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 3 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 172 236
Rank change year-on-year -22 +64 -55
Contract jobs citing Splunk 214 192 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.47% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 3.01% 3.33% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 119 95
10th Percentile £413 £399 £442
25th Percentile £500 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £688 £744 £675
90th Percentile £900 £810 £818
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -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 7,101 5,773 7,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.65% 44.11% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,687 3,664 4,975
10th Percentile £350 £323 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £752 £763
England median daily rate £507 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.43% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 79 144
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.45 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.99 £16.97
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +36.00% -
75th Percentile £41.85 £59.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.66 £80.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £25.50
% change year-on-year -23.62% +23.23% -27.14%

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 3 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 3 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 -13 25 £651 +18.41% 10
South London -14 9 £425 -39.29% 1
West London - 5 £375 -
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 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.40%) Apache
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.40%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) Mattermost
2 3 (1.40%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.93%) SAS
3 2 (0.93%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.87%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.87%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) BASE24
3 1 (0.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (36.92%) AWS
2 62 (28.97%) Azure
3 47 (21.96%) GCP
4 33 (15.42%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (9.35%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.54%) GitHub
7 11 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.14%) Datadog
8 10 (4.67%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.21%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.27%) Route 53
12 6 (2.80%) Akamai
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.34%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.15%) Firewall
2 23 (10.75%) Network Security
3 15 (7.01%) DNS
4 14 (6.54%) VPN
5 9 (4.21%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.74%) SSL
7 7 (3.27%) BGP
7 7 (3.27%) Wireless
7 7 (3.27%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.80%) Ethernet
8 6 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (2.80%) InfiniBand
8 6 (2.80%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.34%) HTTP
9 5 (2.34%) MPLS
9 5 (2.34%) OSPF
10 3 (1.40%) Skype
10 3 (1.40%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.93%) DMZ
11 2 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.27%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.34%) MySQL
2 5 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.40%) Redis
3 3 (1.40%) Tableau
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.47%) Flink
5 1 (0.47%) KNIME
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (17.29%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.28%) GitLab
3 8 (3.74%) Git
4 6 (2.80%) JIRA
4 6 (2.80%) Postman
5 4 (1.87%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.87%) Gatling
5 4 (1.87%) Selenium
5 4 (1.87%) Snyk
6 3 (1.40%) Appium
6 3 (1.40%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.40%) JUnit
6 3 (1.40%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.40%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.40%) Subversion
6 3 (1.40%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
General
1 87 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (28.04%) Finance
3 28 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.75%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (8.41%) Banking
6 15 (7.01%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (5.14%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.34%) Military
10 4 (1.87%) Front Office
10 4 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Retail
13 1 (0.47%) Automotive
13 1 (0.47%) Billing
13 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Games
13 1 (0.47%) Legal
13 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (26.17%) Analyst
2 35 (16.36%) Architect
3 29 (13.55%) Senior
4 26 (12.15%) SOC Analyst
5 21 (9.81%) Security Analyst
6 20 (9.35%) Monitoring Analyst
7 17 (7.94%) Security Engineer
8 16 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) CyberArk Architect
9 13 (6.07%) Security Architect
10 12 (5.61%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.21%) Lead
12 9 (4.21%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.21%) Threat Hunter
13 8 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Operations Analyst
13 8 (3.74%) Senior Security Analyst
13 8 (3.74%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.28%) REST
2 21 (9.81%) Kafka
3 17 (7.94%) SAML
4 14 (6.54%) OpenID
5 13 (6.07%) LDAP
6 11 (5.14%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.21%) Spring
8 8 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (3.27%) Middleware
10 5 (2.34%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (2.34%) JSON
11 4 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.87%) JMS
11 4 (1.87%) Web Services
12 3 (1.40%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.40%) ISPF
12 3 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (1.40%) SOAP
13 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.62%) Onboarding
2 25 (11.68%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.01%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.74%) PKI
5 8 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.34%) Clustering
8 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.87%) Equities
9 4 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.87%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.40%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (18.22%) Linux
2 16 (7.48%) Unix
3 15 (7.01%) Windows
4 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.87%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.40%) Android
6 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.40%) CentOS
6 3 (1.40%) zOS
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (34.58%) SIEM
2 64 (29.91%) CI/CD
3 61 (28.50%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (27.10%) Incident Response
5 54 (25.23%) DevOps
6 51 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (21.03%) Observability
9 38 (17.76%) Agile
10 30 (14.02%) Containerisation
11 27 (12.62%) Security Operations
11 27 (12.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (12.62%) Threat Detection
12 24 (11.21%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (10.75%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.28%) Threat Modelling
15 21 (9.81%) Cloud Security
15 21 (9.81%) ITIL
15 21 (9.81%) ITSM
16 20 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.23%) Python
2 28 (13.08%) Bash
3 26 (12.15%) SQL
4 22 (10.28%) Java
5 19 (8.88%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (4.21%) Go
8 8 (3.74%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.87%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.87%) Perl
10 3 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.40%) JCL
10 3 (1.40%) REXX
10 3 (1.40%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.40%) Swift
11 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.81%) CISSP
4 18 (8.41%) CISM
5 12 (5.61%) Degree
6 11 (5.14%) GIAC
7 8 (3.74%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.80%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.80%) CEH
9 6 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.40%) CCNP
12 3 (1.40%) CCSP
13 2 (0.93%) GCIA
13 2 (0.93%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.15%) NIST
2 22 (10.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.48%) NCSC
4 13 (6.07%) QA
5 7 (3.27%) GDPR
6 6 (2.80%) SLA
7 5 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.87%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.47%) COBIT
10 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.47%) GRC
10 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 34 (15.89%) Docker
2 12 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.80%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.40%) Snort
5 3 (1.40%) Squid
5 3 (1.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.93%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.47%) NFS
7 1 (0.47%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (24.30%) Kubernetes
2 41 (19.16%) Terraform
3 39 (18.22%) Grafana
4 35 (16.36%) Ansible
5 29 (13.55%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.21%) SCOM
7 7 (3.27%) Argo
7 7 (3.27%) HP SiteScope
8 5 (2.34%) QRadar
8 5 (2.34%) Salt
9 4 (1.87%) Nessus
10 3 (1.40%) Control-M
10 3 (1.40%) Fluentd
10 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.40%) Nagios
10 3 (1.40%) Nexpose
10 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.40%) Suricata
10 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.93%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 45 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.21%) Qualys
3 21 (9.81%) CrowdStrike
4 19 (8.88%) CyberArk
5 17 (7.94%) Google
5 17 (7.94%) Palo Alto
6 16 (7.48%) ServiceNow
7 15 (7.01%) Carbon Black
7 15 (7.01%) Cisco
8 11 (5.14%) Tenable
8 11 (5.14%) Zscaler
9 10 (4.67%) AppDynamics
9 10 (4.67%) Dynatrace
10 8 (3.74%) F5
10 8 (3.74%) Oracle
11 7 (3.27%) Arista
11 7 (3.27%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.27%) Remedy
11 7 (3.27%) VMware
12 6 (2.80%) BigPanda