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 26 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 175 239
Rank change year-on-year -57 +64 -90
Contract jobs citing Splunk 226 208 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.56% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.37% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 125 97
10th Percentile £388 £360 £398
25th Percentile £450 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £688
90th Percentile £724 £775 £804
England median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% -5.83%
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 £65.57 - £47.50

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 8,565 6,166 7,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.66% 46.10% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,582 3,994 4,680
10th Percentile £345 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 127 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -24.67%
75th Percentile £63.25 £39.38 £61.39
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%

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 26 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 26 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 -24 20 £575 +24.32% 6
West London -12 6 £560 +34.94% 10
East London +1 1 £550 +120.00% 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 19 (8.41%) Confluence
2 13 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.77%) WebSphere
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 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 99 (43.81%) Azure
2 95 (42.04%) AWS
3 46 (20.35%) GitHub
4 45 (19.91%) GCP
5 29 (12.83%) OpenShift
6 24 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.73%) Entra ID
8 20 (8.85%) Datadog
9 17 (7.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (7.52%) SaaS
10 16 (7.08%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.31%) Serverless
13 10 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.98%) dbt
14 9 (3.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.50%) Firewall
2 16 (7.08%) DNS
3 15 (6.64%) VPN
4 14 (6.19%) Network Security
5 10 (4.42%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.65%) WAN
7 4 (1.77%) Internet
7 4 (1.77%) LAN
8 3 (1.33%) Multicast
8 3 (1.33%) SSL
8 3 (1.33%) VLAN
9 2 (0.88%) BGP
9 2 (0.88%) DMZ
9 2 (0.88%) SSH
10 1 (0.44%) Broadband
10 1 (0.44%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.44%) OSPF
10 1 (0.44%) RTP
10 1 (0.44%) SMTP
10 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.42%) MongoDB
1 10 (4.42%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.54%) Power BI
3 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.65%) Big Data
4 6 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.65%) Flink
5 5 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.21%) Looker
6 4 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.77%) KDB
6 4 (1.77%) Presto
6 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.33%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.88%) Redis
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.39%) Git
3 23 (10.18%) JIRA
4 17 (7.52%) GitLab
5 11 (4.87%) Gatling
6 10 (4.42%) JMeter
7 7 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.21%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.21%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.77%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.33%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.33%) Xcode
11 2 (0.88%) Gradle
11 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.88%) JUnit
11 2 (0.88%) Maven
11 2 (0.88%) Selenium
11 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (31.42%) Finance
2 54 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.72%) Banking
5 10 (4.42%) Front Office
6 9 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.10%) Retail
8 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.21%) Law
9 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Local Government
9 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (16.37%) Senior
2 26 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (10.62%) Lead
4 20 (8.85%) Architect
4 20 (8.85%) Splunk Engineer
5 16 (7.08%) Analyst
6 14 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (5.75%) Developer
8 12 (5.31%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.42%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Performance Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Performance Test Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.54%) Consultant
11 8 (3.54%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.86%) Terraform
2 22 (9.73%) Kafka
2 22 (9.73%) REST
3 17 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.75%) RESTful
5 12 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (4.42%) .NET
7 9 (3.98%) SailPoint
8 8 (3.54%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.10%) JSON
9 7 (3.10%) React
10 6 (2.65%) CSS
10 6 (2.65%) HTML
10 6 (2.65%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (2.65%) Spring
11 5 (2.21%) Apache Beam
11 5 (2.21%) Middleware
12 4 (1.77%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (1.77%) Loki
12 4 (1.77%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.83%) Onboarding
2 23 (10.18%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.42%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.10%) CMDB
7 7 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.65%) PKI
8 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.21%) Equities
10 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (29.20%) Linux
2 32 (14.16%) Windows
3 28 (12.39%) Unix
4 18 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (7.96%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.21%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.77%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.88%) zOS
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.81%) CI/CD
2 95 (42.04%) Observability
3 76 (33.63%) DevOps
4 69 (30.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (29.20%) Agile
6 59 (26.11%) SIEM
7 49 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (20.80%) Incident Response
9 38 (16.81%) Cybersecurity
9 38 (16.81%) Security Operations
10 36 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 33 (14.60%) Containerisation
11 33 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (14.16%) Mentoring
13 31 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (13.72%) Incident Management
14 30 (13.27%) Roadmaps
15 25 (11.06%) AI
15 25 (11.06%) Cloud Security
15 25 (11.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (35.84%) Python
2 37 (16.37%) Java
3 29 (12.83%) PowerShell
4 21 (9.29%) SQL
5 20 (8.85%) Bash
6 13 (5.75%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.75%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.31%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (4.87%) Go
9 10 (4.42%) Scala
10 6 (2.65%) C#
10 6 (2.65%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.21%) Bicep
11 5 (2.21%) Perl
12 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.33%) Ruby
12 3 (1.33%) Swift
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Groovy
13 2 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 75 (33.19%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.62%) CISSP
4 15 (6.64%) CISM
5 14 (6.19%) Degree
6 11 (4.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (4.42%) GIAC
8 9 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.54%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (3.10%) GCIA
10 7 (3.10%) GCIH
11 6 (2.65%) CCSP
12 5 (2.21%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.21%) CEH
12 5 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.21%) GSEC
13 3 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.18%) NIST
2 16 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.87%) QA
4 10 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.65%) NCSC
7 5 (2.21%) SLA
8 4 (1.77%) GDPR
8 4 (1.77%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.77%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.33%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.88%) COBIT
10 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.44%) GxP
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (18.58%) Docker
2 10 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (30.09%) Grafana
2 65 (28.76%) Kubernetes
3 53 (23.45%) Prometheus
4 28 (12.39%) Ansible
5 11 (4.87%) Kibana
6 8 (3.54%) Control-M
7 7 (3.10%) QRadar
8 5 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.44%) CASB
10 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) SCOM
10 1 (0.44%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 49 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 43 (19.03%) Dynatrace
3 27 (11.95%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (11.50%) ServiceNow
5 20 (8.85%) Oracle
6 18 (7.96%) New Relic
7 17 (7.52%) Google
8 15 (6.64%) AppDynamics
9 13 (5.75%) Qualys
9 13 (5.75%) Tenable
10 12 (5.31%) CyberArk
11 10 (4.42%) IBM
12 9 (3.98%) Okta
12 9 (3.98%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.10%) Rapid7
13 7 (3.10%) xMatters
14 6 (2.65%) Fortinet
15 5 (2.21%) Cisco
16 4 (1.77%) Ivanti
16 4 (1.77%) Red Hat