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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 196 262
Rank change year-on-year -27 +66 -115
Contract jobs citing Splunk 200 170 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.37% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.55% 3.01% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 103 89
10th Percentile £401 £382 £380
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £635
90th Percentile £900 £775 £700
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 £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.45 - £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 7,840 5,639 7,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.40% 45.39% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,144 3,654 5,018
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.37% -4.02%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £773 £775
England median daily rate £505 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.97% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 106 134
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.93
25th Percentile £23.33 £22.50 £17.20
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -12.66%
75th Percentile £53.00 £46.56 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +28.26% +10.42% -40.00%

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 June 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 June 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 -25 21 £575 +9.52% 4
West London -19 6 £560 +6.67% 2
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 8 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.50%) Confluence
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.50%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
6 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.00%) AWS
2 69 (34.50%) Azure
3 28 (14.00%) GCP
4 27 (13.50%) GitHub
4 27 (13.50%) OpenShift
5 20 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 19 (9.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (7.00%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.00%) Datadog
10 13 (6.50%) SaaS
11 10 (5.00%) Serverless
12 9 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.00%) Firewall
2 17 (8.50%) VPN
3 16 (8.00%) Network Security
4 11 (5.50%) DNS
5 6 (3.00%) Wireless
6 5 (2.50%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.50%) InfiniBand
6 5 (2.50%) MPLS
6 5 (2.50%) NetScaler
7 4 (2.00%) BGP
8 3 (1.50%) Internet
8 3 (1.50%) Multicast
8 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.50%) WAN
9 2 (1.00%) DMZ
9 2 (1.00%) NGFW
9 2 (1.00%) OSPF
9 2 (1.00%) SSH
10 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.00%) Power BI
4 5 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.50%) Big Data
4 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.00%) Presto
5 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.50%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.00%) KDB
7 2 (1.00%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Flink
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (16.50%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.00%) Git
3 15 (7.50%) GitLab
4 8 (4.00%) JIRA
5 7 (3.50%) Gatling
6 6 (3.00%) JMeter
7 5 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.50%) Snyk
8 3 (1.50%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.50%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.00%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.00%) Xcode
10 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.50%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) JUnit
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
General
1 58 (29.00%) Finance
2 52 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.50%) Banking
4 19 (9.50%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.00%) Front Office
8 8 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.00%) Retail
9 5 (2.50%) Law
10 3 (1.50%) Legal
10 3 (1.50%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (19.50%) Architect
2 30 (15.00%) Senior
3 19 (9.50%) CyberArk Architect
4 18 (9.00%) Analyst
5 14 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (7.00%) Lead
6 13 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.50%) Security Architect
6 13 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Developer
7 9 (4.50%) Site Engineer
8 8 (4.00%) Applications Support
8 8 (4.00%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Consultant
9 7 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (3.50%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 6 (3.00%) Performance Test Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.50%) Kafka
2 16 (8.00%) REST
3 15 (7.50%) LDAP
3 15 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.50%) OpenID
4 13 (6.50%) SAML
5 12 (6.00%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.50%) SailPoint
7 10 (5.00%) Spring
8 9 (4.50%) RESTful
9 8 (4.00%) .NET
10 6 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.00%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (2.50%) JSON
11 5 (2.50%) React
12 4 (2.00%) CSS
12 4 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (2.00%) HTML
12 4 (2.00%) Loki
12 4 (2.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.50%) Onboarding
2 32 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.50%) CMDB
4 9 (4.50%) PKI
5 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.50%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.00%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.50%) Equities
9 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 49 (24.50%) Linux
2 21 (10.50%) Unix
2 21 (10.50%) Windows
3 12 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.00%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.00%) zOS
8 1 (0.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.00%) CI/CD
2 67 (33.50%) SIEM
3 65 (32.50%) Observability
4 58 (29.00%) DevOps
5 56 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (26.50%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (23.50%) Incident Response
8 36 (18.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 35 (17.50%) Security Operations
10 33 (16.50%) Vulnerability Management
11 32 (16.00%) Cloud Security
12 31 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.00%) Agile
13 28 (14.00%) Containerisation
14 27 (13.50%) Secrets Management
15 26 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (12.00%) ITIL
17 23 (11.50%) Incident Management
18 22 (11.00%) AI
18 22 (11.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.00%) Python
2 29 (14.50%) Java
3 20 (10.00%) SQL
4 19 (9.50%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.00%) Bash
6 11 (5.50%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.00%) C#
8 6 (3.00%) Go
9 5 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.50%) Scala
9 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.00%) Bicep
11 3 (1.50%) Ruby
11 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) C++
12 2 (1.00%) JCL
12 2 (1.00%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.00%) REXX
12 2 (1.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 61 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.50%) CISSP
4 20 (10.00%) CISM
5 12 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (6.00%) GIAC
6 11 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.50%) Degree
7 9 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (4.50%) CCSP
8 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.50%) GCIA
8 7 (3.50%) GCIH
9 6 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.00%) CEH
10 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.50%) GSEC
11 4 (2.00%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.50%) NIST
2 26 (13.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.00%) NCSC
4 8 (4.00%) QA
5 6 (3.00%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.00%) GDPR
6 4 (2.00%) SLA
6 4 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.50%) COBIT
8 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.50%) GxP
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (14.00%) Docker
2 11 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) etcd
5 1 (0.50%) Varnish
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (28.50%) Grafana
2 56 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 51 (25.50%) Terraform
4 45 (22.50%) Prometheus
5 33 (16.50%) Ansible
6 10 (5.00%) Kibana
7 4 (2.00%) QRadar
7 4 (2.00%) Salt
8 3 (1.50%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.00%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.50%) CASB
10 1 (0.50%) Control-M
10 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.50%) Nessus
10 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 29 (14.50%) Dynatrace
4 26 (13.00%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (13.00%) CyberArk
5 17 (8.50%) Qualys
5 17 (8.50%) Tenable
6 14 (7.00%) AppDynamics
7 12 (6.00%) Google
8 11 (5.50%) Oracle
9 10 (5.00%) Cisco
9 10 (5.00%) Okta
9 10 (5.00%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.50%) New Relic
10 7 (3.50%) Rapid7
11 6 (3.00%) Arista
11 6 (3.00%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.00%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.00%) IBM
12 5 (2.50%) Zscaler