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 16 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 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	223	165	198
Rank change year-on-year	-58	+33	-45
Contract jobs citing Splunk	258	239	207
As % of all contract jobs in London	1.26%	1.79%	1.29%
As % of the Vendors category	2.93%	3.84%	2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	146	138	125
10^th Percentile	£350	£413	£415
25^th Percentile	£437	£463	£485
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£534	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-1.64%	-11.04%	-
75^th Percentile	£622	£650	£775
90^th Percentile	£750	£775	£810
England median daily rate	£525	£529	£565
% change year-on-year	-0.71%	-6.42%	-5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	2	0
10^th Percentile	-	£81.63	-
25^th Percentile	£71.25	£82.19	-
Median hourly rate	£72.50	£88.75	-
Median % change year-on-year	-18.31%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£73.75	£94.69	-
90^th Percentile	-	£94.88	-
England median hourly rate	£65.57	£88.75	£60.00
% change year-on-year	-26.12%	+47.92%	-

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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services	8,820	6,218	6,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	43.02%	46.44%	43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,753	4,040	4,416
10^th Percentile	£338	£325	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£421	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£530	£525	£535
Median % change year-on-year	+0.95%	-1.87%	-2.73%
75^th Percentile	£649	£650	£650
90^th Percentile	£740	£745	£750
England median daily rate	£519	£508	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.27%	-3.33%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	149	120	73
10^th Percentile	£16.70	£17.40	£18.20
25^th Percentile	£19.50	£23.00	£24.50
Median hourly rate	£36.50	£25.15	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+45.13%	-28.14%	-13.04%
75^th Percentile	£62.75	£37.81	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£63.88	£90.15
England median hourly rate	£25.28	£25.04	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+0.98%	-28.46%	-21.35%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 16 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.

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 16 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	-20	28	£506	+2.27%	21
West London	-20	6	£560	+34.94%
East London	-	1	£550	-
Splunk England

Splunk Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Splunk also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Splunk.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	49.2%	127
2	Observability	45.0%	116
3	CI/CD	44.2%	114
4	AWS	42.6%	110
5	DevOps	38.0%	98
6	Security Cleared	34.5%	89
7	Python	34.1%	88
8	Grafana	31.8%	82
8	Kubernetes	31.8%	82
10	Terraform	31.4%	81
11	Linux	30.2%	78
12	Infrastructure as Code	29.5%	76
12	SC Cleared	29.5%	76
14	Agile	29.1%	75
14	SIEM	29.1%	75
16	Problem-Solving	28.7%	74
17	GCP	24.0%	62
18	Microsoft	23.3%	60
19	Dynatrace	22.5%	58
20	Incident Response	22.1%	57
21	Prometheus	21.3%	55
22	Continuous Improvement	19.4%	50
23	Cybersecurity	19.0%	49
23	Docker	19.0%	49
25	Stakeholder Management	18.6%	48
26	GitHub	17.8%	46
26	Security Operations	17.8%	46
28	Containerisation	16.7%	43
28	Windows	16.7%	43
30	Java	16.3%	42

Splunk Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	23.3%	60
2	Dynatrace	22.5%	58
3	CrowdStrike	12.8%	33
4	ServiceNow	12.0%	31
5	Google	8.9%	23
6	New Relic	8.5%	22
7	Oracle	8.1%	21
8	AppDynamics	7.0%	18
9	Qualys	5.8%	15
10	IBM	4.7%	12
10	Tenable	4.7%	12
12	Rapid7	4.3%	11
13	Okta	3.9%	10
14	CyberArk	2.7%	7
14	xMatters	2.7%	7
16	Zscaler	2.3%	6
17	ArcSight	1.9%	5
17	Cisco	1.9%	5
17	Cribl.io	1.9%	5
17	ION Trading	1.9%	5