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 1 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
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 198 249
Rank change year-on-year -25 +51 -99
Contract jobs citing Splunk 227 179 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.31% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 2.69% 2.86% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 109 89
10th Percentile £399 £362 £375
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £635
90th Percentile £732 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
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 - £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 8,453 6,253 6,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.94% 45.86% 42.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 4,084 4,796
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 121 88
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.68
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -13.95%
75th Percentile £57.86 £43.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £35.52 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.21% -10.18% -29.20%

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 1 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 1 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 -11 23 £575 +16.16% 13
West London -13 6 £560 +34.94% 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 18 (7.93%) Confluence
2 13 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.64%) Apache
4 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.76%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) MTS
6 1 (0.44%) Mule
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 90 (39.65%) Azure
2 86 (37.89%) AWS
3 43 (18.94%) GCP
3 43 (18.94%) GitHub
4 27 (11.89%) OpenShift
5 22 (9.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (9.69%) Entra ID
6 21 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (8.81%) Datadog
8 17 (7.49%) SaaS
9 14 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.41%) Serverless
13 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.96%) dbt
13 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.89%) Firewall
2 19 (8.37%) VPN
3 17 (7.49%) Network Security
4 16 (7.05%) DNS
5 9 (3.96%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.08%) WAN
7 5 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.76%) BGP
8 4 (1.76%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.76%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.76%) Internet
8 4 (1.76%) LAN
8 4 (1.76%) MPLS
8 4 (1.76%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.76%) Wireless
9 3 (1.32%) DMZ
9 3 (1.32%) Multicast
9 3 (1.32%) SSL
10 2 (0.88%) OSPF
10 2 (0.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
1 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.52%) Power BI
2 6 (2.64%) Flink
3 5 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.20%) Big Data
3 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.20%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.20%) Looker
3 5 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.76%) Presto
4 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.32%) KDB
6 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.88%) MySQL
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.13%) Git
3 19 (8.37%) JIRA
4 14 (6.17%) GitLab
5 8 (3.52%) Gatling
5 8 (3.52%) JMeter
6 5 (2.20%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.76%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.76%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.76%) Snyk
7 4 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.32%) Xcode
9 2 (0.88%) Gradle
9 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.88%) JUnit
9 2 (0.88%) Maven
9 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
General
1 71 (31.28%) Finance
2 56 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.33%) Banking
5 11 (4.85%) Front Office
6 10 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.96%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.96%) Retail
8 7 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.20%) Law
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Local Government
11 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (15.86%) Senior
2 26 (11.45%) Architect
3 23 (10.13%) Lead
4 20 (8.81%) Splunk Engineer
5 19 (8.37%) Analyst
6 18 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.29%) Developer
7 12 (5.29%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.85%) Consultant
8 11 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.96%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (3.08%) CyberArk Architect
12 7 (3.08%) Performance Engineer
12 7 (3.08%) Performance Test Engineer
12 7 (3.08%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.89%) REST
2 17 (7.49%) Kafka
3 15 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (5.73%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.85%) RESTful
5 11 (4.85%) SailPoint
5 11 (4.85%) Spring
6 9 (3.96%) .NET
7 7 (3.08%) JSON
8 6 (2.64%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (2.20%) Apache Beam
9 5 (2.20%) React
10 4 (1.76%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (1.76%) CSS
10 4 (1.76%) HTML
10 4 (1.76%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (1.76%) Loki
10 4 (1.76%) Middleware
10 4 (1.76%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.33%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.96%) CMDB
5 9 (3.96%) PKI
5 9 (3.96%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.64%) Equities
9 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.43%) Linux
2 29 (12.78%) Windows
3 27 (11.89%) Unix
4 17 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (6.61%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (40.97%) Observability
2 91 (40.09%) CI/CD
3 66 (29.07%) DevOps
4 64 (28.19%) SIEM
5 60 (26.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (23.79%) Agile
7 47 (20.70%) Incident Response
7 47 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.50%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (17.18%) Security Operations
10 37 (16.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 33 (14.54%) Vulnerability Management
12 32 (14.10%) Mentoring
13 31 (13.66%) Cloud Security
14 30 (13.22%) Containerisation
15 29 (12.78%) AI
16 28 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (11.89%) Incident Management
18 26 (11.45%) ITIL
18 26 (11.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (32.60%) Python
2 42 (18.50%) Java
3 24 (10.57%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.13%) SQL
5 16 (7.05%) Bash
6 11 (4.85%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.41%) Go
7 10 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.41%) Scala
7 10 (4.41%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.64%) C#
9 5 (2.20%) Bicep
9 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.76%) Perl
11 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.32%) Ruby
11 3 (1.32%) Swift
12 2 (0.88%) C++
12 2 (0.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 66 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.33%) CISSP
4 18 (7.93%) CISM
5 13 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (4.85%) Degree
8 10 (4.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (3.96%) CCSP
9 9 (3.96%) GIAC
10 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.08%) GCIA
10 7 (3.08%) GCIH
11 6 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.20%) CEH
12 5 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.20%) GSEC
13 4 (1.76%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.13%) NIST
2 15 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.85%) QA
4 9 (3.96%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.08%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.64%) NCSC
7 5 (2.20%) SLA
8 4 (1.76%) GDPR
8 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.32%) ISO 15022
9 3 (1.32%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.88%) COBIT
10 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.44%) GRC
11 1 (0.44%) GxP
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (15.42%) Docker
2 11 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) etcd
6 1 (0.44%) Varnish
6 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (29.52%) Grafana
1 67 (29.52%) Terraform
2 58 (25.55%) Kubernetes
3 51 (22.47%) Prometheus
4 30 (13.22%) Ansible
5 10 (4.41%) Kibana
6 8 (3.52%) QRadar
7 7 (3.08%) Control-M
8 4 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.32%) Salt
10 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.44%) Argo
11 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.44%) Puppet
11 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.74%) Dynatrace
3 32 (14.10%) ServiceNow
4 28 (12.33%) CrowdStrike
5 21 (9.25%) Google
6 18 (7.93%) Qualys
6 18 (7.93%) Tenable
7 17 (7.49%) AppDynamics
8 16 (7.05%) New Relic
9 15 (6.61%) Oracle
10 14 (6.17%) CyberArk
11 10 (4.41%) Okta
12 9 (3.96%) Cisco
12 9 (3.96%) Zscaler
13 8 (3.52%) IBM
13 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.52%) Rapid7
14 7 (3.08%) xMatters
15 6 (2.64%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.64%) Fortinet