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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 162 218
Rank change year-on-year -22 +56 -40
Contract jobs citing Splunk 223 211 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.57% 0.97%
As % of the Vendors category 3.24% 3.55% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 125 115
10th Percentile £413 £413 £442
25th Percentile £472 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% -4.38%
75th Percentile £650 £751 £731
90th Percentile £900 £810 £823
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.19% +41.88% -29.30%

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 6,880 5,945 7,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.13% 44.13% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,524 3,672 5,075
10th Percentile £350 £313 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 73 144
10th Percentile £18.02 £21.50 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.59
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £61.50 £43.88
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.87% +9.35% -15.67%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -23 20 £669 +21.59% 4
South London +3 18 £425 -39.29%
West London - 5 £375 -
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 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.69%) Mattermost
2 6 (2.69%) Skype for Business
3 4 (1.79%) Apache
3 4 (1.79%) Confluence
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.90%) SAS
4 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.35%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.35%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.45%) BASE24
3 1 (0.45%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.53%) AWS
2 60 (26.91%) Azure
3 45 (20.18%) GCP
4 32 (14.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 21 (9.42%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.28%) GitHub
7 10 (4.48%) Datadog
8 9 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.59%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.14%) Akamai
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.14%) Route 53
10 7 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.66%) Firewall
2 18 (8.07%) Network Security
3 16 (7.17%) DNS
4 13 (5.83%) VPN
5 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.04%) SSL
7 7 (3.14%) Wireless
7 7 (3.14%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.69%) BGP
8 6 (2.69%) HTTP
8 6 (2.69%) NetScaler
8 6 (2.69%) Skype
8 6 (2.69%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.24%) Ethernet
9 5 (2.24%) InfiniBand
9 5 (2.24%) OSPF
10 4 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.79%) MPLS
11 2 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.24%) MySQL
3 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.79%) Redis
5 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) Flink
6 2 (0.90%) Power BI
6 2 (0.90%) Tableau
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.45%) Big Data
7 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.45%) KNIME
7 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (15.70%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.07%) GitLab
3 10 (4.48%) Git
4 7 (3.14%) JIRA
4 7 (3.14%) Postman
5 4 (1.79%) Appium
5 4 (1.79%) Charles Proxy
5 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.79%) Gatling
5 4 (1.79%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (1.79%) Selenium
5 4 (1.79%) Subversion
5 4 (1.79%) XCUITest
6 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.35%) JUnit
6 3 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.35%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.90%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.25%) Finance
3 29 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.87%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.17%) Banking
5 16 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.04%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.24%) Military
9 4 (1.79%) Retail
10 3 (1.35%) Front Office
10 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (28.70%) Analyst
2 32 (14.35%) Architect
3 27 (12.11%) Senior
3 27 (12.11%) SOC Analyst
4 23 (10.31%) Security Analyst
5 21 (9.42%) Monitoring Analyst
6 19 (8.52%) Security Engineer
7 15 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (6.73%) Support Analyst
8 13 (5.83%) CyberArk Architect
9 12 (5.38%) Operations Analyst
9 12 (5.38%) Security Architect
10 11 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.04%) Lead
12 9 (4.04%) Site Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Threat Hunter
13 8 (3.59%) Operations Support Analyst
13 8 (3.59%) SharePoint Analyst
13 8 (3.59%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) Kafka
1 23 (10.31%) REST
2 17 (7.62%) SAML
3 14 (6.28%) OpenID
4 13 (5.83%) LDAP
5 10 (4.48%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.04%) Spring
7 7 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.69%) Middleware
9 5 (2.24%) Web Services
10 4 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.79%) JSON
11 3 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.35%) ISPF
11 3 (1.35%) JMS
11 3 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (1.35%) Regular Expression
12 2 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.11%) Onboarding
2 25 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.73%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (3.59%) Clustering
5 8 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.59%) PKI
6 7 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.35%) Equities
9 3 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.35%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.94%) Linux
2 16 (7.17%) Unix
3 15 (6.73%) Windows
4 6 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.79%) Android
5 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.35%) CentOS
6 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.35%) zOS
7 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.18%) SIEM
2 65 (29.15%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (28.25%) Incident Response
4 61 (27.35%) CI/CD
5 55 (24.66%) DevOps
6 54 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (18.83%) Observability
9 37 (16.59%) Agile
10 31 (13.90%) Security Operations
10 31 (13.90%) Threat Detection
11 30 (13.45%) Containerisation
12 25 (11.21%) ITSM
13 24 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (10.31%) ITIL
15 22 (9.87%) Threat Modelling
16 21 (9.42%) Mentoring
17 20 (8.97%) Cloud Security
17 20 (8.97%) Migration
17 20 (8.97%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.77%) Python
2 31 (13.90%) SQL
3 30 (13.45%) Bash
3 30 (13.45%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.97%) Java
5 16 (7.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (4.04%) Kotlin
7 8 (3.59%) Go
8 5 (2.24%) Perl
9 4 (1.79%) Swift
10 3 (1.35%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.35%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.35%) JCL
10 3 (1.35%) REXX
10 3 (1.35%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.42%) CISSP
4 16 (7.17%) CISM
5 14 (6.28%) Degree
6 12 (5.38%) GIAC
7 9 (4.04%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (3.59%) CEH
8 8 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.24%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.35%) GCIA
12 3 (1.35%) GCIH
13 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.90%) CCNP
13 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.90%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.76%) NIST
2 22 (9.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.73%) NCSC
4 13 (5.83%) QA
5 9 (4.04%) GDPR
6 6 (2.69%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.79%) SLA
8 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.45%) COBIT
10 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.45%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.45%) GRC
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (14.35%) Docker
2 18 (8.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.24%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.79%) Snort
5 3 (1.35%) Squid
5 3 (1.35%) vSphere
6 2 (0.90%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 36 (16.14%) Terraform
3 35 (15.70%) Grafana
4 33 (14.80%) Ansible
5 26 (11.66%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.07%) SCOM
7 14 (6.28%) HP SiteScope
8 7 (3.14%) Argo
8 7 (3.14%) QRadar
9 5 (2.24%) Salt
9 5 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.79%) Nessus
11 3 (1.35%) Control-M
11 3 (1.35%) Fluentd
11 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.35%) Nagios
11 3 (1.35%) Nexpose
11 3 (1.35%) Suricata
11 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.90%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 54 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.76%) CrowdStrike
3 23 (10.31%) Qualys
4 21 (9.42%) CyberArk
5 18 (8.07%) Google
6 17 (7.62%) Carbon Black
7 16 (7.17%) Palo Alto
8 14 (6.28%) Cisco
9 13 (5.83%) ServiceNow
10 12 (5.38%) Remedy
11 10 (4.48%) Dynatrace
12 9 (4.04%) F5
13 8 (3.59%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.59%) Tenable
13 8 (3.59%) Zscaler
14 7 (3.14%) AppDynamics
14 7 (3.14%) Oracle
14 7 (3.14%) VMware
15 6 (2.69%) BMC
15 6 (2.69%) Cribl.io