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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 191 232
Rank change year-on-year -27 +41 -62
Contract jobs citing Splunk 194 161 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.30% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.56% 2.85% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 105 93
10th Percentile £404 £391 £384
25th Percentile £485 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £900 £775 £698
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 £65.00 - £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 7,574 5,654 7,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.96% 45.77% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,008 3,687 4,906
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.69% -4.20%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 97 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.69
90th Percentile £78.55 £66.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -13 21 £600 +14.29% 14
West London -24 4 £480 -8.57% 1
South London -24 1 £650 +15.56%
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 7 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.61%) Confluence
2 4 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) MTS
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.55%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.52%) BASE24
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (38.14%) AWS
2 69 (35.57%) Azure
3 30 (15.46%) GCP
4 27 (13.92%) OpenShift
5 20 (10.31%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (10.31%) GitHub
6 16 (8.25%) Entra ID
7 15 (7.73%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.73%) Datadog
8 14 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.64%) SaaS
12 8 (4.12%) Serverless
13 7 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) Firewall
2 15 (7.73%) VPN
3 14 (7.22%) Network Security
4 10 (5.15%) DNS
5 7 (3.61%) Wireless
6 6 (3.09%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.09%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.09%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.58%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.58%) MPLS
8 3 (1.55%) BGP
8 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.03%) Multicast
9 2 (1.03%) NGFW
9 2 (1.03%) OSPF
9 2 (1.03%) WAN
10 1 (0.52%) 4G
10 1 (0.52%) LTE
10 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.58%) Big Data
4 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.06%) Power BI
5 4 (2.06%) Presto
6 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.55%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) KDB
7 2 (1.03%) MySQL
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.52%) Flink
8 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.28%) GitLab
3 11 (5.67%) Git
4 9 (4.64%) JIRA
5 5 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.58%) Snyk
6 3 (1.55%) Gatling
7 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.03%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.03%) JMeter
7 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.03%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (30.93%) Finance
2 51 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.82%) Banking
4 18 (9.28%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (5.67%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.64%) Front Office
9 6 (3.09%) Retail
10 3 (1.55%) Law
10 3 (1.55%) Local Government
11 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) Military
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Back Office
12 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (17.53%) Architect
2 27 (13.92%) Analyst
3 26 (13.40%) Senior
4 20 (10.31%) CyberArk Architect
5 14 (7.22%) Lead
5 14 (7.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.70%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (5.15%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.64%) Security Architect
9 8 (4.12%) Consultant
10 7 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) Security Analyst
11 6 (3.09%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 6 (3.09%) Developer
11 6 (3.09%) Monitoring Analyst
11 6 (3.09%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.31%) Kafka
2 14 (7.22%) LDAP
2 14 (7.22%) REST
3 13 (6.70%) OpenID
3 13 (6.70%) SAML
4 12 (6.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.15%) SailPoint
5 10 (5.15%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.12%) Spring
7 6 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.58%) React
8 5 (2.58%) RESTful
9 4 (2.06%) CSS
9 4 (2.06%) HTML
9 4 (2.06%) JSON
9 4 (2.06%) Loki
9 4 (2.06%) Play Framework
10 3 (1.55%) .NET
10 3 (1.55%) JMS
10 3 (1.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.04%) Onboarding
2 25 (12.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.19%) PKI
4 11 (5.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.58%) Equities
8 4 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.55%) CMDB
9 3 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.62%) Linux
2 20 (10.31%) Unix
3 12 (6.19%) Windows
4 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.55%) zOS
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.66%) CI/CD
2 66 (34.02%) SIEM
3 58 (29.90%) Observability
4 56 (28.87%) DevOps
5 50 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (25.26%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (24.23%) Incident Response
8 35 (18.04%) Agile
9 34 (17.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 32 (16.49%) Vulnerability Management
11 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
11 28 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (12.89%) Secrets Management
13 24 (12.37%) Cloud Security
13 24 (12.37%) Security Operations
14 23 (11.86%) ITIL
14 23 (11.86%) Threat Modelling
15 22 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (10.31%) AI
16 20 (10.31%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.80%) Python
2 25 (12.89%) Java
3 19 (9.79%) SQL
4 18 (9.28%) Bash
5 13 (6.70%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.64%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (3.61%) Go
9 5 (2.58%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.58%) Scala
9 5 (2.58%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.55%) JCL
10 3 (1.55%) REXX
11 2 (1.03%) C#
11 2 (1.03%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (31.44%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.86%) CISSP
4 16 (8.25%) CISM
5 11 (5.67%) Degree
5 11 (5.67%) GIAC
6 10 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (4.12%) CCSP
9 7 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (3.09%) CEH
10 6 (3.09%) GCIA
11 5 (2.58%) GCIH
12 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.55%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (1.55%) GSEC
13 3 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.03%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.01%) NIST
2 22 (11.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.76%) NCSC
4 8 (4.12%) QA
5 5 (2.58%) GDPR
5 5 (2.58%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.58%) SLA
6 3 (1.55%) COBIT
7 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.03%) ISO 15022
7 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) GxP
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (13.92%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.52%) etcd
4 1 (0.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.52%) Snort
4 1 (0.52%) Squid
4 1 (0.52%) Varnish
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (28.87%) Kubernetes
2 50 (25.77%) Grafana
3 46 (23.71%) Terraform
4 41 (21.13%) Prometheus
5 31 (15.98%) Ansible
6 6 (3.09%) Kibana
7 5 (2.58%) Salt
8 3 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.55%) QRadar
9 2 (1.03%) Argo
9 2 (1.03%) CASB
9 2 (1.03%) Control-M
9 2 (1.03%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.03%) Nessus
9 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.52%) SCOM
10 1 (0.52%) Suricata
10 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.89%) CyberArk
2 25 (12.89%) ServiceNow
3 23 (11.86%) Dynatrace
4 21 (10.82%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (7.22%) Qualys
6 13 (6.70%) AppDynamics
7 12 (6.19%) Cisco
8 11 (5.67%) Palo Alto
8 11 (5.67%) Tenable
9 8 (4.12%) Google
10 7 (3.61%) Arista
10 7 (3.61%) Oracle
10 7 (3.61%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.09%) Aruba
11 6 (3.09%) BigPanda
11 6 (3.09%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.09%) F5
12 5 (2.58%) Bloomberg
12 5 (2.58%) IBM