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 28 August 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 171 230
Rank change year-on-year -58 +59 -87
Contract jobs citing Splunk 237 204 161
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.53% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 2.75% 3.31% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 122 98
10th Percentile £393 £387 £399
25th Percentile £450 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £559
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.04% -6.88%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £688
90th Percentile £723 £775 £803
England median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.74 - -
25th Percentile £72.48 - -
Median hourly rate £74.93 - -
75th Percentile £77.35 - -
90th Percentile £78.07 - -
England median hourly rate £65.57 - £47.50

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 8,619 6,166 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.77% 46.13% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,606 3,991 4,677
10th Percentile £348 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 124 84
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -10.09% -22.00%
75th Percentile £63.25 £39.06 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £75.88
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -29 19 £513 +10.81% 16
West London -17 6 £560 +34.94% 15
East London - 1 £550 - 2
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 20 (8.44%) Confluence
2 13 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.53%) Apache
4 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.69%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) MTS
6 1 (0.42%) Mule
6 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 106 (44.73%) Azure
2 103 (43.46%) AWS
3 50 (21.10%) GCP
4 47 (19.83%) GitHub
5 29 (12.24%) OpenShift
6 24 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.28%) Datadog
7 22 (9.28%) Entra ID
8 20 (8.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (7.17%) SaaS
10 16 (6.75%) Amazon S3
10 16 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.06%) Serverless
13 11 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.55%) Firewall
2 16 (6.75%) DNS
3 15 (6.33%) Network Security
3 15 (6.33%) VPN
4 10 (4.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.53%) WAN
6 4 (1.69%) Internet
6 4 (1.69%) LAN
7 3 (1.27%) Multicast
7 3 (1.27%) SSL
7 3 (1.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.84%) BGP
8 2 (0.84%) DMZ
8 2 (0.84%) HTTP
8 2 (0.84%) SSH
9 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.42%) OSPF
9 1 (0.42%) RTP
9 1 (0.42%) SAN
9 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.22%) MongoDB
1 10 (4.22%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.38%) Power BI
3 7 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.53%) Big Data
4 6 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.53%) Flink
5 5 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.11%) Looker
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.69%) KDB
6 4 (1.69%) Presto
6 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.27%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.27%) MySQL
8 2 (0.84%) Redis
8 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (16.88%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.81%) Git
3 24 (10.13%) JIRA
4 19 (8.02%) GitLab
5 11 (4.64%) Gatling
6 10 (4.22%) JMeter
7 7 (2.95%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.11%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.69%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.27%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.27%) Xcode
11 2 (0.84%) Gradle
11 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.84%) JUnit
11 2 (0.84%) Maven
11 2 (0.84%) Selenium
11 2 (0.84%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (30.80%) Finance
2 59 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 44 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.08%) Banking
5 11 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.22%) Front Office
7 7 (2.95%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.11%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Local Government
10 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (15.61%) Senior
2 28 (11.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (10.13%) Lead
4 21 (8.86%) Architect
5 20 (8.44%) Splunk Engineer
6 19 (8.02%) Analyst
7 14 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.91%) Developer
7 14 (5.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (5.06%) Applications Support
9 11 (4.64%) Security Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Security Architect
10 10 (4.22%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Consultant
11 9 (3.80%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Performance Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Performance Test Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.38%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (31.22%) Terraform
2 24 (10.13%) Kafka
3 22 (9.28%) REST
4 19 (8.02%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (5.91%) RESTful
6 13 (5.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.22%) .NET
8 9 (3.80%) JSON
8 9 (3.80%) SailPoint
8 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.95%) React
9 7 (2.95%) Spring
10 6 (2.53%) CSS
10 6 (2.53%) HTML
10 6 (2.53%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (2.11%) Apache Beam
11 5 (2.11%) Middleware
12 4 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (1.69%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (1.69%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.50%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.64%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.38%) CMDB
7 8 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.95%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.53%) PKI
10 5 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.11%) Equities
10 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 69 (29.11%) Linux
2 33 (13.92%) Windows
3 29 (12.24%) Unix
4 19 (8.02%) Windows Server
5 18 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.69%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.27%) VMS
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.84%) zOS
10 1 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.04%) CI/CD
2 100 (42.19%) Observability
3 80 (33.76%) DevOps
4 70 (29.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (28.27%) Agile
6 61 (25.74%) SIEM
7 53 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (21.94%) Incident Response
9 43 (18.14%) Cybersecurity
10 42 (17.72%) Security Operations
11 37 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (15.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 37 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (14.35%) Containerisation
12 34 (14.35%) Mentoring
13 33 (13.92%) Incident Management
14 32 (13.50%) Roadmaps
15 27 (11.39%) Cloud Security
15 27 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (11.39%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (35.44%) Python
2 38 (16.03%) Java
3 30 (12.66%) PowerShell
4 24 (10.13%) Bash
5 22 (9.28%) SQL
6 13 (5.49%) Go
6 13 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.49%) Search Processing Language
6 13 (5.49%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.22%) Scala
8 6 (2.53%) C#
8 6 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.11%) Bicep
9 5 (2.11%) Perl
10 4 (1.69%) Ruby
11 3 (1.27%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.27%) Swift
12 2 (0.84%) C++
12 2 (0.84%) Groovy
12 2 (0.84%) REXX
Qualifications
1 81 (34.18%) Security Cleared
2 68 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.39%) CISSP
4 16 (6.75%) CISM
5 13 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 13 (5.49%) Degree
6 12 (5.06%) GIAC
7 10 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.38%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.95%) CCSP
10 7 (2.95%) GCIA
10 7 (2.95%) GCIH
11 6 (2.53%) CEH
12 5 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.11%) GSEC
12 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.13%) NIST
2 17 (7.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.64%) QA
4 10 (4.22%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.95%) NCSC
5 7 (2.95%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.11%) ISO 20022
6 5 (2.11%) SLA
7 4 (1.69%) GDPR
7 4 (1.69%) ISO 15022
7 4 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.84%) COBIT
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.42%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.42%) GxP
10 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (19.41%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.42%) etcd
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (29.54%) Grafana
1 70 (29.54%) Kubernetes
2 55 (23.21%) Prometheus
3 29 (12.24%) Ansible
4 12 (5.06%) Kibana
5 8 (3.38%) Control-M
6 7 (2.95%) QRadar
7 5 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.27%) Nagios
8 3 (1.27%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.84%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.84%) SCOM
10 1 (0.42%) CASB
10 1 (0.42%) Consul
10 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 52 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 46 (19.41%) Dynatrace
3 29 (12.24%) CrowdStrike
4 27 (11.39%) ServiceNow
5 21 (8.86%) Oracle
6 19 (8.02%) New Relic
7 18 (7.59%) Google
8 17 (7.17%) AppDynamics
9 14 (5.91%) Qualys
9 14 (5.91%) Tenable
10 12 (5.06%) CyberArk
11 11 (4.64%) IBM
12 9 (3.80%) Okta
13 7 (2.95%) Rapid7
13 7 (2.95%) xMatters
13 7 (2.95%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.69%) Cisco
14 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.69%) Ivanti
14 4 (1.69%) Red Hat