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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 182 247
Rank change year-on-year -27 +65 -59
Contract jobs citing Splunk 201 189 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.46% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.81% 3.28% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 120 89
10th Percentile £413 £405 £447
25th Percentile £500 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +1.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £675
90th Percentile £900 £810 £813
England median daily rate £525 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -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 7,154 5,766 7,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.46% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,719 3,696 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £276
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.77 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £80.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

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 March 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 March 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 -15 25 £613 +12.39% 5
South London -15 4 £538 -17.31% 1
West London - 3 £375 -
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 5 (2.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.99%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.50%) BASE24
3 1 (0.50%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.31%) AWS
2 56 (27.86%) Azure
3 40 (19.90%) GCP
4 30 (14.93%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (9.45%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.46%) GitHub
7 11 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.47%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.47%) Datadog
8 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.48%) Route 53
12 6 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.49%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.45%) Firewall
2 18 (8.96%) Network Security
3 10 (4.98%) VPN
4 9 (4.48%) DNS
5 7 (3.48%) Wireless
6 6 (2.99%) Ethernet
6 6 (2.99%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (2.99%) InfiniBand
6 6 (2.99%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.49%) MPLS
7 5 (2.49%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.99%) BGP
9 2 (1.00%) DMZ
9 2 (1.00%) HTTP
9 2 (1.00%) NGFW
9 2 (1.00%) OSPF
9 2 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.00%) SSL
9 2 (1.00%) WAN
9 2 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.99%) MySQL
2 4 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.49%) Tableau
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.00%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) Flink
5 1 (0.50%) KNIME
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.95%) GitLab
3 9 (4.48%) Git
4 8 (3.98%) JIRA
5 5 (2.49%) Postman
6 4 (1.99%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.99%) Selenium
6 4 (1.99%) Snyk
7 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.49%) Gatling
7 3 (1.49%) JUnit
7 3 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.49%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.49%) Subversion
8 2 (1.00%) Appium
8 2 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.00%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.00%) XCUITest
General
1 75 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.37%) Finance
3 27 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.44%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (8.96%) Banking
6 14 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.98%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.49%) Military
10 4 (1.99%) Front Office
10 4 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Retail
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Billing
13 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Legal
13 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (24.38%) Analyst
2 33 (16.42%) Architect
3 28 (13.93%) Senior
4 24 (11.94%) SOC Analyst
5 20 (9.95%) Security Analyst
6 19 (9.45%) Monitoring Analyst
7 16 (7.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) CyberArk Architect
9 13 (6.47%) Security Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Security Architect
10 12 (5.97%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.98%) Lead
11 10 (4.98%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.48%) Consultant
12 9 (4.48%) Threat Hunter
13 8 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Developer
13 8 (3.98%) Senior Security Analyst
14 7 (3.48%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.45%) REST
2 20 (9.95%) Kafka
3 14 (6.97%) OpenID
3 14 (6.97%) SAML
4 13 (6.47%) LDAP
5 11 (5.47%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.48%) Spring
7 8 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.49%) JSON
9 4 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.99%) JMS
9 4 (1.99%) Middleware
10 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.49%) ISPF
10 3 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.49%) React
10 3 (1.49%) Web Services
11 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
11 2 (1.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.43%) Onboarding
2 23 (11.44%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.46%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (5.47%) PKI
5 10 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.48%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.99%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.49%) Clustering
9 5 (2.49%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.99%) Equities
10 4 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.49%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.93%) Linux
2 15 (7.46%) Windows
3 14 (6.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.49%) zOS
6 2 (1.00%) Android
6 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.50%) CentOS
7 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.32%) SIEM
2 61 (30.35%) CI/CD
3 59 (29.35%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (27.86%) Incident Response
5 50 (24.88%) DevOps
6 44 (21.89%) Observability
7 43 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (18.91%) Agile
9 28 (13.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (13.43%) Vulnerability Management
11 26 (12.94%) Containerisation
11 26 (12.94%) Threat Detection
12 25 (12.44%) Security Operations
13 24 (11.94%) Mentoring
13 24 (11.94%) Threat Modelling
14 21 (10.45%) Cloud Security
15 19 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (8.96%) High Availability
16 18 (8.96%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.38%) Python
2 23 (11.44%) Bash
3 21 (10.45%) Java
3 21 (10.45%) SQL
4 12 (5.97%) Kusto Query Language
4 12 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.48%) Go
6 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.99%) Perl
8 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.49%) JCL
8 3 (1.49%) REXX
8 3 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.00%) Swift
10 1 (0.50%) Groovy
10 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.50%) R
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.95%) CISSP
4 19 (9.45%) CISM
5 12 (5.97%) GIAC
6 10 (4.98%) Degree
7 8 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (3.98%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.48%) CEH
9 6 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.49%) CCNP
10 3 (1.49%) CCSP
10 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.93%) NIST
2 24 (11.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.46%) NCSC
4 12 (5.97%) QA
5 6 (2.99%) GDPR
5 6 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.99%) SLA
6 4 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.00%) COBIT
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 15022
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (14.93%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.49%) vSphere
5 2 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.00%) Snort
5 2 (1.00%) Squid
6 1 (0.50%) NFS
6 1 (0.50%) Varnish
6 1 (0.50%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 38 (18.91%) Terraform
3 37 (18.41%) Grafana
4 31 (15.42%) Ansible
5 25 (12.44%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.48%) Argo
7 5 (2.49%) QRadar
7 5 (2.49%) Salt
8 4 (1.99%) SCOM
9 3 (1.49%) Control-M
9 3 (1.49%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.49%) Nessus
9 3 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.00%) CASB
10 2 (1.00%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.00%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.00%) Suricata
10 2 (1.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.95%) Qualys
3 19 (9.45%) CyberArk
4 18 (8.96%) CrowdStrike
5 17 (8.46%) Google
6 16 (7.96%) ServiceNow
7 15 (7.46%) Cisco
7 15 (7.46%) Palo Alto
8 13 (6.47%) Carbon Black
9 12 (5.97%) Tenable
10 9 (4.48%) AppDynamics
10 9 (4.48%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.98%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.48%) Arista
12 7 (3.48%) F5
12 7 (3.48%) Red Hat
12 7 (3.48%) VMware
13 6 (2.99%) Aruba
13 6 (2.99%) Bloomberg
13 6 (2.99%) CheckPoint