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 23 January 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
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 165 212
Rank change year-on-year -13 +47 -26
Contract jobs citing Splunk 228 214 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 1.53% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 3.37% 3.51% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 125 138
10th Percentile £410 £415 £450
25th Percentile £473 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £798
90th Percentile £800 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +54.19% - -

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 6,761 6,095 7,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.23% 43.68% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,443 3,777 5,021
10th Percentile £340 £313 £282
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 70 138
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.48 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +1.64% +22.00%
75th Percentile £42.14 £58.00 £48.28
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £79.23
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -12 22 £606 +10.23% 6
South London +11 18 £425 -39.29% 3
West London - 5 £375 - 3
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 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.63%) Mattermost
2 6 (2.63%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.19%) Apache
3 5 (2.19%) Confluence
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.88%) SAS
5 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.44%) BASE24
3 1 (0.44%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.21%) AWS
2 61 (26.75%) Azure
3 43 (18.86%) GCP
4 34 (14.91%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (8.33%) GitHub
5 19 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.82%) Datadog
7 8 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.51%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.51%) OneDrive
8 7 (3.07%) Akamai
8 7 (3.07%) Apigee
8 7 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.07%) Route 53
8 7 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.40%) Firewall
2 17 (7.46%) Network Security
3 16 (7.02%) DNS
4 11 (4.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.95%) SSL
5 9 (3.95%) VPN
6 8 (3.51%) HTTP
7 7 (3.07%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.63%) Skype
8 6 (2.63%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.19%) BGP
10 4 (1.75%) OSPF
10 4 (1.75%) Wireless
11 3 (1.32%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.88%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.88%) InfiniBand
12 2 (0.88%) SNMP
12 2 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.88%) SSH
13 1 (0.44%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.63%) MySQL
3 6 (2.63%) Redis
4 5 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.88%) Flink
7 2 (0.88%) Power BI
7 2 (0.88%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.44%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 36 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.65%) GitLab
3 13 (5.70%) Git
4 9 (3.95%) JIRA
4 9 (3.95%) Postman
5 7 (3.07%) Subversion
6 6 (2.63%) JUnit
7 5 (2.19%) Appium
7 5 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.19%) Charles Proxy
7 5 (2.19%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.19%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (2.19%) Selenium
7 5 (2.19%) XCUITest
8 4 (1.75%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.75%) Maven
8 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 87 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 70 (30.70%) Finance
3 28 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.65%) Banking
5 16 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.70%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.19%) Military
10 3 (1.32%) Local Government
10 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.88%) Front Office
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (27.19%) Analyst
2 31 (13.60%) Senior
3 29 (12.72%) Architect
4 27 (11.84%) SOC Analyst
5 24 (10.53%) Security Analyst
6 23 (10.09%) Security Engineer
7 22 (9.65%) Monitoring Analyst
8 15 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Support Analyst
10 13 (5.70%) Operations Analyst
10 13 (5.70%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 11 (4.82%) Lead
12 10 (4.39%) CyberArk Architect
12 10 (4.39%) Developer
12 10 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (3.95%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.95%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (3.51%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.21%) Kafka
2 20 (8.77%) REST
3 14 (6.14%) OpenID
3 14 (6.14%) SAML
4 10 (4.39%) LDAP
4 10 (4.39%) Web Services
5 6 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.19%) Middleware
6 5 (2.19%) Node.js
6 5 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.19%) Spring
6 5 (2.19%) Swagger
6 5 (2.19%) YAML
7 4 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.75%) OAuth
7 4 (1.75%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.32%) ISPF
8 3 (1.32%) JSON
8 3 (1.32%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.72%) Onboarding
2 24 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.46%) Cyber Defence
4 10 (4.39%) Clustering
5 8 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.07%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.07%) PKI
7 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.19%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.75%) Replication
10 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.32%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.88%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.54%) Linux
2 14 (6.14%) Unix
3 13 (5.70%) Windows
4 10 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.19%) Android
5 5 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.75%) Solaris
6 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.32%) CentOS
7 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.32%) zOS
8 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.70%) SIEM
2 64 (28.07%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (26.75%) CI/CD
3 61 (26.75%) DevOps
3 61 (26.75%) Incident Response
4 55 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (19.30%) Agile
6 43 (18.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (16.67%) Threat Detection
8 35 (15.35%) Observability
9 33 (14.47%) Containerisation
10 26 (11.40%) Security Operations
11 25 (10.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 22 (9.65%) High Availability
12 22 (9.65%) ITIL
12 22 (9.65%) ITSM
12 22 (9.65%) Microservices
12 22 (9.65%) Threat Modelling
13 20 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (8.77%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.68%) Python
2 35 (15.35%) SQL
3 31 (13.60%) Bash
4 29 (12.72%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.89%) Java
5 18 (7.89%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (3.51%) Go
7 7 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.07%) Perl
7 7 (3.07%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.19%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.19%) Swift
9 3 (1.32%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.32%) JCL
9 3 (1.32%) REXX
9 3 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.88%) Groovy
10 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.77%) CISSP
4 17 (7.46%) Degree
5 14 (6.14%) CISM
6 10 (4.39%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.95%) CEH
7 9 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (3.51%) GIAC
9 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.19%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.32%) CISA
13 3 (1.32%) GCIA
13 3 (1.32%) GCIH
13 3 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.65%) NIST
2 20 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.26%) GDPR
3 12 (5.26%) NCSC
4 10 (4.39%) QA
5 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.75%) SLA
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.88%) FIPS 140-2
9 1 (0.44%) COBIT
9 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (16.67%) Docker
2 18 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.19%) Snort
5 4 (1.75%) NFS
5 4 (1.75%) Squid
5 4 (1.75%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (24.12%) Kubernetes
2 37 (16.23%) Terraform
3 33 (14.47%) Ansible
4 28 (12.28%) Grafana
5 23 (10.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.89%) SCOM
7 14 (6.14%) HP SiteScope
8 10 (4.39%) QRadar
9 8 (3.51%) Argo
10 5 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.75%) CSIRT
11 4 (1.75%) Nessus
11 4 (1.75%) Nexpose
11 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.75%) Suricata
12 3 (1.32%) Fluentd
12 3 (1.32%) Nagios
12 3 (1.32%) Puppet
13 2 (0.88%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.84%) CrowdStrike
3 26 (11.40%) Qualys
4 22 (9.65%) CyberArk
5 19 (8.33%) Google
6 18 (7.89%) Carbon Black
7 15 (6.58%) Dynatrace
7 15 (6.58%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.26%) Cisco
8 12 (5.26%) Remedy
9 10 (4.39%) Red Hat
9 10 (4.39%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.95%) Darktrace
10 9 (3.95%) Oracle
10 9 (3.95%) Tenable
10 9 (3.95%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.51%) VMware
12 6 (2.63%) AppDynamics
12 6 (2.63%) BMC
12 6 (2.63%) F5