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 20 April 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
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 199 235
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 -56
Contract jobs citing Splunk 189 163 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.28% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 2.83% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 105 90
10th Percentile £409 £370 £413
25th Percentile £484 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £675
90th Percentile £900 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 7,580 5,758 7,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.52% 45.30% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,783 4,951
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £770 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 144
10th Percentile £18.24 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.50 £16.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%
75th Percentile £46.13 £51.25 £39.41
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.75 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -41.56%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 22 £593 +8.72% 8
West London -23 3 £375 -28.57%
South London -22 2 £650 +23.81% 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 7 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.12%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.33%) AWS
2 63 (33.33%) Azure
3 39 (20.63%) GCP
4 27 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 26 (13.76%) OpenShift
6 18 (9.52%) Datadog
6 18 (9.52%) GitHub
7 17 (8.99%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (7.41%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.76%) Serverless
13 9 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (4.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.47%) Network Security
2 14 (7.41%) Firewall
3 9 (4.76%) VPN
4 7 (3.70%) Wireless
5 6 (3.17%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.17%) InfiniBand
5 6 (3.17%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.65%) DNS
6 5 (2.65%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.65%) MPLS
7 3 (1.59%) BGP
7 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.06%) NGFW
8 2 (1.06%) OSPF
8 2 (1.06%) WAN
9 1 (0.53%) DWDM
9 1 (0.53%) IPsec
9 1 (0.53%) RTP
9 1 (0.53%) VSAN
9 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.29%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.65%) Big Data
3 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.12%) MySQL
4 4 (2.12%) Presto
5 3 (1.59%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.59%) Tableau
6 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.06%) Flink
6 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.53%) KNIME
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (21.69%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.58%) GitLab
3 12 (6.35%) Git
4 10 (5.29%) JIRA
5 5 (2.65%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.65%) Snyk
6 4 (2.12%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.06%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.53%) Gatling
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 54 (28.57%) Finance
3 22 (11.64%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.05%) Banking
6 13 (6.88%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.35%) Financial Institution
7 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.12%) Front Office
8 4 (2.12%) Retail
9 3 (1.59%) Military
10 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (17.99%) Architect
2 33 (17.46%) Analyst
3 23 (12.17%) Senior
4 19 (10.05%) SOC Analyst
5 18 (9.52%) CyberArk Architect
6 15 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (6.88%) Monitoring Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Lead
8 12 (6.35%) Site Engineer
9 11 (5.82%) Security Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Security Analyst
11 8 (4.23%) Consultant
11 8 (4.23%) Security Architect
12 7 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Developer
12 7 (3.70%) Threat Hunter
13 6 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 6 (3.17%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.17%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.70%) Kafka
2 18 (9.52%) REST
3 14 (7.41%) OpenID
3 14 (7.41%) SAML
4 13 (6.88%) LDAP
5 10 (5.29%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (4.23%) Spring
8 7 (3.70%) SailPoint
9 6 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.17%) React
10 5 (2.65%) ISPF
10 5 (2.65%) JSON
11 4 (2.12%) CSS
11 4 (2.12%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (2.12%) HTML
11 4 (2.12%) JMS
11 4 (2.12%) Middleware
11 4 (2.12%) Play Framework
12 3 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 23 (12.17%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.35%) PKI
4 11 (5.82%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.65%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.65%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.12%) Equities
8 4 (2.12%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.59%) CMDB
9 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.06%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.40%) Linux
2 17 (8.99%) Unix
3 10 (5.29%) Windows
4 5 (2.65%) zOS
5 3 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.04%) CI/CD
2 62 (32.80%) SIEM
3 51 (26.98%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (26.98%) DevOps
4 50 (26.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (25.93%) Observability
6 43 (22.75%) Incident Response
7 36 (19.05%) Agile
8 31 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
11 26 (13.76%) Containerisation
11 26 (13.76%) Threat Modelling
12 24 (12.70%) Secrets Management
13 22 (11.64%) Security Operations
14 21 (11.11%) Cloud Security
14 21 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (10.05%) ITSM
15 19 (10.05%) Migration
16 17 (8.99%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.57%) Python
2 22 (11.64%) Java
3 21 (11.11%) Bash
4 20 (10.58%) SQL
5 11 (5.82%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.82%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.23%) Go
6 8 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.65%) JCL
8 5 (2.65%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.65%) REXX
8 5 (2.65%) Scala
9 4 (2.12%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.59%) Perl
11 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.53%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.64%) CISSP
4 19 (10.05%) CISM
5 13 (6.88%) GIAC
6 9 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (4.23%) CEH
7 8 (4.23%) Degree
7 8 (4.23%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.12%) CCSP
9 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.59%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.06%) CCNP
11 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.46%) NIST
2 24 (12.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.99%) NCSC
4 8 (4.23%) QA
5 6 (3.17%) SLA
6 5 (2.65%) GDPR
6 5 (2.65%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.59%) COBIT
8 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.06%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.53%) GRC
9 1 (0.53%) GxP
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (16.40%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.65%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.59%) vSphere
5 2 (1.06%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.53%) etcd
6 1 (0.53%) Snort
6 1 (0.53%) Squid
6 1 (0.53%) Varnish
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 47 (24.87%) Terraform
3 42 (22.22%) Grafana
4 31 (16.40%) Prometheus
5 29 (15.34%) Ansible
6 6 (3.17%) Argo
7 5 (2.65%) Fluentd
7 5 (2.65%) Salt
8 4 (2.12%) Kibana
8 4 (2.12%) QRadar
9 3 (1.59%) Control-M
9 3 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.06%) CASB
10 2 (1.06%) logstash
10 2 (1.06%) Nessus
10 2 (1.06%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.06%) SCOM
11 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 36 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.64%) CyberArk
2 22 (11.64%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.99%) Qualys
4 14 (7.41%) Tenable
5 13 (6.88%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (6.35%) Cisco
6 12 (6.35%) Google
7 11 (5.82%) Palo Alto
8 10 (5.29%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.76%) AppDynamics
10 8 (4.23%) Carbon Black
11 7 (3.70%) Arista
11 7 (3.70%) Zscaler
12 6 (3.17%) Aruba
12 6 (3.17%) BigPanda
12 6 (3.17%) CheckPoint
12 6 (3.17%) F5
12 6 (3.17%) Okta
12 6 (3.17%) Red Hat