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 31 January 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 154 220
Rank change year-on-year -15 +66 -34
Contract jobs citing Splunk 230 224 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 1.62% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 3.37% 3.67% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 131 133
10th Percentile £410 £413 £450
25th Percentile £464 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £763 £798
90th Percentile £890 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -9.21% +0.57% -4.17%
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 £87.50 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +54.19% - -

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 6,824 6,111 7,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.07% 44.16% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,476 3,755 5,132
10th Percentile £340 £315 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 72 152
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.50 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.75 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +10.08% +19.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £59.25 £43.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.68 £77.38
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -1.64% -6.15%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -17 21 £606 +10.23% 10
South London +9 18 £425 -39.29% 1
West London - 5 £375 - 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 8 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.61%) Mattermost
2 6 (2.61%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.17%) Confluence
4 4 (1.74%) Apache
4 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.43%) BASE24
3 1 (0.43%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.91%) AWS
2 60 (26.09%) Azure
3 41 (17.83%) GCP
4 33 (14.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (9.57%) OpenShift
6 17 (7.39%) GitHub
7 10 (4.35%) Datadog
8 9 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.48%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.48%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.04%) Akamai
10 7 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.04%) Route 53
10 7 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.17%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.30%) Firewall
2 17 (7.39%) Network Security
3 15 (6.52%) DNS
4 10 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.91%) SSL
5 9 (3.91%) VPN
6 7 (3.04%) HTTP
6 7 (3.04%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.61%) Skype
7 6 (2.61%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.17%) BGP
9 4 (1.74%) OSPF
9 4 (1.74%) Wireless
10 3 (1.30%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.87%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.87%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.87%) SNMP
11 2 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.87%) SSH
12 1 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.04%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.17%) MySQL
3 5 (2.17%) Redis
3 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.74%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.87%) Flink
6 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Power BI
6 2 (0.87%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.43%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.70%) GitLab
3 12 (5.22%) Git
4 9 (3.91%) JIRA
4 9 (3.91%) Postman
5 6 (2.61%) JUnit
5 6 (2.61%) Selenium
5 6 (2.61%) Subversion
6 5 (2.17%) Appium
6 5 (2.17%) Charles Proxy
6 5 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.17%) Katalon Studio
6 5 (2.17%) XCUITest
7 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.74%) Gatling
7 4 (1.74%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.74%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.30%) Maven
8 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.30%) Finance
3 28 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.57%) Banking
5 19 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.22%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.17%) Military
10 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Front Office
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (27.39%) Analyst
2 33 (14.35%) Architect
3 30 (13.04%) Senior
4 27 (11.74%) SOC Analyst
5 24 (10.43%) Security Analyst
5 24 (10.43%) Security Engineer
6 22 (9.57%) Monitoring Analyst
7 15 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (6.52%) Support Analyst
8 14 (6.09%) Security Architect
9 13 (5.65%) CyberArk Architect
9 13 (5.65%) Operations Analyst
10 12 (5.22%) Lead
11 11 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (3.91%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Threat Hunter
14 8 (3.48%) Operations Support Analyst
14 8 (3.48%) SharePoint Analyst
14 8 (3.48%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.57%) Kafka
2 19 (8.26%) REST
3 17 (7.39%) SAML
4 15 (6.52%) OpenID
5 13 (5.65%) LDAP
6 9 (3.91%) Web Services
7 7 (3.04%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.61%) Spring
9 5 (2.17%) Middleware
9 5 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.74%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.30%) ISPF
11 3 (1.30%) JSON
11 3 (1.30%) Loki
11 3 (1.30%) Regular Expression
11 3 (1.30%) SOAP
11 3 (1.30%) Swagger
11 3 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.91%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.39%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (3.91%) Clustering
5 8 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (3.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.04%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.04%) PKI
7 6 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.30%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.30%) Replication
11 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.39%) Linux
2 14 (6.09%) Unix
2 14 (6.09%) Windows
3 9 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.17%) Android
4 5 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.30%) CentOS
6 3 (1.30%) Solaris
6 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.30%) zOS
7 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.17%) SIEM
2 68 (29.57%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (27.39%) Incident Response
4 62 (26.96%) CI/CD
5 59 (25.65%) DevOps
6 54 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (20.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (17.83%) Agile
9 37 (16.09%) Threat Detection
10 35 (15.22%) Observability
11 30 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 29 (12.61%) Security Operations
13 25 (10.87%) ITSM
13 25 (10.87%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 25 (10.87%) Threat Modelling
14 22 (9.57%) ITIL
15 20 (8.70%) Cloud Security
15 20 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (8.70%) SOAR
16 19 (8.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.04%) Python
2 34 (14.78%) SQL
3 31 (13.48%) Bash
4 30 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.83%) Java
5 18 (7.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (3.48%) Go
7 7 (3.04%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.61%) Perl
9 5 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.17%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.17%) Swift
10 3 (1.30%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.30%) JCL
10 3 (1.30%) REXX
10 3 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.87%) Groovy
11 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.00%) CISSP
4 17 (7.39%) CISM
5 16 (6.96%) Degree
6 12 (5.22%) GIAC
7 9 (3.91%) CEH
7 9 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.61%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.61%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.74%) GCIA
10 4 (1.74%) GCIH
11 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.87%) CISA
11 2 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.87%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.87%) NIST
2 23 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.52%) NCSC
4 10 (4.35%) GDPR
5 9 (3.91%) QA
6 7 (3.04%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.74%) SLA
9 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.87%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.43%) COBIT
10 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (15.65%) Docker
2 18 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.17%) Snort
3 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.74%) Squid
4 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.30%) NFS
5 3 (1.30%) Veritas File System
5 3 (1.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.87%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (24.35%) Kubernetes
2 35 (15.22%) Terraform
3 30 (13.04%) Ansible
4 28 (12.17%) Grafana
5 24 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.83%) SCOM
7 14 (6.09%) HP SiteScope
8 8 (3.48%) Argo
8 8 (3.48%) QRadar
9 5 (2.17%) Nessus
9 5 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.74%) Nexpose
10 4 (1.74%) Suricata
11 3 (1.30%) Control-M
11 3 (1.30%) CSIRT
11 3 (1.30%) Fluentd
11 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.30%) Nagios
11 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.87%) Salt
Vendors
1 57 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.74%) CrowdStrike
3 25 (10.87%) Qualys
4 23 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 18 (7.83%) Carbon Black
6 16 (6.96%) Google
7 15 (6.52%) Dynatrace
7 15 (6.52%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.22%) Cisco
8 12 (5.22%) Remedy
9 10 (4.35%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.91%) Oracle
10 9 (3.91%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.91%) Tenable
10 9 (3.91%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.48%) Darktrace
12 7 (3.04%) VMware
13 6 (2.61%) AppDynamics
13 6 (2.61%) BMC
13 6 (2.61%) F5