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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 111 73
Rank change year-on-year +10 -38 +51
Contract jobs citing Splunk 65 73 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.94% 1.55% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 3.89% 3.73% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 120
10th Percentile £360 £430 £400
25th Percentile £393 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £712 £625 £650
90th Percentile £777 £670 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 1,669 1,956 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 49.91% 41.56% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,155 1,497
10th Percentile £250 £250 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £562 £586 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
England median daily rate £520 £518 £534
% change year-on-year +0.48% -3.09% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 216 73
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.53 £20.22
Median hourly rate £28.75 £15.59 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.47% -48.05% +62.16%
75th Percentile £57.84 £25.25 £44.50
90th Percentile £80.68 £45.88 £52.13
England median hourly rate £26.75 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +18.89% -40.00% +74.42%

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

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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 31 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

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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 31 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 +31 38 £543 -1.36% 21
Yorkshire -13 27 £545 -0.91% 8
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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 8 (12.31%) Mattermost
1 8 (12.31%) Skype for Business
2 6 (9.23%) JBoss
3 5 (7.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) nginx
4 1 (1.54%) Traefik
4 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) OpenShift
3 9 (13.85%) GitHub
4 5 (7.69%) Collibra
4 5 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (6.15%) SaaS
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.62%) Azure
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.62%) Serverless
6 3 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon Macie
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) SSL
2 8 (12.31%) Firewall
2 8 (12.31%) NAS
2 8 (12.31%) Skype
2 8 (12.31%) Softphone
2 8 (12.31%) Unified Communications
2 8 (12.31%) WebEx
3 5 (7.69%) DNS
3 5 (7.69%) SAN
4 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.15%) VPN
5 3 (4.62%) Network Security
6 2 (3.08%) WAN
7 1 (1.54%) BGP
7 1 (1.54%) DMZ
7 1 (1.54%) DWDM
7 1 (1.54%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.54%) Internet
7 1 (1.54%) MPLS
7 1 (1.54%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (9.23%) RDBMS
2 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
3 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.62%) Big Data
4 3 (4.62%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.08%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.54%) DB2
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Jenkins
2 12 (18.46%) Git
2 12 (18.46%) JIRA
3 6 (9.23%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (9.23%) CA Release Automation
3 6 (9.23%) SonarQube
3 6 (9.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (9.23%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.62%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.62%) GitLab
4 3 (4.62%) Jaeger
4 3 (4.62%) Vagrant
4 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.08%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.54%) Log4j
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Banking
4 8 (12.31%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Architect
2 9 (13.85%) Analyst
3 8 (12.31%) Messaging Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Messaging Support
3 8 (12.31%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Operations Support Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Support Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Data Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Operational Support Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Operations Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Operations Support Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Support Analyst
5 6 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Lead
7 3 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) Kafka
2 9 (13.85%) LDAP
3 8 (12.31%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (12.31%) XMPP
4 7 (10.77%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (9.23%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.69%) REST
7 4 (6.15%) Middleware
8 3 (4.62%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (4.62%) Gherkin
9 2 (3.08%) gRPC
10 1 (1.54%) 802.1X
10 1 (1.54%) cloud-init
10 1 (1.54%) JMS
10 1 (1.54%) JNDI
10 1 (1.54%) JSON
10 1 (1.54%) Keycloak
10 1 (1.54%) OAuth
10 1 (1.54%) SAML
10 1 (1.54%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.15%) Clustering
2 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.08%) CSOC
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
4 2 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.54%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.54%) MISP
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (49.23%) Linux
2 16 (24.62%) Windows
3 11 (16.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (10.77%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) AIX
5 1 (1.54%) CentOS
5 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) CI/CD
1 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (27.69%) DevOps
3 17 (26.15%) Observability
4 14 (21.54%) Microservices
5 11 (16.92%) Agile
5 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
5 11 (16.92%) ITIL
6 10 (15.38%) B2B
6 10 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (15.38%) Migration
7 9 (13.85%) Analytics
8 8 (12.31%) Change Management
8 8 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (12.31%) Problem Management
8 8 (12.31%) Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (10.77%) SIEM
9 7 (10.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.23%) Python
2 14 (21.54%) PowerShell
3 11 (16.92%) SQL
4 8 (12.31%) Perl
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) Bash
7 4 (6.15%) Ruby
7 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.62%) C++
8 3 (4.62%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.54%) Go
9 1 (1.54%) Korn
9 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.08%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) CCIE
6 1 (1.54%) CCNP
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) NIST
2 2 (3.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.08%) GDPR
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.08%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) Docker
3 5 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (4.62%) VirtualBox
5 1 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (36.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (32.31%) Grafana
3 14 (21.54%) Prometheus
4 11 (16.92%) Ansible
5 10 (15.38%) Terraform
6 9 (13.85%) Kibana
7 8 (12.31%) Progress Chef
7 8 (12.31%) SCOM
8 7 (10.77%) Puppet
9 5 (7.69%) Control-M
10 4 (6.15%) Istio
11 3 (4.62%) Kiali
11 3 (4.62%) SELinux
12 2 (3.08%) Kustomize
12 2 (3.08%) Sysdig
13 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (1.54%) Consul
13 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
13 1 (1.54%) linkerd
13 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 12 (18.46%) AppDynamics
3 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.85%) Cisco
5 8 (12.31%) Cloudera
6 6 (9.23%) Oracle
7 5 (7.69%) Confluent
8 4 (6.15%) IBM
9 3 (4.62%) xMatters
10 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
10 2 (3.08%) Glassbox
11 1 (1.54%) Arista
11 1 (1.54%) Carbon Black
11 1 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.54%) ESET
11 1 (1.54%) LogRhythm
11 1 (1.54%) Okta
11 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
11 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow