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 11 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
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 196 243
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 -98
Contract jobs citing Splunk 227 186 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.38% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 3.00% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 111 86
10th Percentile £406 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £900 £775 £688
England median daily rate £527 £545 £533
% change year-on-year -3.39% +2.25% -11.17%
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 £65.45 - £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 8,274 6,196 7,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.67% 45.81% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,413 4,024 5,086
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £768
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 117 119
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +9.60% -21.68%
75th Percentile £58.13 £48.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £65.00 £65.23
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -31.51%

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 11 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 11 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 -16 24 £550 +10.00% 10
West London -13 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 13 (5.73%) Confluence
2 8 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.76%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) MTS
5 1 (0.44%) Mule
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.32%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 87 (38.33%) AWS
2 84 (37.00%) Azure
3 39 (17.18%) GitHub
4 38 (16.74%) GCP
5 36 (15.86%) OpenShift
6 21 (9.25%) Entra ID
7 20 (8.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 20 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.49%) Datadog
9 15 (6.61%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.17%) SaaS
11 13 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.41%) Serverless
14 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.52%) PowerApps
16 7 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.57%) Firewall
2 20 (8.81%) VPN
3 17 (7.49%) Network Security
4 14 (6.17%) DNS
5 6 (2.64%) WAN
6 5 (2.20%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.20%) InfiniBand
6 5 (2.20%) MPLS
6 5 (2.20%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.20%) Wireless
7 3 (1.32%) BGP
7 3 (1.32%) Internet
7 3 (1.32%) LAN
7 3 (1.32%) Multicast
8 2 (0.88%) DMZ
8 2 (0.88%) SNMP
8 2 (0.88%) SSH
9 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.85%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.52%) Power BI
3 5 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.20%) Big Data
3 5 (2.20%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.20%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.76%) Presto
5 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.32%) KDB
5 3 (1.32%) MySQL
5 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Flink
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (16.30%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.81%) Git
3 14 (6.17%) GitLab
4 13 (5.73%) JIRA
5 8 (3.52%) Gatling
6 7 (3.08%) JMeter
7 5 (2.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.20%) Snyk
8 4 (1.76%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.32%) Xcode
10 2 (0.88%) Gradle
10 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.88%) JUnit
10 2 (0.88%) Maven
11 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 72 (31.72%) Finance
2 61 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.45%) Banking
5 19 (8.37%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.85%) Front Office
7 11 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.96%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.96%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Law
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Local Government
11 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (17.18%) Architect
2 36 (15.86%) Senior
3 20 (8.81%) Analyst
4 19 (8.37%) Lead
5 18 (7.93%) CyberArk Architect
5 18 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (7.05%) Splunk Engineer
7 15 (6.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) Security Architect
9 12 (5.29%) Developer
10 10 (4.41%) Site Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Applications Support
11 9 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Consultant
12 8 (3.52%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) SOC Analyst
13 7 (3.08%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) Performance Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.57%) REST
2 19 (8.37%) Kafka
3 15 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (6.17%) LDAP
5 13 (5.73%) Spring Boot
6 12 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.29%) OpenID
6 12 (5.29%) SAML
6 12 (5.29%) Spring
7 11 (4.85%) RESTful
7 11 (4.85%) SailPoint
8 8 (3.52%) .NET
9 6 (2.64%) JSON
9 6 (2.64%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.20%) React
11 4 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.76%) HTML
11 4 (1.76%) J2EE
11 4 (1.76%) Loki
11 4 (1.76%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.18%) Onboarding
2 32 (14.10%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.96%) CMDB
5 9 (3.96%) PKI
6 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.64%) Equities
8 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 58 (25.55%) Linux
2 25 (11.01%) Unix
2 25 (11.01%) Windows
3 14 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.85%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.88%) zOS
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.73%) CI/CD
2 82 (36.12%) Observability
3 72 (31.72%) SIEM
4 71 (31.28%) DevOps
5 66 (29.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (23.79%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (22.03%) Incident Response
8 44 (19.38%) Agile
8 44 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (18.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 40 (17.62%) Security Operations
11 34 (14.98%) Vulnerability Management
12 33 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (14.10%) Cloud Security
13 32 (14.10%) Containerisation
14 28 (12.33%) Incident Management
15 27 (11.89%) ITIL
15 27 (11.89%) ITSM
16 26 (11.45%) Mentoring
16 26 (11.45%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (31.72%) Python
2 34 (14.98%) Java
3 22 (9.69%) PowerShell
3 22 (9.69%) SQL
4 20 (8.81%) Bash
5 13 (5.73%) Search Processing Language
6 10 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.96%) Go
8 6 (2.64%) C#
9 5 (2.20%) Bicep
9 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.20%) Scala
9 5 (2.20%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.76%) Ruby
11 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.32%) Swift
12 2 (0.88%) C++
12 2 (0.88%) JCL
12 2 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 73 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.22%) CISSP
4 20 (8.81%) CISM
5 12 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.29%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (5.29%) Degree
5 12 (5.29%) GIAC
6 9 (3.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 9 (3.96%) CCSP
7 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.08%) GCIA
8 7 (3.08%) GCIH
9 6 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.20%) CEH
10 5 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.20%) GSEC
11 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.54%) NIST
2 25 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.05%) NCSC
4 9 (3.96%) QA
5 7 (3.08%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.76%) GDPR
6 4 (1.76%) SLA
6 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.88%) COBIT
8 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) GxP
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (13.22%) Docker
2 11 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) etcd
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (29.07%) Grafana
2 65 (28.63%) Kubernetes
3 61 (26.87%) Terraform
4 52 (22.91%) Prometheus
5 34 (14.98%) Ansible
6 10 (4.41%) Kibana
7 7 (3.08%) QRadar
8 6 (2.64%) Control-M
9 4 (1.76%) Salt
10 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.88%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.44%) Argo
12 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.44%) Nessus
12 1 (0.44%) Puppet
12 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.98%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.66%) ServiceNow
4 27 (11.89%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (11.01%) CyberArk
6 17 (7.49%) AppDynamics
6 17 (7.49%) Qualys
6 17 (7.49%) Tenable
7 14 (6.17%) Google
8 13 (5.73%) Oracle
9 11 (4.85%) New Relic
10 10 (4.41%) Cisco
10 10 (4.41%) Okta
10 10 (4.41%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.08%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.08%) IBM
11 7 (3.08%) Rapid7
11 7 (3.08%) Zscaler
12 6 (2.64%) Arista
12 6 (2.64%) Fortinet