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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 175 255
Rank change year-on-year -46 +80 -108
Contract jobs citing Splunk 214 186 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.44% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.69% 3.18% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 112 89
10th Percentile £400 £387 £375
25th Percentile £463 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £625
90th Percentile £900 £775 £688
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 £65.45 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 7,953 5,846 7,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 45.35% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,207 3,788 5,008
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £508 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.78 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.81% +16.70% -21.32%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.04 £24.65
% change year-on-year +34.41% +5.64% -33.38%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -18 22 £575 +9.52% 57
West London -14 6 £560 +34.94% 3
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 9 (4.21%) Confluence
2 8 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) MTS
5 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.40%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 79 (36.92%) AWS
2 74 (34.58%) Azure
3 35 (16.36%) GitHub
4 32 (14.95%) GCP
5 29 (13.55%) OpenShift
6 21 (9.81%) Entra ID
7 20 (9.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (7.48%) Datadog
10 14 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (6.54%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (6.07%) SaaS
12 10 (4.67%) Serverless
13 9 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.74%) Power Platform
15 7 (3.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.75%) Firewall
2 19 (8.88%) VPN
3 17 (7.94%) Network Security
4 13 (6.07%) DNS
5 6 (2.80%) WAN
6 5 (2.34%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.34%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.34%) InfiniBand
6 5 (2.34%) MPLS
6 5 (2.34%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.34%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.34%) Wireless
7 3 (1.40%) BGP
7 3 (1.40%) Internet
7 3 (1.40%) LAN
7 3 (1.40%) Multicast
8 2 (0.93%) DMZ
8 2 (0.93%) SNMP
8 2 (0.93%) SSH
9 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.14%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.74%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.27%) Power BI
4 5 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.34%) Big Data
4 5 (2.34%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.34%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.87%) Presto
6 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.40%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.40%) KDB
6 3 (1.40%) MySQL
6 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Flink
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.35%) Git
3 15 (7.01%) GitLab
4 10 (4.67%) JIRA
5 7 (3.27%) Gatling
6 6 (2.80%) JMeter
7 5 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.34%) Snyk
8 4 (1.87%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.40%) Xcode
10 2 (0.93%) Gradle
10 2 (0.93%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.93%) JUnit
10 2 (0.93%) Maven
11 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.47%) Selenium
11 1 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
General
1 65 (30.37%) Finance
2 58 (27.10%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.21%) Banking
5 20 (9.35%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (5.14%) Front Office
8 10 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.21%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.21%) Retail
10 5 (2.34%) Law
11 3 (1.40%) Legal
11 3 (1.40%) Local Government
12 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (18.69%) Architect
2 32 (14.95%) Senior
3 20 (9.35%) Analyst
4 19 (8.88%) CyberArk Architect
5 15 (7.01%) Lead
5 15 (7.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (6.54%) Security Architect
7 13 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.14%) Developer
9 10 (4.67%) Site Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Splunk Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Applications Support
11 8 (3.74%) Consultant
11 8 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (3.27%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.80%) Performance Engineer
13 6 (2.80%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.81%) REST
2 19 (8.88%) Kafka
3 15 (7.01%) LDAP
3 15 (7.01%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.07%) OpenID
4 13 (6.07%) SAML
4 13 (6.07%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.61%) Spring
6 11 (5.14%) RESTful
6 11 (5.14%) SailPoint
7 8 (3.74%) .NET
8 6 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.80%) JSON
8 6 (2.80%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (2.34%) React
10 4 (1.87%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.87%) HTML
10 4 (1.87%) J2EE
10 4 (1.87%) Loki
10 4 (1.87%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.76%) Onboarding
2 33 (15.42%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.61%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.67%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.21%) CMDB
5 9 (4.21%) PKI
6 8 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.80%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.80%) Equities
8 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.83%) Linux
2 25 (11.68%) Unix
3 23 (10.75%) Windows
4 12 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.87%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.93%) zOS
10 1 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (41.12%) CI/CD
2 72 (33.64%) Observability
3 71 (33.18%) SIEM
4 63 (29.44%) DevOps
5 60 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (25.70%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (22.90%) Incident Response
8 40 (18.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 39 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.76%) Security Operations
11 35 (16.36%) Agile
12 34 (15.89%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (14.95%) Cloud Security
14 31 (14.49%) Containerisation
15 30 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (12.62%) Secrets Management
17 26 (12.15%) ITIL
18 25 (11.68%) ITSM
19 23 (10.75%) AI
19 23 (10.75%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.24%) Python
2 33 (15.42%) Java
3 21 (9.81%) SQL
4 20 (9.35%) Bash
4 20 (9.35%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.14%) Search Processing Language
6 10 (4.67%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.21%) Go
8 6 (2.80%) C#
9 5 (2.34%) Bicep
9 5 (2.34%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.34%) Scala
9 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.87%) Ruby
10 4 (1.87%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.40%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.40%) Swift
12 2 (0.93%) C++
12 2 (0.93%) JCL
12 2 (0.93%) REXX
Qualifications
1 63 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.02%) CISSP
4 20 (9.35%) CISM
5 12 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.61%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (5.61%) GIAC
6 11 (5.14%) Degree
7 9 (4.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (4.21%) CCSP
8 7 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.27%) GCIA
8 7 (3.27%) GCIH
9 6 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.34%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.34%) CEH
10 5 (2.34%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.34%) GSEC
11 3 (1.40%) CCNP
11 3 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.89%) NIST
2 26 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.01%) NCSC
4 8 (3.74%) QA
5 7 (3.27%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.87%) GDPR
6 4 (1.87%) SLA
6 4 (1.87%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.93%) COBIT
7 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) GRC
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (14.49%) Docker
2 11 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) etcd
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (28.04%) Kubernetes
2 59 (27.57%) Grafana
3 54 (25.23%) Terraform
4 46 (21.50%) Prometheus
5 34 (15.89%) Ansible
6 10 (4.67%) Kibana
7 7 (3.27%) QRadar
8 4 (1.87%) Salt
9 3 (1.40%) Control-M
9 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.93%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.47%) Nessus
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
11 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.42%) Dynatrace
3 31 (14.49%) ServiceNow
4 27 (12.62%) CrowdStrike
5 26 (12.15%) CyberArk
6 17 (7.94%) Qualys
6 17 (7.94%) Tenable
7 15 (7.01%) AppDynamics
8 13 (6.07%) Google
8 13 (6.07%) Oracle
9 10 (4.67%) Cisco
9 10 (4.67%) New Relic
9 10 (4.67%) Okta
9 10 (4.67%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.27%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.27%) IBM
10 7 (3.27%) Rapid7
10 7 (3.27%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.80%) Arista
11 6 (2.80%) Fortinet