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 22 April 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
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 200 237
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 -61
Contract jobs citing Splunk 190 161 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.27% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 2.50% 2.80% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 103 88
10th Percentile £410 £366 £413
25th Percentile £484 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% +1.20% -18.95%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £656
90th Percentile £900 £750 £783
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 £65.00 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.54% +2.50% -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 7,588 5,749 7,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.42% 45.22% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,006 3,778 4,912
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £665
90th Percentile £738 £773 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 89 142
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £13.85
25th Percentile £22.02 £23.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £24.68
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% +17.80% -6.88%
75th Percentile £46.56 £51.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.88 £67.75 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -44.44%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 £600 +10.09% 8
West London -25 3 £375 -28.57%
South London -24 2 £650 +23.81% 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 7 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.11%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.11%) AWS
2 63 (33.16%) Azure
3 39 (20.53%) GCP
4 28 (14.74%) OpenShift
5 27 (14.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 18 (9.47%) Datadog
6 18 (9.47%) GitHub
7 17 (8.95%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (7.37%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.74%) Serverless
13 9 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (4.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.89%) Network Security
2 13 (6.84%) Firewall
3 9 (4.74%) VPN
4 7 (3.68%) Wireless
5 6 (3.16%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.16%) InfiniBand
5 6 (3.16%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.63%) DNS
6 5 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.63%) MPLS
7 3 (1.58%) BGP
7 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.05%) NGFW
8 2 (1.05%) OSPF
8 2 (1.05%) WAN
9 1 (0.53%) DWDM
9 1 (0.53%) IPsec
9 1 (0.53%) RTP
9 1 (0.53%) SNMP
9 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.63%) Big Data
3 5 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.11%) MySQL
4 4 (2.11%) Presto
5 3 (1.58%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.58%) Tableau
6 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.05%) Flink
6 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.53%) KNIME
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (21.58%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.58%) GitLab
3 12 (6.32%) Git
4 10 (5.26%) JIRA
5 5 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.63%) Snyk
6 4 (2.11%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.05%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.53%) Gatling
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 55 (28.95%) Finance
3 22 (11.58%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.00%) Banking
6 13 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.32%) Financial Institution
8 11 (5.79%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.11%) Front Office
9 4 (2.11%) Retail
10 3 (1.58%) Military
11 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Back Office
12 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.37%) Architect
2 32 (16.84%) Analyst
3 22 (11.58%) Senior
4 18 (9.47%) CyberArk Architect
4 18 (9.47%) SOC Analyst
5 15 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.84%) Lead
6 13 (6.84%) Monitoring Analyst
7 12 (6.32%) Site Engineer
8 11 (5.79%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) Consultant
9 8 (4.21%) Security Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.68%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Developer
10 7 (3.68%) Threat Hunter
11 6 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 6 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.16%) Kafka
2 17 (8.95%) REST
3 14 (7.37%) OpenID
3 14 (7.37%) SAML
4 13 (6.84%) LDAP
5 10 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.21%) Spring
7 7 (3.68%) SailPoint
8 6 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.16%) React
9 5 (2.63%) ISPF
9 5 (2.63%) JSON
10 4 (2.11%) CSS
10 4 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.11%) HTML
10 4 (2.11%) JMS
10 4 (2.11%) Middleware
10 4 (2.11%) Play Framework
11 3 (1.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 24 (12.63%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.32%) PKI
4 11 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.63%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.11%) Equities
8 4 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.58%) CMDB
9 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.58%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.05%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.37%) Linux
2 17 (8.95%) Unix
3 10 (5.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.63%) zOS
5 3 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.37%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.58%) SIEM
3 51 (26.84%) DevOps
3 51 (26.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
4 50 (26.32%) Observability
5 43 (22.63%) Incident Response
6 35 (18.42%) Agile
7 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (15.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 28 (14.74%) Containerisation
10 27 (14.21%) Vulnerability Management
11 25 (13.16%) Threat Modelling
12 24 (12.63%) Secrets Management
13 21 (11.05%) Cloud Security
13 21 (11.05%) Security Operations
13 21 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (10.00%) Incident Management
14 19 (10.00%) ITSM
14 19 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.95%) Python
2 23 (12.11%) Java
3 21 (11.05%) Bash
4 20 (10.53%) SQL
5 11 (5.79%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.79%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.74%) Go
7 8 (4.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.63%) JCL
9 5 (2.63%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.63%) REXX
9 5 (2.63%) Scala
10 4 (2.11%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.58%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.53%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.05%) CISSP
4 18 (9.47%) CISM
5 12 (6.32%) GIAC
6 10 (5.26%) Degree
7 8 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.68%) CEH
8 7 (3.68%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.11%) CCSP
11 3 (1.58%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.05%) CCNP
12 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.37%) NIST
2 24 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.95%) NCSC
4 8 (4.21%) QA
5 6 (3.16%) SLA
6 5 (2.63%) GDPR
6 5 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.58%) COBIT
8 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.05%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.05%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.53%) GRC
9 1 (0.53%) GxP
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (16.32%) Docker
2 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.63%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.58%) vSphere
5 2 (1.05%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.53%) etcd
6 1 (0.53%) Snort
6 1 (0.53%) Squid
6 1 (0.53%) Varnish
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 48 (25.26%) Terraform
3 43 (22.63%) Grafana
4 32 (16.84%) Ansible
4 32 (16.84%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.16%) Argo
6 5 (2.63%) Fluentd
6 5 (2.63%) Salt
7 4 (2.11%) Kibana
7 4 (2.11%) QRadar
8 3 (1.58%) Control-M
8 3 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.58%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.05%) CASB
9 2 (1.05%) logstash
9 2 (1.05%) Nessus
9 2 (1.05%) Opsgenie
9 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.05%) SCOM
10 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 35 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.58%) CyberArk
2 22 (11.58%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.95%) Qualys
4 13 (6.84%) CrowdStrike
4 13 (6.84%) Tenable
5 12 (6.32%) Cisco
5 12 (6.32%) Google
6 11 (5.79%) Palo Alto
7 10 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.74%) AppDynamics
9 8 (4.21%) Carbon Black
10 7 (3.68%) Arista
10 7 (3.68%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.16%) Aruba
11 6 (3.16%) BigPanda
11 6 (3.16%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.16%) F5
11 6 (3.16%) Okta
11 6 (3.16%) Red Hat