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 9 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
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 178 246
Rank change year-on-year -26 +68 -64
Contract jobs citing Splunk 201 191 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.46% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.83% 3.29% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 122 89
10th Percentile £413 £405 £447
25th Percentile £500 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £705 £738 £675
90th Percentile £900 £810 £813
England median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -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 7,107 5,806 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 44.47% 40.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,724 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 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 81 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.86 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +26.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.50 £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 9 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 9 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 -14 24 £651 +18.41% 8
West London - 5 £375 -
South London -16 4 £538 -17.31% 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 4 (1.99%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) Apache
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
3 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.00%) WebLogic
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 75 (37.31%) AWS
2 57 (28.36%) Azure
3 43 (21.39%) GCP
4 32 (15.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (9.45%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.97%) GitHub
7 11 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.47%) Datadog
8 10 (4.98%) Amazon S3
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%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.48%) Route 53
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.49%) Cloud Run
13 5 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.95%) Firewall
2 18 (8.96%) Network Security
3 11 (5.47%) DNS
4 10 (4.98%) VPN
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
8 4 (1.99%) HTTP
8 4 (1.99%) SSL
9 2 (1.00%) DMZ
9 2 (1.00%) NGFW
9 2 (1.00%) OSPF
9 2 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
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%) 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 8 (3.98%) Git
4 7 (3.48%) 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%) 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
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 51 (25.37%) Analyst
2 35 (17.41%) Architect
3 28 (13.93%) Senior
4 26 (12.94%) SOC Analyst
5 21 (10.45%) Security Analyst
6 20 (9.95%) 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%) Threat Hunter
13 8 (3.98%) Consultant
13 8 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Senior Security Analyst
14 7 (3.48%) Developer
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 6 (2.99%) Middleware
9 5 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (2.49%) JSON
10 4 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.99%) JMS
11 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.49%) ISPF
11 3 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (1.49%) Web Services
12 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
12 2 (1.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.43%) Onboarding
2 25 (12.44%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.46%) Cyber Defence
4 10 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.98%) PKI
5 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.98%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.99%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.49%) Clustering
8 5 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.99%) Equities
9 4 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.49%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.92%) Linux
2 16 (7.96%) Unix
3 15 (7.46%) Windows
4 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.99%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.49%) CentOS
6 3 (1.49%) zOS
7 2 (1.00%) Android
7 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.32%) SIEM
2 63 (31.34%) CI/CD
3 60 (29.85%) Cybersecurity
4 57 (28.36%) Incident Response
5 52 (25.87%) DevOps
6 45 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (21.89%) Observability
8 43 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (18.41%) Agile
10 28 (13.93%) Containerisation
10 28 (13.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 26 (12.94%) Security Operations
11 26 (12.94%) Threat Detection
12 24 (11.94%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.94%) Threat Modelling
12 24 (11.94%) Vulnerability Management
13 20 (9.95%) Cloud Security
13 20 (9.95%) High Availability
14 19 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (8.96%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.37%) Python
2 26 (12.94%) Bash
3 21 (10.45%) Java
3 21 (10.45%) SQL
4 14 (6.97%) Kusto Query Language
5 13 (6.47%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.48%) Go
7 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.99%) Perl
9 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.49%) JCL
9 3 (1.49%) REXX
9 3 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.00%) Swift
10 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.50%) C#
11 1 (0.50%) Groovy
11 1 (0.50%) R
11 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.89%) 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 5 (2.49%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.49%) CCNP
12 3 (1.49%) CCSP
12 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.00%) GCIA
13 2 (1.00%) GCIH
13 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.00%) RHCE
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 33 (16.42%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.49%) Snort
4 3 (1.49%) Squid
4 3 (1.49%) vSphere
5 2 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
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 50 (24.88%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.40%) Terraform
3 37 (18.41%) Grafana
4 33 (16.42%) Ansible
5 27 (13.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.48%) Argo
7 5 (2.49%) QRadar
7 5 (2.49%) Salt
8 4 (1.99%) Nessus
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%) Nagios
9 3 (1.49%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.49%) Suricata
9 3 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.00%) CASB
10 2 (1.00%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.94%) Qualys
3 20 (9.95%) CrowdStrike
4 19 (9.45%) CyberArk
5 18 (8.96%) Google
6 16 (7.96%) Cisco
6 16 (7.96%) Palo Alto
6 16 (7.96%) ServiceNow
7 15 (7.46%) Carbon Black
8 12 (5.97%) Tenable
9 9 (4.48%) AppDynamics
9 9 (4.48%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.48%) Zscaler
10 7 (3.48%) Arista
10 7 (3.48%) F5
10 7 (3.48%) Oracle
10 7 (3.48%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.48%) VMware
11 6 (2.99%) BigPanda
11 6 (2.99%) Cribl.io