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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 170 209
Rank change year-on-year -50 +39 -55
Contract jobs citing Splunk 254 218 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.63% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.92% 3.51% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 127 112
10th Percentile £350 £405 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £633 £775
90th Percentile £753 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £568
% change year-on-year - -7.49% -5.42%
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 £65.69 - £60.00

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 8,685 6,211 6,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.72% 46.45% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,653 4,040 4,419
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 114 78
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.26
Median hourly rate £36.50 £25.58 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.72% -25.33% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £38.44 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.16%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 23 £469 -5.30% 18
West London -21 6 £560 +34.94% 5
East London - 1 £550 - 1
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 19 (7.48%) Confluence
2 10 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.97%) Apache
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.79%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) MTS
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 124 (48.82%) Azure
2 111 (43.70%) AWS
3 58 (22.83%) GCP
4 47 (18.50%) GitHub
5 31 (12.20%) OpenShift
6 29 (11.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (8.66%) Datadog
9 20 (7.87%) Entra ID
10 18 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (6.30%) SaaS
13 11 (4.33%) Amazon S3
13 11 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.54%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.15%) PowerApps
15 8 (3.15%) Serverless
16 7 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.24%) Firewall
2 17 (6.69%) DNS
3 15 (5.91%) VPN
4 14 (5.51%) Network Security
5 13 (5.12%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.15%) WAN
7 6 (2.36%) LAN
8 5 (1.97%) SSL
9 4 (1.57%) Internet
10 3 (1.18%) HTTP
10 3 (1.18%) Multicast
10 3 (1.18%) SSH
10 3 (1.18%) VLAN
11 2 (0.79%) 4G
11 2 (0.79%) 5G
11 2 (0.79%) BGP
11 2 (0.79%) DMZ
11 2 (0.79%) SNMP
11 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.12%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.72%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.15%) Power BI
4 6 (2.36%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.97%) Big Data
5 5 (1.97%) Flink
5 5 (1.97%) Looker
6 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.57%) KDB
6 4 (1.57%) MySQL
6 4 (1.57%) Presto
6 4 (1.57%) Redis
6 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.18%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.18%) Tableau
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 44 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 31 (12.20%) Git
3 26 (10.24%) JIRA
4 20 (7.87%) GitLab
5 13 (5.12%) JMeter
6 12 (4.72%) Gatling
7 10 (3.94%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.36%) Selenium
9 5 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.97%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.57%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.57%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.57%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.18%) Xcode
12 2 (0.79%) Gradle
12 2 (0.79%) JUnit
12 2 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 69 (27.17%) Finance
1 69 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (12.60%) Banking
4 14 (5.51%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.94%) Front Office
6 9 (3.54%) Retail
7 5 (1.97%) Law
7 5 (1.97%) Military
8 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Local Government
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.39%) Billing
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (12.60%) DevOps Engineer
1 32 (12.60%) Senior
2 25 (9.84%) Lead
3 22 (8.66%) Analyst
3 22 (8.66%) Architect
4 20 (7.87%) Splunk Engineer
5 19 (7.48%) Security Engineer
6 14 (5.51%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) Applications Support
8 12 (4.72%) Developer
8 12 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Security Analyst
10 10 (3.94%) Performance Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Performance Test Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Security Architect
10 10 (3.94%) SOC Engineer
11 9 (3.54%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.89%) Terraform
2 27 (10.63%) Kafka
2 27 (10.63%) REST
3 20 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (6.69%) RESTful
5 13 (5.12%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.33%) JSON
7 10 (3.94%) .NET
8 9 (3.54%) Middleware
8 9 (3.54%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.76%) CSS
9 7 (2.76%) HTML
9 7 (2.76%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (2.76%) Spring
10 6 (2.36%) React
10 6 (2.36%) SailPoint
11 5 (1.97%) Flask
11 5 (1.97%) LDAP
11 5 (1.97%) OAuth
11 5 (1.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.78%) Onboarding
2 34 (13.39%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.33%) CMDB
6 11 (4.33%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (3.94%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.94%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.94%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (3.15%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.97%) Equities
11 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (30.31%) Linux
2 38 (14.96%) Windows
3 35 (13.78%) Unix
4 22 (8.66%) Windows Server
5 20 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.57%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.57%) VMS
8 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.79%) zOS
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (44.49%) CI/CD
1 113 (44.49%) Observability
2 92 (36.22%) DevOps
3 77 (30.31%) Agile
4 76 (29.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (27.95%) SIEM
6 67 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (22.44%) Incident Response
8 48 (18.90%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (17.32%) Security Operations
11 42 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (16.14%) Containerisation
13 37 (14.57%) Mentoring
13 37 (14.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (12.99%) Roadmaps
15 32 (12.60%) Incident Management
16 31 (12.20%) AI
17 30 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
18 28 (11.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 85 (33.46%) Python
2 43 (16.93%) Java
3 32 (12.60%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.63%) Bash
4 27 (10.63%) SQL
5 17 (6.69%) Shell Script
6 16 (6.30%) Go
7 12 (4.72%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.33%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (3.54%) Scala
10 8 (3.15%) C#
11 5 (1.97%) Bicep
11 5 (1.97%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) Groovy
12 4 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.57%) Ruby
12 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.18%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.18%) Swift
14 2 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 89 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 78 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.84%) CISSP
4 13 (5.12%) CISM
4 13 (5.12%) Degree
5 11 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (3.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 10 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.94%) GIAC
7 9 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.15%) CCSP
8 8 (3.15%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.76%) GCIA
9 7 (2.76%) GCIH
10 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.97%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (1.97%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.09%) NIST
1 18 (7.09%) QA
2 14 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.36%) ISO 20022
4 6 (2.36%) NCSC
5 5 (1.97%) GDPR
5 5 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.57%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.39%) GxP
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (20.08%) Docker
2 11 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (31.89%) Grafana
2 78 (30.71%) Kubernetes
3 54 (21.26%) Prometheus
4 34 (13.39%) Ansible
5 12 (4.72%) Kibana
6 9 (3.54%) QRadar
7 8 (3.15%) Control-M
8 5 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.18%) Nagios
9 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.79%) SCOM
10 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) CASB
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.39%) Puppet
11 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 60 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 57 (22.44%) Dynatrace
3 33 (12.99%) CrowdStrike
4 29 (11.42%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.66%) Google
5 22 (8.66%) New Relic
6 20 (7.87%) Oracle
7 18 (7.09%) AppDynamics
8 13 (5.12%) Qualys
9 12 (4.72%) IBM
10 10 (3.94%) Tenable
11 9 (3.54%) CyberArk
11 9 (3.54%) Okta
12 8 (3.15%) Rapid7
13 7 (2.76%) xMatters
14 6 (2.36%) Zscaler
15 5 (1.97%) VMware
16 4 (1.57%) ION Trading
16 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
16 4 (1.57%) SAP