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 7 July 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 183 247
Rank change year-on-year -44 +64 -99
Contract jobs citing Splunk 223 187 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.41% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.75% 3.09% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 112 86
10th Percentile £405 £387 £375
25th Percentile £463 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £613
90th Percentile £900 £775 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% -11.17%
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 8,102 6,060 7,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.48% 45.57% 42.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 3,924 5,075
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 114 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.04 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.60 £17.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +17.14% -21.37%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £82.00 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.34% +1.20% -30.56%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 24 £550 +4.76% 5
West London -16 6 £560 +34.94% 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 10 (4.48%) Confluence
2 8 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) MTS
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.35%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.12%) AWS
2 82 (36.77%) Azure
3 37 (16.59%) GCP
3 37 (16.59%) GitHub
4 34 (15.25%) OpenShift
5 21 (9.42%) Entra ID
6 20 (8.97%) Azure Sentinel
6 20 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.62%) Datadog
8 14 (6.28%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.28%) SaaS
9 13 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.48%) Serverless
11 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.59%) PowerApps
13 7 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.76%) Firewall
2 20 (8.97%) VPN
3 17 (7.62%) Network Security
4 14 (6.28%) DNS
5 6 (2.69%) WAN
6 5 (2.24%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.24%) InfiniBand
6 5 (2.24%) MPLS
6 5 (2.24%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.24%) Wireless
7 3 (1.35%) BGP
7 3 (1.35%) Internet
7 3 (1.35%) LAN
7 3 (1.35%) Multicast
8 2 (0.90%) DMZ
8 2 (0.90%) SNMP
8 2 (0.90%) SSH
9 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.93%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.59%) Power BI
3 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.24%) Big Data
3 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.79%) Presto
5 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (1.35%) KDB
5 3 (1.35%) MySQL
5 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Flink
7 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (17.04%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.97%) Git
3 14 (6.28%) GitLab
4 11 (4.93%) JIRA
5 8 (3.59%) Gatling
6 7 (3.14%) JMeter
7 5 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.24%) Snyk
8 4 (1.79%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.35%) Xcode
10 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.90%) JUnit
10 2 (0.90%) Maven
11 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 70 (31.39%) Finance
2 60 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.66%) Banking
5 20 (8.97%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.93%) Front Office
8 10 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.04%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.04%) Retail
10 5 (2.24%) Law
11 3 (1.35%) Legal
11 3 (1.35%) Local Government
12 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Automotive
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (17.94%) Architect
2 35 (15.70%) Senior
3 20 (8.97%) Analyst
4 19 (8.52%) CyberArk Architect
5 17 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (7.62%) Lead
6 15 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 14 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (6.28%) Security Architect
8 13 (5.83%) Splunk Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Developer
10 10 (4.48%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.04%) Applications Support
11 9 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Consultant
12 8 (3.59%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) SOC Analyst
13 7 (3.14%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.69%) Performance Engineer
14 6 (2.69%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.42%) REST
2 18 (8.07%) Kafka
3 15 (6.73%) LDAP
3 15 (6.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (5.83%) OpenID
4 13 (5.83%) SAML
4 13 (5.83%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.38%) Spring
6 11 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.93%) RESTful
6 11 (4.93%) SailPoint
7 8 (3.59%) .NET
8 6 (2.69%) JSON
8 6 (2.69%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (2.24%) React
10 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.79%) HTML
10 4 (1.79%) J2EE
10 4 (1.79%) Loki
10 4 (1.79%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.49%) Onboarding
2 33 (14.80%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.83%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.48%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.04%) CMDB
5 9 (4.04%) PKI
6 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.69%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.69%) Equities
8 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 56 (25.11%) Linux
2 25 (11.21%) Unix
3 24 (10.76%) Windows
4 13 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.93%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.90%) zOS
10 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (42.60%) CI/CD
2 79 (35.43%) Observability
3 72 (32.29%) SIEM
4 70 (31.39%) DevOps
5 64 (28.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (24.66%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (22.42%) Incident Response
8 42 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 41 (18.39%) Agile
10 39 (17.49%) Security Operations
11 34 (15.25%) Vulnerability Management
12 32 (14.35%) Cloud Security
12 32 (14.35%) Containerisation
12 32 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (12.11%) ITIL
13 27 (12.11%) Secrets Management
14 26 (11.66%) Incident Management
14 26 (11.66%) ITSM
15 24 (10.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.84%) Python
2 34 (15.25%) Java
3 22 (9.87%) SQL
4 21 (9.42%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.97%) Bash
6 12 (5.38%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (4.48%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.04%) Go
9 6 (2.69%) C#
10 5 (2.24%) Bicep
10 5 (2.24%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.24%) Scala
10 5 (2.24%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.79%) Ruby
12 3 (1.35%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.35%) Swift
13 2 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.90%) JCL
13 2 (0.90%) REXX
Qualifications
1 70 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.45%) CISSP
4 20 (8.97%) CISM
5 12 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (5.38%) Degree
5 12 (5.38%) GIAC
6 9 (4.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 9 (4.04%) CCSP
7 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.14%) GCIA
8 7 (3.14%) GCIH
9 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.24%) CEH
10 5 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.24%) GSEC
11 3 (1.35%) CCNP
11 3 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.25%) NIST
2 26 (11.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.17%) NCSC
4 9 (4.04%) QA
5 7 (3.14%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.79%) GDPR
6 4 (1.79%) SLA
6 4 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.90%) COBIT
8 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) GxP
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (13.45%) Docker
2 11 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) etcd
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
5 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (29.15%) Grafana
1 65 (29.15%) Kubernetes
2 58 (26.01%) Terraform
3 51 (22.87%) Prometheus
4 34 (15.25%) Ansible
5 10 (4.48%) Kibana
6 7 (3.14%) QRadar
7 4 (1.79%) Control-M
7 4 (1.79%) Salt
8 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.90%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.45%) Nessus
10 1 (0.45%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.25%) Dynatrace
3 31 (13.90%) ServiceNow
4 27 (12.11%) CrowdStrike
5 26 (11.66%) CyberArk
6 17 (7.62%) AppDynamics
6 17 (7.62%) Qualys
6 17 (7.62%) Tenable
7 14 (6.28%) Google
8 13 (5.83%) Oracle
9 11 (4.93%) New Relic
10 10 (4.48%) Cisco
10 10 (4.48%) Okta
10 10 (4.48%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.14%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.14%) IBM
11 7 (3.14%) Rapid7
11 7 (3.14%) Zscaler
12 6 (2.69%) Arista
12 6 (2.69%) Fortinet