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 10 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
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 189 242
Rank change year-on-year -48 +53 -93
Contract jobs citing Splunk 225 186 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.36% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 2.97% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 112 87
10th Percentile £397 £365 £379
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £658 £635
90th Percentile £722 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.64% -8.33%
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 - £40.00

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 8,488 6,269 6,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.13% 45.85% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,513 4,079 4,733
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.63%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 123 87
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.85 £22.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.48 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.39% -16.17% -20.00%

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 10 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 10 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 -22 23 £575 +16.16% 17
West London -16 6 £560 +34.94% 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 18 (8.00%) Confluence
2 13 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.67%) Apache
4 4 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.78%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.89%) 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 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.89%) Azure
2 87 (38.67%) AWS
3 43 (19.11%) GitHub
4 41 (18.22%) GCP
5 25 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 23 (10.22%) Entra ID
7 22 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (8.89%) Datadog
10 18 (8.00%) SaaS
11 14 (6.22%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.44%) Serverless
14 9 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.00%) dbt
14 9 (4.00%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.00%) Firewall
2 19 (8.44%) VPN
3 17 (7.56%) Network Security
4 15 (6.67%) DNS
5 9 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.11%) WAN
7 5 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.78%) BGP
8 4 (1.78%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.78%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.78%) Internet
8 4 (1.78%) LAN
8 4 (1.78%) MPLS
8 4 (1.78%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.78%) SSL
8 4 (1.78%) Wireless
9 3 (1.33%) DMZ
9 3 (1.33%) Multicast
10 2 (0.89%) SSH
10 2 (0.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.56%) MongoDB
1 8 (3.56%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.56%) Power BI
2 6 (2.67%) Flink
3 5 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.22%) Big Data
3 5 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.22%) Looker
3 5 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.78%) Presto
4 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.33%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.33%) KDB
6 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.89%) MySQL
6 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (12.89%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.67%) Git
3 19 (8.44%) JIRA
4 16 (7.11%) GitLab
5 9 (4.00%) Gatling
5 9 (4.00%) JMeter
6 5 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.78%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.78%) Snyk
7 4 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.33%) Xcode
9 2 (0.89%) Gradle
9 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.89%) JUnit
9 2 (0.89%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.89%) Maven
9 2 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (31.11%) Finance
2 54 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.44%) Banking
5 10 (4.44%) Front Office
6 9 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.56%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.11%) Retail
9 5 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.22%) Law
10 3 (1.33%) Local Government
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (16.00%) Senior
2 25 (11.11%) Architect
3 24 (10.67%) Lead
4 20 (8.89%) Splunk Engineer
5 19 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.56%) Analyst
7 13 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (5.33%) Developer
8 12 (5.33%) Security Architect
9 11 (4.89%) Consultant
9 11 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Applications Support
10 10 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Performance Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Performance Test Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (3.56%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.67%) REST
2 16 (7.11%) Kafka
3 13 (5.78%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.89%) RESTful
5 11 (4.89%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.44%) SailPoint
7 9 (4.00%) .NET
7 9 (4.00%) Spring
8 6 (2.67%) JSON
8 6 (2.67%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (2.22%) Apache Beam
9 5 (2.22%) React
10 4 (1.78%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (1.78%) CSS
10 4 (1.78%) HTML
10 4 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (1.78%) Loki
10 4 (1.78%) Middleware
10 4 (1.78%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.89%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.78%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.00%) CMDB
5 9 (4.00%) PKI
5 9 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.11%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.67%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.22%) Equities
9 5 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.33%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.89%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (27.11%) Linux
2 30 (13.33%) Windows
3 28 (12.44%) Unix
4 18 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (7.11%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.78%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.89%) VMS
9 2 (0.89%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.33%) Observability
2 91 (40.44%) CI/CD
3 65 (28.89%) DevOps
4 62 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (27.56%) SIEM
5 56 (24.89%) Agile
6 46 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 41 (18.22%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (16.44%) Security Operations
10 36 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (13.78%) Containerisation
11 31 (13.78%) Mentoring
11 31 (13.78%) Vulnerability Management
12 30 (13.33%) Cloud Security
12 30 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (12.89%) AI
14 28 (12.44%) Incident Management
15 27 (12.00%) Roadmaps
16 26 (11.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 74 (32.89%) Python
2 39 (17.33%) Java
3 26 (11.56%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.78%) SQL
5 13 (5.78%) Bash
6 11 (4.89%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.89%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.44%) Go
7 10 (4.44%) Scala
7 10 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.67%) C#
9 5 (2.22%) Bicep
9 5 (2.22%) Perl
9 5 (2.22%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.33%) Ruby
10 3 (1.33%) Swift
11 2 (0.89%) Groovy
11 2 (0.89%) JCL
Qualifications
1 64 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 52 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.44%) CISSP
4 18 (8.00%) CISM
5 13 (5.78%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.33%) Degree
7 10 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (4.00%) CCSP
8 9 (4.00%) GIAC
9 7 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.11%) GCIA
9 7 (3.11%) GCIH
10 5 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.22%) CEH
10 5 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.22%) GSEC
11 4 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.22%) NIST
2 15 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.00%) QA
5 7 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.67%) NCSC
7 5 (2.22%) SLA
8 4 (1.78%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.33%) GDPR
9 3 (1.33%) ISO 15022
9 3 (1.33%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.89%) COBIT
10 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (16.00%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (30.22%) Terraform
2 64 (28.44%) Grafana
3 59 (26.22%) Kubernetes
4 50 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 29 (12.89%) Ansible
6 10 (4.44%) Kibana
7 7 (3.11%) Control-M
7 7 (3.11%) QRadar
8 4 (1.78%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.33%) Salt
10 2 (0.89%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.44%) CASB
11 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.44%) Puppet
11 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.33%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.78%) ServiceNow
4 27 (12.00%) CrowdStrike
5 19 (8.44%) Google
6 18 (8.00%) Qualys
7 17 (7.56%) New Relic
7 17 (7.56%) Tenable
8 16 (7.11%) AppDynamics
9 15 (6.67%) Oracle
10 13 (5.78%) CyberArk
11 11 (4.89%) Okta
12 9 (4.00%) Cisco
12 9 (4.00%) IBM
12 9 (4.00%) Zscaler
13 8 (3.56%) Palo Alto
14 7 (3.11%) Rapid7
14 7 (3.11%) xMatters
15 6 (2.67%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.67%) Fortinet