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 20 February 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 162 229
Rank change year-on-year -31 +67 -47
Contract jobs citing Splunk 223 211 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.56% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 3.17% 3.53% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 125 107
10th Percentile £413 £413 £444
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £661 £750 £700
90th Percentile £900 £810 £823
England median daily rate £525 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -8.10% +3.86% -8.33%
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 £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 7,033 5,976 7,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.97% 44.11% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,620 3,728 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £315 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £674
90th Percentile £738 £755 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 76 144
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.38 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £17.59
Median hourly rate £28.30 £35.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £44.25 £61.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.73 £80.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
% change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -18 23 £651 +18.41% 9
South London -6 13 £425 -39.29%
West London - 5 £375 -
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 5 (2.24%) Mattermost
1 5 (2.24%) SharePoint
1 5 (2.24%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.79%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) Confluence
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.90%) SAS
4 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.79%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.45%) BASE24
3 1 (0.45%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.98%) AWS
2 62 (27.80%) Azure
3 47 (21.08%) GCP
4 32 (14.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 21 (9.42%) OpenShift
6 13 (5.83%) GitHub
7 10 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.48%) Datadog
8 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.14%) Akamai
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.14%) Route 53
10 7 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.69%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.24%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.66%) Firewall
2 19 (8.52%) Network Security
3 16 (7.17%) DNS
4 14 (6.28%) VPN
5 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.59%) SSL
6 8 (3.59%) Wireless
7 7 (3.14%) NetScaler
7 7 (3.14%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.69%) BGP
8 6 (2.69%) Ethernet
8 6 (2.69%) InfiniBand
9 5 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.24%) HTTP
9 5 (2.24%) MPLS
9 5 (2.24%) OSPF
9 5 (2.24%) Skype
9 5 (2.24%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.24%) MySQL
3 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.79%) Redis
5 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.35%) Tableau
6 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) Flink
6 2 (0.90%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.45%) Big Data
7 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.45%) KNIME
7 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (15.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.52%) GitLab
3 9 (4.04%) Git
4 6 (2.69%) JIRA
4 6 (2.69%) Postman
5 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.79%) Gatling
5 4 (1.79%) Selenium
5 4 (1.79%) Subversion
6 3 (1.35%) Appium
6 3 (1.35%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.35%) JUnit
6 3 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.35%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.35%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (40.36%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.35%) Finance
3 29 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.31%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.17%) Banking
6 15 (6.73%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.48%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.24%) Military
10 4 (1.79%) Front Office
10 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Retail
11 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Automotive
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (27.35%) Analyst
2 33 (14.80%) Architect
3 27 (12.11%) SOC Analyst
4 26 (11.66%) Senior
5 23 (10.31%) Security Analyst
6 21 (9.42%) Monitoring Analyst
7 19 (8.52%) Security Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.83%) CyberArk Architect
10 12 (5.38%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 11 (4.93%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.04%) Network Engineer
13 9 (4.04%) Operations Analyst
13 9 (4.04%) Site Engineer
13 9 (4.04%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 8 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.59%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.21%) Kafka
1 25 (11.21%) REST
2 17 (7.62%) SAML
3 14 (6.28%) OpenID
4 13 (5.83%) LDAP
5 11 (4.93%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.04%) Spring
7 8 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (3.14%) Middleware
9 5 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (2.24%) JSON
10 4 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.79%) JMS
10 4 (1.79%) Web Services
11 3 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.35%) ISPF
11 3 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (1.35%) Regular Expression
11 3 (1.35%) SOAP
12 2 (0.90%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.11%) Onboarding
2 25 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.73%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.14%) Clustering
5 7 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.14%) PKI
6 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Equities
8 4 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.35%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.39%) Linux
2 18 (8.07%) Unix
3 15 (6.73%) Windows
4 6 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.35%) Android
6 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.35%) CentOS
6 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.35%) zOS
7 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.18%) SIEM
2 64 (28.70%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (27.80%) CI/CD
4 61 (27.35%) Incident Response
5 55 (24.66%) DevOps
6 52 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (19.73%) Observability
9 38 (17.04%) Agile
10 32 (14.35%) Containerisation
11 31 (13.90%) Threat Detection
12 30 (13.45%) Security Operations
13 25 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (10.31%) ITSM
14 23 (10.31%) Threat Modelling
15 22 (9.87%) Mentoring
16 21 (9.42%) ITIL
16 21 (9.42%) Vulnerability Management
17 20 (8.97%) Cloud Security
17 20 (8.97%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.11%) Python
2 30 (13.45%) Bash
3 29 (13.00%) SQL
4 25 (11.21%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.31%) Java
6 16 (7.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (4.04%) Go
8 8 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.24%) Perl
10 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.35%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.35%) JCL
11 3 (1.35%) REXX
11 3 (1.35%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) Swift
12 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.97%) CISSP
4 16 (7.17%) CISM
5 12 (5.38%) GIAC
6 11 (4.93%) Degree
7 9 (4.04%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.14%) CEH
10 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.69%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.35%) GCIA
12 3 (1.35%) GCIH
13 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.90%) CCNP
13 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.90%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.76%) NIST
2 22 (9.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.73%) NCSC
4 12 (5.38%) QA
5 8 (3.59%) GDPR
6 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.45%) COBIT
9 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 34 (15.25%) Docker
2 14 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.24%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.79%) Snort
5 3 (1.35%) Squid
5 3 (1.35%) vSphere
6 2 (0.90%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (24.22%) Kubernetes
2 38 (17.04%) Grafana
3 37 (16.59%) Terraform
4 34 (15.25%) Ansible
5 28 (12.56%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.83%) SCOM
7 10 (4.48%) HP SiteScope
8 7 (3.14%) Argo
9 6 (2.69%) QRadar
10 5 (2.24%) Salt
10 5 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.79%) Nessus
12 3 (1.35%) Control-M
12 3 (1.35%) Fluentd
12 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.35%) Nagios
12 3 (1.35%) Nexpose
12 3 (1.35%) Suricata
12 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 48 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.76%) CrowdStrike
2 24 (10.76%) Qualys
3 22 (9.87%) CyberArk
4 18 (8.07%) Google
5 17 (7.62%) Carbon Black
5 17 (7.62%) Palo Alto
6 15 (6.73%) Cisco
6 15 (6.73%) ServiceNow
7 10 (4.48%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.48%) F5
8 9 (4.04%) AppDynamics
8 9 (4.04%) Remedy
8 9 (4.04%) Tenable
9 8 (3.59%) Oracle
9 8 (3.59%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.59%) Zscaler
10 7 (3.14%) Arista
10 7 (3.14%) VMware
11 6 (2.69%) CheckPoint