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 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
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 203 251
Rank change year-on-year -27 +48 -105
Contract jobs citing Splunk 224 181 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.32% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 2.66% 2.88% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 109 88
10th Percentile £398 £362 £375
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £635
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
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 £65.69 - £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 8,425 6,291 6,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.92% 45.83% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 4,105 4,770
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £752 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 122 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.86 £43.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -27.50%

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 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 3 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 -14 23 £575 +16.16% 15
West London -15 6 £560 +34.94% 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 18 (8.04%) Confluence
2 13 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.68%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) MTS
6 1 (0.45%) Mule
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 89 (39.73%) Azure
2 85 (37.95%) AWS
3 42 (18.75%) GCP
3 42 (18.75%) GitHub
4 25 (11.16%) OpenShift
5 21 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 21 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 21 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (8.93%) Datadog
7 17 (7.59%) SaaS
8 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.46%) Serverless
12 9 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.02%) dbt
12 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.05%) Firewall
2 19 (8.48%) VPN
3 17 (7.59%) Network Security
4 15 (6.70%) DNS
5 9 (4.02%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.13%) WAN
7 5 (2.23%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.79%) BGP
8 4 (1.79%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.79%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.79%) Internet
8 4 (1.79%) LAN
8 4 (1.79%) MPLS
8 4 (1.79%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.79%) Wireless
9 3 (1.34%) DMZ
9 3 (1.34%) Multicast
9 3 (1.34%) SSL
10 2 (0.89%) OSPF
10 2 (0.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 8 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.57%) Power BI
2 6 (2.68%) Flink
3 5 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.23%) Big Data
3 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.23%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.23%) Looker
3 5 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.79%) Presto
4 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.34%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.34%) KDB
6 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.89%) MySQL
6 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.27%) Git
3 19 (8.48%) JIRA
4 14 (6.25%) GitLab
5 8 (3.57%) Gatling
5 8 (3.57%) JMeter
6 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.79%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.79%) Snyk
7 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.34%) Xcode
9 2 (0.89%) Gradle
9 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.89%) JUnit
9 2 (0.89%) Maven
9 2 (0.89%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
General
1 70 (31.25%) Finance
2 53 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.50%) Banking
5 11 (4.91%) Front Office
6 9 (4.02%) Financial Institution
6 9 (4.02%) Retail
7 8 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.23%) Law
10 3 (1.34%) Local Government
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (16.07%) Senior
2 25 (11.16%) Architect
3 23 (10.27%) Lead
4 20 (8.93%) Splunk Engineer
5 19 (8.48%) Analyst
6 18 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.36%) Developer
7 12 (5.36%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.91%) Consultant
8 11 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.46%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.02%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (3.13%) CyberArk Architect
12 7 (3.13%) Performance Engineer
12 7 (3.13%) Performance Test Engineer
12 7 (3.13%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.05%) REST
2 16 (7.14%) Kafka
3 13 (5.80%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (5.80%) Spring Boot
4 11 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.91%) RESTful
4 11 (4.91%) Spring
5 10 (4.46%) SailPoint
6 9 (4.02%) .NET
7 6 (2.68%) JSON
7 6 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (2.23%) Apache Beam
8 5 (2.23%) React
9 4 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (1.79%) CSS
9 4 (1.79%) HTML
9 4 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.79%) Loki
9 4 (1.79%) Middleware
9 4 (1.79%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.02%) CMDB
5 9 (4.02%) PKI
5 9 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.13%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.68%) Equities
9 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.23%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.79%) Linux
2 29 (12.95%) Windows
3 27 (12.05%) Unix
4 17 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (6.70%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.89%) zOS
10 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (41.07%) Observability
2 89 (39.73%) CI/CD
3 65 (29.02%) DevOps
4 63 (28.13%) SIEM
5 60 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (24.11%) Agile
7 46 (20.54%) Incident Response
8 45 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (18.30%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (16.96%) Security Operations
11 36 (16.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 32 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 32 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
13 30 (13.39%) Cloud Security
14 29 (12.95%) AI
14 29 (12.95%) Containerisation
15 27 (12.05%) Incident Management
15 27 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (11.61%) ITIL
16 26 (11.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.14%) Python
2 42 (18.75%) Java
3 24 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.27%) SQL
5 15 (6.70%) Bash
6 11 (4.91%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.46%) Go
7 10 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.46%) Scala
7 10 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.68%) C#
9 5 (2.23%) Bicep
9 5 (2.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.79%) Perl
11 3 (1.34%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.34%) Ruby
11 3 (1.34%) Swift
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 64 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.50%) CISSP
4 18 (8.04%) CISM
5 13 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (4.91%) Degree
8 10 (4.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (4.02%) CCSP
9 9 (4.02%) GIAC
10 7 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.13%) GCIA
10 7 (3.13%) GCIH
11 6 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.23%) CEH
12 5 (2.23%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.23%) GSEC
13 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.27%) NIST
2 15 (6.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.91%) QA
4 9 (4.02%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.68%) NCSC
7 5 (2.23%) SLA
8 4 (1.79%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.34%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.34%) GDPR
9 3 (1.34%) ISO 15022
9 3 (1.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.89%) COBIT
10 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.45%) GxP
11 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (15.63%) Docker
2 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.45%) etcd
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (29.46%) Grafana
1 66 (29.46%) Terraform
2 56 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 50 (22.32%) Prometheus
4 29 (12.95%) Ansible
5 10 (4.46%) Kibana
6 7 (3.13%) Control-M
6 7 (3.13%) QRadar
7 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.34%) Salt
9 2 (0.89%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.96%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.84%) ServiceNow
4 27 (12.05%) CrowdStrike
5 21 (9.38%) Google
6 17 (7.59%) AppDynamics
6 17 (7.59%) Qualys
6 17 (7.59%) Tenable
7 16 (7.14%) New Relic
8 15 (6.70%) Oracle
9 13 (5.80%) CyberArk
10 9 (4.02%) Cisco
10 9 (4.02%) Okta
10 9 (4.02%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.57%) IBM
11 8 (3.57%) Palo Alto
12 7 (3.13%) Rapid7
12 7 (3.13%) xMatters
13 6 (2.68%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.68%) Fortinet