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 10 June 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
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 184 250
Rank change year-on-year -48 +66 -103
Contract jobs citing Splunk 199 170 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.39% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 2.58% 3.06% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 103 91
10th Percentile £400 £382 £381
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £619
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 7,704 5,561 7,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.35% 45.42% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,065 3,594 5,002
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.61% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 103 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.39 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -11.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £23.80
% change year-on-year +19.82% +13.97% -39.82%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -19 21 £580 +10.48% 12
West London -18 6 £560 +6.67% 1
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 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.52%) Confluence
3 4 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.51%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
6 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.51%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.69%) AWS
2 67 (33.67%) Azure
3 29 (14.57%) GCP
4 27 (13.57%) OpenShift
5 26 (13.07%) GitHub
6 20 (10.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 19 (9.55%) Entra ID
8 16 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.54%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.54%) Datadog
10 13 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.03%) SaaS
12 9 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.52%) Serverless
13 8 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Firewall
2 17 (8.54%) VPN
3 15 (7.54%) Network Security
4 11 (5.53%) DNS
5 7 (3.52%) Wireless
6 6 (3.02%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.02%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.02%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.51%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.51%) MPLS
8 3 (1.51%) BGP
8 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.01%) DMZ
9 2 (1.01%) Internet
9 2 (1.01%) Multicast
9 2 (1.01%) NGFW
9 2 (1.01%) OSPF
9 2 (1.01%) WAN
10 1 (0.50%) LTE
10 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.03%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.02%) Power BI
4 5 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.51%) Big Data
4 5 (2.51%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.01%) Presto
5 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.51%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) KDB
8 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.50%) Flink
8 1 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (16.58%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.04%) GitLab
3 14 (7.04%) Git
4 8 (4.02%) JIRA
5 6 (3.02%) Gatling
6 5 (2.51%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.51%) JMeter
6 5 (2.51%) Snyk
7 3 (1.51%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.01%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (29.65%) Finance
2 51 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.55%) Banking
4 19 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.03%) Front Office
8 8 (4.02%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.52%) Retail
10 5 (2.51%) Law
11 3 (1.51%) Legal
11 3 (1.51%) Local Government
12 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Back Office
13 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (20.60%) Architect
2 30 (15.08%) Senior
3 20 (10.05%) Analyst
3 20 (10.05%) CyberArk Architect
4 15 (7.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 14 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (7.04%) Lead
5 14 (7.04%) Security Architect
6 12 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Site Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) SOC Analyst
8 8 (4.02%) Consultant
8 8 (4.02%) Developer
9 7 (3.52%) Applications Support
9 7 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.02%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 6 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.02%) Security Consultant
10 6 (3.02%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.55%) Kafka
2 15 (7.54%) LDAP
2 15 (7.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.04%) REST
4 13 (6.53%) OpenID
4 13 (6.53%) SAML
5 11 (5.53%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.03%) SailPoint
7 9 (4.52%) Spring
8 8 (4.02%) RESTful
9 6 (3.02%) .NET
10 5 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.51%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.51%) React
11 4 (2.01%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (2.01%) CSS
11 4 (2.01%) HTML
11 4 (2.01%) Loki
11 4 (2.01%) Middleware
11 4 (2.01%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.59%) Onboarding
2 33 (16.58%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.52%) CMDB
4 9 (4.52%) PKI
5 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.51%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.51%) Equities
9 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.12%) Linux
2 20 (10.05%) Unix
3 19 (9.55%) Windows
4 11 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.02%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.01%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.01%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.70%) CI/CD
2 67 (33.67%) Observability
3 66 (33.17%) SIEM
4 57 (28.64%) DevOps
4 57 (28.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (26.13%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (23.62%) Incident Response
7 37 (18.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (16.08%) Vulnerability Management
9 31 (15.58%) Security Operations
10 29 (14.57%) Agile
10 29 (14.57%) Cloud Security
10 29 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (14.07%) Containerisation
12 27 (13.57%) Secrets Management
13 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (12.06%) ITIL
14 24 (12.06%) Threat Modelling
15 23 (11.56%) AI
15 23 (11.56%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (30.15%) Python
2 26 (13.07%) Java
3 19 (9.55%) SQL
4 16 (8.04%) Bash
4 16 (8.04%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.03%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.52%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (3.02%) Go
8 5 (2.51%) C#
8 5 (2.51%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.51%) Scala
8 5 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.01%) Bicep
10 3 (1.51%) Ruby
11 2 (1.01%) JCL
11 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.01%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.01%) REXX
11 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) Swift
Qualifications
1 63 (31.66%) Security Cleared
2 47 (23.62%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.07%) CISSP
4 19 (9.55%) CISM
5 12 (6.03%) GIAC
6 10 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (5.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (5.03%) Degree
7 8 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (4.02%) CCSP
8 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.02%) CEH
9 6 (3.02%) GCIA
9 6 (3.02%) GCIH
10 5 (2.51%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.01%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.01%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (2.01%) GSEC
12 3 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.09%) NIST
2 26 (13.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.54%) NCSC
4 7 (3.52%) QA
5 4 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.01%) SLA
6 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.51%) COBIT
6 3 (1.51%) GDPR
6 3 (1.51%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.01%) ISO 15022
7 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) GxP
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (14.07%) Docker
2 9 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.01%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) etcd
5 1 (0.50%) Varnish
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (28.64%) Grafana
1 57 (28.64%) Kubernetes
2 50 (25.13%) Terraform
3 45 (22.61%) Prometheus
4 32 (16.08%) Ansible
5 9 (4.52%) Kibana
6 5 (2.51%) Salt
7 4 (2.01%) QRadar
8 2 (1.01%) Argo
8 2 (1.01%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) CASB
9 1 (0.50%) Control-M
9 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.50%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.50%) VxRail
9 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.07%) Dynatrace
2 28 (14.07%) ServiceNow
3 26 (13.07%) CyberArk
4 24 (12.06%) CrowdStrike
5 17 (8.54%) Qualys
5 17 (8.54%) Tenable
6 14 (7.04%) AppDynamics
7 11 (5.53%) Cisco
7 11 (5.53%) Google
8 10 (5.03%) Oracle
8 10 (5.03%) Palo Alto
9 9 (4.52%) Okta
10 7 (3.52%) Arista
10 7 (3.52%) New Relic
10 7 (3.52%) Rapid7
11 6 (3.02%) Aruba
11 6 (3.02%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.02%) F5
11 6 (3.02%) IBM