Splunk Contract Job Trends in the North East

Splunk
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 16 January 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
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Splunk 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.46% 1.90% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% 4.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £815 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.18% -1.17%

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 127 145 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 29.33% 45.89% 50.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 88
10th Percentile £181 £213 £163
25th Percentile £383 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £605
90th Percentile £619 £738 £720
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 7
10th Percentile £17.88 £40.57 £10.80
25th Percentile £19.56 - £15.89
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +122.34% -41.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £53.09
90th Percentile £60.00 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.67% -31.56% +34.88%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Splunk job vacancy trend in the North East

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Splunk

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Tyne and Wear -19 1 - - 2
Splunk
England

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Pega Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Pega