Splunk Contracts in the North of England

Splunk
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 103 124 84
Rank change year-on-year +21 -40 +29
Contract jobs citing Splunk 64 62 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.94% 1.30% 2.69%
As % of the Vendors category 3.81% 3.04% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 47 123
10th Percentile £359 £428 £400
25th Percentile £393 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £731 £625 £650
90th Percentile £756 £660 £775
England median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% -4.32%

All Vendors
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,679 2,042 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.96% 42.83% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,194 1,581
10th Percentile £230 £250 £248
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £564 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 212 66
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.24 £12.53 £19.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +96.52%
75th Percentile £59.65 £21.08 £49.05
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.15 £54.88
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the North of England

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the North of England

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +30 33 £543 -1.36% 23
Yorkshire -5 29 £709 +31.91% 15
North East - 2 £750 - 2
Splunk
England

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (10.94%) nginx
1 7 (10.94%) Traefik
2 5 (7.81%) Confluence
2 5 (7.81%) JBoss
2 5 (7.81%) Mattermost
2 5 (7.81%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) AWS
2 9 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (14.06%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (14.06%) AWS Fargate
2 9 (14.06%) Entra ID
2 9 (14.06%) OpenShift
2 9 (14.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (7.81%) Collibra
3 5 (7.81%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (6.25%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Azure
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
2 9 (14.06%) TCP/IP
3 8 (12.50%) NAS
4 6 (9.38%) Firewall
4 6 (9.38%) SSL
5 5 (7.81%) SAN
5 5 (7.81%) Skype
5 5 (7.81%) Softphone
5 5 (7.81%) Unified Communications
5 5 (7.81%) WebEx
6 3 (4.69%) Network Security
7 2 (3.13%) IMAP
7 2 (3.13%) POP3
7 2 (3.13%) SMTP
7 2 (3.13%) VPN
7 2 (3.13%) WAN
8 1 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.56%) SSH
8 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.81%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
6 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.13%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.56%) DB2
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.19%) JIRA
3 9 (14.06%) GitLab
4 8 (12.50%) Git
5 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (7.81%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (7.81%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.69%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.69%) Eclipse
6 3 (4.69%) Vagrant
6 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.13%) eggPlant
7 2 (3.13%) Jaeger
General
1 11 (17.19%) Finance
2 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Banking
4 8 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Military
8 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Architect
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 8 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (10.94%) Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Data Architect
4 7 (10.94%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Messaging Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Messaging Support
5 5 (7.81%) Messaging Support Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Operations Support Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Support Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Messaging Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Messaging Support Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Operational Support Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Operations Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.69%) Kafka
2 9 (14.06%) cloud-init
2 9 (14.06%) Keycloak
3 8 (12.50%) LDAP
4 6 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.81%) REST
5 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.81%) XMPP
6 4 (6.25%) Middleware
7 3 (4.69%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (4.69%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.13%) gRPC
9 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
9 1 (1.56%) JSON
9 1 (1.56%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) PKI
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
4 3 (4.69%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Replication
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.56%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.56%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 36 (56.25%) Linux
2 18 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (25.00%) Unix
4 15 (23.44%) Windows
5 9 (14.06%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) AIX
6 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) DevOps
2 20 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 20 (31.25%) Observability
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.44%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (18.75%) Microservices
6 10 (15.63%) Agile
6 10 (15.63%) Cloud Security
6 10 (15.63%) Identity Management
7 9 (14.06%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.06%) Secrets Management
7 9 (14.06%) Static Application Security Testing
8 8 (12.50%) Analytics
8 8 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (12.50%) ITIL
9 7 (10.94%) B2B
9 7 (10.94%) Change Management
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 7 (10.94%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) Python
2 13 (20.31%) Bash
3 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 9 (14.06%) Go
4 9 (14.06%) SQL
5 7 (10.94%) Perl
6 5 (7.81%) Java
7 4 (6.25%) Ruby
8 3 (4.69%) C++
9 2 (3.13%) Groovy
9 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.56%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.56%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.56%) Korn
10 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.81%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.13%) Degree
7 1 (1.56%) CCIE
7 1 (1.56%) CCNP
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.56%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) NCSC
2 2 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (17.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) Docker
3 5 (7.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (4.69%) VirtualBox
5 1 (1.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (40.63%) Grafana
1 26 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 18 (28.13%) Prometheus
3 14 (21.88%) Terraform
4 11 (17.19%) Istio
5 9 (14.06%) Consul
5 9 (14.06%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (14.06%) linkerd
5 9 (14.06%) Packer
5 9 (14.06%) Rancher
5 9 (14.06%) ZABBIX
6 8 (12.50%) Kibana
7 7 (10.94%) Ansible
7 7 (10.94%) HAProxy
7 7 (10.94%) Progress Chef
8 5 (7.81%) Puppet
8 5 (7.81%) SCOM
9 4 (6.25%) Control-M
10 3 (4.69%) SELinux
11 2 (3.13%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Red Hat
2 11 (17.19%) AppDynamics
3 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 9 (14.06%) Okta
5 7 (10.94%) Apple
5 7 (10.94%) Cloudera
5 7 (10.94%) ESET
6 6 (9.38%) Cisco
6 6 (9.38%) Oracle
7 5 (7.81%) Confluent
8 4 (6.25%) IBM
9 2 (3.13%) Glassbox
9 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.13%) xMatters
10 1 (1.56%) Arista
10 1 (1.56%) Carbon Black
10 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.56%) Moogsoft
10 1 (1.56%) Rapid7