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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 194 256
Rank change year-on-year -26 +62 -108
Contract jobs citing Splunk 228 185 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.36% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 2.96% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 113 88
10th Percentile £400 £360 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £620
90th Percentile £855 £775 £704
England median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 8,308 6,249 7,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.76% 46.08% 42.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 4,064 5,026
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 119 113
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +3.85% -18.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.13 £42.25
90th Percentile £82.00 £65.00 £70.90
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -30.67%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -17 24 £550 +10.55% 7
West London -9 6 £560 +34.94%
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 13 (5.70%) Confluence
2 10 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) MTS
6 1 (0.44%) Mule
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.28%) Azure
2 83 (36.40%) AWS
3 40 (17.54%) GitHub
4 39 (17.11%) GCP
5 35 (15.35%) OpenShift
6 21 (9.21%) Entra ID
7 20 (8.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 20 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (7.89%) Datadog
9 15 (6.58%) SaaS
10 14 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.39%) Serverless
14 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.51%) PowerApps
16 7 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.96%) Firewall
2 20 (8.77%) VPN
3 17 (7.46%) Network Security
4 15 (6.58%) DNS
5 7 (3.07%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.07%) WAN
6 5 (2.19%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.19%) MPLS
7 4 (1.75%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.75%) InfiniBand
7 4 (1.75%) LAN
7 4 (1.75%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.75%) Wireless
8 3 (1.32%) BGP
8 3 (1.32%) Internet
8 3 (1.32%) Multicast
9 2 (0.88%) DMZ
9 2 (0.88%) SNMP
9 2 (0.88%) SSH
9 2 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.39%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.51%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.51%) Power BI
3 6 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.19%) Big Data
4 5 (2.19%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.19%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.75%) Presto
6 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.32%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.32%) Flink
6 3 (1.32%) KDB
7 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.88%) Looker
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
7 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.21%) Git
3 14 (6.14%) JIRA
4 13 (5.70%) GitLab
5 9 (3.95%) Gatling
6 7 (3.07%) JMeter
7 5 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.19%) Snyk
8 4 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.75%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.32%) Xcode
10 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.88%) Gradle
10 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.88%) JUnit
10 2 (0.88%) Maven
10 2 (0.88%) Selenium
11 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 74 (32.46%) Finance
2 61 (26.75%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.84%) Banking
5 17 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.39%) Front Office
9 9 (3.95%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.95%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Law
11 3 (1.32%) Legal
11 3 (1.32%) Local Government
12 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Back Office
13 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (16.67%) Architect
2 35 (15.35%) Senior
3 21 (9.21%) Lead
4 20 (8.77%) Analyst
5 18 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.46%) CyberArk Architect
6 17 (7.46%) Splunk Engineer
7 14 (6.14%) Security Architect
8 13 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.26%) Developer
10 11 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.39%) Applications Support
12 9 (3.95%) Consultant
12 9 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.51%) SOC Analyst
14 7 (3.07%) Security Engineer
14 7 (3.07%) Site Engineer
14 7 (3.07%) Test Engineer
15 6 (2.63%) Performance Engineer
15 6 (2.63%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.53%) REST
2 17 (7.46%) Kafka
3 15 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (5.70%) LDAP
4 13 (5.70%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.26%) Spring
6 11 (4.82%) OpenID
6 11 (4.82%) RESTful
6 11 (4.82%) SailPoint
6 11 (4.82%) SAML
7 9 (3.95%) .NET
8 6 (2.63%) JSON
8 6 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (2.19%) React
10 4 (1.75%) CSS
10 4 (1.75%) HTML
10 4 (1.75%) J2EE
10 4 (1.75%) Loki
10 4 (1.75%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.23%) Onboarding
2 31 (13.60%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.58%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.39%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.95%) CMDB
5 9 (3.95%) PKI
6 8 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.19%) Equities
8 5 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 56 (24.56%) Linux
2 26 (11.40%) Windows
3 23 (10.09%) Unix
4 14 (6.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.70%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.19%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 84 (36.84%) Observability
3 73 (32.02%) SIEM
4 71 (31.14%) DevOps
5 64 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (21.49%) Incident Response
8 47 (20.61%) Agile
9 43 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (17.98%) Security Operations
11 38 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 35 (15.35%) Vulnerability Management
13 33 (14.47%) Cloud Security
13 33 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (12.72%) Incident Management
15 28 (12.28%) Containerisation
15 28 (12.28%) ITIL
15 28 (12.28%) ITSM
16 27 (11.84%) Mentoring
17 25 (10.96%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (30.70%) Python
2 37 (16.23%) Java
3 22 (9.65%) PowerShell
4 21 (9.21%) SQL
5 17 (7.46%) Bash
6 12 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.51%) Go
9 7 (3.07%) Scala
9 7 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.63%) C#
11 5 (2.19%) Bicep
11 5 (2.19%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.19%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.75%) Ruby
13 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.32%) Swift
14 2 (0.88%) C++
14 2 (0.88%) JCL
14 2 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 75 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.60%) CISSP
4 21 (9.21%) CISM
5 13 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.26%) GIAC
7 11 (4.82%) Degree
8 10 (4.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (3.95%) CCSP
10 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.07%) GCIA
10 7 (3.07%) GCIH
11 6 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.19%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.19%) CEH
12 5 (2.19%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.19%) GSEC
13 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.04%) NIST
2 25 (10.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.02%) NCSC
4 9 (3.95%) QA
5 7 (3.07%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 4 (1.75%) SLA
7 4 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.88%) COBIT
8 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) GxP
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (13.16%) Docker
2 11 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (28.51%) Grafana
2 63 (27.63%) Kubernetes
3 61 (26.75%) Terraform
4 50 (21.93%) Prometheus
5 30 (13.16%) Ansible
6 10 (4.39%) Kibana
7 8 (3.51%) QRadar
8 6 (2.63%) Control-M
9 4 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.32%) Salt
11 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.44%) Nessus
12 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.44%) Puppet
12 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.35%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.60%) ServiceNow
4 28 (12.28%) CrowdStrike
5 24 (10.53%) CyberArk
6 17 (7.46%) Qualys
6 17 (7.46%) Tenable
7 16 (7.02%) AppDynamics
7 16 (7.02%) Google
8 14 (6.14%) Oracle
9 13 (5.70%) New Relic
10 10 (4.39%) Okta
11 9 (3.95%) Cisco
12 8 (3.51%) Palo Alto
12 8 (3.51%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.07%) IBM
13 7 (3.07%) Rapid7
14 6 (2.63%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.63%) Cribl.io
14 6 (2.63%) Fortinet