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 2 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
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 184 231
Rank change year-on-year -30 +47 -52
Contract jobs citing Splunk 200 176 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.40% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.68% 3.10% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 113 93
10th Percentile £412 £382 £416
25th Percentile £500 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -12.35%
75th Percentile £724 £695 £675
90th Percentile £900 £770 £808
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 £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.24% +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 7,467 5,679 7,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.09% 45.06% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,934 3,722 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £325 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 85 142
10th Percentile £18.01 £17.30 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £16.90
Median hourly rate £27.61 £29.07 £24.68
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +17.80% -4.02%
75th Percentile £41.75 £53.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £67.26 £66.50 £69.95
England median hourly rate £25.77 £29.04 £24.00
% change year-on-year -11.25% +20.98% -33.33%

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 2 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 2 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 -11 24 £645 +19.44% 11
West London -18 3 £375 -28.57%
South London -20 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 5 (2.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.50%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.00%) AWS
2 65 (32.50%) Azure
3 45 (22.50%) GCP
4 32 (16.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 25 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 16 (8.00%) GitHub
7 14 (7.00%) Datadog
8 12 (6.00%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.00%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.50%) Route 53
13 7 (3.50%) Serverless
14 6 (3.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.00%) Network Security
2 16 (8.00%) Firewall
3 9 (4.50%) VPN
4 8 (4.00%) DNS
5 7 (3.50%) Wireless
6 6 (3.00%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.00%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.00%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.50%) MPLS
8 3 (1.50%) BGP
8 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.00%) NGFW
9 2 (1.00%) OSPF
9 2 (1.00%) WAN
10 1 (0.50%) DWDM
10 1 (0.50%) IPsec
10 1 (0.50%) RTP
10 1 (0.50%) VSAN
10 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.00%) MySQL
3 3 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.50%) Tableau
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) Flink
4 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) KNIME
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (18.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.00%) GitLab
3 10 (5.00%) Git
4 7 (3.50%) JIRA
5 5 (2.50%) Snyk
6 4 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.00%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.00%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Appium
9 1 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 70 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.50%) Finance
3 26 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.00%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (8.50%) Banking
6 13 (6.50%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.50%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.50%) Military
10 4 (2.00%) Front Office
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Automotive
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (23.50%) Analyst
2 33 (16.50%) Architect
3 29 (14.50%) Senior
4 25 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 20 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 18 (9.00%) Monitoring Analyst
7 16 (8.00%) CyberArk Architect
8 15 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (7.00%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Lead
12 10 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.50%) Consultant
13 9 (4.50%) Security Architect
13 9 (4.50%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 8 (4.00%) Senior Security Analyst
15 7 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 7 (3.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.00%) Kafka
2 18 (9.00%) REST
3 14 (7.00%) OpenID
3 14 (7.00%) SAML
4 13 (6.50%) LDAP
5 10 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.00%) Spring
7 6 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.50%) ISPF
8 5 (2.50%) JSON
8 5 (2.50%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.00%) JMS
9 4 (2.00%) Middleware
9 4 (2.00%) React
10 2 (1.00%) 802.1X
10 2 (1.00%) Flash
10 2 (1.00%) gRPC
10 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.00%) Onboarding
2 23 (11.50%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.50%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (5.50%) PKI
5 10 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.50%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.50%) Mainframe
9 5 (2.50%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.00%) Equities
11 3 (1.50%) CMDB
11 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.50%) Linux
2 13 (6.50%) Unix
3 10 (5.00%) Windows
4 5 (2.50%) zOS
5 3 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) CentOS
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.00%) SIEM
2 65 (32.50%) CI/CD
3 61 (30.50%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (28.00%) Incident Response
5 51 (25.50%) DevOps
6 48 (24.00%) Observability
7 47 (23.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (19.00%) Agile
10 29 (14.50%) Vulnerability Management
11 28 (14.00%) Security Operations
11 28 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (13.50%) Threat Modelling
13 25 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 25 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 25 (12.50%) Threat Detection
14 22 (11.00%) Cloud Security
15 21 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (9.50%) ITSM
16 19 (9.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.50%) Python
2 22 (11.00%) Bash
3 18 (9.00%) Java
4 16 (8.00%) SQL
5 12 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (5.50%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.00%) Go
8 6 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.50%) JCL
9 5 (2.50%) REXX
9 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.50%) Perl
12 2 (1.00%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
13 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.50%) CISSP
4 21 (10.50%) CISM
5 14 (7.00%) GIAC
6 10 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (4.50%) CEH
7 9 (4.50%) Degree
8 8 (4.00%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.00%) CCSP
11 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.00%) CCNP
13 1 (0.50%) CCIE
13 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.00%) NIST
2 24 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.50%) NCSC
4 9 (4.50%) QA
5 6 (3.00%) SLA
6 5 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.00%) GDPR
8 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.50%) COBIT
9 2 (1.00%) ISO 15022
9 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.50%) GRC
10 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (14.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.50%) vSphere
5 2 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.00%) Snort
5 2 (1.00%) Squid
5 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.50%) etcd
6 1 (0.50%) Varnish
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.00%) Terraform
3 40 (20.00%) Grafana
4 31 (15.50%) Prometheus
5 29 (14.50%) Ansible
6 7 (3.50%) Argo
7 5 (2.50%) Fluentd
7 5 (2.50%) Salt
8 4 (2.00%) QRadar
9 3 (1.50%) Control-M
9 3 (1.50%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.50%) Nessus
9 3 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.00%) CASB
10 2 (1.00%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.00%) logstash
10 2 (1.00%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.00%) SCOM
10 2 (1.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 42 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.50%) Qualys
3 20 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 20 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 17 (8.50%) Google
5 15 (7.50%) CrowdStrike
5 15 (7.50%) Tenable
6 14 (7.00%) Cisco
7 13 (6.50%) Palo Alto
8 12 (6.00%) Carbon Black
9 9 (4.50%) AppDynamics
9 9 (4.50%) Dynatrace
10 8 (4.00%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.50%) Arista
12 6 (3.00%) Aruba
12 6 (3.00%) BigPanda
12 6 (3.00%) CheckPoint
12 6 (3.00%) F5
12 6 (3.00%) Okta
12 6 (3.00%) Red Hat