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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 188 260
Rank change year-on-year -38 +72 -111
Contract jobs citing Splunk 227 185 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.36% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 2.97% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 112 85
10th Percentile £400 £359 £375
25th Percentile £463 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £613
90th Percentile £900 £775 £688
England median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -10.00%
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 £65.57 - £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 8,270 6,235 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.78% 45.97% 42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,397 4,052 5,017
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £764
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 119 114
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.46 £22.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +3.85% -18.55%
75th Percentile £57.34 £48.13 £42.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £65.00 £70.73
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -14 23 £550 +10.55% 6
West London -10 6 £560 +34.94%
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 13 (5.73%) Confluence
2 10 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.76%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.32%) Apache
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 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.44%) Azure
2 83 (36.56%) AWS
3 40 (17.62%) GitHub
4 39 (17.18%) GCP
5 36 (15.86%) OpenShift
6 21 (9.25%) Entra ID
7 20 (8.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 20 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.49%) Datadog
9 15 (6.61%) SaaS
10 14 (6.17%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.41%) Serverless
14 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.52%) PowerApps
16 7 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.01%) Firewall
2 19 (8.37%) VPN
3 17 (7.49%) Network Security
4 14 (6.17%) DNS
5 7 (3.08%) WAN
6 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.20%) MPLS
8 4 (1.76%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.76%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.76%) LAN
8 4 (1.76%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.76%) Wireless
9 3 (1.32%) BGP
9 3 (1.32%) Internet
9 3 (1.32%) Multicast
10 2 (0.88%) DMZ
10 2 (0.88%) SNMP
10 2 (0.88%) SSH
11 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.41%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.52%) Power BI
3 6 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.20%) Big Data
4 5 (2.20%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.76%) Presto
6 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.32%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.32%) Flink
6 3 (1.32%) KDB
7 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.88%) Looker
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (15.86%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.81%) Git
3 13 (5.73%) GitLab
3 13 (5.73%) JIRA
4 9 (3.96%) Gatling
5 7 (3.08%) JMeter
6 5 (2.20%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.20%) Snyk
7 4 (1.76%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.32%) 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%) Selenium
10 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 74 (32.60%) Finance
2 62 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.89%) Banking
5 18 (7.93%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.41%) Front Office
8 9 (3.96%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.96%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Law
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Local Government
11 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Back Office
12 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (17.18%) Architect
2 35 (15.42%) Senior
3 21 (9.25%) Lead
4 20 (8.81%) Analyst
5 18 (7.93%) CyberArk Architect
5 18 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.49%) Splunk Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Security Architect
8 13 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Developer
10 11 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Applications Support
11 9 (3.96%) Consultant
11 9 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) SOC Analyst
13 7 (3.08%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Site Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) Performance Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.57%) REST
2 17 (7.49%) Kafka
3 15 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (6.17%) LDAP
5 13 (5.73%) Spring Boot
6 12 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.29%) OpenID
6 12 (5.29%) SAML
6 12 (5.29%) Spring
7 11 (4.85%) RESTful
7 11 (4.85%) SailPoint
8 8 (3.52%) .NET
9 6 (2.64%) JSON
9 6 (2.64%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.20%) React
11 4 (1.76%) CSS
11 4 (1.76%) HTML
11 4 (1.76%) J2EE
11 4 (1.76%) Loki
11 4 (1.76%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.74%) Onboarding
2 32 (14.10%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.61%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.96%) CMDB
5 9 (3.96%) PKI
6 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.64%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.20%) Equities
8 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.79%) Linux
2 25 (11.01%) Windows
3 23 (10.13%) Unix
4 14 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.29%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.73%) CI/CD
2 82 (36.12%) Observability
3 74 (32.60%) SIEM
4 71 (31.28%) DevOps
5 64 (28.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (24.23%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (21.59%) Incident Response
8 46 (20.26%) Agile
9 42 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (18.06%) Security Operations
11 38 (16.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 35 (15.42%) Vulnerability Management
13 34 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (14.54%) Cloud Security
15 28 (12.33%) Containerisation
15 28 (12.33%) Incident Management
15 28 (12.33%) ITIL
15 28 (12.33%) ITSM
16 27 (11.89%) Mentoring
17 26 (11.45%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.96%) Python
2 36 (15.86%) Java
3 21 (9.25%) SQL
4 20 (8.81%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.05%) Bash
6 12 (5.29%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.41%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.52%) Go
9 7 (3.08%) Scala
9 7 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.64%) C#
11 5 (2.20%) Bicep
11 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.20%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.76%) Ruby
13 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.32%) Swift
14 2 (0.88%) C++
14 2 (0.88%) JCL
14 2 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 76 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.66%) CISSP
4 21 (9.25%) CISM
5 13 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.29%) GIAC
7 11 (4.85%) Degree
8 10 (4.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (3.96%) CCSP
10 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.08%) GCIA
10 7 (3.08%) GCIH
11 6 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.20%) CEH
12 5 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.20%) GSEC
13 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.54%) NIST
2 26 (11.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.49%) NCSC
4 9 (3.96%) QA
5 7 (3.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.20%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.76%) GDPR
7 4 (1.76%) SLA
7 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.88%) COBIT
8 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) GxP
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (13.22%) Docker
2 11 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (28.19%) Grafana
1 64 (28.19%) Kubernetes
2 61 (26.87%) Terraform
3 50 (22.03%) Prometheus
4 30 (13.22%) Ansible
5 10 (4.41%) Kibana
6 8 (3.52%) QRadar
7 6 (2.64%) Control-M
8 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.32%) Salt
9 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.44%) Nessus
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.98%) Dynatrace
3 30 (13.22%) ServiceNow
4 28 (12.33%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (11.01%) CyberArk
6 17 (7.49%) Qualys
6 17 (7.49%) Tenable
7 16 (7.05%) AppDynamics
7 16 (7.05%) Google
8 13 (5.73%) New Relic
8 13 (5.73%) Oracle
9 10 (4.41%) Okta
10 9 (3.96%) Cisco
11 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.52%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.08%) IBM
12 7 (3.08%) Rapid7
13 6 (2.64%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.64%) Cribl.io
13 6 (2.64%) Fortinet