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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 118 130
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +37
Contract jobs citing Splunk 22 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 0.58% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.31% 1.38% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 13
10th Percentile £375 - £418
25th Percentile £423 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £419 £650
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% -35.58% +25.00%
75th Percentile £551 £572 £700
90th Percentile £566 £671 £760
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 953 1,163 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 47.25% 42.03% 49.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 760 1,079
10th Percentile £200 £213 £205
25th Percentile £319 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £659 £688 £688
England median daily rate £520 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +0.97% -3.74% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 82 48
10th Percentile £13.80 £10.94 £12.64
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.18
Median hourly rate £18.51 £15.61 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.62% -24.63% +21.42%
75th Percentile £25.08 £26.50 £32.56
90th Percentile £39.29 £45.22 £66.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +17.56% -38.36% +69.77%

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 29 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 29 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 +24 17 £551 -15.23% 74
East Midlands +4 5 £391 +8.84% 48
Splunk
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 (9.09%) JBoss
1 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Apigee
3 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.55%) Datadog
4 1 (4.55%) Kong
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Introscope
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) LoadRunner
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (9.09%) Administrator
1 2 (9.09%) Architect
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (9.09%) Developer
1 2 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Consultant
2 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Product Developer
2 1 (4.55%) Product Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
2 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
2 1 (4.55%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk Administrator
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) J2EE
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OpenID
3 1 (4.55%) RAML
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) CSOC
2 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 11 (50.00%) Windows
3 10 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (36.36%) VMS
5 4 (18.18%) Unix
6 2 (9.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) SIEM
2 8 (36.36%) Event Correlation
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Observability
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.64%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) Build Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.09%) Data Extraction
6 2 (9.09%) Kanban
6 2 (9.09%) Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) C
3 2 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kibana
2 2 (9.09%) CA Wily
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) CSIRT
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) logstash
3 1 (4.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Red Hat
2 9 (40.91%) ServiceNow
3 8 (36.36%) Cisco
3 8 (36.36%) F5
3 8 (36.36%) Fortinet
3 8 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 8 (36.36%) SolarWinds
4 4 (18.18%) AppDynamics
5 3 (13.64%) FireEye
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.64%) Tanium
6 2 (9.09%) Google
6 2 (9.09%) VMware
7 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 1 (4.55%) HP
7 1 (4.55%) IBM
7 1 (4.55%) KANA
7 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle