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 14 June 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
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 185 242
Rank change year-on-year -48 +57 -89
Contract jobs citing Splunk 202 169 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.37% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 2.59% 3.03% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 103 93
10th Percentile £400 £382 £384
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £635
90th Percentile £900 £775 £690
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.45 - £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 7,810 5,578 7,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.41% 45.32% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,138 3,608 4,987
10th Percentile £350 £325 £311
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.09% -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £767 £775
England median daily rate £505 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 103 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -8.46%
75th Percentile £51.88 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.13 £24.18
% change year-on-year +25.31% +12.18% -37.19%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -21 23 £575 +9.52% 11
West London -16 6 £560 +6.67% 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 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.47%) Confluence
3 4 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.49%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
6 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.49%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 78 (38.61%) AWS
2 70 (34.65%) Azure
3 30 (14.85%) GCP
4 27 (13.37%) OpenShift
5 26 (12.87%) GitHub
6 20 (9.90%) Entra ID
7 19 (9.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 16 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.43%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.43%) Datadog
10 13 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.44%) SaaS
11 9 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.46%) Serverless
12 8 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.47%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.41%) Firewall
2 17 (8.42%) VPN
3 16 (7.92%) Network Security
4 12 (5.94%) DNS
5 7 (3.47%) Wireless
6 6 (2.97%) Ethernet
6 6 (2.97%) InfiniBand
6 6 (2.97%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.48%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.48%) MPLS
8 4 (1.98%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.49%) BGP
9 3 (1.49%) Internet
9 3 (1.49%) Multicast
10 2 (0.99%) DMZ
10 2 (0.99%) NGFW
10 2 (0.99%) OSPF
10 2 (0.99%) SSH
10 2 (0.99%) WAN
11 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.95%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.97%) Power BI
4 5 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.48%) Big Data
4 5 (2.48%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.98%) Presto
5 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.49%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.99%) KDB
8 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.50%) Flink
8 1 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (16.34%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.92%) GitLab
3 15 (7.43%) Git
4 8 (3.96%) JIRA
5 6 (2.97%) Gatling
6 5 (2.48%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.48%) JMeter
6 5 (2.48%) Snyk
7 3 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.49%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.99%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.99%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (29.70%) Finance
2 52 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.89%) Banking
4 21 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.41%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.94%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.95%) Front Office
9 8 (3.96%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.47%) Retail
11 5 (2.48%) Law
12 3 (1.49%) Legal
12 3 (1.49%) Local Government
13 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.50%) Advertising
14 1 (0.50%) Automotive
14 1 (0.50%) Back Office
14 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (19.80%) Architect
2 31 (15.35%) Senior
3 19 (9.41%) CyberArk Architect
4 18 (8.91%) Analyst
5 15 (7.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (6.93%) Lead
6 14 (6.93%) Security Architect
7 12 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Site Engineer
9 8 (3.96%) Applications Support
9 8 (3.96%) Consultant
9 8 (3.96%) Developer
9 8 (3.96%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 6 (2.97%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.41%) Kafka
2 15 (7.43%) LDAP
2 15 (7.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 15 (7.43%) REST
3 13 (6.44%) OpenID
3 13 (6.44%) SAML
4 11 (5.45%) SailPoint
4 11 (5.45%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.46%) Spring
6 8 (3.96%) RESTful
7 7 (3.47%) .NET
8 6 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.48%) JSON
9 5 (2.48%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (2.48%) React
10 4 (1.98%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (1.98%) CSS
10 4 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.98%) HTML
10 4 (1.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.32%) Onboarding
2 34 (16.83%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.94%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.46%) CMDB
4 9 (4.46%) PKI
5 8 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.47%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.48%) Equities
9 4 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.98%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.99%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 51 (25.25%) Linux
2 22 (10.89%) Windows
3 21 (10.40%) Unix
4 12 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.46%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.48%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.98%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.99%) zOS
9 1 (0.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.59%) CI/CD
2 68 (33.66%) Observability
3 67 (33.17%) SIEM
4 58 (28.71%) DevOps
5 57 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (26.73%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (25.25%) Incident Response
8 38 (18.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 35 (17.33%) Security Operations
10 33 (16.34%) Cloud Security
10 33 (16.34%) Vulnerability Management
11 32 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (14.85%) Containerisation
13 29 (14.36%) Agile
14 27 (13.37%) Secrets Management
15 26 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (11.88%) Incident Management
16 24 (11.88%) ITIL
17 23 (11.39%) AI
17 23 (11.39%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.19%) Python
2 27 (13.37%) Java
3 20 (9.90%) SQL
4 19 (9.41%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.92%) Bash
6 11 (5.45%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.95%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.97%) Go
9 5 (2.48%) C#
9 5 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.48%) Scala
9 5 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.98%) Bicep
11 3 (1.49%) Ruby
12 2 (0.99%) C++
12 2 (0.99%) JCL
12 2 (0.99%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.99%) REXX
12 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.36%) CISSP
4 20 (9.90%) CISM
5 12 (5.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (5.94%) GIAC
6 11 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.45%) Degree
7 9 (4.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (4.46%) CCSP
8 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.47%) GCIA
8 7 (3.47%) GCIH
9 6 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.97%) CEH
10 5 (2.48%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.48%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.48%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.48%) GSEC
11 3 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.82%) NIST
2 27 (13.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.92%) NCSC
4 7 (3.47%) QA
5 6 (2.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.98%) GDPR
6 4 (1.98%) SLA
6 4 (1.98%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.49%) COBIT
8 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.99%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.50%) GxP
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (14.85%) Docker
2 11 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.98%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) etcd
5 1 (0.50%) Varnish
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (28.71%) Grafana
1 58 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.74%) Terraform
3 45 (22.28%) Prometheus
4 34 (16.83%) Ansible
5 9 (4.46%) Kibana
6 5 (2.48%) Salt
7 4 (1.98%) QRadar
8 3 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.99%) Argo
9 2 (0.99%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.50%) CASB
10 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.50%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.50%) Nessus
10 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.85%) ServiceNow
3 29 (14.36%) Dynatrace
4 26 (12.87%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (12.87%) CyberArk
5 17 (8.42%) Tenable
6 16 (7.92%) Qualys
7 14 (6.93%) AppDynamics
8 13 (6.44%) Google
9 11 (5.45%) Cisco
10 10 (4.95%) Okta
10 10 (4.95%) Oracle
10 10 (4.95%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.47%) Arista
11 7 (3.47%) New Relic
11 7 (3.47%) Rapid7
12 6 (2.97%) Aruba
12 6 (2.97%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.97%) F5
12 6 (2.97%) IBM