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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 163 188
Rank change year-on-year -53 +25 -32
Contract jobs citing Splunk 257 238 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.78% 1.28%
As % of the Vendors category 2.92% 3.83% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 138 124
10th Percentile £362 £413 £414
25th Percentile £435 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -11.04% -
75th Percentile £613 £655 £775
90th Percentile £750 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £530 £565
% change year-on-year -0.94% -6.19% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £81.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £82.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £88.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £94.69 -
90th Percentile - £94.88 -
England median hourly rate £65.57 £88.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.12% +47.92% -

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 8,812 6,216 6,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.97% 46.46% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,746 4,044 4,422
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
England median daily rate £517 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% -3.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 120 75
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.40 £18.28
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -28.14% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62.94 £37.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.88 £87.80
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.04 £35.18
% change year-on-year +2.85% -28.83% -20.94%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -28 28 £506 +2.27% 6
West London -17 6 £560 +34.94%
East London - 1 £550 -
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 18 (7.00%) Confluence
2 6 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.95%) Apache
4 4 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) MTS
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 126 (49.03%) Azure
2 110 (42.80%) AWS
3 61 (23.74%) GCP
4 47 (18.29%) GitHub
5 31 (12.06%) OpenShift
6 30 (11.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 22 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (7.78%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (7.78%) Datadog
9 19 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (7.39%) Entra ID
10 14 (5.45%) SaaS
11 10 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.50%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.11%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.11%) Serverless
14 7 (2.72%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.89%) Firewall
2 18 (7.00%) DNS
3 17 (6.61%) VPN
4 16 (6.23%) Network Security
5 15 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.11%) WAN
7 6 (2.33%) LAN
8 5 (1.95%) Internet
8 5 (1.95%) SSL
8 5 (1.95%) VLAN
9 3 (1.17%) BGP
9 3 (1.17%) HTTP
9 3 (1.17%) Multicast
9 3 (1.17%) SSH
10 2 (0.78%) 4G
10 2 (0.78%) 5G
10 2 (0.78%) DMZ
10 2 (0.78%) OSPF
10 2 (0.78%) SNMP
10 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
1 10 (3.89%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.11%) Power BI
3 6 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.33%) Redis
3 6 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.95%) Flink
4 5 (1.95%) Looker
5 4 (1.56%) KDB
5 4 (1.56%) MySQL
5 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.17%) Tableau
7 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.39%) Big Data
8 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.39%) Metadata
8 1 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 42 (16.34%) Jenkins
2 33 (12.84%) Git
3 26 (10.12%) JIRA
4 21 (8.17%) GitLab
5 13 (5.06%) JMeter
6 12 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.67%) Gatling
7 6 (2.33%) Selenium
8 5 (1.95%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.95%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.56%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.56%) HP UFT
9 4 (1.56%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.17%) Postman
10 3 (1.17%) Xcode
11 2 (0.78%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 75 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 69 (26.85%) Finance
3 52 (20.23%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.84%) Banking
5 15 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.89%) Front Office
7 8 (3.11%) Retail
8 6 (2.33%) Military
9 5 (1.95%) Law
10 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Back Office
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) Games
13 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (13.62%) Senior
2 33 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (9.73%) Lead
4 23 (8.95%) Architect
5 21 (8.17%) Analyst
5 21 (8.17%) Security Engineer
6 20 (7.78%) Splunk Engineer
7 14 (5.45%) Developer
7 14 (5.45%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.06%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Security Architect
9 12 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (4.28%) Security Analyst
11 10 (3.89%) Performance Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Performance Test Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (31.91%) Terraform
2 29 (11.28%) Kafka
3 28 (10.89%) REST
4 20 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (6.23%) RESTful
6 13 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (4.67%) .NET
7 12 (4.67%) JSON
8 10 (3.89%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.50%) Middleware
10 8 (3.11%) Spring
11 7 (2.72%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.72%) React
12 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.33%) Flask
12 6 (2.33%) LDAP
12 6 (2.33%) OAuth
12 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
13 5 (1.95%) HTML
13 5 (1.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 33 (12.84%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.45%) CMDB
6 12 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.28%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (4.28%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.28%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.89%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (3.11%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.95%) Equities
12 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.17%) Clustering
14 3 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.35%) Linux
2 43 (16.73%) Windows
3 32 (12.45%) Unix
4 24 (9.34%) Windows Server
5 21 (8.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.95%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.56%) VMS
9 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.39%) Android
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (44.75%) Observability
2 114 (44.36%) CI/CD
3 98 (38.13%) DevOps
4 77 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (29.57%) Agile
6 73 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (28.40%) SIEM
7 56 (21.79%) Incident Response
8 49 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (18.68%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 45 (17.51%) Security Operations
11 43 (16.73%) Containerisation
12 38 (14.79%) Mentoring
13 35 (13.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (12.84%) AI
14 33 (12.84%) Incident Management
14 33 (12.84%) Roadmaps
15 31 (12.06%) Root Cause Analysis
15 31 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 87 (33.85%) Python
2 42 (16.34%) Java
3 35 (13.62%) PowerShell
4 29 (11.28%) Bash
5 26 (10.12%) SQL
6 18 (7.00%) Shell Script
7 17 (6.61%) Go
8 12 (4.67%) Search Processing Language
9 10 (3.89%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.50%) C#
11 7 (2.72%) Bicep
12 5 (1.95%) Perl
12 5 (1.95%) Scala
12 5 (1.95%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.56%) Groovy
13 4 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.56%) Ruby
13 4 (1.56%) Swift
14 3 (1.17%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 89 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 76 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.51%) CISSP
4 15 (5.84%) Degree
5 14 (5.45%) CISM
6 12 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (3.89%) GIAC
9 8 (3.11%) CCSP
9 8 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.72%) GCIA
10 7 (2.72%) GCIH
10 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.95%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (1.95%) GSEC
13 4 (1.56%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.78%) QA
2 16 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.23%) NIST
3 11 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.33%) ISO 20022
4 6 (2.33%) NCSC
4 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.95%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.56%) GDPR
6 4 (1.56%) ISO 15022
7 3 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (19.07%) Docker
2 11 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (31.91%) Grafana
1 82 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 55 (21.40%) Prometheus
3 37 (14.40%) Ansible
4 9 (3.50%) QRadar
5 8 (3.11%) Control-M
5 8 (3.11%) Kibana
6 6 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.17%) Nagios
7 3 (1.17%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.78%) SCOM
8 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) CASB
9 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 60 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 58 (22.57%) Dynatrace
3 33 (12.84%) CrowdStrike
4 31 (12.06%) ServiceNow
5 23 (8.95%) Google
6 22 (8.56%) New Relic
7 21 (8.17%) Oracle
8 18 (7.00%) AppDynamics
9 15 (5.84%) Qualys
10 12 (4.67%) IBM
10 12 (4.67%) Tenable
11 11 (4.28%) Rapid7
12 10 (3.89%) Okta
13 7 (2.72%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.72%) xMatters
14 6 (2.33%) Zscaler
15 5 (1.95%) ArcSight
15 5 (1.95%) Cisco
15 5 (1.95%) ION Trading
15 5 (1.95%) VMware