Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Splunk Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £618 £588
% change year-on-year -14.98% +5.11% +42.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,806 918 1,169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.08% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 585 763
10th Percentile £315 £293 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £598
90th Percentile £689 £664 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 71 57
10th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £29.96 £13.70 £24.10
Median hourly rate £60.00 £20.26 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.22% -54.99% +136.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £44.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £77.90
North West median hourly rate £49.75 £27.00 £34.61
% change year-on-year +84.26% -21.98% +16.71%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required 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 Manchester region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) CASB
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) CASB
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
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