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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 173 212
Rank change year-on-year -45 +39 -56
Contract jobs citing Splunk 254 220 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.63% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.93% 3.52% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 128 113
10th Percentile £350 £405 £419
25th Percentile £449 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £603 £636 £775
90th Percentile £754 £775 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £568
% change year-on-year - -7.49% -5.42%
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 £65.69 - £60.00

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 8,682 6,256 6,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.68% 46.45% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,643 4,064 4,437
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £761
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 115 78
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.26
Median hourly rate £37.00 £25.15 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.12% -26.57% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £38.13 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -32 23 £469 -5.30% 18
West London -19 6 £560 +34.94% 6
East London - 1 £550 - 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 19 (7.48%) Confluence
2 10 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.97%) Apache
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.79%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) MTS
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP MDG
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 126 (49.61%) Azure
2 113 (44.49%) AWS
3 59 (23.23%) GCP
4 47 (18.50%) GitHub
5 31 (12.20%) OpenShift
6 29 (11.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (8.66%) Datadog
9 20 (7.87%) Entra ID
10 19 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (6.30%) SaaS
13 11 (4.33%) Amazon S3
13 11 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.54%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.15%) PowerApps
15 8 (3.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.24%) Firewall
2 17 (6.69%) DNS
3 15 (5.91%) VPN
4 14 (5.51%) Network Security
5 13 (5.12%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.15%) WAN
7 6 (2.36%) LAN
8 5 (1.97%) SSL
9 4 (1.57%) Internet
10 3 (1.18%) HTTP
10 3 (1.18%) Multicast
10 3 (1.18%) SSH
10 3 (1.18%) VLAN
11 2 (0.79%) 4G
11 2 (0.79%) 5G
11 2 (0.79%) BGP
11 2 (0.79%) DMZ
11 2 (0.79%) SNMP
11 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.51%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.12%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.15%) Power BI
4 6 (2.36%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.97%) Big Data
5 5 (1.97%) Flink
5 5 (1.97%) Looker
5 5 (1.97%) Redis
6 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.57%) KDB
6 4 (1.57%) MySQL
6 4 (1.57%) Presto
6 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.18%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.18%) Tableau
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 45 (17.72%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.60%) Git
3 27 (10.63%) JIRA
4 21 (8.27%) GitLab
5 13 (5.12%) JMeter
6 12 (4.72%) Gatling
7 11 (4.33%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.36%) Selenium
9 5 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.97%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.57%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.57%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.57%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.18%) Xcode
12 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.79%) JUnit
12 2 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 71 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 68 (26.77%) Finance
3 55 (21.65%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.99%) Banking
5 14 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.94%) Front Office
7 9 (3.54%) Retail
8 5 (1.97%) Law
8 5 (1.97%) Military
9 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Local Government
11 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (12.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (12.60%) Senior
3 26 (10.24%) Lead
4 22 (8.66%) Analyst
4 22 (8.66%) Architect
5 20 (7.87%) Splunk Engineer
6 19 (7.48%) Security Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) Developer
9 12 (4.72%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (4.33%) Security Analyst
11 10 (3.94%) Performance Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Performance Test Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.94%) SOC Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (32.28%) Terraform
2 28 (11.02%) Kafka
2 28 (11.02%) REST
3 20 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (7.09%) RESTful
5 13 (5.12%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.33%) JSON
7 10 (3.94%) .NET
8 9 (3.54%) Middleware
8 9 (3.54%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.15%) CSS
9 8 (3.15%) HTML
10 7 (2.76%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (2.76%) React
10 7 (2.76%) Spring
11 6 (2.36%) Flask
11 6 (2.36%) SailPoint
12 5 (1.97%) LDAP
12 5 (1.97%) OAuth
12 5 (1.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 35 (13.78%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.33%) CMDB
6 11 (4.33%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (3.94%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.94%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.94%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (3.15%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.97%) Equities
11 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.71%) Linux
2 38 (14.96%) Windows
3 36 (14.17%) Unix
4 22 (8.66%) Windows Server
5 20 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.57%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.57%) VMS
8 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 114 (44.88%) Observability
3 94 (37.01%) DevOps
4 79 (31.10%) Agile
5 77 (30.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (27.95%) SIEM
7 68 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (22.44%) Incident Response
9 48 (18.90%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (17.32%) Security Operations
11 44 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (16.14%) Containerisation
13 38 (14.96%) Mentoring
14 37 (14.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 33 (12.99%) Incident Management
15 33 (12.99%) Roadmaps
16 31 (12.20%) AI
16 31 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (11.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (34.25%) Python
2 43 (16.93%) Java
3 32 (12.60%) PowerShell
4 28 (11.02%) Bash
5 27 (10.63%) SQL
6 18 (7.09%) Shell Script
7 16 (6.30%) Go
8 13 (5.12%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.33%) Search Processing Language
10 9 (3.54%) Scala
11 8 (3.15%) C#
12 5 (1.97%) Bicep
12 5 (1.97%) Perl
13 4 (1.57%) Groovy
13 4 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.57%) Ruby
13 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.18%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.18%) Swift
15 2 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 90 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 78 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.84%) CISSP
4 14 (5.51%) Degree
5 13 (5.12%) CISM
6 11 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (3.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (3.94%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.94%) GIAC
8 8 (3.15%) CCSP
8 8 (3.15%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.76%) GCIA
9 7 (2.76%) GCIH
10 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.97%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (1.97%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.48%) QA
2 18 (7.09%) NIST
3 14 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.36%) ISO 20022
5 6 (2.36%) NCSC
6 5 (1.97%) GDPR
6 5 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.57%) ISO 15022
7 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.39%) GxP
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (20.47%) Docker
2 11 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (32.28%) Grafana
2 80 (31.50%) Kubernetes
3 54 (21.26%) Prometheus
4 34 (13.39%) Ansible
5 12 (4.72%) Kibana
6 9 (3.54%) QRadar
7 8 (3.15%) Control-M
8 5 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.18%) Nagios
9 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.79%) SCOM
10 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) CASB
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.39%) Puppet
11 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 60 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 57 (22.44%) Dynatrace
3 33 (12.99%) CrowdStrike
4 28 (11.02%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.66%) Google
5 22 (8.66%) New Relic
6 20 (7.87%) Oracle
7 18 (7.09%) AppDynamics
8 13 (5.12%) Qualys
9 12 (4.72%) IBM
10 10 (3.94%) Tenable
11 9 (3.54%) Okta
12 8 (3.15%) CyberArk
12 8 (3.15%) Rapid7
13 7 (2.76%) xMatters
14 6 (2.36%) Zscaler
15 5 (1.97%) VMware
16 4 (1.57%) ION Trading
16 4 (1.57%) Ivanti
16 4 (1.57%) SAP