skype
10 3 (1.44%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.96%) DMZ
11 2 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.35%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.39%) MySQL
2 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.44%) Redis
3 3 (1.44%) Tableau
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.48%) Flink
5 1 (0.48%) KNIME
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.48%) Power BI
5 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.09%) GitLab
3 8 (3.83%) Git
4 6 (2.87%) JIRA
4 6 (2.87%) Postman
5 4 (1.91%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.91%) Gatling
5 4 (1.91%) Selenium
5 4 (1.91%) Snyk
6 3 (1.44%) Appium
6 3 (1.44%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.44%) JUnit
6 3 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.44%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.44%) Subversion
6 3 (1.44%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 87 (41.63%) Social Skills
2 58 (27.75%) Finance
3 28 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.00%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (8.13%) Banking
6 15 (7.18%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (5.26%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.39%) Military
10 4 (1.91%) Front Office
10 4 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 1 (0.48%) Automotive
13 1 (0.48%) Billing
13 1 (0.48%) Games
13 1 (0.48%) Legal
13 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (26.32%) Analyst
2 35 (16.75%) Architect
3 26 (12.44%) SOC Analyst
4 25 (11.96%) Senior
5 21 (10.05%) Security Analyst
6 20 (9.57%) Monitoring Analyst
7 17 (8.13%) Security Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) CyberArk Architect
8 13 (6.22%) Security Architect
8 13 (6.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 10 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (4.31%) Lead
10 9 (4.31%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Site Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Threat Hunter
11 8 (3.83%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Operations Analyst
11 8 (3.83%) Senior Security Analyst
11 8 (3.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.53%) REST
2 21 (10.05%) Kafka
3 17 (8.13%) SAML
4 14 (6.70%) OpenID
5 13 (6.22%) LDAP
6 11 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.31%) Spring
8 8 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (3.35%) Middleware
10 5 (2.39%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (2.39%) JSON
11 4 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.91%) JMS
11 4 (1.91%) Web Services
12 3 (1.44%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.44%) ISPF
12 3 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (1.44%) SOAP
13 2 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (0.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.44%) Onboarding
2 25 (11.96%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.18%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.83%) PKI
5 8 (3.83%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.35%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.39%) Clustering
8 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.91%) Equities
9 4 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.18%) Linux
2 16 (7.66%) Unix
3 15 (7.18%) Windows
4 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.44%) Android
6 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.44%) CentOS
6 3 (1.44%) zOS
7 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.41%) SIEM
2 61 (29.19%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (28.71%) CI/CD
4 55 (26.32%) Incident Response
5 53 (25.36%) DevOps
6 51 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (22.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (20.10%) Observability
9 38 (18.18%) Agile
10 30 (14.35%) Containerisation
11 27 (12.92%) Security Operations
11 27 (12.92%) Threat Detection
12 24 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (11.00%) Vulnerability Management
14 22 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
15 21 (10.05%) Cloud Security
15 21 (10.05%) ITSM
16 20 (9.57%) ITIL
16 20 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.92%) Python
2 27 (12.92%) Bash
3 26 (12.44%) SQL
4 22 (10.53%) Java
5 19 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (4.31%) Go
8 8 (3.83%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.91%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.44%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.44%) JCL
10 3 (1.44%) Perl
10 3 (1.44%) REXX
10 3 (1.44%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.44%) Swift
11 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) R
12 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (22.49%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.05%) CISSP
4 18 (8.61%) CISM
5 11 (5.26%) Degree
5 11 (5.26%) GIAC
6 8 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.87%) CEH
8 6 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.44%) CCNP
11 3 (1.44%) CCSP
12 2 (0.96%) GCIA
12 2 (0.96%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.96%) NIST
2 22 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.66%) NCSC
4 12 (5.74%) QA
5 7 (3.35%) GDPR
6 5 (2.39%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.96%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.96%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.96%) SLA
8 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.48%) COBIT
9 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 31 (14.83%) Docker
2 12 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.87%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.44%) Snort
5 3 (1.44%) Squid
5 3 (1.44%) vSphere
6 2 (0.96%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.48%) NFS
7 1 (0.48%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (24.88%) Kubernetes
2 37 (17.70%) Terraform
3 36 (17.22%) Grafana
4 34 (16.27%) Ansible
5 26 (12.44%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.31%) SCOM
7 7 (3.35%) Argo
7 7 (3.35%) HP SiteScope
8 5 (2.39%) QRadar
8 5 (2.39%) Salt
9 4 (1.91%) Nessus
10 3 (1.44%) Control-M
10 3 (1.44%) Fluentd
10 3 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.44%) Nagios
10 3 (1.44%) Nexpose
10 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.44%) Suricata
10 3 (1.44%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.96%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 43 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.48%) Qualys
3 21 (10.05%) CrowdStrike
4 19 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 17 (8.13%) Google
5 17 (8.13%) Palo Alto
6 15 (7.18%) Carbon Black
6 15 (7.18%) ServiceNow
7 14 (6.70%) Cisco
8 11 (5.26%) Tenable
9 10 (4.78%) Dynatrace
9 10 (4.78%) Zscaler
10 9 (4.31%) AppDynamics
11 8 (3.83%) F5
11 8 (3.83%) Oracle
12 7 (3.35%) Arista
12 7 (3.35%) Red Hat
12 7 (3.35%) Remedy
12 7 (3.35%) VMware
13 6 (2.87%) Cribl.io