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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 183 226
Rank change year-on-year -49 +43 -44
Contract jobs citing Splunk 186 166 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.31% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.46% 2.91% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 107 91
10th Percentile £412 £358 £414
25th Percentile £486 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -12.70%
75th Percentile £705 £684 £675
90th Percentile £900 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 7,556 5,706 7,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 45.10% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,976 3,746 4,921
10th Percentile £350 £323 £281
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £767 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 88 142
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £13.46
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.35 £16.86
Median hourly rate £32.00 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +21.13% -6.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £51.88 £39.77
90th Percentile £68.12 £67.88 £67.70
England median hourly rate £27.80 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.32% +27.78% -41.56%

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 April 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 April 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 -16 21 £600 +10.09% 5
West London -19 3 £375 -28.57%
South London -19 2 £650 +15.56% 3
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 5 (2.69%) Confluence
2 4 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.15%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.54%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.40%) AWS
2 64 (34.41%) Azure
3 40 (21.51%) GCP
4 29 (15.59%) Azure Sentinel
5 25 (13.44%) OpenShift
6 16 (8.60%) Datadog
6 16 (8.60%) GitHub
7 14 (7.53%) Entra ID
8 13 (6.99%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.30%) SaaS
13 7 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.14%) Network Security
2 15 (8.06%) Firewall
3 9 (4.84%) VPN
4 7 (3.76%) Wireless
5 6 (3.23%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.23%) InfiniBand
5 6 (3.23%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.69%) DNS
6 5 (2.69%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.69%) MPLS
7 3 (1.61%) BGP
7 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.08%) NGFW
8 2 (1.08%) OSPF
8 2 (1.08%) WAN
9 1 (0.54%) DMZ
9 1 (0.54%) DWDM
9 1 (0.54%) RTP
9 1 (0.54%) VSAN
9 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.15%) MySQL
2 4 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.61%) Tableau
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.08%) Big Data
4 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.08%) Flink
4 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.54%) KNIME
5 1 (0.54%) Power BI
5 1 (0.54%) Presto
5 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.75%) GitLab
3 10 (5.38%) Git
4 8 (4.30%) JIRA
5 5 (2.69%) Snyk
6 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.08%) Selenium
9 1 (0.54%) Appium
9 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.54%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.54%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.54%) Postman
9 1 (0.54%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 61 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 54 (29.03%) Finance
3 22 (11.83%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (10.22%) Banking
5 17 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.99%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.45%) Financial Institution
7 12 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.15%) Front Office
9 3 (1.61%) Military
9 3 (1.61%) Retail
10 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Automotive
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (18.28%) Architect
2 33 (17.74%) Analyst
3 23 (12.37%) Senior
4 21 (11.29%) SOC Analyst
5 18 (9.68%) CyberArk Architect
6 15 (8.06%) Monitoring Analyst
6 15 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Site Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Lead
10 9 (4.84%) Security Analyst
11 8 (4.30%) Consultant
11 8 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Security Architect
11 8 (4.30%) Threat Hunter
12 6 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 6 (3.23%) Developer
12 6 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.90%) Kafka
2 18 (9.68%) REST
3 14 (7.53%) OpenID
3 14 (7.53%) SAML
4 13 (6.99%) LDAP
5 10 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.38%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.30%) Spring
7 7 (3.76%) SailPoint
8 6 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.69%) ISPF
9 5 (2.69%) JSON
10 4 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.15%) JMS
10 4 (2.15%) Middleware
10 4 (2.15%) React
11 2 (1.08%) 802.1X
11 2 (1.08%) Flash
11 2 (1.08%) Regular Expression
11 2 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.52%) Onboarding
2 24 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.45%) PKI
4 10 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (2.69%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.15%) Equities
8 3 (1.61%) CMDB
8 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Clustering
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) Derivative
9 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.05%) Linux
2 14 (7.53%) Unix
3 10 (5.38%) Windows
4 5 (2.69%) zOS
5 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (36.02%) CI/CD
2 61 (32.80%) SIEM
3 53 (28.49%) DevOps
4 51 (27.42%) Cybersecurity
5 49 (26.34%) Observability
6 46 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (23.66%) Incident Response
8 32 (17.20%) Agile
9 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (15.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (14.52%) Threat Modelling
11 27 (14.52%) Vulnerability Management
12 25 (13.44%) Containerisation
13 23 (12.37%) Security Operations
14 21 (11.29%) Cloud Security
14 21 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (10.75%) Secrets Management
16 19 (10.22%) ITSM
16 19 (10.22%) Migration
17 17 (9.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.34%) Python
2 21 (11.29%) Bash
3 19 (10.22%) Java
4 17 (9.14%) SQL
5 10 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.84%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (4.30%) Go
8 6 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.69%) JCL
9 5 (2.69%) REXX
9 5 (2.69%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.15%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.61%) Perl
12 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.08%) Scala
13 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.54%) Ruby
13 1 (0.54%) Swift
13 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.83%) CISSP
4 20 (10.75%) CISM
5 14 (7.53%) GIAC
6 10 (5.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (4.84%) CEH
8 8 (4.30%) Degree
8 8 (4.30%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.15%) CCSP
11 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.08%) CCNP
12 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.67%) NIST
2 23 (12.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (9.14%) NCSC
4 9 (4.84%) QA
5 6 (3.23%) SLA
6 4 (2.15%) GDPR
6 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.61%) COBIT
8 2 (1.08%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.54%) GxP
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (15.05%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.69%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.61%) vSphere
5 2 (1.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.54%) etcd
6 1 (0.54%) Snort
6 1 (0.54%) Squid
6 1 (0.54%) Varnish
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 43 (23.12%) Terraform
3 41 (22.04%) Grafana
4 31 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 29 (15.59%) Ansible
6 7 (3.76%) Argo
7 5 (2.69%) Fluentd
7 5 (2.69%) Salt
8 4 (2.15%) QRadar
9 3 (1.61%) Control-M
9 3 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.08%) CASB
10 2 (1.08%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.08%) Kibana
10 2 (1.08%) logstash
10 2 (1.08%) Nessus
10 2 (1.08%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.83%) CyberArk
2 22 (11.83%) ServiceNow
3 18 (9.68%) Qualys
4 15 (8.06%) Tenable
5 13 (6.99%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (6.99%) Google
6 12 (6.45%) Cisco
7 11 (5.91%) Palo Alto
8 9 (4.84%) AppDynamics
8 9 (4.84%) Carbon Black
8 9 (4.84%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.76%) Arista
9 7 (3.76%) Zscaler
10 6 (3.23%) Aruba
10 6 (3.23%) BigPanda
10 6 (3.23%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.23%) F5
10 6 (3.23%) Okta
10 6 (3.23%) Red Hat