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 27 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
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 172 233
Rank change year-on-year -52 +61 -89
Contract jobs citing Splunk 233 205 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.53% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.71% 3.32% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 123 97
10th Percentile £390 £388 £398
25th Percentile £450 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £688
90th Percentile £725 £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 8,597 6,177 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.76% 46.15% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,590 3,997 4,678
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -4.91%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -7.72% -24.00%
75th Percentile £63.25 £39.69 £61.34
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.50 £76.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +27.24% -15.52% -28.27%

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 27 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 27 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 -27 20 £575 +24.32% 7
West London -17 6 £560 +34.94% 10
East London - 1 £550 - 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 (8.15%) Confluence
2 13 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.58%) Apache
4 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.72%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) MTS
6 1 (0.43%) Mule
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 103 (44.21%) Azure
2 99 (42.49%) AWS
3 48 (20.60%) GCP
4 45 (19.31%) GitHub
5 29 (12.45%) OpenShift
6 24 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.44%) Datadog
7 22 (9.44%) Entra ID
8 19 (8.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (7.30%) SaaS
10 16 (6.87%) Amazon S3
10 16 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.15%) Serverless
13 11 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.16%) Firewall
2 16 (6.87%) DNS
3 15 (6.44%) Network Security
3 15 (6.44%) VPN
4 10 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.58%) WAN
6 4 (1.72%) Internet
6 4 (1.72%) LAN
7 3 (1.29%) Multicast
7 3 (1.29%) SSL
7 3 (1.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.86%) BGP
8 2 (0.86%) DMZ
8 2 (0.86%) SSH
9 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.43%) IPv4
9 1 (0.43%) OSPF
9 1 (0.43%) RTP
9 1 (0.43%) SAN
9 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.29%) MongoDB
1 10 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.43%) Power BI
3 7 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.58%) Big Data
4 6 (2.58%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.58%) Flink
5 5 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.15%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.15%) Looker
6 4 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.72%) KDB
6 4 (1.72%) Presto
6 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.29%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.29%) MySQL
8 2 (0.86%) Redis
8 2 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (16.74%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.02%) Git
3 23 (9.87%) JIRA
4 18 (7.73%) GitLab
5 11 (4.72%) Gatling
6 10 (4.29%) JMeter
7 7 (3.00%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.15%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.15%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.72%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.29%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.29%) Xcode
11 2 (0.86%) Gradle
11 2 (0.86%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.86%) JUnit
11 2 (0.86%) Maven
11 2 (0.86%) Selenium
11 2 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (31.33%) Finance
2 57 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 41 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.73%) Banking
5 10 (4.29%) Front Office
6 9 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.00%) Retail
8 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.15%) Law
9 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Local Government
10 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.86%) Legal
11 2 (0.86%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (15.88%) Senior
2 28 (12.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (10.30%) Lead
4 20 (8.58%) Architect
4 20 (8.58%) Splunk Engineer
5 16 (6.87%) Analyst
6 14 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (6.01%) Developer
7 13 (5.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (5.15%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.29%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.29%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.86%) Consultant
10 9 (3.86%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.86%) Performance Engineer
10 9 (3.86%) Performance Test Engineer
10 9 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.86%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (3.43%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (30.90%) Terraform
2 24 (10.30%) Kafka
3 22 (9.44%) REST
4 19 (8.15%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.58%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (5.58%) RESTful
6 10 (4.29%) .NET
7 9 (3.86%) SailPoint
7 9 (3.86%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.43%) JSON
9 7 (3.00%) React
9 7 (3.00%) Spring
10 6 (2.58%) CSS
10 6 (2.58%) HTML
10 6 (2.58%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (2.15%) Apache Beam
11 5 (2.15%) Middleware
12 4 (1.72%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (1.72%) Loki
12 4 (1.72%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.45%) Onboarding
2 24 (10.30%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.30%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.43%) CMDB
6 8 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.58%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.58%) PKI
8 6 (2.58%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.15%) Equities
10 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 69 (29.61%) Linux
2 33 (14.16%) Windows
3 29 (12.45%) Unix
4 19 (8.15%) Windows Server
5 18 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.15%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.72%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.29%) VMS
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.86%) zOS
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (43.35%) CI/CD
2 100 (42.92%) Observability
3 78 (33.48%) DevOps
4 69 (29.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (28.76%) Agile
6 59 (25.32%) SIEM
7 50 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (21.03%) Incident Response
9 39 (16.74%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (16.74%) Security Operations
10 36 (15.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (14.59%) Containerisation
12 34 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (14.16%) Incident Management
13 33 (14.16%) Mentoring
14 31 (13.30%) Roadmaps
15 26 (11.16%) AI
15 26 (11.16%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (10.73%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (35.62%) Python
2 38 (16.31%) Java
3 29 (12.45%) PowerShell
4 23 (9.87%) Bash
5 22 (9.44%) SQL
6 13 (5.58%) Go
6 13 (5.58%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.58%) Search Processing Language
6 13 (5.58%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.29%) Scala
8 6 (2.58%) C#
8 6 (2.58%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.15%) Bicep
9 5 (2.15%) Perl
10 4 (1.72%) Ruby
11 3 (1.29%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.29%) Swift
12 2 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.86%) Groovy
12 2 (0.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 77 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 64 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.30%) CISSP
4 15 (6.44%) CISM
5 14 (6.01%) Degree
6 11 (4.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (4.29%) GIAC
8 9 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.86%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.00%) GCIA
10 7 (3.00%) GCIH
11 6 (2.58%) CCSP
12 5 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.15%) CEH
12 5 (2.15%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.15%) GSEC
13 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.87%) NIST
2 16 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.72%) QA
4 10 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.58%) NCSC
7 5 (2.15%) ISO 20022
7 5 (2.15%) SLA
8 4 (1.72%) GDPR
8 4 (1.72%) ISO 15022
8 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.86%) COBIT
10 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.43%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.43%) GxP
11 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (18.88%) Docker
2 10 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) etcd
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) Varnish
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (30.04%) Grafana
2 68 (29.18%) Kubernetes
3 55 (23.61%) Prometheus
4 29 (12.45%) Ansible
5 12 (5.15%) Kibana
6 8 (3.43%) Control-M
7 7 (3.00%) QRadar
8 5 (2.15%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.29%) Nagios
9 3 (1.29%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.86%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.86%) SCOM
11 1 (0.43%) CASB
11 1 (0.43%) Consul
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.43%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 51 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (19.74%) Dynatrace
3 28 (12.02%) CrowdStrike
3 28 (12.02%) ServiceNow
4 21 (9.01%) Oracle
5 19 (8.15%) New Relic
6 17 (7.30%) AppDynamics
6 17 (7.30%) Google
7 13 (5.58%) Qualys
7 13 (5.58%) Tenable
8 12 (5.15%) CyberArk
9 11 (4.72%) IBM
10 9 (3.86%) Okta
11 8 (3.43%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.00%) Rapid7
12 7 (3.00%) xMatters
13 5 (2.15%) Cisco
13 5 (2.15%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.72%) Ivanti
14 4 (1.72%) VMware