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 26 January 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
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 164 218
Rank change year-on-year -1 +54 -34
Contract jobs citing Splunk 229 221 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.60% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 3.42% 3.66% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 130 136
10th Percentile £411 £413 £450
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £769 £798
90th Percentile £888 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -9.21% +0.57% -4.17%
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 £87.50 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +54.19% - -

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 6,700 6,040 7,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.14% 43.79% 40.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 3,725 5,088
10th Percentile £343 £313 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 69 144
10th Percentile £17.69 £21.45 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.95
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £42.75 £55.75 £46.85
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -7.69% +1.56%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -12 21 £613 +11.36% 9
South London +9 18 £425 -39.29% 3
West London - 5 £375 - 3
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 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.62%) Mattermost
2 6 (2.62%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
3 5 (2.18%) Confluence
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.44%) BASE24
3 1 (0.44%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.06%) AWS
2 61 (26.64%) Azure
3 41 (17.90%) GCP
4 34 (14.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (9.61%) OpenShift
6 17 (7.42%) GitHub
7 10 (4.37%) Datadog
8 8 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.49%) OneDrive
9 7 (3.06%) Akamai
9 7 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.06%) Route 53
9 7 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.62%) Apigee
10 6 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.35%) Firewall
2 17 (7.42%) Network Security
3 16 (6.99%) DNS
4 11 (4.80%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.93%) SSL
5 9 (3.93%) VPN
6 7 (3.06%) HTTP
6 7 (3.06%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.62%) Skype
7 6 (2.62%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.18%) BGP
9 4 (1.75%) OSPF
9 4 (1.75%) Wireless
10 3 (1.31%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.87%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.87%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.87%) SNMP
11 2 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.87%) SSH
12 1 (0.44%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.18%) MySQL
3 5 (2.18%) Redis
3 5 (2.18%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.87%) Flink
6 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Power BI
6 2 (0.87%) Tableau
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.44%) Big Data
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 39 (17.03%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.73%) GitLab
3 13 (5.68%) Git
4 9 (3.93%) JIRA
4 9 (3.93%) Postman
5 7 (3.06%) Subversion
6 6 (2.62%) JUnit
7 5 (2.18%) Appium
7 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.18%) Charles Proxy
7 5 (2.18%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.18%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (2.18%) Selenium
7 5 (2.18%) XCUITest
8 4 (1.75%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.75%) Maven
8 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.31%) Cypress.io
General
1 90 (39.30%) Social Skills
2 73 (31.88%) Finance
3 28 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.61%) Banking
5 19 (8.30%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.68%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.18%) Military
9 3 (1.31%) Local Government
9 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Front Office
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (27.07%) Analyst
2 32 (13.97%) Architect
3 31 (13.54%) Senior
4 27 (11.79%) SOC Analyst
5 24 (10.48%) Security Analyst
6 23 (10.04%) Security Engineer
7 22 (9.61%) Monitoring Analyst
8 15 (6.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (6.11%) Support Analyst
10 13 (5.68%) CyberArk Architect
10 13 (5.68%) Operations Analyst
10 13 (5.68%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 11 (4.80%) Lead
12 10 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (3.93%) Developer
13 9 (3.93%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.93%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (3.49%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.17%) Kafka
2 20 (8.73%) REST
3 17 (7.42%) SAML
4 15 (6.55%) OpenID
5 13 (5.68%) LDAP
6 10 (4.37%) Web Services
7 6 (2.62%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.18%) Middleware
8 5 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.18%) Spring
9 4 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.31%) ISPF
10 3 (1.31%) JSON
10 3 (1.31%) Node.js
10 3 (1.31%) Regular Expression
10 3 (1.31%) SOAP
10 3 (1.31%) Swagger
10 3 (1.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.97%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.92%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.42%) Cyber Defence
4 10 (4.37%) Clustering
5 8 (3.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.06%) PKI
7 6 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.75%) Replication
10 3 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.31%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.87%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.47%) Linux
2 14 (6.11%) Unix
3 13 (5.68%) Windows
4 10 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.18%) Android
5 5 (2.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.75%) Solaris
6 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.31%) CentOS
7 3 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.31%) zOS
8 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.88%) SIEM
2 67 (29.26%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (27.07%) CI/CD
3 62 (27.07%) DevOps
4 61 (26.64%) Incident Response
5 54 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (20.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (18.78%) Agile
8 38 (16.59%) Threat Detection
9 35 (15.28%) Observability
10 31 (13.54%) Containerisation
11 26 (11.35%) Security Operations
12 25 (10.92%) ITSM
12 25 (10.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 25 (10.92%) Threat Modelling
13 22 (9.61%) ITIL
14 20 (8.73%) High Availability
14 20 (8.73%) Microservices
14 20 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (8.73%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.71%) Python
2 33 (14.41%) SQL
3 31 (13.54%) Bash
4 29 (12.66%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.86%) Java
5 18 (7.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (3.49%) Go
7 7 (3.06%) Perl
7 7 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.18%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.18%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.18%) Swift
9 3 (1.31%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.31%) JCL
9 3 (1.31%) REXX
9 3 (1.31%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.87%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.73%) CISSP
4 17 (7.42%) Degree
5 14 (6.11%) CISM
6 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.93%) CEH
7 9 (3.93%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (3.49%) GIAC
9 7 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.18%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.31%) CISA
13 3 (1.31%) GCIA
13 3 (1.31%) GCIH
13 3 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.87%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.92%) NIST
2 23 (10.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.55%) NCSC
4 12 (5.24%) GDPR
5 10 (4.37%) QA
6 6 (2.62%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.75%) SLA
9 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.87%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.44%) COBIT
10 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (15.72%) Docker
2 18 (7.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.18%) Snort
5 4 (1.75%) NFS
5 4 (1.75%) Squid
5 4 (1.75%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.87%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (24.45%) Kubernetes
2 35 (15.28%) Terraform
3 31 (13.54%) Ansible
4 27 (11.79%) Grafana
5 23 (10.04%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.86%) SCOM
7 14 (6.11%) HP SiteScope
8 10 (4.37%) QRadar
9 8 (3.49%) Argo
10 5 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.75%) CSIRT
11 4 (1.75%) Nessus
11 4 (1.75%) Nexpose
11 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.75%) Suricata
12 3 (1.31%) Fluentd
12 3 (1.31%) Nagios
13 2 (0.87%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.87%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.79%) CrowdStrike
3 26 (11.35%) Qualys
4 25 (10.92%) CyberArk
5 18 (7.86%) Carbon Black
6 17 (7.42%) Google
7 15 (6.55%) Dynatrace
7 15 (6.55%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.24%) Cisco
8 12 (5.24%) Remedy
9 10 (4.37%) Red Hat
9 10 (4.37%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.93%) Darktrace
10 9 (3.93%) Oracle
10 9 (3.93%) Tenable
10 9 (3.93%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.49%) VMware
12 6 (2.62%) AppDynamics
12 6 (2.62%) BMC
12 6 (2.62%) F5