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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 194 226
Rank change year-on-year -21 +32 -48
Contract jobs citing Splunk 196 161 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.28% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 2.58% 2.83% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 105 92
10th Percentile £405 £383 £413
25th Percentile £481 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +3.70% -21.51%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £900 £750 £699
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -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% -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 7,603 5,699 7,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.89% 45.43% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,030 3,740 4,955
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -2.67%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 92 138
10th Percentile £18.35 £15.91 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.26 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +20.88% -21.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.20 £36.56
90th Percentile £69.63 £67.25 £64.13
England median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -44.10%

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 May 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 May 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 -12 22 £600 +11.11% 6
West London -16 3 £375 -28.57% 1
South London -23 2 £650 +23.81%
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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.02%) Apache
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.02%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.04%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.80%) AWS
2 68 (34.69%) Azure
3 35 (17.86%) GCP
4 28 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 25 (12.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 23 (11.73%) GitHub
7 19 (9.69%) Datadog
8 15 (7.65%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (7.65%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.65%) Entra ID
8 15 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.10%) SaaS
12 9 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.59%) Serverless
13 7 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.67%) Firewall
2 14 (7.14%) Network Security
3 13 (6.63%) VPN
4 10 (5.10%) DNS
5 7 (3.57%) Wireless
6 6 (3.06%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.06%) InfiniBand
6 6 (3.06%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.55%) MPLS
8 3 (1.53%) BGP
8 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.02%) Multicast
9 2 (1.02%) NGFW
9 2 (1.02%) OSPF
9 2 (1.02%) WAN
10 1 (0.51%) 4G
10 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.51%) VoLTE
10 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.08%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.55%) Big Data
3 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.04%) Power BI
4 4 (2.04%) Presto
5 3 (1.53%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.02%) Flink
6 2 (1.02%) MySQL
6 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.02%) Tableau
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (20.41%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.69%) GitLab
3 12 (6.12%) Git
4 9 (4.59%) JIRA
5 5 (2.55%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.55%) Snyk
6 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.02%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.51%) Gatling
8 1 (0.51%) git-flow
8 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.59%) Finance
3 22 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.22%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (10.20%) Banking
5 13 (6.63%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.12%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.06%) Front Office
8 4 (2.04%) Retail
9 3 (1.53%) Military
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Back Office
11 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (17.35%) Architect
2 30 (15.31%) Analyst
3 23 (11.73%) Senior
4 19 (9.69%) CyberArk Architect
5 16 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 16 (8.16%) SOC Analyst
6 14 (7.14%) Lead
7 12 (6.12%) Site Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Monitoring Analyst
10 9 (4.59%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Consultant
11 8 (4.08%) Security Analyst
11 8 (4.08%) Security Architect
12 7 (3.57%) Developer
13 6 (3.06%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.24%) Kafka
2 17 (8.67%) REST
3 14 (7.14%) OpenID
3 14 (7.14%) SAML
4 13 (6.63%) LDAP
5 11 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (5.10%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.08%) SailPoint
7 8 (4.08%) Spring
8 6 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.06%) JSON
8 6 (3.06%) React
9 5 (2.55%) ISPF
10 4 (2.04%) CSS
10 4 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.04%) HTML
10 4 (2.04%) JMS
10 4 (2.04%) Middleware
10 4 (2.04%) Play Framework
11 3 (1.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.84%) Onboarding
2 26 (13.27%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.12%) PKI
4 10 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.55%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.55%) Equities
7 5 (2.55%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.53%) CMDB
9 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Clustering
10 2 (1.02%) Derivative
10 2 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.37%) Linux
2 17 (8.67%) Unix
3 11 (5.61%) Windows
4 5 (2.55%) zOS
5 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.27%) CI/CD
2 64 (32.65%) SIEM
3 57 (29.08%) DevOps
4 56 (28.57%) Observability
5 54 (27.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (26.02%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (23.47%) Incident Response
8 37 (18.88%) Agile
9 34 (17.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 32 (16.33%) Containerisation
11 30 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.80%) Vulnerability Management
13 25 (12.76%) Secrets Management
14 24 (12.24%) Threat Modelling
15 23 (11.73%) Security Operations
16 22 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (10.71%) Cloud Security
18 19 (9.69%) Incident Management
18 19 (9.69%) ITIL
18 19 (9.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.06%) Python
2 25 (12.76%) Java
3 20 (10.20%) Bash
3 20 (10.20%) SQL
4 13 (6.63%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.08%) Go
7 7 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.55%) JCL
8 5 (2.55%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.55%) REXX
8 5 (2.55%) Scala
8 5 (2.55%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.53%) Perl
10 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.51%) C++
10 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.71%) CISSP
4 17 (8.67%) CISM
5 12 (6.12%) Degree
5 12 (6.12%) GIAC
6 8 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.57%) CEH
7 7 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.55%) CCSP
10 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.53%) GCIA
11 2 (1.02%) CCNP
11 2 (1.02%) GCIH
11 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.84%) NIST
2 23 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.67%) NCSC
4 8 (4.08%) QA
5 6 (3.06%) SLA
6 5 (2.55%) GDPR
6 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.53%) COBIT
8 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.02%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.02%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.51%) GxP
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (14.29%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.53%) vSphere
5 2 (1.02%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.51%) etcd
6 1 (0.51%) Snort
6 1 (0.51%) Squid
6 1 (0.51%) Varnish
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (29.59%) Kubernetes
2 52 (26.53%) Terraform
3 50 (25.51%) Grafana
4 37 (18.88%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.33%) Ansible
6 6 (3.06%) Argo
7 5 (2.55%) QRadar
7 5 (2.55%) Salt
8 4 (2.04%) Fluentd
8 4 (2.04%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (2.04%) Kibana
9 3 (1.53%) Control-M
9 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.02%) CASB
10 2 (1.02%) logstash
10 2 (1.02%) Nessus
10 2 (1.02%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.02%) SCOM
11 1 (0.51%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 37 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.24%) ServiceNow
3 23 (11.73%) CyberArk
4 17 (8.67%) Qualys
5 15 (7.65%) CrowdStrike
5 15 (7.65%) Dynatrace
6 14 (7.14%) AppDynamics
7 12 (6.12%) Cisco
7 12 (6.12%) Google
7 12 (6.12%) Tenable
8 11 (5.61%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.57%) Arista
9 7 (3.57%) Bloomberg
9 7 (3.57%) Carbon Black
9 7 (3.57%) Zscaler
10 6 (3.06%) Aruba
10 6 (3.06%) BigPanda
10 6 (3.06%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.06%) Okta
10 6 (3.06%) Red Hat