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 18 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
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 183 237
Rank change year-on-year -49 +54 -92
Contract jobs citing Splunk 224 194 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.44% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 3.13% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 117 94
10th Percentile £388 £361 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £678
90th Percentile £738 £775 £796
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 - £47.50

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 8,553 6,205 6,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 46.09% 43.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,569 4,030 4,732
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.72%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 127 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £58.31 £38.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +35.11% -14.41% -21.64%

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 18 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 18 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 -11 21 £585 +23.16% 5
West London -17 6 £560 +34.94% 2
East London -2 1 £550 +120.00% 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 18 (8.04%) Confluence
2 13 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.68%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.89%) 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 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.75%) Azure
2 90 (40.18%) AWS
3 44 (19.64%) GitHub
4 43 (19.20%) GCP
5 27 (12.05%) OpenShift
6 25 (11.16%) Entra ID
7 23 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (8.93%) Datadog
10 18 (8.04%) SaaS
11 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.46%) Serverless
14 9 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.02%) dbt
14 9 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.05%) Firewall
2 16 (7.14%) DNS
2 16 (7.14%) Network Security
3 15 (6.70%) VPN
4 10 (4.46%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.68%) WAN
6 4 (1.79%) Internet
6 4 (1.79%) LAN
7 3 (1.34%) BGP
7 3 (1.34%) DMZ
7 3 (1.34%) Multicast
7 3 (1.34%) SSL
7 3 (1.34%) VLAN
8 2 (0.89%) SNMP
8 2 (0.89%) SSH
9 1 (0.45%) Broadband
9 1 (0.45%) HTTP
9 1 (0.45%) IPv4
9 1 (0.45%) SAN
9 1 (0.45%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.02%) MongoDB
1 9 (4.02%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.57%) Power BI
3 6 (2.68%) Big Data
3 6 (2.68%) Flink
3 6 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.23%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.23%) Looker
5 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.79%) KDB
5 4 (1.79%) Presto
5 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.34%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.34%) MySQL
6 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (15.18%) Jenkins
2 25 (11.16%) Git
3 21 (9.38%) JIRA
4 16 (7.14%) GitLab
5 11 (4.91%) Gatling
6 10 (4.46%) JMeter
7 6 (2.68%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.23%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.79%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.79%) Snyk
9 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.34%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.34%) Xcode
11 2 (0.89%) Gradle
11 2 (0.89%) JUnit
11 2 (0.89%) Maven
11 2 (0.89%) Selenium
11 2 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (32.59%) Finance
2 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.95%) Banking
5 10 (4.46%) Front Office
6 9 (4.02%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.13%) Retail
9 5 (2.23%) Law
10 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.34%) Local Government
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Back Office
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (15.63%) Senior
2 25 (11.16%) Architect
3 24 (10.71%) Lead
4 22 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.93%) Splunk Engineer
6 15 (6.70%) Analyst
7 13 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (5.36%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.36%) Security Architect
8 12 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Developer
10 10 (4.46%) Test Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Performance Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Performance Test Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Consultant
12 8 (3.57%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.82%) REST
2 19 (8.48%) Kafka
3 15 (6.70%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (5.36%) RESTful
6 10 (4.46%) .NET
6 10 (4.46%) SailPoint
7 8 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.13%) JSON
9 6 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (2.68%) React
9 6 (2.68%) Spring
10 5 (2.23%) Apache Beam
10 5 (2.23%) CSS
10 5 (2.23%) HTML
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
11 4 (1.79%) Loki
11 4 (1.79%) Middleware
11 4 (1.79%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.95%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.82%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.46%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.02%) CMDB
7 8 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.13%) PKI
9 6 (2.68%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.68%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.23%) Equities
10 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.34%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.13%) Linux
2 32 (14.29%) Windows
3 26 (11.61%) Unix
4 18 (8.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (8.04%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.89%) zOS
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (41.96%) CI/CD
2 91 (40.63%) Observability
3 70 (31.25%) DevOps
4 67 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (28.13%) SIEM
6 61 (27.23%) Agile
7 50 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (20.98%) Incident Response
9 39 (17.41%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (16.96%) Security Operations
11 36 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 32 (14.29%) Containerisation
14 29 (12.95%) Cloud Security
14 29 (12.95%) Roadmaps
14 29 (12.95%) Vulnerability Management
15 28 (12.50%) Incident Management
15 28 (12.50%) Mentoring
16 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (11.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.38%) Python
2 37 (16.52%) Java
3 27 (12.05%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.93%) SQL
5 16 (7.14%) Bash
6 13 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.36%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (4.91%) Go
9 10 (4.46%) Scala
9 10 (4.46%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.68%) C#
11 5 (2.23%) Bicep
11 5 (2.23%) Perl
11 5 (2.23%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.34%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.34%) Ruby
12 3 (1.34%) Swift
13 2 (0.89%) C++
13 2 (0.89%) Groovy
13 2 (0.89%) REXX
Qualifications
1 70 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.50%) CISSP
4 19 (8.48%) CISM
5 13 (5.80%) Degree
6 12 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (4.46%) GIAC
9 9 (4.02%) CCSP
10 8 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.13%) DV Cleared
11 7 (3.13%) GCIA
11 7 (3.13%) GCIH
12 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.23%) CEH
12 5 (2.23%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.23%) GSEC
13 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.16%) NIST
2 17 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.57%) QA
5 7 (3.13%) NCSC
5 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.23%) SLA
6 5 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.79%) GDPR
8 3 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.34%) ISO 15022
8 3 (1.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.89%) COBIT
9 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.89%) 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 38 (16.96%) Docker
2 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.45%) etcd
5 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (31.70%) Terraform
2 63 (28.13%) Grafana
2 63 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 50 (22.32%) Prometheus
4 27 (12.05%) Ansible
5 10 (4.46%) Kibana
6 7 (3.13%) Control-M
6 7 (3.13%) QRadar
7 5 (2.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.89%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.45%) CASB
9 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
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%) SCOM
9 1 (0.45%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 47 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 42 (18.75%) Dynatrace
3 27 (12.05%) CrowdStrike
3 27 (12.05%) ServiceNow
4 18 (8.04%) New Relic
4 18 (8.04%) Oracle
5 17 (7.59%) Google
5 17 (7.59%) Qualys
5 17 (7.59%) Tenable
6 15 (6.70%) AppDynamics
7 13 (5.80%) CyberArk
8 12 (5.36%) Okta
9 10 (4.46%) IBM
10 9 (4.02%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.13%) Rapid7
11 7 (3.13%) xMatters
12 6 (2.68%) Fortinet
13 5 (2.23%) Cisco
14 4 (1.79%) ION Trading
14 4 (1.79%) Ivanti