Splunk Contract Job Trends in London

Splunk
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London citing 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 23 October 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 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	221	156	188
Rank change year-on-year	-65	+32	-34
Contract jobs citing Splunk	266	237	212
As % of all contract jobs in London	1.30%	1.77%	1.33%
As % of the Vendors category	2.99%	3.81%	3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	148	140	126
10^th Percentile	£350	£413	£416
25^th Percentile	£442	£463	£489
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£530	£543	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-2.30%	-9.58%	-
75^th Percentile	£625	£650	£775
90^th Percentile	£750	£775	£810
England median daily rate	£537	£529	£566
% change year-on-year	+1.56%	-6.58%	-4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	2	0
10^th Percentile	£66.75	£81.63	-
25^th Percentile	£67.50	£82.19	-
Median hourly rate	£70.00	£88.75	-
Median % change year-on-year	-21.13%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£72.50	£94.69	-
90^th Percentile	£73.25	£94.88	-
England median hourly rate	£65.69	£88.75	£60.00
% change year-on-year	-25.98%	+47.92%	-

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 citing vendor products and services in London.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing vendor products and services	8,905	6,216	6,950
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	43.53%	46.46%	43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,816	4,027	4,368
10^th Percentile	£341	£325	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£421	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£535	£525	£530
Median % change year-on-year	+1.90%	-0.94%	-3.64%
75^th Percentile	£650	£650	£645
90^th Percentile	£750	£742	£750
England median daily rate	£520	£510	£525
% change year-on-year	+1.96%	-2.86%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	159	123	68
10^th Percentile	£16.61	£16.70	£18.13
25^th Percentile	£19.50	£22.50	£24.33
Median hourly rate	£39.00	£25.15	£35.25
Median % change year-on-year	+55.07%	-28.65%	-12.96%
75^th Percentile	£61.88	£36.73	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£63.75	£94.75
England median hourly rate	£25.00	£25.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-	-28.57%	-21.35%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 23 October 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.

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 23 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-22	29	£525	+6.06%	22
West London	-20	6	£560	+34.94%	1
East London	-	1	£550	-	3
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Splunk Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Splunk also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Splunk.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	49.2%	131
2	Observability	45.1%	120
3	CI/CD	44.7%	119
4	AWS	42.5%	113
5	DevOps	39.5%	105
6	Python	36.1%	96
7	Security Cleared	34.2%	91
8	Grafana	32.0%	85
9	Linux	30.5%	81
9	Terraform	30.5%	81
11	Infrastructure as Code	30.1%	80
12	SIEM	29.7%	79
13	SC Cleared	29.3%	78
14	Kubernetes	28.9%	77
15	Agile	28.6%	76
16	Problem-Solving	27.1%	72
17	GCP	23.7%	63
18	Microsoft	23.3%	62
19	Dynatrace	22.2%	59
20	Incident Response	20.7%	55
20	Prometheus	20.7%	55
22	GitHub	20.3%	54
23	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	52
24	Cybersecurity	19.2%	51
24	Stakeholder Management	19.2%	51
26	Docker	18.4%	49
26	Jenkins	18.4%	49
28	Security Operations	17.7%	47
29	Windows	17.3%	46
30	Java	15.4%	41

Splunk Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	23.3%	62
2	Dynatrace	22.2%	59
3	ServiceNow	12.8%	34
4	CrowdStrike	12.4%	33
5	Google	9.4%	25
6	New Relic	8.3%	22
6	Oracle	8.3%	22
8	IBM	7.1%	19
9	AppDynamics	6.8%	18
10	Qualys	6.0%	16
11	Tenable	4.5%	12
12	Rapid7	4.1%	11
13	Okta	3.8%	10
14	CyberArk	3.0%	8
14	VMware	3.0%	8
16	Cribl.io	2.6%	7
16	xMatters	2.6%	7
18	Zscaler	2.3%	6
19	ArcSight	1.9%	5
19	Cisco	1.9%	5