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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 188 251
Rank change year-on-year -47 +63 -95
Contract jobs citing Splunk 223 192 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.42% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 3.08% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 117 88
10th Percentile £395 £375 £379
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £645
90th Percentile £727 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.74 - -
25th Percentile £72.48 - -
Median hourly rate £74.93 - -
75th Percentile £77.35 - -
90th Percentile £78.07 - -
England median hourly rate £65.57 - £43.75

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 8,526 6,227 6,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.45% 46.03% 42.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,548 4,048 4,730
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 126 88
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.25 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -4.36% -13.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.56 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -23 23 £580 +19.59% 13
West London -14 6 £560 +34.94% 2
East London -1 1 £550 +120.00% 2
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 18 (8.07%) Confluence
2 13 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.69%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) MTS
6 1 (0.45%) Mule
6 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 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.45%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 93 (41.70%) Azure
2 88 (39.46%) AWS
3 44 (19.73%) GitHub
4 42 (18.83%) GCP
5 26 (11.66%) OpenShift
6 24 (10.76%) Entra ID
7 23 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (8.97%) Datadog
10 18 (8.07%) SaaS
11 14 (6.28%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (4.48%) Serverless
14 9 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.04%) dbt
14 9 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.11%) Firewall
2 17 (7.62%) Network Security
3 16 (7.17%) VPN
4 15 (6.73%) DNS
5 9 (4.04%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.69%) WAN
7 4 (1.79%) Internet
7 4 (1.79%) LAN
8 3 (1.35%) BGP
8 3 (1.35%) DMZ
8 3 (1.35%) Multicast
8 3 (1.35%) SSL
8 3 (1.35%) VLAN
9 2 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.90%) SNMP
9 2 (0.90%) SSH
9 2 (0.90%) Wireless
10 1 (0.45%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.45%) MPLS
10 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.59%) MongoDB
1 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.59%) Power BI
2 6 (2.69%) Big Data
2 6 (2.69%) Flink
3 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.24%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.24%) Looker
3 5 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.79%) Presto
4 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.35%) KDB
5 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.35%) Tableau
6 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (14.35%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.76%) Git
3 20 (8.97%) JIRA
4 16 (7.17%) GitLab
5 10 (4.48%) Gatling
5 10 (4.48%) JMeter
6 5 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.24%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.79%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.79%) Snyk
7 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.35%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.35%) Xcode
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.90%) JUnit
9 2 (0.90%) Maven
9 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (31.84%) Finance
2 55 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.56%) Banking
5 10 (4.48%) Front Office
6 9 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.14%) Retail
9 5 (2.24%) Law
10 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Local Government
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Automotive
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (15.70%) Senior
2 25 (11.21%) Architect
3 24 (10.76%) Lead
4 20 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (8.97%) Splunk Engineer
5 16 (7.17%) Analyst
6 13 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.93%) Applications Support
8 11 (4.93%) Developer
8 11 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Performance Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Performance Test Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Consultant
11 8 (3.59%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) REST
2 18 (8.07%) Kafka
3 14 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.83%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.93%) RESTful
6 10 (4.48%) .NET
6 10 (4.48%) SailPoint
7 9 (4.04%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.14%) JSON
8 7 (3.14%) Spring
9 6 (2.69%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.24%) Apache Beam
10 5 (2.24%) Middleware
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%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.00%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.42%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.62%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.04%) CMDB
7 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.14%) PKI
9 6 (2.69%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.24%) Equities
10 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.24%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 61 (27.35%) Linux
2 31 (13.90%) Windows
3 25 (11.21%) Unix
4 18 (8.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (7.62%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.90%) VMS
9 2 (0.90%) zOS
10 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (40.81%) CI/CD
2 90 (40.36%) Observability
3 66 (29.60%) DevOps
4 63 (28.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (28.25%) SIEM
5 57 (25.56%) Agile
6 49 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (20.63%) Incident Response
8 39 (17.49%) Cybersecurity
9 38 (17.04%) Security Operations
10 35 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 32 (14.35%) Containerisation
13 29 (13.00%) Cloud Security
13 29 (13.00%) Mentoring
13 29 (13.00%) Vulnerability Management
14 28 (12.56%) Roadmaps
15 27 (12.11%) Incident Management
16 25 (11.21%) AI
16 25 (11.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 76 (34.08%) Python
2 38 (17.04%) Java
3 26 (11.66%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.87%) SQL
5 14 (6.28%) Bash
6 12 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.38%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.48%) Go
7 10 (4.48%) Scala
7 10 (4.48%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.69%) C#
9 5 (2.24%) Bicep
9 5 (2.24%) Perl
9 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.35%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.35%) Ruby
10 3 (1.35%) Swift
11 2 (0.90%) Groovy
11 2 (0.90%) JCL
11 2 (0.90%) REXX
Qualifications
1 67 (30.04%) Security Cleared
2 55 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.56%) CISSP
4 19 (8.52%) CISM
5 13 (5.83%) Degree
6 12 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (4.48%) GIAC
9 9 (4.04%) CCSP
10 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.14%) GCIA
11 7 (3.14%) GCIH
12 5 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.24%) CEH
12 5 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.24%) DV Cleared
12 5 (2.24%) GSEC
13 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.21%) NIST
2 17 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.14%) NCSC
4 7 (3.14%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.14%) QA
5 5 (2.24%) SLA
5 5 (2.24%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.79%) GDPR
7 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.35%) ISO 15022
7 3 (1.35%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.90%) COBIT
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (16.59%) Docker
2 11 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.45%) etcd
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (30.49%) Terraform
2 62 (27.80%) Grafana
3 61 (27.35%) Kubernetes
4 48 (21.52%) Prometheus
5 26 (11.66%) Ansible
6 10 (4.48%) Kibana
7 7 (3.14%) Control-M
7 7 (3.14%) QRadar
8 5 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.90%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 41 (18.39%) Dynatrace
3 29 (13.00%) ServiceNow
4 27 (12.11%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (8.07%) Google
5 18 (8.07%) New Relic
6 17 (7.62%) Oracle
6 17 (7.62%) Qualys
6 17 (7.62%) Tenable
7 16 (7.17%) AppDynamics
8 13 (5.83%) CyberArk
9 11 (4.93%) Okta
10 10 (4.48%) IBM
11 9 (4.04%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.14%) Rapid7
12 7 (3.14%) xMatters
13 6 (2.69%) Cisco
13 6 (2.69%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.79%) Ivanti
14 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto