Splunk Contracts in the North West

Splunk
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 87 117 87
Rank change year-on-year +30 -30 +35
Contract jobs citing Splunk 33 20 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.68% 0.73% 2.29%
As % of the Vendors category 3.15% 1.82% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 54
10th Percentile £366 £421 £324
25th Percentile £393 £525 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £642 £606 £636
90th Percentile £713 £618 £650
England median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +5.26%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +10 15 £477 -18.89% 6
Manchester +14 11 £581 +5.68% 14
Merseyside - 3 - -
Cumbria - 3 - -
Lancashire - 1 - - 10
Splunk
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (15.15%) JBoss
1 5 (15.15%) Mattermost
1 5 (15.15%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.06%) SaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.03%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
1 5 (15.15%) Skype
1 5 (15.15%) Softphone
1 5 (15.15%) Unified Communications
1 5 (15.15%) WebEx
2 3 (9.09%) NAS
3 2 (6.06%) DNS
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) DMZ
4 1 (3.03%) DWDM
4 1 (3.03%) Internet
4 1 (3.03%) IPsec
4 1 (3.03%) L2TP
4 1 (3.03%) MPLS
4 1 (3.03%) OSPF
4 1 (3.03%) SSL
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (15.15%) RDBMS
2 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.12%) Hadoop
4 3 (9.09%) Big Data
5 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.03%) DB2
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
3 5 (15.15%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (15.15%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (15.15%) Git
3 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
3 5 (15.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
4 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
5 2 (6.06%) eggPlant
6 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Messaging Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Messaging Support
2 5 (15.15%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Operations Support Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Support Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Messaging Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Operational Support Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Operations Support Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Change and Release Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Change Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
1 5 (15.15%) XMPP
2 4 (12.12%) Kafka
3 3 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (9.09%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
4 1 (3.03%) cloud-init
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.03%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.03%) MISP
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (24.24%) Windows
4 2 (6.06%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) ITIL
4 7 (21.21%) Analytics
5 6 (18.18%) B2B
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (18.18%) Migration
5 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.15%) Agile
6 5 (15.15%) Build Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Code Quality
6 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Microservices
6 5 (15.15%) Problem Management
6 5 (15.15%) Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (15.15%) Use Case
7 4 (12.12%) Change Management
7 4 (12.12%) Observability
8 3 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 6 (18.18%) Perl
5 3 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Ruby
7 1 (3.03%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CCIE
5 1 (3.03%) CCNP
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kibana
2 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Progress Chef
3 5 (15.15%) Grafana
3 5 (15.15%) SCOM
3 5 (15.15%) Terraform
4 3 (9.09%) SELinux
5 2 (6.06%) Ansible
5 2 (6.06%) Sysdig
6 1 (3.03%) Consul
6 1 (3.03%) Istio
6 1 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (3.03%) linkerd
6 1 (3.03%) Nessus
6 1 (3.03%) OpenVAS
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.03%) QRadar
6 1 (3.03%) Rancher
6 1 (3.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Red Hat
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) Cloudera
4 6 (18.18%) AppDynamics
4 6 (18.18%) Cisco
5 3 (9.09%) IBM
6 2 (6.06%) Glassbox
7 1 (3.03%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.03%) Arista
7 1 (3.03%) Carbon Black
7 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.03%) McAfee
7 1 (3.03%) Moogsoft
7 1 (3.03%) Okta
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle
7 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
7 1 (3.03%) SAP
7 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow