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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 186 226
Rank change year-on-year -32 +40 -45
Contract jobs citing Splunk 198 160 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.28% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.61% 2.82% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 106 89
10th Percentile £400 £400 £410
25th Percentile £465 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -20.32%
75th Percentile £700 £667 £650
90th Percentile £900 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 £65.00 - £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 7,586 5,668 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.42% 45.44% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,011 3,725 4,946
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 95 131
10th Percentile £18.56 £16.10 £13.85
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -23.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.84 £34.25
90th Percentile £77.42 £66.50 £57.50
England median hourly rate £32.23 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.83% +17.56% -43.75%

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 May 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 May 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 -10 23 £600 +12.68% 12
West London -25 3 £375 -28.57% 1
South London -22 2 £650 +23.81%
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 7 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.54%) Confluence
2 4 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.02%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.88%) AWS
2 69 (34.85%) Azure
3 33 (16.67%) GCP
4 28 (14.14%) OpenShift
5 24 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 22 (11.11%) GitHub
7 19 (9.60%) Datadog
8 16 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.58%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.58%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (5.05%) SaaS
14 9 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.55%) Serverless
15 7 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.59%) Firewall
2 14 (7.07%) Network Security
2 14 (7.07%) VPN
3 10 (5.05%) DNS
4 7 (3.54%) Wireless
5 6 (3.03%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.03%) InfiniBand
5 6 (3.03%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.53%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.53%) MPLS
7 3 (1.52%) BGP
7 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.01%) Multicast
8 2 (1.01%) NGFW
8 2 (1.01%) OSPF
8 2 (1.01%) WAN
9 1 (0.51%) 4G
9 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.51%) VSAN
9 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.04%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.53%) Big Data
3 5 (2.53%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.02%) Power BI
4 4 (2.02%) Presto
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.01%) Flink
6 2 (1.01%) KDB
6 2 (1.01%) MySQL
6 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.60%) GitLab
3 12 (6.06%) Git
4 9 (4.55%) JIRA
5 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.53%) Snyk
6 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.01%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.01%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.51%) Gatling
8 1 (0.51%) git-flow
8 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 60 (30.30%) Finance
3 22 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.61%) Banking
5 13 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.06%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.55%) Front Office
8 4 (2.02%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Law
10 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Legal
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.01%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (17.17%) Architect
2 28 (14.14%) Analyst
3 25 (12.63%) Senior
4 19 (9.60%) CyberArk Architect
5 16 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (7.07%) Lead
6 14 (7.07%) SOC Analyst
7 12 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.06%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.55%) Security Architect
9 8 (4.04%) Consultant
9 8 (4.04%) Monitoring Analyst
10 7 (3.54%) Developer
10 7 (3.54%) Security Analyst
10 7 (3.54%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 6 (3.03%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Security Consultant
12 5 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.63%) Kafka
2 16 (8.08%) REST
3 14 (7.07%) LDAP
3 14 (7.07%) OpenID
3 14 (7.07%) SAML
4 11 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.05%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.55%) SailPoint
7 8 (4.04%) Spring
8 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.03%) JSON
9 5 (2.53%) ISPF
9 5 (2.53%) React
10 4 (2.02%) CSS
10 4 (2.02%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.02%) HTML
10 4 (2.02%) JMS
10 4 (2.02%) Loki
10 4 (2.02%) Middleware
10 4 (2.02%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.68%) Onboarding
2 26 (13.13%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.06%) PKI
4 9 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (2.53%) Equities
6 5 (2.53%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.52%) CMDB
8 3 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.01%) Clustering
9 2 (1.01%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.20%) Linux
2 20 (10.10%) Unix
3 13 (6.57%) Windows
4 5 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.53%) zOS
5 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.88%) CI/CD
2 63 (31.82%) SIEM
3 58 (29.29%) DevOps
3 58 (29.29%) Observability
4 55 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (24.75%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (24.24%) Incident Response
7 36 (18.18%) Agile
7 36 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (16.16%) Containerisation
9 30 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
10 25 (12.63%) Secrets Management
11 23 (11.62%) Cloud Security
11 23 (11.62%) Security Operations
11 23 (11.62%) Threat Modelling
12 22 (11.11%) ITIL
12 22 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (10.10%) Incident Management
14 19 (9.60%) AI
Programming Languages
1 57 (28.79%) Python
2 26 (13.13%) Java
3 23 (11.62%) SQL
4 18 (9.09%) Bash
5 15 (7.58%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.55%) Go
8 7 (3.54%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.53%) JCL
10 5 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.53%) REXX
10 5 (2.53%) Scala
11 3 (1.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Ruby
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.61%) CISSP
4 16 (8.08%) CISM
5 12 (6.06%) Degree
6 11 (5.56%) GIAC
7 8 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.03%) CCSP
9 6 (3.03%) CEH
10 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.02%) GCIA
11 3 (1.52%) GCIH
12 2 (1.01%) CCNP
12 2 (1.01%) GSEC
12 2 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.16%) NIST
2 22 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.59%) NCSC
4 8 (4.04%) QA
5 6 (3.03%) SLA
6 5 (2.53%) GDPR
6 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.52%) COBIT
8 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.01%) ISO 15022
8 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.51%) GxP
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (13.64%) Docker
2 7 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.02%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.01%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) vSphere
5 1 (0.51%) etcd
5 1 (0.51%) Snort
5 1 (0.51%) Squid
5 1 (0.51%) Varnish
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (29.80%) Kubernetes
2 52 (26.26%) Terraform
3 51 (25.76%) Grafana
4 39 (19.70%) Prometheus
5 33 (16.67%) Ansible
6 5 (2.53%) Argo
6 5 (2.53%) QRadar
6 5 (2.53%) Salt
7 4 (2.02%) Fluentd
7 4 (2.02%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (2.02%) Kibana
8 3 (1.52%) Control-M
9 2 (1.01%) CASB
9 2 (1.01%) logstash
9 2 (1.01%) Nessus
9 2 (1.01%) Opsgenie
9 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.01%) SCOM
9 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 35 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.63%) ServiceNow
3 24 (12.12%) CyberArk
4 19 (9.60%) Dynatrace
5 17 (8.59%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (8.08%) Qualys
7 15 (7.58%) AppDynamics
8 12 (6.06%) Cisco
9 11 (5.56%) Google
9 11 (5.56%) Palo Alto
9 11 (5.56%) Tenable
10 7 (3.54%) Arista
10 7 (3.54%) Bloomberg
10 7 (3.54%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.03%) Aruba
11 6 (3.03%) BigPanda
11 6 (3.03%) Carbon Black
11 6 (3.03%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.03%) F5
12 5 (2.53%) Okta