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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 175 206
Rank change year-on-year -2 +31 -18
Contract jobs citing Splunk 224 217 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 1.48% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 3.30% 3.36% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 126 144
10th Percentile £401 £420 £450
25th Percentile £468 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £606
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +5.15% +1.04%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £798
90th Percentile £749 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £88.75 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +56.39% - -

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 6,784 6,455 7,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.05% 44.16% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 4,023 5,044
10th Percentile £350 £313 £298
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 70 110
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.80 £16.56
25th Percentile £21.60 £23.80 £22.19
Median hourly rate £25.74 £33.00 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -22.02% -11.22% +45.17%
75th Percentile £41.89 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.94 £81.93 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% -34.78% +70.37%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -8 23 £548 -3.10% 20
South London +8 18 £425 -39.29% 1
West London - 5 £375 - 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 8 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.68%) Mattermost
2 6 (2.68%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Confluence
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.89%) SAS
6 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) CICS
7 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.45%) BASE24
2 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.82%) AWS
2 70 (31.25%) Azure
3 43 (19.20%) GCP
4 38 (16.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (9.82%) GitHub
6 11 (4.91%) Datadog
7 10 (4.46%) OpenShift
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.57%) OneDrive
9 7 (3.13%) Apigee
9 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.68%) Akamai
10 6 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.68%) Route 53
10 6 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.50%) Firewall
2 18 (8.04%) DNS
3 17 (7.59%) Network Security
4 13 (5.80%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.91%) SSL
6 8 (3.57%) HTTP
7 7 (3.13%) VPN
8 6 (2.68%) Skype
8 6 (2.68%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.68%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.23%) BGP
10 4 (1.79%) OSPF
10 4 (1.79%) Wireless
11 2 (0.89%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.89%) SNMP
11 2 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.89%) SSH
12 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.45%) InfiniBand
12 1 (0.45%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.46%) Redis
3 6 (2.68%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.23%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.23%) MySQL
5 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.89%) Flink
7 2 (0.89%) Power BI
7 2 (0.89%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) DB2
8 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.45%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 30 (13.39%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.38%) GitLab
3 16 (7.14%) Git
4 12 (5.36%) Postman
5 11 (4.91%) JIRA
6 10 (4.46%) Subversion
7 9 (4.02%) JUnit
8 7 (3.13%) Maven
8 7 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.68%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.23%) Appium
10 5 (2.23%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (2.23%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.23%) Katalon Studio
10 5 (2.23%) Mockito
10 5 (2.23%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.23%) XCTest
10 5 (2.23%) XCUITest
General
1 82 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 67 (29.91%) Finance
3 27 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.61%) Banking
5 16 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.80%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.23%) Military
9 4 (1.79%) Local Government
10 3 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Front Office
11 2 (0.89%) Marketing
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
11 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (29.02%) Analyst
2 32 (14.29%) Senior
3 30 (13.39%) SOC Analyst
4 25 (11.16%) Monitoring Analyst
5 24 (10.71%) Security Analyst
6 23 (10.27%) Security Engineer
7 20 (8.93%) Architect
8 14 (6.25%) Support Analyst
9 13 (5.80%) Operations Analyst
9 13 (5.80%) Security Architect
10 12 (5.36%) Lead
10 12 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 11 (4.91%) Developer
11 11 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.02%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (3.57%) Senior Security Analyst
14 8 (3.57%) SharePoint Analyst
14 8 (3.57%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.27%) Kafka
2 22 (9.82%) REST
3 13 (5.80%) Web Services
4 9 (4.02%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.57%) Spring
5 8 (3.57%) Swagger
6 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.68%) Node.js
7 6 (2.68%) SOAP
7 6 (2.68%) YAML
8 5 (2.23%) CSS
8 5 (2.23%) CSS3
8 5 (2.23%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.23%) HTML
8 5 (2.23%) J2EE
8 5 (2.23%) JPA
8 5 (2.23%) Middleware
8 5 (2.23%) OpenID
8 5 (2.23%) SAML
8 5 (2.23%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.04%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.59%) Cyber Defence
3 16 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.46%) Clustering
5 8 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.13%) PKI
7 6 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.23%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.79%) Replication
9 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.34%) Derivative
10 3 (1.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.41%) Linux
2 16 (7.14%) Unix
3 14 (6.25%) Windows
4 10 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.23%) Android
5 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.79%) Solaris
6 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.34%) CentOS
7 3 (1.34%) zOS
8 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.13%) SIEM
2 61 (27.23%) Incident Response
3 59 (26.34%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (25.00%) DevOps
6 52 (23.21%) CI/CD
7 47 (20.98%) Agile
8 38 (16.96%) Threat Detection
9 32 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (14.29%) Observability
10 29 (12.95%) Containerisation
11 28 (12.50%) Security Operations
12 27 (12.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 23 (10.27%) Mentoring
14 22 (9.82%) ITIL
14 22 (9.82%) Microservices
15 21 (9.38%) Cloud Security
16 20 (8.93%) High Availability
17 19 (8.48%) SOAR
18 18 (8.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.32%) Python
2 38 (16.96%) SQL
3 29 (12.95%) Bash
4 27 (12.05%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 20 (8.93%) Java
7 11 (4.91%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.46%) Go
8 10 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.13%) Perl
10 5 (2.23%) Groovy
10 5 (2.23%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.23%) Swift
11 4 (1.79%) JCL
12 3 (1.34%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.34%) PromQL
12 3 (1.34%) REXX
13 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.82%) CISSP
4 18 (8.04%) Degree
5 15 (6.70%) CISM
6 10 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.02%) CEH
7 9 (4.02%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.57%) GIAC
9 7 (3.13%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.23%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.79%) CISA
11 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.34%) GCIA
12 3 (1.34%) GCIH
13 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.25%) NIST
2 13 (5.80%) GDPR
3 12 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.02%) QA
5 6 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.23%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.23%) SLA
7 3 (1.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.89%) FIPS 140-2
9 1 (0.45%) COBIT
9 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (16.07%) Docker
2 21 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.23%) Snort
5 4 (1.79%) NFS
5 4 (1.79%) Squid
5 4 (1.79%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.89%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 35 (15.63%) Terraform
3 30 (13.39%) Grafana
4 29 (12.95%) Ansible
5 23 (10.27%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.04%) SCOM
7 14 (6.25%) HP SiteScope
8 11 (4.91%) QRadar
9 8 (3.57%) Argo
10 6 (2.68%) Nessus
11 5 (2.23%) CSIRT
11 5 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.79%) Nexpose
12 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.79%) Suricata
13 3 (1.34%) Control-M
13 3 (1.34%) Fluentd
13 3 (1.34%) Nagios
13 3 (1.34%) Puppet
14 2 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.84%) CrowdStrike
2 31 (13.84%) Qualys
3 21 (9.38%) Carbon Black
4 20 (8.93%) Google
5 17 (7.59%) Dynatrace
6 15 (6.70%) CyberArk
7 13 (5.80%) Palo Alto
7 13 (5.80%) Remedy
8 12 (5.36%) Oracle
9 11 (4.91%) Tenable
10 10 (4.46%) Cisco
10 10 (4.46%) Red Hat
10 10 (4.46%) ServiceNow
11 9 (4.02%) Darktrace
11 9 (4.02%) Zscaler
12 8 (3.57%) VMware
13 6 (2.68%) BMC
14 5 (2.23%) AppDynamics
14 5 (2.23%) Fortinet