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 30 May 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 192 245
Rank change year-on-year -35 +53 -83
Contract jobs citing Splunk 195 163 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.34% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 2.53% 2.94% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 103 89
10th Percentile £400 £388 £392
25th Percentile £463 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £900 £775 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 £65.45 - £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 7,722 5,542 7,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.80% 45.55% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,094 3,601 4,923
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.30% -4.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.48% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 100 130
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.46 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +20.72% -14.00%
75th Percentile £51.50 £42.25 £38.25
90th Percentile £79.75 £63.88 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £22.90
% change year-on-year +21.50% +16.82% -42.10%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -22 19 £580 +10.48% 12
West London -23 5 £560 +6.67%
South London -24 1 £650 +8.33%
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 8 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.59%) Confluence
3 4 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.03%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.54%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.51%) BASE24
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.49%) AWS
2 68 (34.87%) Azure
3 31 (15.90%) GCP
4 27 (13.85%) OpenShift
5 22 (11.28%) GitHub
6 21 (10.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 19 (9.74%) Entra ID
8 16 (8.21%) Amazon S3
8 16 (8.21%) Datadog
9 15 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (5.64%) SaaS
14 9 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.62%) Serverless
15 8 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.69%) VPN
2 14 (7.18%) Firewall
3 13 (6.67%) Network Security
4 10 (5.13%) DNS
5 7 (3.59%) Wireless
6 6 (3.08%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.08%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.08%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.56%) MPLS
8 3 (1.54%) BGP
8 3 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.03%) Internet
9 2 (1.03%) Multicast
9 2 (1.03%) NGFW
9 2 (1.03%) OSPF
9 2 (1.03%) WAN
10 1 (0.51%) 4G
10 1 (0.51%) LTE
10 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.56%) Big Data
4 5 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.56%) Power BI
5 4 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.05%) Presto
6 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.54%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) KDB
7 2 (1.03%) MySQL
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.51%) Flink
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.72%) GitLab
3 10 (5.13%) Git
4 8 (4.10%) JIRA
5 5 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.56%) Snyk
6 4 (2.05%) Gatling
7 3 (1.54%) JMeter
8 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.03%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.03%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.51%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (30.26%) Finance
2 50 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.26%) Banking
4 18 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.13%) Front Office
8 8 (4.10%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.08%) Retail
10 5 (2.56%) Law
11 3 (1.54%) Legal
11 3 (1.54%) Local Government
12 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.51%) Advertising
13 1 (0.51%) Automotive
13 1 (0.51%) Back Office
13 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (20.00%) Architect
2 29 (14.87%) Senior
3 21 (10.77%) Analyst
4 20 (10.26%) CyberArk Architect
5 15 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (7.18%) Lead
6 14 (7.18%) Security Architect
7 13 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Site Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) SOC Analyst
10 8 (4.10%) Consultant
11 7 (3.59%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.59%) Developer
12 6 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 6 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (3.08%) Security Consultant
13 5 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.77%) Kafka
2 15 (7.69%) LDAP
3 13 (6.67%) OpenID
3 13 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (6.67%) SAML
4 12 (6.15%) REST
5 10 (5.13%) SailPoint
5 10 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.10%) Spring
7 6 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.08%) RESTful
8 5 (2.56%) React
9 4 (2.05%) .NET
9 4 (2.05%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (2.05%) CSS
9 4 (2.05%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.05%) HTML
9 4 (2.05%) JSON
9 4 (2.05%) Loki
9 4 (2.05%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.97%) Onboarding
2 30 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.67%) PKI
4 10 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (4.10%) CMDB
6 7 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.56%) Equities
9 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.03%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.59%) Linux
2 19 (9.74%) Unix
3 17 (8.72%) Windows
4 10 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.59%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.05%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.03%) zOS
8 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 64 (32.82%) SIEM
3 62 (31.79%) Observability
4 56 (28.72%) DevOps
5 55 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (23.59%) Incident Response
8 36 (18.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 35 (17.95%) Vulnerability Management
10 29 (14.87%) Cloud Security
10 29 (14.87%) Containerisation
11 28 (14.36%) Agile
11 28 (14.36%) Security Operations
12 27 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (13.85%) Secrets Management
13 25 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (11.79%) Architectural Patterns
14 23 (11.79%) Threat Modelling
15 22 (11.28%) Incident Management
16 21 (10.77%) AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (28.72%) Python
2 25 (12.82%) Java
3 18 (9.23%) SQL
4 17 (8.72%) Bash
5 16 (8.21%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.62%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (3.59%) Go
9 5 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.56%) Scala
9 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.05%) Bicep
11 3 (1.54%) C#
11 3 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.03%) JCL
12 2 (1.03%) REXX
12 2 (1.03%) Ruby
13 1 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.82%) CISSP
4 18 (9.23%) CISM
5 11 (5.64%) Degree
5 11 (5.64%) GIAC
6 10 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (4.10%) CCSP
7 8 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.08%) GCIA
9 6 (3.08%) GCIH
10 5 (2.56%) CEH
11 4 (2.05%) GSEC
12 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.54%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.95%) NIST
2 25 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.72%) NCSC
4 7 (3.59%) QA
5 5 (2.56%) SLA
6 4 (2.05%) GDPR
6 4 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.54%) COBIT
7 3 (1.54%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.03%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.51%) GxP
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (14.36%) Docker
2 9 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.54%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) etcd
5 1 (0.51%) Varnish
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (29.74%) Kubernetes
2 53 (27.18%) Grafana
3 50 (25.64%) Terraform
4 44 (22.56%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.41%) Ansible
6 7 (3.59%) Kibana
7 5 (2.56%) Salt
8 3 (1.54%) QRadar
9 2 (1.03%) Argo
9 2 (1.03%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) CASB
10 1 (0.51%) Control-M
10 1 (0.51%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.51%) SCOM
10 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.51%) VxRail
10 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 25 (12.82%) CrowdStrike
4 23 (11.79%) ServiceNow
5 22 (11.28%) Dynatrace
6 17 (8.72%) Qualys
7 15 (7.69%) Tenable
8 12 (6.15%) AppDynamics
9 11 (5.64%) Google
10 10 (5.13%) Cisco
10 10 (5.13%) Palo Alto
11 9 (4.62%) Okta
12 8 (4.10%) Oracle
13 7 (3.59%) Arista
14 6 (3.08%) Aruba
14 6 (3.08%) BigPanda
14 6 (3.08%) CheckPoint
14 6 (3.08%) F5
14 6 (3.08%) New Relic
14 6 (3.08%) Rapid7