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 6 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 201 241
Rank change year-on-year -28 +40 -91
Contract jobs citing Splunk 226 181 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.33% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 2.90% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 108 89
10th Percentile £398 £361 £375
25th Percentile £450 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £666 £635
90th Percentile £720 £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 £65.57 - £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 8,479 6,249 6,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.06% 45.97% 42.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,518 4,067 4,747
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% -4.80%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 120 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.34 £22.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £57.86 £41.50 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%

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 6 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 6 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 -12 23 £575 +16.16% 15
West London -12 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 (7.96%) Confluence
2 13 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.77%) 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 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 89 (39.38%) Azure
2 84 (37.17%) AWS
3 42 (18.58%) GCP
3 42 (18.58%) GitHub
4 25 (11.06%) OpenShift
5 21 (9.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 21 (9.29%) Entra ID
5 21 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (8.85%) Datadog
7 18 (7.96%) SaaS
8 14 (6.19%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.42%) Serverless
11 9 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.98%) dbt
11 9 (3.98%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.95%) Firewall
2 19 (8.41%) VPN
3 17 (7.52%) Network Security
4 15 (6.64%) DNS
5 9 (3.98%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.10%) WAN
7 5 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.77%) BGP
8 4 (1.77%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.77%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.77%) Internet
8 4 (1.77%) LAN
8 4 (1.77%) MPLS
8 4 (1.77%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.77%) SSL
8 4 (1.77%) Wireless
9 3 (1.33%) DMZ
9 3 (1.33%) Multicast
10 2 (0.88%) SSH
10 2 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.54%) MongoDB
1 8 (3.54%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.54%) Power BI
2 6 (2.65%) Flink
3 5 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.21%) Big Data
3 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.21%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.21%) Looker
3 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.77%) Presto
4 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.33%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.33%) 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 28 (12.39%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.18%) Git
3 19 (8.41%) JIRA
4 14 (6.19%) GitLab
5 8 (3.54%) Gatling
5 8 (3.54%) JMeter
6 5 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.77%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.77%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.77%) Snyk
7 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.33%) 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 70 (30.97%) Finance
2 52 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.39%) Banking
5 10 (4.42%) Front Office
6 9 (3.98%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.98%) Retail
7 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.21%) Law
9 3 (1.33%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Automotive
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (15.93%) Senior
2 25 (11.06%) Architect
3 24 (10.62%) Lead
4 20 (8.85%) Splunk Engineer
5 19 (8.41%) Analyst
6 18 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.31%) Developer
7 12 (5.31%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.87%) Consultant
8 11 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.42%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.54%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) CyberArk Architect
12 7 (3.10%) Performance Engineer
12 7 (3.10%) Performance Test Engineer
12 7 (3.10%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.65%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.50%) REST
2 15 (6.64%) Kafka
3 13 (5.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (5.75%) Spring Boot
4 11 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.87%) RESTful
4 11 (4.87%) Spring
5 10 (4.42%) SailPoint
6 9 (3.98%) .NET
7 6 (2.65%) JSON
7 6 (2.65%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (2.21%) Apache Beam
8 5 (2.21%) React
9 4 (1.77%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (1.77%) CSS
9 4 (1.77%) HTML
9 4 (1.77%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.77%) Loki
9 4 (1.77%) Play Framework
10 3 (1.33%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.83%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.85%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.98%) CMDB
5 9 (3.98%) PKI
5 9 (3.98%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.10%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.65%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.21%) Equities
9 5 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.21%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (27.43%) Linux
2 31 (13.72%) Windows
3 28 (12.39%) Unix
4 18 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (7.08%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.77%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (40.71%) Observability
2 90 (39.82%) CI/CD
3 65 (28.76%) DevOps
4 64 (28.32%) SIEM
5 60 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (23.89%) Agile
7 47 (20.80%) Incident Response
8 45 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (17.26%) Security Operations
11 36 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 33 (14.60%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (14.16%) Mentoring
14 30 (13.27%) Cloud Security
15 29 (12.83%) AI
16 28 (12.39%) Containerisation
16 28 (12.39%) Incident Management
16 28 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (11.95%) Roadmaps
17 27 (11.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 73 (32.30%) Python
2 41 (18.14%) Java
3 26 (11.50%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.73%) SQL
5 15 (6.64%) Bash
6 11 (4.87%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.42%) Go
7 10 (4.42%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.42%) Scala
7 10 (4.42%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.65%) C#
9 5 (2.21%) Bicep
9 5 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.21%) Perl
9 5 (2.21%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.33%) Ruby
10 3 (1.33%) Swift
11 2 (0.88%) Groovy
11 2 (0.88%) JCL
Qualifications
1 64 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.39%) CISSP
4 18 (7.96%) CISM
5 13 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.31%) Degree
7 10 (4.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.98%) CCSP
8 9 (3.98%) GIAC
9 7 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.10%) GCIA
9 7 (3.10%) GCIH
10 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.21%) CEH
11 5 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (2.21%) GSEC
12 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.18%) NIST
2 15 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.87%) QA
4 10 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.65%) NCSC
7 5 (2.21%) SLA
8 4 (1.77%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.33%) GDPR
9 3 (1.33%) ISO 15022
9 3 (1.33%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (15.49%) Docker
2 11 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (29.20%) Terraform
2 65 (28.76%) Grafana
3 56 (24.78%) Kubernetes
4 50 (22.12%) Prometheus
5 29 (12.83%) Ansible
6 10 (4.42%) Kibana
7 7 (3.10%) Control-M
7 7 (3.10%) QRadar
8 4 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.33%) Salt
10 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.44%) CASB
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%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 45 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.81%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.72%) ServiceNow
4 27 (11.95%) CrowdStrike
5 21 (9.29%) Google
6 18 (7.96%) Qualys
7 17 (7.52%) Tenable
8 16 (7.08%) AppDynamics
8 16 (7.08%) New Relic
9 15 (6.64%) Oracle
10 13 (5.75%) CyberArk
11 9 (3.98%) Cisco
11 9 (3.98%) Okta
11 9 (3.98%) Zscaler
12 8 (3.54%) IBM
12 8 (3.54%) Palo Alto
13 7 (3.10%) Rapid7
13 7 (3.10%) xMatters
14 6 (2.65%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.65%) Fortinet