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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 178 228
Rank change year-on-year -44 +50 -84
Contract jobs citing Splunk 237 210 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.56% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 2.75% 3.38% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 125 103
10th Percentile £383 £391 £403
25th Percentile £450 £447 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £603 £635 £695
90th Percentile £724 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% -5.83%
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 £65.57 - £47.50

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 8,610 6,222 7,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.80% 46.20% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,594 4,034 4,670
10th Percentile £348 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £20.69 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63.00 £39.69 £63.22
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.25
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.31%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -26 18 £450 -2.70% 10
West London -16 6 £560 +34.94% 11
East London - 1 £550 - 2
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 20 (8.44%) Confluence
2 10 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.53%) Apache
4 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.69%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) MTS
6 1 (0.42%) Mule
6 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 107 (45.15%) Azure
2 104 (43.88%) AWS
3 48 (20.25%) GCP
4 47 (19.83%) GitHub
5 29 (12.24%) OpenShift
6 25 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.28%) Entra ID
8 20 (8.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (8.02%) Datadog
10 17 (7.17%) SaaS
11 14 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.49%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
15 9 (3.80%) Serverless
16 8 (3.38%) PowerApps
17 7 (2.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.55%) Firewall
2 16 (6.75%) DNS
3 15 (6.33%) VPN
4 14 (5.91%) Network Security
5 10 (4.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.53%) WAN
7 4 (1.69%) Internet
7 4 (1.69%) LAN
8 3 (1.27%) Multicast
8 3 (1.27%) SSL
8 3 (1.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.84%) BGP
9 2 (0.84%) DMZ
9 2 (0.84%) HTTP
9 2 (0.84%) SSH
10 1 (0.42%) Broadband
10 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.42%) RTP
10 1 (0.42%) SMTP
10 1 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.22%) MongoDB
1 10 (4.22%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.38%) Power BI
3 7 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.53%) Big Data
4 6 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.53%) Flink
5 5 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.11%) Looker
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.69%) KDB
6 4 (1.69%) Presto
6 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.27%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.27%) MySQL
8 2 (0.84%) Redis
8 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (15.61%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.81%) Git
3 24 (10.13%) JIRA
4 16 (6.75%) GitLab
5 11 (4.64%) Gatling
5 11 (4.64%) JMeter
6 7 (2.95%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.11%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.11%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.69%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.69%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.27%) Xcode
10 2 (0.84%) Gradle
10 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.84%) JUnit
10 2 (0.84%) Maven
10 2 (0.84%) Selenium
10 2 (0.84%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (29.96%) Finance
2 61 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 47 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.08%) Banking
5 12 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.22%) Front Office
7 7 (2.95%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.11%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Local Government
10 3 (1.27%) Military
10 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (14.35%) Senior
2 28 (11.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (10.55%) Lead
4 22 (9.28%) Analyst
5 21 (8.86%) Architect
6 19 (8.02%) Splunk Engineer
7 14 (5.91%) Developer
8 12 (5.06%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.64%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.64%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Security Analyst
10 10 (4.22%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.80%) Consultant
11 9 (3.80%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Performance Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Performance Test Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.38%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (29.54%) Terraform
2 24 (10.13%) Kafka
3 22 (9.28%) REST
4 19 (8.02%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (5.91%) RESTful
6 13 (5.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.22%) .NET
8 9 (3.80%) JSON
8 9 (3.80%) SailPoint
8 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.95%) React
9 7 (2.95%) Spring
10 6 (2.53%) CSS
10 6 (2.53%) HTML
10 6 (2.53%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (2.11%) Apache Beam
11 5 (2.11%) Middleware
12 4 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (1.69%) Loki
12 4 (1.69%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.08%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.64%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.22%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.80%) Cyber Defence
8 8 (3.38%) CMDB
8 8 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.95%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.53%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.53%) PKI
11 5 (2.11%) Equities
11 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.69%) Linux
2 33 (13.92%) Windows
3 29 (12.24%) Unix
4 19 (8.02%) Windows Server
5 18 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.69%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.27%) VMS
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.84%) zOS
10 1 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (41.35%) CI/CD
2 97 (40.93%) Observability
3 79 (33.33%) DevOps
4 70 (29.54%) Agile
5 69 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (27.43%) SIEM
7 56 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (21.52%) Incident Response
9 47 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
10 42 (17.72%) Security Operations
11 38 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (15.19%) Mentoring
14 34 (14.35%) Containerisation
14 34 (14.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 33 (13.92%) Incident Management
16 31 (13.08%) Roadmaps
17 27 (11.39%) Cloud Security
18 26 (10.97%) AI
18 26 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.18%) Python
2 38 (16.03%) Java
3 30 (12.66%) PowerShell
4 23 (9.70%) Bash
5 22 (9.28%) SQL
6 13 (5.49%) Go
6 13 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.49%) Search Processing Language
6 13 (5.49%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.22%) Scala
8 6 (2.53%) C#
8 6 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.11%) Bicep
9 5 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.69%) Perl
10 4 (1.69%) Ruby
11 3 (1.27%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.27%) Swift
12 2 (0.84%) Groovy
12 2 (0.84%) JCL
Qualifications
1 86 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.80%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.39%) CISSP
4 16 (6.75%) CISM
5 13 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.06%) Degree
6 12 (5.06%) GIAC
7 10 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.38%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.95%) CCSP
10 7 (2.95%) GCIA
10 7 (2.95%) GCIH
11 6 (2.53%) CEH
12 5 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.11%) GSEC
12 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.70%) NIST
2 17 (7.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.22%) QA
4 7 (2.95%) NCSC
5 6 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.11%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.69%) GDPR
7 4 (1.69%) ISO 15022
7 4 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.84%) COBIT
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.42%) GxP
10 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.42%) SEPA
10 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (18.57%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.42%) etcd
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (29.96%) Kubernetes
2 68 (28.69%) Grafana
3 52 (21.94%) Prometheus
4 28 (11.81%) Ansible
5 12 (5.06%) Kibana
6 8 (3.38%) Control-M
7 7 (2.95%) QRadar
8 5 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.27%) Nagios
9 3 (1.27%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.84%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.84%) SCOM
11 1 (0.42%) CASB
11 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.42%) Puppet
11 1 (0.42%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 53 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 47 (19.83%) Dynatrace
3 29 (12.24%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (10.97%) ServiceNow
5 21 (8.86%) Oracle
6 20 (8.44%) New Relic
7 18 (7.59%) Google
8 16 (6.75%) AppDynamics
9 14 (5.91%) Qualys
9 14 (5.91%) Tenable
10 12 (5.06%) CyberArk
11 11 (4.64%) IBM
12 9 (3.80%) Okta
13 7 (2.95%) Rapid7
13 7 (2.95%) xMatters
14 6 (2.53%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.69%) ION Trading
15 4 (1.69%) Ivanti
15 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.69%) VMware