Splunk Contracts in the Midlands

Splunk
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 91 114 137
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Splunk 20 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.04% 0.69% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 2.32% 1.60% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £375 £356 £423
25th Percentile £453 £356 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% -10.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £551 £635 £700
90th Percentile £566 £637 £745
England median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +5.26%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +17 14 £551 -12.02% 11
East Midlands +8 6 £431 +19.83% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) JBoss
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Apigee
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) Datadog
4 1 (5.00%) Kong
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (10.00%) Introscope
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (15.00%) Banking
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Product Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Product Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) J2EE
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) RAML
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) CSOC
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
3 8 (40.00%) VMS
4 2 (10.00%) AIX
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) SIEM
2 8 (40.00%) Event Correlation
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Observability
4 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Build Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.00%) Data Extraction
6 2 (10.00%) Kanban
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) C
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kibana
2 2 (10.00%) CA Wily
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) logstash
3 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 8 (40.00%) F5
2 8 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 8 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.00%) Google
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) FireEye
6 1 (5.00%) HP
6 1 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) Tanium