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 24 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 162 213
Rank change year-on-year -56 +51 -60
Contract jobs citing Splunk 255 219 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.62% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.93% 3.49% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 130 103
10th Percentile £350 £399 £414
25th Percentile £450 £458 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £775
90th Percentile £763 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £573
% change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
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 8,698 6,271 7,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 46.52% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,062 4,496
10th Percentile £334 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year - -2.19% -2.41%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 121 77
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.30 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.59% -19.08% -8.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.75 £85.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.33% -28.14% -20.18%

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 24 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 24 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 -3.35% 22
West London -19 6 £560 +34.94% 6
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 (7.45%) Confluence
2 10 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.96%) Apache
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.39%) Mule
6 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 (0.78%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 123 (48.24%) Azure
2 110 (43.14%) AWS
3 55 (21.57%) GCP
4 47 (18.43%) GitHub
5 32 (12.55%) OpenShift
6 28 (10.98%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (9.02%) Datadog
7 23 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (8.24%) Entra ID
9 18 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.67%) SaaS
11 11 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.53%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.14%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.14%) Serverless
15 7 (2.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.59%) Firewall
2 17 (6.67%) DNS
3 15 (5.88%) Network Security
3 15 (5.88%) VPN
4 13 (5.10%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.14%) WAN
6 6 (2.35%) LAN
7 5 (1.96%) SSL
8 4 (1.57%) Internet
9 3 (1.18%) HTTP
9 3 (1.18%) Multicast
9 3 (1.18%) SSH
9 3 (1.18%) VLAN
10 2 (0.78%) 4G
10 2 (0.78%) 5G
10 2 (0.78%) BGP
10 2 (0.78%) DMZ
10 2 (0.78%) SNMP
10 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.71%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.14%) Power BI
4 6 (2.35%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.96%) Big Data
5 5 (1.96%) Flink
5 5 (1.96%) 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%) 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%) Redis
7 3 (1.18%) Tableau
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 43 (16.86%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.76%) Git
3 25 (9.80%) JIRA
4 20 (7.84%) GitLab
5 13 (5.10%) JMeter
6 12 (4.71%) Gatling
7 9 (3.53%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.35%) Selenium
9 5 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.96%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.96%) 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 (0.78%) Gradle
12 2 (0.78%) JUnit
12 2 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 71 (27.84%) Finance
2 68 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.78%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.94%) Banking
5 13 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.92%) Front Office
7 8 (3.14%) Retail
8 5 (1.96%) Law
8 5 (1.96%) Military
9 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Local Government
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
1 32 (12.55%) Senior
2 26 (10.20%) Lead
3 22 (8.63%) Analyst
3 22 (8.63%) Architect
4 20 (7.84%) Splunk Engineer
5 17 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 14 (5.49%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.71%) Applications Support
8 12 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) Developer
9 11 (4.31%) Security Analyst
10 10 (3.92%) Performance Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) Performance Test Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Consultant
11 9 (3.53%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.76%) Terraform
2 27 (10.59%) Kafka
3 26 (10.20%) REST
4 20 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (6.27%) RESTful
6 14 (5.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.31%) JSON
8 10 (3.92%) .NET
9 9 (3.53%) Middleware
9 9 (3.53%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.75%) SailPoint
10 7 (2.75%) Spring
11 6 (2.35%) CSS
11 6 (2.35%) HTML
11 6 (2.35%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.96%) Apache Beam
12 5 (1.96%) LDAP
12 5 (1.96%) OAuth
12 5 (1.96%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.73%) Onboarding
2 34 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.31%) CMDB
6 11 (4.31%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (3.53%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.53%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.35%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.96%) Equities
10 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (29.41%) Linux
2 37 (14.51%) Windows
3 34 (13.33%) Unix
4 21 (8.24%) Windows Server
5 20 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.96%) 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 (0.78%) zOS
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (44.71%) Observability
2 113 (44.31%) CI/CD
3 92 (36.08%) DevOps
4 76 (29.80%) Agile
4 76 (29.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (27.84%) SIEM
6 66 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (22.75%) Incident Response
8 49 (19.22%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (17.25%) Security Operations
11 42 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (16.08%) Containerisation
13 37 (14.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 36 (14.12%) Mentoring
15 33 (12.94%) Incident Management
15 33 (12.94%) Roadmaps
16 30 (11.76%) AI
16 30 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (10.98%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.16%) Python
2 43 (16.86%) Java
3 32 (12.55%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.59%) SQL
5 26 (10.20%) Bash
6 16 (6.27%) Go
6 16 (6.27%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.71%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (4.31%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.53%) Scala
10 8 (3.14%) C#
11 5 (1.96%) Bicep
11 5 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.96%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) Groovy
12 4 (1.57%) Ruby
12 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.18%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.18%) Swift
14 2 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 89 (34.90%) Security Cleared
2 77 (30.20%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.20%) CISSP
4 13 (5.10%) CISM
5 12 (4.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (4.71%) Degree
5 12 (4.71%) GIAC
6 10 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.75%) CCSP
8 7 (2.75%) GCIA
8 7 (2.75%) GCIH
9 6 (2.35%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.96%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.96%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.06%) NIST
2 16 (6.27%) QA
3 13 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.35%) ISO 20022
5 6 (2.35%) NCSC
6 4 (1.57%) GDPR
6 4 (1.57%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.39%) GxP
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) SEPA
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (19.61%) Docker
2 11 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (31.37%) Grafana
2 78 (30.59%) Kubernetes
3 55 (21.57%) Prometheus
4 34 (13.33%) Ansible
5 12 (4.71%) Kibana
6 8 (3.14%) Control-M
7 7 (2.75%) QRadar
8 5 (1.96%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.18%) Nagios
9 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.78%) SCOM
10 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.39%) Puppet
11 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 57 (22.35%) Dynatrace
3 32 (12.55%) CrowdStrike
4 30 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.63%) New Relic
6 20 (7.84%) Google
6 20 (7.84%) Oracle
7 18 (7.06%) AppDynamics
8 12 (4.71%) IBM
8 12 (4.71%) Qualys
9 11 (4.31%) Tenable
10 10 (3.92%) CyberArk
11 9 (3.53%) Okta
12 7 (2.75%) Rapid7
12 7 (2.75%) xMatters
13 6 (2.35%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.96%) VMware
15 4 (1.57%) ION Trading
15 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.57%) SAP