Splunk Contracts in Manchester

Splunk
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 82 84
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Splunk 11 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.92% 1.80%
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 2.64% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 29
10th Percentile £359 £505 £440
25th Percentile £425 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £713 £594 £650
90th Percentile £716 £650 £678
North West median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.00%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 442 530 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.73% 34.94% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 353 476
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £398 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £703 £656
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 16
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.81 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.51 £18.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £17.72 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -45.64% +93.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in Manchester

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in Manchester

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Manchester

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Salford - 2 £450 -
Splunk
North West

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) tcpdump
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
1 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (27.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) eggPlant
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (9.09%) cloud-init
3 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Low-Code
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) MISP
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) CentOS
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transition
4 1 (9.09%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
4 1 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kibana
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Sysdig
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Istio
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) linkerd
3 1 (9.09%) Nessus
3 1 (9.09%) OpenVAS
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) QRadar
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
3 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cloudera
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Glassbox
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
3 1 (9.09%) Carbon Black
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
3 1 (9.09%) Moogsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Okta
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow