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 18 May 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
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 187 239
Rank change year-on-year -35 +52 -73
Contract jobs citing Splunk 192 169 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.35% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.55% 2.96% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 110 93
10th Percentile £403 £399 £384
25th Percentile £485 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £710 £675 £650
90th Percentile £900 £753 £698
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 7,537 5,708 7,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 45.62% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 3,741 4,898
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +0.09% -3.54%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 93 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.55 £67.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -40.00%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -18 22 £600 +14.29% 14
West London -22 3 £400 -23.81% 1
South London -18 1 £650 +15.56%
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 7 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.65%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) MTS
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.52%) BASE24
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (38.54%) AWS
2 67 (34.90%) Azure
3 30 (15.63%) GCP
4 27 (14.06%) OpenShift
5 20 (10.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (9.90%) GitHub
7 16 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 15 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (7.81%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.81%) Datadog
9 13 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.69%) SaaS
12 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.17%) Serverless
13 7 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.81%) Firewall
2 14 (7.29%) Network Security
2 14 (7.29%) VPN
3 9 (4.69%) DNS
4 7 (3.65%) Wireless
5 6 (3.13%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.13%) InfiniBand
5 6 (3.13%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.60%) MPLS
7 3 (1.56%) BGP
7 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.04%) Multicast
8 2 (1.04%) NGFW
8 2 (1.04%) OSPF
8 2 (1.04%) WAN
9 1 (0.52%) 4G
9 1 (0.52%) IPsec
9 1 (0.52%) LTE
9 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.60%) Big Data
3 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.08%) Power BI
4 4 (2.08%) Presto
5 3 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.56%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.04%) KDB
6 2 (1.04%) MySQL
6 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.52%) Flink
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.38%) GitLab
3 11 (5.73%) Git
4 9 (4.69%) JIRA
5 5 (2.60%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.60%) Snyk
6 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.04%) Gatling
6 2 (1.04%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.04%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.04%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.52%) JMeter
7 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (31.25%) Finance
2 53 (27.60%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.46%) Banking
4 21 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.90%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.77%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (6.25%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.69%) Front Office
10 5 (2.60%) Retail
11 3 (1.56%) Law
11 3 (1.56%) Local Government
12 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Legal
12 2 (1.04%) Military
13 1 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (17.71%) Architect
2 27 (14.06%) Analyst
3 25 (13.02%) Senior
4 20 (10.42%) CyberArk Architect
5 14 (7.29%) Lead
5 14 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.77%) SOC Analyst
7 12 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.17%) Consultant
11 7 (3.65%) Security Analyst
12 6 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 6 (3.13%) Developer
12 6 (3.13%) Monitoring Analyst
12 6 (3.13%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Security Consultant
12 6 (3.13%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.94%) Kafka
2 14 (7.29%) LDAP
2 14 (7.29%) REST
3 13 (6.77%) OpenID
3 13 (6.77%) SAML
4 11 (5.73%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.21%) SailPoint
6 9 (4.69%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.65%) Spring
8 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.60%) React
10 4 (2.08%) CSS
10 4 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.08%) HTML
10 4 (2.08%) JMS
10 4 (2.08%) JSON
10 4 (2.08%) Loki
10 4 (2.08%) Middleware
10 4 (2.08%) Play Framework
10 4 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.23%) Onboarding
2 25 (13.02%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.25%) PKI
4 11 (5.73%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.60%) Equities
7 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.56%) CMDB
8 3 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.56%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.83%) Linux
2 20 (10.42%) Unix
3 12 (6.25%) Windows
4 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.56%) zOS
6 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 66 (34.38%) SIEM
3 55 (28.65%) DevOps
3 55 (28.65%) Observability
4 50 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (25.52%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (24.48%) Incident Response
7 34 (17.71%) Agile
8 33 (17.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 32 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
10 28 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.02%) Secrets Management
12 24 (12.50%) Cloud Security
12 24 (12.50%) Security Operations
13 23 (11.98%) Threat Modelling
14 22 (11.46%) ITIL
14 22 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (10.42%) Incident Management
16 19 (9.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.60%) Python
2 25 (13.02%) Java
3 21 (10.94%) SQL
4 17 (8.85%) Bash
5 13 (6.77%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.21%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.69%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (3.65%) Go
9 5 (2.60%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.60%) Scala
9 5 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.56%) JCL
10 3 (1.56%) Perl
10 3 (1.56%) REXX
11 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.52%) C#
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 48 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.98%) CISSP
4 16 (8.33%) CISM
5 11 (5.73%) Degree
5 11 (5.73%) GIAC
6 10 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (4.17%) CCSP
9 7 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (3.13%) CEH
10 6 (3.13%) GCIA
11 5 (2.60%) GCIH
12 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (1.56%) GSEC
13 3 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.19%) NIST
2 22 (11.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.85%) NCSC
4 8 (4.17%) QA
5 5 (2.60%) GDPR
5 5 (2.60%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.56%) COBIT
7 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.04%) ISO 15022
7 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) GxP
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (13.54%) Docker
2 8 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.52%) etcd
4 1 (0.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.52%) Snort
4 1 (0.52%) Squid
4 1 (0.52%) Varnish
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (28.65%) Kubernetes
2 49 (25.52%) Grafana
3 46 (23.96%) Terraform
4 39 (20.31%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.67%) Ansible
6 5 (2.60%) Kibana
6 5 (2.60%) Salt
7 4 (2.08%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.56%) QRadar
9 2 (1.04%) Argo
9 2 (1.04%) CASB
9 2 (1.04%) Control-M
9 2 (1.04%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.04%) Nessus
9 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.52%) SCOM
10 1 (0.52%) Suricata
10 1 (0.52%) VxRail
10 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.02%) CyberArk
2 25 (13.02%) ServiceNow
3 20 (10.42%) CrowdStrike
3 20 (10.42%) Dynatrace
4 14 (7.29%) AppDynamics
4 14 (7.29%) Qualys
5 12 (6.25%) Cisco
6 11 (5.73%) Palo Alto
6 11 (5.73%) Tenable
7 8 (4.17%) Google
8 7 (3.65%) Arista
8 7 (3.65%) Bloomberg
8 7 (3.65%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.13%) Aruba
9 6 (3.13%) BigPanda
9 6 (3.13%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.13%) F5
9 6 (3.13%) Oracle
10 5 (2.60%) Fortinet