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 27 July 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 197 247
Rank change year-on-year -23 +50 -94
Contract jobs citing Splunk 223 181 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.32% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.68% 2.88% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 108 90
10th Percentile £400 £359 £375
25th Percentile £460 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £635
90th Percentile £724 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -7.81%
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 £65.57 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 8,321 6,288 7,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.83% 46.00% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,438 4,095 4,853
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 120 93
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.37
25th Percentile £22.10 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -4.33% -14.06%
75th Percentile £57.86 £47.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £74.25
England median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 £575 +18.56% 14
West London -15 6 £560 +34.94%
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 15 (6.73%) Confluence
2 11 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.79%) Apache
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.45%) MTS
5 1 (0.45%) Mule
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.90%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 87 (39.01%) Azure
2 84 (37.67%) AWS
3 43 (19.28%) GitHub
4 40 (17.94%) GCP
5 27 (12.11%) OpenShift
6 22 (9.87%) Entra ID
7 21 (9.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 21 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (8.52%) Datadog
9 16 (7.17%) SaaS
10 14 (6.28%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.48%) Serverless
14 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.59%) PowerApps
16 7 (3.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.66%) Firewall
2 19 (8.52%) VPN
3 17 (7.62%) Network Security
4 16 (7.17%) DNS
5 7 (3.14%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.69%) WAN
7 5 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.79%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.79%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.79%) MPLS
8 4 (1.79%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.79%) Wireless
9 3 (1.35%) BGP
9 3 (1.35%) Internet
9 3 (1.35%) LAN
9 3 (1.35%) SSL
10 2 (0.90%) DMZ
10 2 (0.90%) Multicast
10 2 (0.90%) SSH
10 2 (0.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.04%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.59%) Power BI
3 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.24%) Big Data
3 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.79%) Flink
4 4 (1.79%) Presto
5 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.35%) KDB
5 3 (1.35%) Looker
6 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.87%) Git
3 16 (7.17%) JIRA
4 14 (6.28%) GitLab
5 9 (4.04%) Gatling
6 7 (3.14%) JMeter
7 5 (2.24%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.79%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.79%) Snyk
9 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.35%) Xcode
10 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.90%) JUnit
10 2 (0.90%) Maven
10 2 (0.90%) Selenium
10 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
General
1 69 (30.94%) Finance
2 55 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.11%) Banking
5 11 (4.93%) Front Office
6 10 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.04%) Retail
8 7 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.24%) Law
10 3 (1.35%) Legal
10 3 (1.35%) Local Government
11 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Automotive
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (16.14%) Senior
2 27 (12.11%) Architect
3 24 (10.76%) Lead
4 20 (8.97%) Analyst
4 20 (8.97%) Splunk Engineer
5 18 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.83%) Security Architect
7 12 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Developer
8 11 (4.93%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.48%) Consultant
9 10 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) SOC Analyst
11 7 (3.14%) CyberArk Architect
11 7 (3.14%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) Security Consultant
12 6 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.11%) REST
2 18 (8.07%) Kafka
3 15 (6.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (6.28%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.38%) Spring
6 11 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.93%) RESTful
6 11 (4.93%) SailPoint
7 9 (4.04%) .NET
8 7 (3.14%) JSON
9 6 (2.69%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.24%) React
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.79%) CSS
11 4 (1.79%) HTML
11 4 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
11 4 (1.79%) Loki
11 4 (1.79%) Middleware
11 4 (1.79%) Play Framework
12 3 (1.35%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.56%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.42%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.73%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.04%) CMDB
5 9 (4.04%) PKI
5 9 (4.04%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.69%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.69%) Equities
9 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (26.46%) Linux
2 27 (12.11%) Windows
3 26 (11.66%) Unix
4 15 (6.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.83%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.90%) zOS
10 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.36%) Observability
2 88 (39.46%) CI/CD
3 65 (29.15%) DevOps
4 63 (28.25%) SIEM
5 58 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (22.87%) Agile
7 48 (21.52%) Incident Response
8 47 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (19.28%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (17.49%) Security Operations
11 37 (16.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (15.25%) Vulnerability Management
13 31 (13.90%) Mentoring
14 30 (13.45%) Cloud Security
15 29 (13.00%) Containerisation
16 27 (12.11%) Incident Management
17 26 (11.66%) AI
17 26 (11.66%) ITIL
17 26 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.84%) Python
2 40 (17.94%) Java
3 23 (10.31%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.87%) SQL
5 16 (7.17%) Bash
6 11 (4.93%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.48%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.04%) Go
9 8 (3.59%) Scala
9 8 (3.59%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.69%) C#
11 5 (2.24%) Bicep
11 5 (2.24%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.35%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.35%) Perl
12 3 (1.35%) Ruby
12 3 (1.35%) Swift
13 2 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.90%) JCL
Qualifications
1 66 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.00%) CISSP
4 19 (8.52%) CISM
5 13 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (4.93%) Degree
8 10 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (4.48%) GIAC
9 9 (4.04%) CCSP
10 7 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.69%) GCIA
11 6 (2.69%) GCIH
12 5 (2.24%) CEH
12 5 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.24%) GSEC
13 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.87%) NIST
2 14 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.04%) QA
4 7 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.14%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.69%) NCSC
6 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.79%) GDPR
6 4 (1.79%) SLA
6 4 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.35%) ISO 15022
7 3 (1.35%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.90%) COBIT
8 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (14.80%) Docker
2 11 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.45%) etcd
6 1 (0.45%) Varnish
6 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (29.60%) Grafana
2 65 (29.15%) Terraform
3 55 (24.66%) Kubernetes
4 51 (22.87%) Prometheus
5 29 (13.00%) Ansible
6 10 (4.48%) Kibana
7 8 (3.59%) Control-M
7 8 (3.59%) QRadar
8 5 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.35%) Salt
10 2 (0.90%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.45%) CASB
11 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.45%) Puppet
11 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.59%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.90%) ServiceNow
4 28 (12.56%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (8.07%) Google
6 17 (7.62%) Qualys
6 17 (7.62%) Tenable
7 16 (7.17%) AppDynamics
8 14 (6.28%) CyberArk
8 14 (6.28%) New Relic
8 14 (6.28%) Oracle
9 10 (4.48%) Okta
10 8 (3.59%) Cisco
10 8 (3.59%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.59%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.14%) IBM
11 7 (3.14%) Rapid7
11 7 (3.14%) xMatters
12 6 (2.69%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.69%) Fortinet