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 13 October 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
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 163 199
Rank change year-on-year -56 +36 -50
Contract jobs citing Splunk 258 233 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.75% 1.28%
As % of the Vendors category 2.95% 3.77% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 135 124
10th Percentile £350 £410 £414
25th Percentile £434 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £775
90th Percentile £750 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £528 £565
% change year-on-year -0.47% -6.64% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £71.74 £81.63 -
25th Percentile £72.48 £82.19 -
Median hourly rate £74.93 £88.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% - -
75th Percentile £77.35 £94.69 -
90th Percentile £78.07 £94.88 -
England median hourly rate £65.69 £88.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.98% +47.92% -

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 8,744 6,175 6,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.92% 46.46% 43.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,699 4,020 4,401
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £517 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.93% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 118 75
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.20 £18.28
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -28.14% -13.04%
75th Percentile £63.19 £38.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.13 £87.80
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -21.35%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -20 27 £488 -1.52% 24
West London -18 6 £560 +34.94% 1
East London - 1 £550 -
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 (7.36%) Confluence
2 10 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.94%) Apache
4 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.55%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) MTS
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 123 (47.67%) Azure
2 111 (43.02%) AWS
3 58 (22.48%) GCP
4 47 (18.22%) GitHub
5 31 (12.02%) OpenShift
6 28 (10.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (7.75%) Datadog
9 18 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.98%) Entra ID
10 14 (5.43%) SaaS
11 12 (4.65%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.49%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.08%) Firewall
2 18 (6.98%) DNS
3 17 (6.59%) VPN
4 15 (5.81%) Network Security
4 15 (5.81%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.10%) WAN
6 6 (2.33%) LAN
7 5 (1.94%) SSL
7 5 (1.94%) VLAN
8 4 (1.55%) Internet
9 3 (1.16%) BGP
9 3 (1.16%) HTTP
9 3 (1.16%) Multicast
9 3 (1.16%) SSH
10 2 (0.78%) 4G
10 2 (0.78%) 5G
10 2 (0.78%) DMZ
10 2 (0.78%) OSPF
10 2 (0.78%) SNMP
10 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.43%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.04%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.10%) Power BI
4 6 (2.33%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.94%) Big Data
5 5 (1.94%) Flink
5 5 (1.94%) Looker
5 5 (1.94%) Redis
5 5 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.55%) KDB
6 4 (1.55%) MySQL
6 4 (1.55%) Presto
6 4 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.16%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.16%) Tableau
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 46 (17.83%) Jenkins
2 34 (13.18%) Git
3 27 (10.47%) JIRA
4 21 (8.14%) GitLab
5 13 (5.04%) JMeter
6 12 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.65%) Gatling
7 6 (2.33%) Selenium
8 5 (1.94%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.94%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.55%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.55%) HP UFT
9 4 (1.55%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.16%) Postman
10 3 (1.16%) Xcode
11 2 (0.78%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 74 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 69 (26.74%) Finance
3 56 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.18%) Banking
5 15 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.88%) Front Office
7 8 (3.10%) Retail
8 6 (2.33%) Military
9 5 (1.94%) Law
10 4 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.16%) Local Government
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Back Office
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
1 33 (12.79%) Senior
2 26 (10.08%) Lead
3 23 (8.91%) Analyst
4 21 (8.14%) Architect
5 20 (7.75%) Security Engineer
5 20 (7.75%) Splunk Engineer
6 14 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (5.43%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.04%) Applications Support
7 13 (5.04%) Developer
8 12 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.26%) Security Analyst
10 10 (3.88%) Performance Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) Performance Test Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.49%) Consultant
11 9 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.56%) Terraform
2 28 (10.85%) Kafka
2 28 (10.85%) REST
3 20 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (6.98%) RESTful
5 13 (5.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (4.65%) JSON
7 11 (4.26%) .NET
8 10 (3.88%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.49%) HTML
9 9 (3.49%) Middleware
10 8 (3.10%) CSS
10 8 (3.10%) React
10 8 (3.10%) Spring
11 7 (2.71%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (2.33%) Flask
12 6 (2.33%) LDAP
13 5 (1.94%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.94%) OAuth2
13 5 (1.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 33 (12.79%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.04%) CMDB
6 12 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.26%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (3.88%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.88%) Security Posture
9 9 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (3.10%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.94%) Equities
12 5 (1.94%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 80 (31.01%) Linux
2 40 (15.50%) Windows
3 36 (13.95%) Unix
4 23 (8.91%) Windows Server
5 20 (7.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.55%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.55%) VMS
8 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.39%) Android
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.96%) CI/CD
2 115 (44.57%) Observability
3 95 (36.82%) DevOps
4 80 (31.01%) Agile
5 79 (30.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 72 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (27.13%) SIEM
8 56 (21.71%) Incident Response
9 49 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (17.83%) Cybersecurity
10 46 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (16.67%) Security Operations
12 42 (16.28%) Containerisation
13 38 (14.73%) Mentoring
14 36 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (13.18%) Incident Management
16 33 (12.79%) AI
17 31 (12.02%) Roadmaps
17 31 (12.02%) Root Cause Analysis
17 31 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 90 (34.88%) Python
2 45 (17.44%) Java
3 34 (13.18%) PowerShell
4 29 (11.24%) Bash
4 29 (11.24%) SQL
5 18 (6.98%) Shell Script
6 16 (6.20%) Go
7 14 (5.43%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.26%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (3.49%) Scala
10 8 (3.10%) C#
11 5 (1.94%) Bicep
11 5 (1.94%) Perl
11 5 (1.94%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.55%) Groovy
12 4 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.55%) Ruby
12 4 (1.55%) Swift
13 3 (1.16%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 90 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.84%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.69%) CISSP
4 15 (5.81%) Degree
5 13 (5.04%) CISM
6 11 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.88%) GIAC
8 8 (3.10%) CCSP
8 8 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.71%) GCIA
9 7 (2.71%) GCIH
10 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.94%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (1.94%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.75%) QA
2 15 (5.81%) NIST
3 14 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.33%) ISO 20022
5 6 (2.33%) NCSC
6 5 (1.94%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.55%) GDPR
7 4 (1.55%) ISO 15022
7 4 (1.55%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.39%) SEPA
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (20.16%) Docker
2 10 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (32.95%) Grafana
2 81 (31.40%) Kubernetes
3 54 (20.93%) Prometheus
4 35 (13.57%) Ansible
5 12 (4.65%) Kibana
6 9 (3.49%) QRadar
7 8 (3.10%) Control-M
8 6 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.16%) Nagios
9 3 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.78%) SCOM
10 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) CASB
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) EnCase
11 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) FTK
11 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 58 (22.48%) Dynatrace
1 58 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.40%) CrowdStrike
3 30 (11.63%) ServiceNow
4 22 (8.53%) Google
4 22 (8.53%) New Relic
5 21 (8.14%) Oracle
6 18 (6.98%) AppDynamics
7 13 (5.04%) Qualys
8 12 (4.65%) IBM
9 10 (3.88%) Tenable
10 9 (3.49%) Okta
11 8 (3.10%) Rapid7
12 7 (2.71%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.71%) xMatters
13 6 (2.33%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.94%) ION Trading
14 5 (1.94%) VMware
15 4 (1.55%) HP
15 4 (1.55%) Red Hat