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 23 December 2025, 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
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 173 207
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 -14
Contract jobs citing Splunk 237 221 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.48% 1.21%
As % of the Vendors category 3.49% 3.35% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 129 160
10th Percentile £412 £418 £430
25th Percentile £475 £488 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £775 £781
90th Percentile £756 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £600 £592
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.44% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £88.75 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +56.39% - -

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 6,793 6,591 7,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.15% 44.15% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,423 4,113 5,199
10th Percentile £340 £313 £300
25th Percentile £424 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £761
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 69 105
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.66 £16.91
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -8.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £66.00 £83.10 £86.40
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.52 £45.94
% change year-on-year -23.00% -33.57% +74.25%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -6 26 £526 -5.74% 7
South London +8 18 £425 -39.29% 2
West London -12 5 £375 -14.29% 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 8 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.53%) Mattermost
2 6 (2.53%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.11%) Apache
3 5 (2.11%) Confluence
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.84%) SAS
6 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) BASE24
2 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.42%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.42%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 83 (35.02%) AWS
2 74 (31.22%) Azure
3 45 (18.99%) GCP
4 40 (16.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 27 (11.39%) GitHub
6 12 (5.06%) Datadog
7 10 (4.22%) OpenShift
8 9 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.38%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.38%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.95%) Apigee
10 7 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.53%) Cloudflare
11 6 (2.53%) Route 53
11 6 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.08%) Firewall
2 20 (8.44%) DNS
3 17 (7.17%) Network Security
4 13 (5.49%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.06%) SSL
6 8 (3.38%) HTTP
6 8 (3.38%) VPN
7 7 (2.95%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.53%) Skype
8 6 (2.53%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.11%) BGP
9 5 (2.11%) Wireless
10 4 (1.69%) OSPF
11 2 (0.84%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.84%) SNMP
11 2 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.84%) SSH
11 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.42%) InfiniBand
12 1 (0.42%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.22%) Redis
3 6 (2.53%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.11%) MySQL
5 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.84%) Flink
7 2 (0.84%) Power BI
7 2 (0.84%) Tableau
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) DB2
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 32 (13.50%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.86%) Git
3 20 (8.44%) GitLab
4 13 (5.49%) Postman
5 12 (5.06%) JIRA
6 10 (4.22%) Subversion
7 9 (3.80%) JUnit
8 7 (2.95%) Maven
8 7 (2.95%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.53%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.11%) Appium
10 5 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.11%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (2.11%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.11%) Katalon Studio
10 5 (2.11%) Selenium
10 5 (2.11%) Xcode
10 5 (2.11%) XCTest
10 5 (2.11%) XCUITest
General
1 83 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 69 (29.11%) Finance
3 32 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.81%) Banking
5 14 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.49%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.11%) Military
8 5 (2.11%) Retail
9 4 (1.69%) Local Government
10 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (28.69%) Analyst
2 37 (15.61%) Senior
3 32 (13.50%) SOC Analyst
4 26 (10.97%) Monitoring Analyst
4 26 (10.97%) Security Analyst
5 24 (10.13%) Security Engineer
6 20 (8.44%) Architect
7 19 (8.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (5.91%) Operations Analyst
8 14 (5.91%) Site Engineer
8 14 (5.91%) Support Analyst
9 13 (5.49%) Security Architect
10 12 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Developer
10 12 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Lead
11 10 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Threat Hunter
13 8 (3.38%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.70%) REST
2 22 (9.28%) Kafka
3 13 (5.49%) Web Services
4 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.38%) Spring
5 8 (3.38%) Swagger
6 7 (2.95%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.53%) Node.js
7 6 (2.53%) SAML
7 6 (2.53%) SOAP
7 6 (2.53%) YAML
8 5 (2.11%) CSS
8 5 (2.11%) CSS3
8 5 (2.11%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.11%) HTML
8 5 (2.11%) J2EE
8 5 (2.11%) JPA
8 5 (2.11%) Middleware
8 5 (2.11%) OpenID
8 5 (2.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.59%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.17%) Cyber Defence
3 16 (6.75%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.22%) Clustering
5 8 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.38%) PKI
5 8 (3.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.95%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.69%) Replication
10 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.88%) Linux
2 16 (6.75%) Unix
3 15 (6.33%) Windows
4 10 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.53%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.11%) Android
7 4 (1.69%) Solaris
7 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.69%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.27%) CentOS
8 3 (1.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.27%) zOS
9 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.85%) Incident Response
2 65 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (27.43%) SIEM
3 63 (26.58%) DevOps
4 60 (25.32%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (24.47%) CI/CD
6 48 (20.25%) Agile
7 38 (16.03%) Threat Detection
8 37 (15.61%) Observability
9 35 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (13.92%) Containerisation
10 33 (13.92%) Security Operations
11 30 (12.66%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 25 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (9.70%) High Availability
13 23 (9.70%) ITIL
13 23 (9.70%) Mentoring
14 21 (8.86%) Cloud Security
14 21 (8.86%) SOAR
15 20 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.74%) Python
2 43 (18.14%) SQL
3 37 (15.61%) Bash
4 30 (12.66%) PowerShell
5 23 (9.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 20 (8.44%) Java
7 16 (6.75%) Go
8 11 (4.64%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.22%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.80%) PromQL
11 7 (2.95%) Perl
12 5 (2.11%) Groovy
12 5 (2.11%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.11%) Swift
13 4 (1.69%) JCL
14 3 (1.27%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.27%) REXX
15 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.42%) R
16 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) CISSP
4 19 (8.02%) Degree
5 16 (6.75%) CISM
6 10 (4.22%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (3.80%) CEH
7 9 (3.80%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.95%) GIAC
9 7 (2.95%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.53%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.53%) CISA
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.27%) GCIA
12 3 (1.27%) GCIH
13 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.49%) GDPR
1 13 (5.49%) NIST
2 11 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.80%) QA
4 6 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.11%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.84%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (0.84%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (16.46%) Docker
2 22 (9.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.53%) Snort
3 6 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.11%) Squid
5 4 (1.69%) NFS
5 4 (1.69%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 36 (15.19%) Terraform
3 33 (13.92%) Grafana
4 31 (13.08%) Ansible
5 26 (10.97%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.59%) SCOM
7 14 (5.91%) HP SiteScope
8 12 (5.06%) QRadar
9 9 (3.80%) Argo
10 7 (2.95%) Nessus
11 5 (2.11%) CSIRT
11 5 (2.11%) Nexpose
11 5 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.11%) Suricata
12 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.27%) Control-M
13 3 (1.27%) Fluentd
13 3 (1.27%) Nagios
13 3 (1.27%) Puppet
14 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.19%) Qualys
3 35 (14.77%) CrowdStrike
4 24 (10.13%) Carbon Black
5 21 (8.86%) Google
6 16 (6.75%) Dynatrace
7 15 (6.33%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.91%) Palo Alto
8 14 (5.91%) ServiceNow
9 13 (5.49%) Cisco
9 13 (5.49%) Oracle
9 13 (5.49%) Remedy
10 11 (4.64%) Tenable
10 11 (4.64%) Zscaler
11 10 (4.22%) Red Hat
12 9 (3.80%) Darktrace
13 8 (3.38%) VMware
14 6 (2.53%) BMC
15 5 (2.11%) Blue Coat
15 5 (2.11%) Fortinet