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 18 September 2025, 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 220 142
Rank change year-on-year +60 -78 +75
Contract jobs citing Splunk 224 175 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.67% 1.07% 1.80%
As % of the Vendors category 3.61% 2.48% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 101 326
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £459 £480 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £626 £751 £796
90th Percentile £775 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +4.35%

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 6,207 7,055 8,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.16% 43.31% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,023 4,573 6,246
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 111
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £58.13
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +7 27 £485 -15.65% 10
South London - 26 £500 - 2
West London -4 5 £415 -5.14%
Splunk
England

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.02%) Confluence
2 8 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.13%) Mattermost
3 7 (3.13%) Skype for Business
4 5 (2.23%) Apache
5 3 (1.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) CICS
7 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.71%) AWS
2 55 (24.55%) Azure
3 29 (12.95%) GCP
4 24 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (10.27%) GitHub
6 22 (9.82%) Amazon S3
6 22 (9.82%) SaaS
7 21 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (8.48%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (4.46%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.02%) Serverless
11 8 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.57%) Apigee
11 8 (3.57%) OneDrive
12 7 (3.13%) Datadog
13 6 (2.68%) Stackdriver
14 5 (2.23%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.61%) Firewall
2 15 (6.70%) DNS
3 13 (5.80%) SSL
4 11 (4.91%) Network Security
5 10 (4.46%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.57%) Wireshark
7 7 (3.13%) HTTP
7 7 (3.13%) Skype
7 7 (3.13%) Unified Communications
7 7 (3.13%) VPN
8 4 (1.79%) BGP
8 4 (1.79%) Internet
8 4 (1.79%) OSPF
8 4 (1.79%) Wireless
9 3 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.89%) LAN
10 2 (0.89%) SMS
10 2 (0.89%) SNMP
10 2 (0.89%) SSH
10 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.91%) Redis
3 8 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.34%) DB2
6 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.89%) MySQL
7 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) Flink
8 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (12.95%) Jenkins
2 25 (11.16%) Git
3 15 (6.70%) JIRA
4 13 (5.80%) GitLab
4 13 (5.80%) JUnit
4 13 (5.80%) Postman
5 10 (4.46%) Maven
5 10 (4.46%) Subversion
6 9 (4.02%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.02%) Mockito
7 8 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.13%) TeamCity
9 6 (2.68%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.68%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.68%) Xcode
9 6 (2.68%) XCTest
10 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.79%) Appium
11 4 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 62 (27.68%) Finance
2 61 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.95%) Banking
4 27 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (8.04%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.68%) Front Office
8 6 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.68%) Military
8 6 (2.68%) Retail
9 5 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.79%) Local Government
11 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.89%) Marketing
12 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (18.75%) Analyst
2 38 (16.96%) Architect
3 31 (13.84%) Security Architect
4 26 (11.61%) Senior
5 19 (8.48%) Developer
5 19 (8.48%) Security Engineer
5 19 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.59%) Site Engineer
7 17 (7.59%) Support Analyst
8 15 (6.70%) SOC Analyst
9 14 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
9 14 (6.25%) Security Analyst
10 10 (4.46%) Consultant
10 10 (4.46%) Splunk Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.57%) Monitoring Analyst
12 8 (3.57%) SharePoint Analyst
12 8 (3.57%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.93%) Kafka
1 20 (8.93%) Web Services
2 17 (7.59%) REST
3 13 (5.80%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.36%) Spring
5 11 (4.91%) HTML
6 10 (4.46%) Node.js
7 9 (4.02%) Swagger
8 8 (3.57%) Hibernate
8 8 (3.57%) SOAP
9 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.13%) CSS
9 7 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (2.68%) Bootstrap
10 6 (2.68%) CSS3
10 6 (2.68%) HTML5
10 6 (2.68%) JPA
10 6 (2.68%) Material-UI
10 6 (2.68%) Spring MVC
10 6 (2.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.18%) Onboarding
2 25 (11.16%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (8.93%) CSOC
4 11 (4.91%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.91%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.13%) Clustering
7 7 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (2.23%) PKI
10 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.79%) Replication
11 3 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.54%) Linux
2 20 (8.93%) Unix
3 18 (8.04%) Windows
4 10 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.79%) Android
6 4 (1.79%) Solaris
7 3 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.89%) CentOS
8 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.89%) VMS
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.02%) SIEM
2 63 (28.13%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (28.13%) DevOps
3 60 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 50 (22.32%) Incident Response
6 49 (21.88%) Security Operations
7 39 (17.41%) SOAR
8 35 (15.63%) Observability
9 33 (14.73%) Agile
10 28 (12.50%) Use Case
11 27 (12.05%) Information Security
11 27 (12.05%) ITIL
11 27 (12.05%) Microservices
12 26 (11.61%) Containerisation
12 26 (11.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 23 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (10.27%) Threat Detection
14 21 (9.38%) Migration
15 20 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 73 (32.59%) Python
2 51 (22.77%) SQL
3 42 (18.75%) Bash
4 41 (18.30%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.93%) Java
6 16 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.70%) Go
7 15 (6.70%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.25%) PromQL
9 12 (5.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.57%) Perl
11 6 (2.68%) Groovy
12 4 (1.79%) C++
12 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.79%) Swift
13 2 (0.89%) C
13 2 (0.89%) COBOL
13 2 (0.89%) JCL
13 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.48%) CISSP
4 17 (7.59%) Degree
5 10 (4.46%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (4.02%) CISM
7 8 (3.57%) CEH
8 7 (3.13%) CISA
8 7 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.23%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.23%) GIAC
11 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.79%) GCIA
11 4 (1.79%) GCIH
11 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (1.34%) SSCP
13 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.89%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.36%) GDPR
2 10 (4.46%) NIST
3 9 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.57%) QA
5 6 (2.68%) SLA
6 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.89%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (17.86%) Docker
2 22 (9.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) NFS
3 4 (1.79%) Snort
3 4 (1.79%) Veritas File System
3 4 (1.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.34%) Squid
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (14.29%) Grafana
3 28 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 27 (12.05%) Ansible
5 21 (9.38%) Terraform
6 17 (7.59%) SCOM
7 16 (7.14%) QRadar
8 14 (6.25%) HP SiteScope
9 6 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.23%) CSIRT
10 5 (2.23%) Nessus
10 5 (2.23%) Puppet
11 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.34%) Argo
12 3 (1.34%) Istio
12 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.34%) Nexpose
12 3 (1.34%) Suricata
13 2 (0.89%) Kibana
13 2 (0.89%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 53 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.16%) CrowdStrike
3 24 (10.71%) Dynatrace
3 24 (10.71%) Qualys
4 17 (7.59%) Oracle
4 17 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.25%) Carbon Black
5 14 (6.25%) Cisco
5 14 (6.25%) CyberArk
6 12 (5.36%) Google
7 11 (4.91%) Remedy
7 11 (4.91%) VMware
8 9 (4.02%) Red Hat
8 9 (4.02%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.57%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.13%) Darktrace
10 7 (3.13%) Tenable
11 6 (2.68%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (2.68%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.23%) MuleSoft