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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 175 245
Rank change year-on-year -49 +70 -66
Contract jobs citing Splunk 198 190 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.47% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.73% 3.29% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 124 89
10th Percentile £413 £404 £434
25th Percentile £500 £446 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £712 £725 £675
90th Percentile £900 £800 £813
England median daily rate £525 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.18% -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 7,263 5,780 7,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.66% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,779 3,721 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.37% -3.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 82 145
10th Percentile £18.02 £20.90 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.52 £80.43 £69.80
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 25 £613 +13.43% 16
West London - 3 £375 -
South London -17 2 £650 - 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 5 (2.53%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.01%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.02%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) BASE24
3 1 (0.51%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.89%) AWS
2 59 (29.80%) Azure
3 40 (20.20%) GCP
4 31 (15.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (10.10%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.58%) GitHub
7 11 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.56%) Datadog
8 10 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.55%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.54%) Route 53
12 5 (2.53%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.60%) Network Security
2 18 (9.09%) Firewall
3 10 (5.05%) VPN
4 8 (4.04%) DNS
5 7 (3.54%) Wireless
6 6 (3.03%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (3.03%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.03%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.53%) MPLS
8 4 (2.02%) BGP
8 4 (2.02%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.01%) DMZ
9 2 (1.01%) NGFW
9 2 (1.01%) OSPF
9 2 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.01%) SSL
9 2 (1.01%) VSAN
9 2 (1.01%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.02%) MySQL
2 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.52%) Tableau
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.01%) Flink
4 2 (1.01%) Redis
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.51%) KNIME
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (19.19%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.62%) GitLab
3 9 (4.55%) Git
4 8 (4.04%) JIRA
5 5 (2.53%) Snyk
6 4 (2.02%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.02%) Postman
6 4 (2.02%) Selenium
7 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.52%) Gatling
7 3 (1.52%) JUnit
7 3 (1.52%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.01%) Hamcrest
8 2 (1.01%) Subversion
9 1 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 76 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.25%) Finance
3 27 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.62%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (8.08%) Banking
6 14 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (5.56%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.53%) Military
10 4 (2.02%) Front Office
11 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Retail
13 1 (0.51%) Automotive
13 1 (0.51%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.51%) Games
13 1 (0.51%) Legal
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (23.74%) Analyst
2 35 (17.68%) Architect
3 28 (14.14%) Senior
4 24 (12.12%) SOC Analyst
5 20 (10.10%) Security Analyst
6 19 (9.60%) Monitoring Analyst
7 16 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) CyberArk Architect
9 13 (6.57%) Security Architect
9 13 (6.57%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.06%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.56%) Lead
12 10 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.55%) Consultant
13 9 (4.55%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 8 (4.04%) Developer
14 8 (4.04%) Senior Security Analyst
15 7 (3.54%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.61%) Kafka
1 21 (10.61%) REST
2 14 (7.07%) OpenID
2 14 (7.07%) SAML
3 13 (6.57%) LDAP
4 11 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.55%) Spring
6 8 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (2.53%) JSON
8 4 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.02%) JMS
8 4 (2.02%) Middleware
9 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.52%) ISPF
9 3 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.52%) React
10 2 (1.01%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.01%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.01%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 23 (11.62%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.58%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (5.56%) PKI
5 10 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.53%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.02%) Clustering
9 4 (2.02%) Equities
9 4 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.52%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.14%) Linux
2 15 (7.58%) Windows
3 14 (7.07%) Unix
4 4 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.52%) zOS
6 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.51%) Android
7 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.51%) CentOS
7 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.37%) SIEM
2 61 (30.81%) CI/CD
3 59 (29.80%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (28.28%) Incident Response
5 50 (25.25%) DevOps
6 45 (22.73%) Observability
7 44 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (18.69%) Agile
10 28 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 28 (14.14%) Vulnerability Management
11 26 (13.13%) Containerisation
11 26 (13.13%) Threat Detection
12 25 (12.63%) Security Operations
13 24 (12.12%) Mentoring
13 24 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
14 22 (11.11%) Cloud Security
15 21 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (9.60%) Secrets Management
17 17 (8.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.25%) Python
2 23 (11.62%) Bash
3 22 (11.11%) Java
4 19 (9.60%) SQL
5 12 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.55%) Go
8 6 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.52%) JCL
10 3 (1.52%) Perl
10 3 (1.52%) REXX
10 3 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) Bicep
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.62%) CISSP
4 20 (10.10%) CISM
5 12 (6.06%) GIAC
6 9 (4.55%) Degree
7 8 (4.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (4.04%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.54%) CEH
8 7 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.02%) CCSP
10 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.52%) CCNP
10 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.01%) GCIA
11 2 (1.01%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.14%) NIST
2 24 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.59%) NCSC
4 11 (5.56%) QA
5 6 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.03%) SLA
6 5 (2.53%) GDPR
7 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.01%) COBIT
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.01%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (16.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.52%) vSphere
5 2 (1.01%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.01%) Snort
5 2 (1.01%) Squid
6 1 (0.51%) Varnish
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (24.75%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.70%) Grafana
2 39 (19.70%) Terraform
3 31 (15.66%) Ansible
4 27 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.54%) Argo
6 5 (2.53%) Salt
7 4 (2.02%) QRadar
8 3 (1.52%) Control-M
8 3 (1.52%) Fluentd
8 3 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.52%) Nessus
8 3 (1.52%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.01%) CASB
9 2 (1.01%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.01%) logstash
9 2 (1.01%) Opsgenie
9 2 (1.01%) SCOM
9 2 (1.01%) Suricata
9 2 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.11%) Qualys
3 18 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 18 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 17 (8.59%) Google
5 16 (8.08%) ServiceNow
6 15 (7.58%) Cisco
6 15 (7.58%) Palo Alto
7 13 (6.57%) Carbon Black
7 13 (6.57%) Tenable
8 10 (5.05%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.55%) AppDynamics
10 8 (4.04%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.54%) Arista
12 6 (3.03%) Aruba
12 6 (3.03%) BigPanda
12 6 (3.03%) Cribl.io
12 6 (3.03%) F5
12 6 (3.03%) Okta
12 6 (3.03%) Red Hat