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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 172 219
Rank change year-on-year -49 +47 -70
Contract jobs citing Splunk 257 221 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.64% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 2.97% 3.54% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 128 104
10th Percentile £350 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £609 £626 £775
90th Percentile £751 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £573
% change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
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 - £60.00

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 8,664 6,246 7,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.80% 46.41% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,644 4,047 4,582
10th Percentile £333 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.68% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 120 78
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £26.30 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -14.60% -17.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £63.17
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.88 £77.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -23.79% -24.79%

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 September 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 September 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 -28 22 £469 -3.35% 20
West London -22 6 £560 +34.94% 6
East London - 1 £550 - 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 21 (8.17%) Confluence
2 10 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.95%) Apache
4 4 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.39%) Mule
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 122 (47.47%) Azure
2 112 (43.58%) AWS
3 53 (20.62%) GCP
4 49 (19.07%) GitHub
5 33 (12.84%) OpenShift
6 26 (10.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 25 (9.73%) Datadog
7 25 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (8.56%) Entra ID
9 19 (7.39%) SaaS
10 18 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.06%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (3.89%) Serverless
14 9 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.50%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.51%) Firewall
2 17 (6.61%) DNS
3 15 (5.84%) VPN
4 14 (5.45%) Network Security
5 13 (5.06%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.11%) WAN
7 6 (2.33%) LAN
8 5 (1.95%) SSL
9 4 (1.56%) Internet
10 3 (1.17%) HTTP
10 3 (1.17%) Multicast
10 3 (1.17%) VLAN
11 2 (0.78%) 4G
11 2 (0.78%) 5G
11 2 (0.78%) BGP
11 2 (0.78%) DMZ
11 2 (0.78%) SNMP
11 2 (0.78%) SSH
11 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.28%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.11%) Power BI
4 7 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.95%) Big Data
5 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.95%) Flink
5 5 (1.95%) Looker
6 4 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.56%) KDB
6 4 (1.56%) Presto
6 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.17%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.17%) MySQL
7 3 (1.17%) Tableau
8 2 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (16.73%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.45%) Git
3 27 (10.51%) JIRA
4 20 (7.78%) GitLab
5 13 (5.06%) JMeter
6 12 (4.67%) Gatling
7 9 (3.50%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.33%) Selenium
9 5 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.95%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.56%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.56%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.56%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.56%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.17%) Xcode
12 2 (0.78%) JUnit
12 2 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 71 (27.63%) Finance
2 66 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 52 (20.23%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.84%) Banking
5 12 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.89%) Front Office
7 8 (3.11%) Retail
8 5 (1.95%) Law
8 5 (1.95%) Military
9 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Local Government
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (13.62%) Senior
2 32 (12.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (10.12%) Lead
4 23 (8.95%) Analyst
4 23 (8.95%) Architect
5 20 (7.78%) Splunk Engineer
6 16 (6.23%) Security Engineer
7 14 (5.45%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.06%) Developer
9 12 (4.67%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (4.28%) Security Analyst
11 10 (3.89%) Performance Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Performance Test Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) Consultant
12 9 (3.50%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (31.13%) Terraform
2 27 (10.51%) Kafka
3 25 (9.73%) REST
4 20 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (5.84%) RESTful
6 14 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.28%) JSON
8 10 (3.89%) .NET
9 9 (3.50%) Middleware
9 9 (3.50%) SailPoint
9 9 (3.50%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.72%) React
10 7 (2.72%) Spring
11 6 (2.33%) CSS
11 6 (2.33%) HTML
11 6 (2.33%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.95%) Apache Beam
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
13 4 (1.56%) OpenAPI
13 4 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.40%) Onboarding
2 31 (12.06%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.67%) CMDB
5 12 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.28%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.89%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.50%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.95%) Equities
11 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 74 (28.79%) Linux
2 37 (14.40%) Windows
3 33 (12.84%) Unix
4 21 (8.17%) Windows Server
5 20 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.56%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.56%) VMS
8 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.78%) zOS
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (44.36%) Observability
2 113 (43.97%) CI/CD
3 90 (35.02%) DevOps
4 77 (29.96%) Agile
4 77 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (26.85%) SIEM
6 65 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (21.79%) Incident Response
8 48 (18.68%) Cybersecurity
9 44 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (17.12%) Security Operations
10 42 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (15.95%) Containerisation
12 37 (14.40%) Mentoring
13 36 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 34 (13.23%) Roadmaps
15 32 (12.45%) Incident Management
16 30 (11.67%) AI
17 29 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
18 28 (10.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (32.30%) Python
2 43 (16.73%) Java
3 31 (12.06%) PowerShell
4 26 (10.12%) Bash
4 26 (10.12%) SQL
5 16 (6.23%) Shell Script
6 15 (5.84%) Go
7 13 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.06%) Search Processing Language
8 9 (3.50%) Scala
9 8 (3.11%) C#
10 6 (2.33%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.95%) Bicep
11 5 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.95%) Perl
12 4 (1.56%) Groovy
12 4 (1.56%) Ruby
13 3 (1.17%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.17%) Swift
14 2 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 88 (34.24%) Security Cleared
2 76 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.73%) CISSP
4 13 (5.06%) CISM
5 12 (4.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (4.67%) Degree
6 11 (4.28%) GIAC
7 10 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.50%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.72%) CCSP
9 7 (2.72%) GCIA
9 7 (2.72%) GCIH
10 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.95%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (1.95%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.39%) NIST
2 16 (6.23%) QA
3 13 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.28%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.95%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.95%) NCSC
6 4 (1.56%) GDPR
6 4 (1.56%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.56%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.39%) GxP
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) SEPA
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (19.07%) Docker
2 10 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) etcd
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (30.74%) Grafana
2 78 (30.35%) Kubernetes
3 55 (21.40%) Prometheus
4 33 (12.84%) Ansible
5 12 (4.67%) Kibana
6 8 (3.11%) Control-M
7 7 (2.72%) QRadar
8 5 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.17%) Nagios
9 3 (1.17%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.78%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.78%) SCOM
10 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.39%) Puppet
11 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 57 (22.18%) Dynatrace
3 32 (12.45%) ServiceNow
4 31 (12.06%) CrowdStrike
5 22 (8.56%) New Relic
6 20 (7.78%) Oracle
7 19 (7.39%) Google
8 18 (7.00%) AppDynamics
9 13 (5.06%) Qualys
10 12 (4.67%) IBM
11 11 (4.28%) CyberArk
11 11 (4.28%) Tenable
12 9 (3.50%) Okta
13 7 (2.72%) Rapid7
13 7 (2.72%) xMatters
14 6 (2.33%) Zscaler
15 5 (1.95%) VMware
16 4 (1.56%) HP
16 4 (1.56%) ION Trading
16 4 (1.56%) Ivanti