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 29 March 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
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 181 237
Rank change year-on-year -36 +56 -56
Contract jobs citing Splunk 200 182 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.43% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 2.69% 3.17% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 117 94
10th Percentile £412 £374 £417
25th Percentile £500 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -12.70%
75th Percentile £733 £700 £675
90th Percentile £900 £775 £807
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 £65.00 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.54% +2.50% -29.30%

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 7,442 5,749 7,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.07% 45.21% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,901 3,766 4,972
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 88 144
10th Percentile £18.04 £17.72 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.71 £29.54 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +18.48% -3.04%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.12 £70.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.40 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.63% +21.13% -31.97%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -13 24 £645 +19.44% 11
West London -17 3 £375 -28.57%
South London -20 2 £650 +15.56% 1
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 5 (2.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.50%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.00%) AWS
2 65 (32.50%) Azure
3 44 (22.00%) GCP
4 31 (15.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 25 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 17 (8.50%) GitHub
7 14 (7.00%) Datadog
8 13 (6.50%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.00%) Entra ID
10 11 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (3.50%) Route 53
14 7 (3.50%) Serverless
15 6 (3.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.00%) Network Security
2 17 (8.50%) Firewall
3 9 (4.50%) VPN
4 8 (4.00%) DNS
5 7 (3.50%) Wireless
6 6 (3.00%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (3.00%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.00%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.50%) MPLS
8 4 (2.00%) BGP
9 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.00%) DMZ
10 2 (1.00%) NGFW
10 2 (1.00%) OSPF
10 2 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.00%) VSAN
10 2 (1.00%) VXLAN
10 2 (1.00%) WAN
11 1 (0.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.00%) MySQL
3 3 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.50%) Tableau
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) Flink
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.50%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.50%) GitLab
3 10 (5.00%) Git
4 7 (3.50%) JIRA
5 5 (2.50%) Snyk
6 4 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.00%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.00%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 71 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.50%) Finance
3 26 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.50%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (9.00%) Banking
6 13 (6.50%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.00%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.50%) Military
10 4 (2.00%) Front Office
11 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Retail
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Billing
13 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Legal
13 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (23.00%) Analyst
2 35 (17.50%) Architect
3 29 (14.50%) Senior
4 25 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 20 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 18 (9.00%) Monitoring Analyst
7 16 (8.00%) CyberArk Architect
7 16 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Security Engineer
9 12 (6.00%) Site Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 11 (5.50%) Lead
11 10 (5.00%) Security Architect
11 10 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.50%) Consultant
12 9 (4.50%) Threat Hunter
13 8 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Senior Security Analyst
14 7 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 7 (3.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.00%) Kafka
2 18 (9.00%) REST
3 14 (7.00%) OpenID
3 14 (7.00%) SAML
4 13 (6.50%) LDAP
5 10 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.00%) Spring
7 7 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.50%) JSON
8 5 (2.50%) React
8 5 (2.50%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.00%) JMS
9 4 (2.00%) Middleware
10 3 (1.50%) ISPF
11 2 (1.00%) Flash
11 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
11 2 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.50%) Onboarding
2 23 (11.50%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.50%) Cyber Defence
4 12 (6.00%) PKI
5 10 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.50%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.50%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.00%) Equities
11 3 (1.50%) CMDB
11 3 (1.50%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.00%) Linux
2 13 (6.50%) Unix
3 11 (5.50%) Windows
4 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.50%) zOS
6 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.50%) Android
7 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.50%) CentOS
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.50%) SIEM
2 66 (33.00%) CI/CD
3 61 (30.50%) Cybersecurity
4 57 (28.50%) Incident Response
5 51 (25.50%) DevOps
6 49 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (24.50%) Observability
7 42 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (19.00%) Agile
9 29 (14.50%) Vulnerability Management
10 28 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (13.50%) Security Operations
12 26 (13.00%) Containerisation
12 26 (13.00%) Mentoring
12 26 (13.00%) Threat Modelling
13 24 (12.00%) Threat Detection
14 23 (11.50%) Cloud Security
15 21 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (10.00%) Secrets Management
17 19 (9.50%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.00%) Python
2 22 (11.00%) Bash
3 19 (9.50%) Java
4 17 (8.50%) SQL
5 12 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (5.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.50%) Go
8 6 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.50%) JCL
11 3 (1.50%) Perl
11 3 (1.50%) REXX
12 2 (1.00%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
13 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.50%) CISSP
4 22 (11.00%) CISM
5 14 (7.00%) GIAC
6 10 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (5.00%) Degree
7 9 (4.50%) CEH
7 9 (4.50%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.00%) CCSP
9 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.50%) CCNP
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.50%) CSPO
12 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.50%) NIST
2 25 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (9.00%) NCSC
4 9 (4.50%) QA
5 6 (3.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.00%) SLA
6 5 (2.50%) GDPR
7 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.50%) COBIT
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (14.50%) Docker
2 6 (3.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.50%) vSphere
5 2 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.00%) Snort
5 2 (1.00%) Squid
6 1 (0.50%) etcd
6 1 (0.50%) Varnish
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 44 (22.00%) Terraform
3 42 (21.00%) Grafana
4 32 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 30 (15.00%) Ansible
6 7 (3.50%) Argo
7 5 (2.50%) Fluentd
7 5 (2.50%) Salt
8 4 (2.00%) QRadar
9 3 (1.50%) Control-M
9 3 (1.50%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.50%) Nessus
9 3 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.00%) CASB
10 2 (1.00%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.00%) logstash
10 2 (1.00%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.00%) SCOM
10 2 (1.00%) Suricata
10 2 (1.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.50%) Qualys
3 19 (9.50%) CyberArk
3 19 (9.50%) ServiceNow
4 17 (8.50%) Google
5 16 (8.00%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (7.50%) Cisco
6 15 (7.50%) Palo Alto
6 15 (7.50%) Tenable
7 12 (6.00%) Carbon Black
8 9 (4.50%) AppDynamics
8 9 (4.50%) Dynatrace
9 8 (4.00%) Zscaler
10 7 (3.50%) Arista
11 6 (3.00%) Aruba
11 6 (3.00%) BigPanda
11 6 (3.00%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.00%) F5
11 6 (3.00%) Okta
11 6 (3.00%) Red Hat