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 9 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 191 252
Rank change year-on-year -42 +61 -102
Contract jobs citing Splunk 199 166 152
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.36% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 2.56% 2.99% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 100 91
10th Percentile £400 £399 £381
25th Percentile £463 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £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 7,760 5,560 7,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 45.48% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,114 3,585 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £325 £307
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 104 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -11.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.63 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.98 £27.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.07% +15.07% -39.01%

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 9 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 9 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 -15 21 £580 +10.48% 10
West London -11 5 £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%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.01%) WebSphere
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 77 (38.69%) AWS
2 69 (34.67%) Azure
3 29 (14.57%) GCP
4 27 (13.57%) OpenShift
5 25 (12.56%) GitHub
6 20 (10.05%) Entra ID
7 19 (9.55%) Azure Sentinel
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 11 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.52%) Serverless
14 8 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
15 7 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Firewall
2 17 (8.54%) VPN
3 14 (7.04%) 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%) 5G
10 1 (0.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
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
6 3 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.51%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
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 32 (16.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.04%) GitLab
3 11 (5.53%) Git
4 8 (4.02%) JIRA
5 5 (2.51%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.51%) Gatling
5 5 (2.51%) Snyk
6 4 (2.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.01%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.01%) Xcode
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (30.15%) Finance
2 50 (25.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.06%) Banking
4 19 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (5.03%) Front Office
9 8 (4.02%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.02%) Retail
11 5 (2.51%) Law
12 3 (1.51%) Legal
12 3 (1.51%) Local Government
13 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.50%) Advertising
14 1 (0.50%) Back Office
14 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (20.60%) Architect
2 30 (15.08%) Senior
3 20 (10.05%) CyberArk Architect
4 19 (9.55%) Analyst
5 14 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (7.04%) Lead
5 14 (7.04%) Security Architect
6 13 (6.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) SOC Analyst
10 8 (4.02%) Consultant
10 8 (4.02%) Developer
11 7 (3.52%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.02%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 6 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (3.02%) Security Consultant
13 5 (2.51%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.05%) Kafka
2 15 (7.54%) LDAP
3 14 (7.04%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.53%) OpenID
4 13 (6.53%) REST
4 13 (6.53%) SAML
5 11 (5.53%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.03%) SailPoint
7 8 (4.02%) Spring
8 7 (3.52%) RESTful
9 6 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.51%) .NET
10 5 (2.51%) JSON
10 5 (2.51%) React
11 4 (2.01%) CSS
11 4 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (2.01%) HTML
11 4 (2.01%) Loki
11 4 (2.01%) Middleware
11 4 (2.01%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.10%) Onboarding
2 31 (15.58%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.53%) PKI
4 11 (5.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (4.52%) CMDB
6 7 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.51%) Equities
9 4 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.12%) Linux
2 21 (10.55%) Unix
3 18 (9.05%) 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 77 (38.69%) CI/CD
2 66 (33.17%) SIEM
3 64 (32.16%) Observability
4 58 (29.15%) DevOps
5 57 (28.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (26.63%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (23.12%) Incident Response
8 36 (18.09%) Vulnerability Management
9 35 (17.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (15.08%) Security Operations
11 29 (14.57%) Agile
11 29 (14.57%) Cloud Security
11 29 (14.57%) Containerisation
12 27 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (13.57%) Secrets Management
13 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (12.06%) Threat Modelling
15 23 (11.56%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (11.56%) ITIL
16 22 (11.06%) AI
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.15%) 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%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.51%) Scala
8 5 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.01%) Bicep
9 4 (2.01%) C#
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 64 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.62%) 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%) Degree
7 9 (4.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (4.02%) CCSP
9 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (3.02%) CEH
10 6 (3.02%) GCIA
10 6 (3.02%) GCIH
11 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.01%) GSEC
12 3 (1.51%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
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%) ISO 15022
6 3 (1.51%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.51%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
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%) ISO/IEC 42001
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 58 (29.15%) Kubernetes
2 54 (27.14%) Grafana
3 50 (25.13%) Terraform
4 44 (22.11%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.08%) Ansible
6 8 (4.02%) Kibana
7 5 (2.51%) Salt
8 3 (1.51%) QRadar
9 2 (1.01%) Argo
9 2 (1.01%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) CASB
10 1 (0.50%) Control-M
10 1 (0.50%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.50%) Nessus
10 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.50%) VxRail
10 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.07%) CyberArk
2 26 (13.07%) ServiceNow
3 25 (12.56%) Dynatrace
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%) Rapid7
11 6 (3.02%) Aruba
11 6 (3.02%) BigPanda
11 6 (3.02%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.02%) IBM
11 6 (3.02%) New Relic