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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 184 259
Rank change year-on-year -43 +75 -114
Contract jobs citing Splunk 207 177 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.41% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% 3.10% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 109 88
10th Percentile £400 £384 £379
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £635
90th Percentile £900 £775 £704
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 £65.45 - £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 7,884 5,716 7,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.21% 45.42% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,703 5,020
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
England median daily rate £506 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.27% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 108 132
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.89
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -8.46%
75th Percentile £58.92 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.75 £24.43
% change year-on-year +28.50% +9.50% -34.85%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -21 22 £575 +9.52% 52
West London -24 6 £560 +34.94% 5
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 8 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.38%) Confluence
3 4 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.45%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) MTS
6 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.68%) AWS
2 70 (33.82%) Azure
3 30 (14.49%) GitHub
4 29 (14.01%) GCP
5 27 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 20 (9.66%) Entra ID
7 19 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 15 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.25%) Datadog
10 14 (6.76%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (6.28%) SaaS
12 10 (4.83%) Serverless
13 9 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.86%) Power Platform
15 7 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.14%) Firewall
2 18 (8.70%) VPN
3 16 (7.73%) Network Security
4 13 (6.28%) DNS
5 5 (2.42%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.42%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (2.42%) InfiniBand
5 5 (2.42%) MPLS
5 5 (2.42%) NetScaler
5 5 (2.42%) Wireless
6 4 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.93%) WAN
7 3 (1.45%) BGP
7 3 (1.45%) Internet
7 3 (1.45%) Multicast
8 2 (0.97%) DMZ
8 2 (0.97%) LAN
8 2 (0.97%) SSH
9 1 (0.48%) VLAN
9 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.83%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.38%) Power BI
4 5 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.42%) Big Data
4 5 (2.42%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.93%) Presto
5 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.45%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (1.45%) KDB
6 3 (1.45%) MySQL
6 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.48%) Flink
8 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.43%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.73%) Git
2 16 (7.73%) GitLab
3 8 (3.86%) JIRA
4 7 (3.38%) Gatling
5 6 (2.90%) JMeter
6 5 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.42%) Snyk
7 3 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.45%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.45%) Xcode
8 2 (0.97%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.48%) JUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
General
1 62 (29.95%) Finance
2 55 (26.57%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.11%) Banking
4 19 (9.18%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.31%) Front Office
7 8 (3.86%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.86%) Retail
8 5 (2.42%) Law
9 3 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.45%) Local Government
10 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (18.84%) Architect
2 31 (14.98%) Senior
3 20 (9.66%) Analyst
4 19 (9.18%) CyberArk Architect
5 14 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (6.76%) Lead
5 14 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.28%) Security Architect
7 10 (4.83%) Developer
7 10 (4.83%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.35%) Applications Support
9 8 (3.86%) Consultant
9 8 (3.86%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Performance Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.66%) Kafka
2 16 (7.73%) REST
3 15 (7.25%) LDAP
3 15 (7.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.28%) OpenID
4 13 (6.28%) SAML
5 12 (5.80%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.31%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.83%) RESTful
7 10 (4.83%) Spring
8 8 (3.86%) .NET
9 6 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.90%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.42%) JSON
10 5 (2.42%) React
11 4 (1.93%) CSS
11 4 (1.93%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.93%) HTML
11 4 (1.93%) Loki
11 4 (1.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.87%) Onboarding
2 32 (15.46%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.80%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.35%) CMDB
4 9 (4.35%) PKI
5 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.86%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.90%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.90%) Equities
7 6 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.64%) Linux
2 24 (11.59%) Unix
3 22 (10.63%) Windows
4 12 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.83%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.93%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.45%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.97%) zOS
10 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.06%) CI/CD
2 69 (33.33%) Observability
2 69 (33.33%) SIEM
3 61 (29.47%) DevOps
4 59 (28.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (26.57%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (23.19%) Incident Response
7 39 (18.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 37 (17.87%) Security Operations
9 35 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.94%) Vulnerability Management
11 31 (14.98%) Cloud Security
11 31 (14.98%) Containerisation
12 30 (14.49%) Agile
13 27 (13.04%) Secrets Management
13 27 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (12.08%) ITIL
15 22 (10.63%) AI
15 22 (10.63%) Incident Management
15 22 (10.63%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 66 (31.88%) Python
2 31 (14.98%) Java
3 21 (10.14%) SQL
4 20 (9.66%) Bash
5 19 (9.18%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.31%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.83%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.35%) Go
9 6 (2.90%) C#
10 5 (2.42%) Bicep
10 5 (2.42%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.42%) Scala
10 5 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.93%) Ruby
11 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.45%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.45%) Swift
13 2 (0.97%) C++
13 2 (0.97%) JCL
13 2 (0.97%) REXX
Qualifications
1 61 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.01%) CISSP
4 20 (9.66%) CISM
5 12 (5.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (5.80%) GIAC
6 11 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.31%) Degree
7 9 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (4.35%) CCSP
8 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.38%) GCIA
8 7 (3.38%) GCIH
9 6 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.90%) CEH
10 5 (2.42%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.42%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.42%) GSEC
11 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.91%) NIST
2 26 (12.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.73%) NCSC
4 8 (3.86%) QA
5 6 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.93%) GDPR
6 4 (1.93%) SLA
6 4 (1.93%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.45%) COBIT
8 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.97%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.97%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.48%) GxP
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (14.49%) Docker
2 11 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.93%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) etcd
5 1 (0.48%) Varnish
5 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (28.99%) Grafana
2 59 (28.50%) Kubernetes
3 52 (25.12%) Terraform
4 48 (23.19%) Prometheus
5 33 (15.94%) Ansible
6 10 (4.83%) Kibana
7 6 (2.90%) QRadar
8 4 (1.93%) Salt
9 3 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.97%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.97%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.48%) Argo
11 1 (0.48%) CASB
11 1 (0.48%) Control-M
11 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.48%) Nessus
11 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.46%) Dynatrace
3 30 (14.49%) ServiceNow
4 26 (12.56%) CrowdStrike
4 26 (12.56%) CyberArk
5 17 (8.21%) Qualys
5 17 (8.21%) Tenable
6 15 (7.25%) AppDynamics
7 13 (6.28%) Google
8 12 (5.80%) Oracle
9 10 (4.83%) Cisco
9 10 (4.83%) Okta
10 9 (4.35%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.86%) New Relic
12 7 (3.38%) Rapid7
13 6 (2.90%) Arista
13 6 (2.90%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.90%) IBM
13 6 (2.90%) Zscaler
14 5 (2.42%) BigPanda