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 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 182 259
Rank change year-on-year -34 +77 -110
Contract jobs citing Splunk 211 182 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.43% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 3.16% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 110 88
10th Percentile £400 £385 £379
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £626 £674 £635
90th Percentile £900 £775 £688
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 7,906 5,758 7,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.35% 45.35% 41.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,197 3,736 5,031
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £537
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.78% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £766 £775
England median daily rate £507 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.07% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 110 130
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.60 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -12.66%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.45 £24.50
% change year-on-year +32.33% +7.96% -34.67%

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 26 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 26 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 22 £575 +9.52% 5
West London -19 6 £560 +34.94% 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 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.32%) Confluence
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) MTS
6 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.42%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.91%) AWS
2 72 (34.12%) Azure
3 31 (14.69%) GCP
3 31 (14.69%) GitHub
4 27 (12.80%) OpenShift
5 20 (9.48%) Entra ID
6 19 (9.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (7.11%) Datadog
8 14 (6.64%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.16%) SaaS
10 10 (4.74%) Serverless
11 9 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.79%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.43%) Firewall
2 18 (8.53%) VPN
3 16 (7.58%) Network Security
4 13 (6.16%) DNS
5 5 (2.37%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.37%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (2.37%) InfiniBand
5 5 (2.37%) MPLS
5 5 (2.37%) NetScaler
5 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.37%) WAN
5 5 (2.37%) Wireless
6 3 (1.42%) BGP
6 3 (1.42%) Internet
6 3 (1.42%) LAN
6 3 (1.42%) Multicast
7 2 (0.95%) DMZ
7 2 (0.95%) SSH
8 1 (0.47%) VLAN
8 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.32%) Power BI
4 5 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.37%) Big Data
4 5 (2.37%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.90%) Presto
5 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.42%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.42%) KDB
6 3 (1.42%) MySQL
6 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Flink
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.11%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.06%) Git
3 16 (7.58%) GitLab
4 8 (3.79%) JIRA
5 7 (3.32%) Gatling
6 6 (2.84%) JMeter
7 5 (2.37%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.37%) Snyk
8 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.42%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.42%) Xcode
9 2 (0.95%) Gradle
9 2 (0.95%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.95%) JUnit
9 2 (0.95%) Maven
10 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (29.38%) Finance
2 56 (26.54%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.37%) Banking
4 23 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.00%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (5.69%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.21%) Front Office
8 8 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.79%) Retail
9 5 (2.37%) Law
10 3 (1.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Local Government
11 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (18.48%) Architect
2 32 (15.17%) Senior
3 20 (9.48%) Analyst
4 19 (9.00%) CyberArk Architect
5 14 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (6.64%) Lead
5 14 (6.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.16%) Security Architect
7 11 (5.21%) Developer
8 10 (4.74%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.27%) Applications Support
9 9 (4.27%) Consultant
10 8 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) SOC Analyst
11 7 (3.32%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Performance Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Security Consultant
12 6 (2.84%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.48%) Kafka
2 16 (7.58%) REST
3 15 (7.11%) LDAP
3 15 (7.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.16%) OpenID
4 13 (6.16%) SAML
5 12 (5.69%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.21%) SailPoint
6 11 (5.21%) Spring
7 10 (4.74%) RESTful
8 8 (3.79%) .NET
9 6 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.84%) JSON
9 6 (2.84%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.37%) React
11 4 (1.90%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.90%) Loki
11 4 (1.90%) Middleware
11 4 (1.90%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.01%) Onboarding
2 32 (15.17%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.27%) CMDB
4 9 (4.27%) PKI
4 9 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.84%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.84%) Equities
7 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.17%) Linux
2 25 (11.85%) Unix
3 23 (10.90%) Windows
4 12 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.21%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.95%) zOS
10 1 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.23%) CI/CD
2 71 (33.65%) SIEM
3 69 (32.70%) Observability
4 63 (29.86%) DevOps
5 60 (28.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (26.54%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (23.22%) Incident Response
8 39 (18.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (18.01%) Security Operations
10 35 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (15.64%) Vulnerability Management
12 31 (14.69%) Cloud Security
12 31 (14.69%) Containerisation
13 30 (14.22%) Agile
14 28 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (12.80%) Secrets Management
16 25 (11.85%) ITIL
17 23 (10.90%) AI
18 22 (10.43%) Incident Management
18 22 (10.43%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 68 (32.23%) Python
2 32 (15.17%) Java
3 21 (9.95%) SQL
4 20 (9.48%) Bash
4 20 (9.48%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.21%) Search Processing Language
6 10 (4.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.27%) Go
8 6 (2.84%) C#
9 5 (2.37%) Bicep
9 5 (2.37%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.37%) Scala
9 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.90%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.42%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.42%) Swift
12 2 (0.95%) C++
12 2 (0.95%) JCL
12 2 (0.95%) REXX
Qualifications
1 61 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.22%) CISSP
4 20 (9.48%) CISM
5 13 (6.16%) GIAC
6 12 (5.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.21%) Degree
8 9 (4.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (4.27%) CCSP
9 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.32%) GCIA
9 7 (3.32%) GCIH
10 6 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.84%) CEH
11 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (2.37%) GSEC
12 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.59%) NIST
2 26 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.58%) NCSC
4 8 (3.79%) QA
5 6 (2.84%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.90%) GDPR
6 4 (1.90%) SLA
6 4 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.42%) COBIT
8 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.95%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.47%) GRC
9 1 (0.47%) GxP
9 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (14.69%) Docker
2 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) etcd
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (28.91%) Grafana
2 60 (28.44%) Kubernetes
3 52 (24.64%) Terraform
4 49 (23.22%) Prometheus
5 34 (16.11%) Ansible
6 10 (4.74%) Kibana
7 7 (3.32%) QRadar
8 4 (1.90%) Salt
9 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.95%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.47%) CASB
11 1 (0.47%) Control-M
11 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
11 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.17%) Dynatrace
3 30 (14.22%) ServiceNow
4 26 (12.32%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (12.32%) CyberArk
5 17 (8.06%) Qualys
5 17 (8.06%) Tenable
6 15 (7.11%) AppDynamics
7 13 (6.16%) Google
8 12 (5.69%) Oracle
9 10 (4.74%) Cisco
9 10 (4.74%) Okta
10 9 (4.27%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.79%) New Relic
12 7 (3.32%) Rapid7
12 7 (3.32%) Zscaler
13 6 (2.84%) Arista
13 6 (2.84%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.84%) IBM
14 5 (2.37%) Fortinet