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 25 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
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 175 239
Rank change year-on-year -53 +64 -93
Contract jobs citing Splunk 226 206 161
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.54% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.34% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 124 98
10th Percentile £388 £360 £399
25th Percentile £450 £423 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £636 £688
90th Percentile £720 £775 £803
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 8,553 6,166 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.64% 46.10% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,570 3,987 4,684
10th Percentile £345 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 127 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.56 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -23.13%
75th Percentile £62.44 £39.38 £61.39
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.45 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +27.68% -13.28% -30.12%

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 25 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 25 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 -26 20 £575 +24.32% 5
West London -16 6 £560 +34.94% 10
East London +3 1 £550 +120.00% 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 (8.41%) Confluence
2 13 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.77%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) MTS
6 1 (0.44%) Mule
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.36%) Azure
2 94 (41.59%) AWS
3 46 (20.35%) GitHub
4 45 (19.91%) GCP
5 28 (12.39%) OpenShift
6 24 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.73%) Entra ID
8 20 (8.85%) Datadog
9 17 (7.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (7.52%) SaaS
10 16 (7.08%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.31%) Serverless
13 10 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.95%) Firewall
2 16 (7.08%) DNS
3 15 (6.64%) VPN
4 14 (6.19%) Network Security
5 10 (4.42%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.65%) WAN
7 4 (1.77%) Internet
7 4 (1.77%) LAN
8 3 (1.33%) BGP
8 3 (1.33%) DMZ
8 3 (1.33%) Multicast
8 3 (1.33%) SSL
8 3 (1.33%) VLAN
9 2 (0.88%) SSH
10 1 (0.44%) Broadband
10 1 (0.44%) HTTP
10 1 (0.44%) SAN
10 1 (0.44%) SMTP
10 1 (0.44%) SNMP
10 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.42%) MongoDB
1 10 (4.42%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.54%) Power BI
3 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.65%) Big Data
4 6 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.65%) Flink
5 5 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.21%) Looker
6 4 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.77%) KDB
6 4 (1.77%) Presto
6 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.33%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.88%) Redis
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (16.37%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.39%) Git
3 23 (10.18%) JIRA
4 17 (7.52%) GitLab
5 11 (4.87%) Gatling
6 10 (4.42%) JMeter
7 7 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.21%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.21%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.77%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.33%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.33%) Xcode
11 2 (0.88%) Gradle
11 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.88%) JUnit
11 2 (0.88%) Maven
11 2 (0.88%) Selenium
11 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (31.42%) Finance
2 54 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.72%) Banking
5 10 (4.42%) Front Office
6 9 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.10%) Retail
8 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.21%) Law
9 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Local Government
9 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (16.37%) Senior
2 25 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (10.62%) Lead
4 21 (9.29%) Architect
5 20 (8.85%) Splunk Engineer
6 16 (7.08%) Analyst
7 14 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.75%) Developer
9 12 (5.31%) Applications Support
9 12 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (4.42%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Performance Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Performance Test Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.54%) Consultant
12 8 (3.54%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.86%) Terraform
2 22 (9.73%) Kafka
2 22 (9.73%) REST
3 17 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.75%) RESTful
5 12 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (4.42%) .NET
7 9 (3.98%) SailPoint
8 8 (3.54%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.10%) JSON
9 7 (3.10%) React
10 6 (2.65%) CSS
10 6 (2.65%) HTML
10 6 (2.65%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (2.65%) Spring
11 5 (2.21%) Apache Beam
11 5 (2.21%) Middleware
12 4 (1.77%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (1.77%) Loki
12 4 (1.77%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.83%) Onboarding
2 23 (10.18%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.42%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.10%) CMDB
7 7 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.10%) PKI
7 7 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.21%) Equities
10 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (29.65%) Linux
2 33 (14.60%) Windows
3 28 (12.39%) Unix
4 19 (8.41%) Windows Server
5 18 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.77%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.33%) VMS
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.88%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.81%) CI/CD
2 94 (41.59%) Observability
3 75 (33.19%) DevOps
4 69 (30.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (28.76%) Agile
6 59 (26.11%) SIEM
7 48 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (20.80%) Incident Response
9 39 (17.26%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (16.81%) Security Operations
11 36 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 33 (14.60%) Containerisation
12 33 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (14.16%) Mentoring
14 31 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (13.72%) Incident Management
15 29 (12.83%) Roadmaps
16 25 (11.06%) AI
16 25 (11.06%) Cloud Security
16 25 (11.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (35.84%) Python
2 37 (16.37%) Java
3 29 (12.83%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.73%) SQL
5 20 (8.85%) Bash
6 13 (5.75%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.75%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.31%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (4.87%) Go
9 10 (4.42%) Scala
10 6 (2.65%) C#
10 6 (2.65%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.21%) Bicep
11 5 (2.21%) Perl
12 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.33%) Ruby
12 3 (1.33%) Swift
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Groovy
13 2 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 74 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 61 (26.99%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.62%) CISSP
4 15 (6.64%) CISM
5 14 (6.19%) Degree
6 11 (4.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (4.42%) GIAC
8 9 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.54%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (3.10%) GCIA
10 7 (3.10%) GCIH
11 6 (2.65%) CCSP
12 5 (2.21%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.21%) CEH
12 5 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.21%) GSEC
13 3 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.62%) NIST
2 16 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.87%) QA
4 10 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.10%) NCSC
5 7 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.21%) SLA
7 4 (1.77%) GDPR
7 4 (1.77%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.77%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.33%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.88%) COBIT
9 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.44%) GxP
10 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (19.03%) Docker
2 11 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (29.65%) Grafana
2 65 (28.76%) Kubernetes
3 53 (23.45%) Prometheus
4 29 (12.83%) Ansible
5 11 (4.87%) Kibana
6 8 (3.54%) Control-M
7 7 (3.10%) QRadar
8 5 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.44%) CASB
10 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) SCOM
10 1 (0.44%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 49 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 43 (19.03%) Dynatrace
3 27 (11.95%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (11.50%) ServiceNow
5 20 (8.85%) Oracle
6 18 (7.96%) New Relic
7 17 (7.52%) Google
8 15 (6.64%) AppDynamics
9 13 (5.75%) Qualys
9 13 (5.75%) Tenable
10 12 (5.31%) CyberArk
11 10 (4.42%) IBM
12 9 (3.98%) Okta
12 9 (3.98%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.10%) Rapid7
13 7 (3.10%) xMatters
14 6 (2.65%) Fortinet
15 5 (2.21%) Cisco
16 4 (1.77%) Ivanti
16 4 (1.77%) Red Hat