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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 167 222
Rank change year-on-year -63 +55 -74
Contract jobs citing Splunk 254 218 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.62% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 2.93% 3.47% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 129 104
10th Percentile £350 £400 £414
25th Percentile £450 £460 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £775
90th Percentile £763 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £568
% change year-on-year - -7.49% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.74 - -
25th Percentile £72.48 - -
Median hourly rate £74.93 - -
75th Percentile £77.35 - -
90th Percentile £78.07 - -
England median hourly rate £65.69 - £60.00

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 8,680 6,276 7,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 46.59% 43.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,653 4,079 4,520
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 120 79
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.49% -21.94% -5.98%
75th Percentile £64.69 £37.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.34% -28.14% -20.27%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -25 23 £469 -5.30% 23
West London -22 6 £560 +34.94% 5
East London - 1 £550 - 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 19 (7.48%) Confluence
2 10 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.97%) Apache
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.39%) Mule
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 122 (48.03%) Azure
2 109 (42.91%) AWS
3 55 (21.65%) GCP
4 47 (18.50%) GitHub
5 32 (12.60%) OpenShift
6 28 (11.02%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (8.66%) Datadog
9 20 (7.87%) Entra ID
10 18 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (6.30%) SaaS
13 11 (4.33%) Amazon S3
13 11 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.54%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.15%) PowerApps
16 8 (3.15%) Serverless
17 7 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.63%) Firewall
2 17 (6.69%) DNS
3 15 (5.91%) Network Security
3 15 (5.91%) VPN
4 13 (5.12%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.15%) WAN
6 6 (2.36%) LAN
7 5 (1.97%) SSL
8 4 (1.57%) Internet
9 3 (1.18%) HTTP
9 3 (1.18%) Multicast
9 3 (1.18%) SSH
9 3 (1.18%) VLAN
10 2 (0.79%) 4G
10 2 (0.79%) 5G
10 2 (0.79%) BGP
10 2 (0.79%) DMZ
10 2 (0.79%) SNMP
10 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.72%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.33%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.15%) Power BI
4 6 (2.36%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.97%) Big Data
5 5 (1.97%) Flink
5 5 (1.97%) Looker
6 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.57%) KDB
6 4 (1.57%) MySQL
6 4 (1.57%) Presto
6 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.18%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.18%) Redis
7 3 (1.18%) Tableau
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 43 (16.93%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.81%) Git
3 25 (9.84%) JIRA
4 20 (7.87%) GitLab
5 13 (5.12%) JMeter
6 12 (4.72%) Gatling
7 9 (3.54%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.36%) Selenium
9 5 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.97%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.57%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.57%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.57%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.18%) Xcode
12 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.79%) Gradle
12 2 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 70 (27.56%) Finance
2 68 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.87%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.99%) Banking
5 13 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.94%) Front Office
7 8 (3.15%) Retail
8 5 (1.97%) Law
8 5 (1.97%) Military
9 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Local Government
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (12.60%) DevOps Engineer
1 32 (12.60%) Senior
2 26 (10.24%) Lead
3 22 (8.66%) Analyst
4 21 (8.27%) Architect
5 20 (7.87%) Splunk Engineer
6 17 (6.69%) Security Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.72%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (4.33%) Developer
10 11 (4.33%) Security Analyst
11 10 (3.94%) Performance Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Performance Test Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.89%) Terraform
2 27 (10.63%) Kafka
3 26 (10.24%) REST
4 20 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (6.30%) RESTful
6 14 (5.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.33%) JSON
8 10 (3.94%) .NET
9 9 (3.54%) Middleware
9 9 (3.54%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.76%) Spring
11 6 (2.36%) CSS
11 6 (2.36%) HTML
11 6 (2.36%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.36%) SailPoint
12 5 (1.97%) Apache Beam
12 5 (1.97%) LDAP
12 5 (1.97%) OAuth
12 5 (1.97%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.97%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.39%) Cloud Native
1 34 (13.39%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 16 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.33%) CMDB
5 11 (4.33%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.94%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.36%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.97%) Equities
9 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (29.53%) Linux
2 37 (14.57%) Windows
3 34 (13.39%) Unix
4 21 (8.27%) Windows Server
5 20 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.57%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.57%) VMS
8 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.79%) zOS
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (44.88%) Observability
2 112 (44.09%) CI/CD
3 92 (36.22%) DevOps
4 76 (29.92%) Agile
4 76 (29.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (27.95%) SIEM
6 66 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (22.83%) Incident Response
8 49 (19.29%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (17.32%) Security Operations
11 42 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (16.14%) Containerisation
13 37 (14.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 36 (14.17%) Mentoring
15 33 (12.99%) Incident Management
16 32 (12.60%) Roadmaps
17 30 (11.81%) AI
17 30 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
18 28 (11.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.28%) Python
2 43 (16.93%) Java
3 32 (12.60%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.63%) SQL
5 26 (10.24%) Bash
6 16 (6.30%) Go
6 16 (6.30%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.72%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (4.33%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.54%) Scala
10 8 (3.15%) C#
11 5 (1.97%) Bicep
11 5 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.97%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) Groovy
12 4 (1.57%) Ruby
12 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.18%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.18%) Swift
14 2 (0.79%) JCL
Qualifications
1 89 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 77 (30.31%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.24%) CISSP
4 13 (5.12%) CISM
5 12 (4.72%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (4.72%) Degree
5 12 (4.72%) GIAC
6 10 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.54%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.76%) CCSP
8 7 (2.76%) GCIA
8 7 (2.76%) GCIH
9 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.97%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.97%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.69%) NIST
2 16 (6.30%) QA
3 13 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.36%) ISO 20022
5 6 (2.36%) NCSC
6 4 (1.57%) GDPR
6 4 (1.57%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.39%) GxP
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.39%) SEPA
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (19.69%) Docker
2 11 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (31.50%) Grafana
2 78 (30.71%) Kubernetes
3 55 (21.65%) Prometheus
4 34 (13.39%) Ansible
5 12 (4.72%) Kibana
6 8 (3.15%) Control-M
7 7 (2.76%) QRadar
8 5 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.18%) Nagios
9 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.79%) SCOM
10 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.39%) Puppet
11 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 57 (22.44%) Dynatrace
3 32 (12.60%) CrowdStrike
4 29 (11.42%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.66%) New Relic
6 20 (7.87%) Google
6 20 (7.87%) Oracle
7 18 (7.09%) AppDynamics
8 12 (4.72%) IBM
8 12 (4.72%) Qualys
9 11 (4.33%) Tenable
10 9 (3.54%) CyberArk
10 9 (3.54%) Okta
11 7 (2.76%) Rapid7
11 7 (2.76%) xMatters
12 6 (2.36%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.97%) VMware
14 4 (1.57%) ION Trading
14 4 (1.57%) Ivanti
14 4 (1.57%) SAP