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 12 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 189 244
Rank change year-on-year -48 +55 -99
Contract jobs citing Splunk 221 188 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.38% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 2.60% 3.01% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 113 86
10th Percentile £395 £367 £378
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £613 £656 £635
90th Percentile £727 £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

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 8,510 6,236 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.23% 45.87% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,056 4,733
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% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 122 87
10th Percentile £18.68 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.93 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -4.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.60 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%

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 12 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 12 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 -21 22 £580 +17.17% 14
West London -14 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 (8.14%) Confluence
2 13 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.71%) Apache
4 4 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.81%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) MTS
6 1 (0.45%) Mule
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.45%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 93 (42.08%) Azure
2 88 (39.82%) AWS
3 44 (19.91%) GitHub
4 41 (18.55%) GCP
5 26 (11.76%) OpenShift
6 24 (10.86%) Entra ID
7 23 (10.41%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (9.05%) Datadog
10 18 (8.14%) SaaS
11 14 (6.33%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.52%) Serverless
14 9 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.07%) dbt
14 9 (4.07%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.76%) Firewall
2 16 (7.24%) Network Security
3 15 (6.79%) VPN
4 14 (6.33%) DNS
5 8 (3.62%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.71%) WAN
7 4 (1.81%) Internet
7 4 (1.81%) LAN
8 3 (1.36%) BGP
8 3 (1.36%) DMZ
8 3 (1.36%) Multicast
8 3 (1.36%) SSL
9 2 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.90%) SNMP
9 2 (0.90%) SSH
9 2 (0.90%) VLAN
10 1 (0.45%) IPFIX
10 1 (0.45%) NGFW
10 1 (0.45%) VSAN
10 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.62%) MongoDB
1 8 (3.62%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.62%) Power BI
2 6 (2.71%) Big Data
2 6 (2.71%) Flink
3 5 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.26%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.26%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.26%) Looker
3 5 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.81%) Presto
4 4 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.36%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.36%) KDB
5 3 (1.36%) Tableau
6 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.41%) Git
3 19 (8.60%) JIRA
4 16 (7.24%) GitLab
5 10 (4.52%) Gatling
5 10 (4.52%) JMeter
6 5 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.81%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.81%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.81%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.81%) Snyk
7 4 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.36%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.36%) Xcode
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.90%) JUnit
9 2 (0.90%) Maven
9 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (31.67%) Finance
2 53 (23.98%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.67%) Banking
5 10 (4.52%) Front Office
6 9 (4.07%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.17%) Retail
9 5 (2.26%) Law
10 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Local Government
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Billing
13 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (15.84%) Senior
2 25 (11.31%) Architect
3 24 (10.86%) Lead
4 20 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (9.05%) Splunk Engineer
5 17 (7.69%) Analyst
6 13 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.43%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.98%) Developer
9 10 (4.52%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.52%) Consultant
9 10 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Performance Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Performance Test Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.95%) REST
2 18 (8.14%) Kafka
3 14 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.98%) RESTful
6 10 (4.52%) SailPoint
7 9 (4.07%) .NET
7 9 (4.07%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.17%) Spring
9 6 (2.71%) JSON
9 6 (2.71%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.26%) Apache Beam
10 5 (2.26%) Middleware
10 5 (2.26%) React
11 4 (1.81%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.81%) CSS
11 4 (1.81%) HTML
11 4 (1.81%) Jakarta EE
11 4 (1.81%) Loki
11 4 (1.81%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.12%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.07%) CMDB
5 9 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.62%) PKI
7 6 (2.71%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.71%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.26%) Equities
8 5 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 59 (26.70%) Linux
2 30 (13.57%) Windows
3 25 (11.31%) Unix
4 18 (8.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (7.24%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.81%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.90%) VMS
9 2 (0.90%) zOS
10 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 90 (40.72%) Observability
3 65 (29.41%) DevOps
4 62 (28.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (28.05%) SIEM
5 57 (25.79%) Agile
6 46 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (19.91%) Incident Response
8 40 (18.10%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (16.74%) Security Operations
10 33 (14.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 32 (14.48%) Containerisation
11 32 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (13.57%) Mentoring
12 30 (13.57%) Vulnerability Management
13 28 (12.67%) Cloud Security
13 28 (12.67%) Roadmaps
14 26 (11.76%) Incident Management
15 25 (11.31%) AI
15 25 (11.31%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 74 (33.48%) Python
2 37 (16.74%) Java
3 25 (11.31%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.95%) SQL
5 13 (5.88%) Bash
6 12 (5.43%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.98%) Search Processing Language
8 10 (4.52%) Go
8 10 (4.52%) Scala
8 10 (4.52%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.71%) C#
10 5 (2.26%) Bicep
10 5 (2.26%) Perl
10 5 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.36%) Ruby
11 3 (1.36%) Swift
12 2 (0.90%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) JCL
12 2 (0.90%) REXX
Qualifications
1 65 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 54 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.22%) CISSP
4 18 (8.14%) CISM
5 13 (5.88%) Degree
6 12 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (4.07%) CCSP
9 9 (4.07%) GIAC
10 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.17%) GCIA
11 7 (3.17%) GCIH
12 5 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.26%) CEH
12 5 (2.26%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.26%) GSEC
13 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.86%) NIST
2 16 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.17%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.17%) QA
5 6 (2.71%) NCSC
6 5 (2.26%) SLA
6 5 (2.26%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.81%) GDPR
8 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.36%) ISO 15022
8 3 (1.36%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.90%) COBIT
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.45%) GxP
10 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 37 (16.74%) Docker
2 11 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.45%) etcd
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (30.77%) Terraform
2 61 (27.60%) Grafana
2 61 (27.60%) Kubernetes
3 48 (21.72%) Prometheus
4 25 (11.31%) Ansible
5 10 (4.52%) Kibana
6 7 (3.17%) Control-M
6 7 (3.17%) QRadar
7 4 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.90%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.45%) CASB
9 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.10%) Dynatrace
3 28 (12.67%) CrowdStrike
3 28 (12.67%) ServiceNow
4 18 (8.14%) Google
4 18 (8.14%) New Relic
4 18 (8.14%) Qualys
5 17 (7.69%) Tenable
6 16 (7.24%) AppDynamics
6 16 (7.24%) Oracle
7 13 (5.88%) CyberArk
8 11 (4.98%) Okta
9 10 (4.52%) IBM
10 9 (4.07%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.17%) Rapid7
11 7 (3.17%) xMatters
12 6 (2.71%) Cisco
12 6 (2.71%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.81%) Ivanti
13 4 (1.81%) Palo Alto