Splunk Contract Job Trends 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 23 December 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
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 71 115
Rank change year-on-year -26 +44 -10
Contract jobs citing Splunk 49 49 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.94% 2.30% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 3.84% 4.84% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 19 13
10th Percentile £320 £504 -
25th Percentile £380 £525 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +6.48% -13.60%
75th Percentile £614 £684 £600
90th Percentile £645 £790 £620
England median daily rate £525 £600 £592
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.44% -1.42%

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 1,277 1,013 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.65% 47.45% 46.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 560 804
10th Percentile £220 £303 £248
25th Percentile £360 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.20% +7.63%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 45 85
10th Percentile £16.59 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.67 £24.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +66.27%
75th Percentile £55.42 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.52 £79.35 £58.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.52 £45.94
% change year-on-year -23.00% -33.57% +74.25%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Splunk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Splunk

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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 23 December 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 +1 29 £448 -18.55% 4
Manchester -25 18 £458 -32.22% 14
Merseyside -15 1 £792 - 2
Cumbria - 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (28.57%) JBoss
2 10 (20.41%) Apache
2 10 (20.41%) IIS
2 10 (20.41%) iPlanet
2 10 (20.41%) WebSphere
2 10 (20.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (6.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (4.08%) Mule
4 2 (4.08%) Mule ESB
4 2 (4.08%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.04%) Anypoint
5 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) AWS
2 21 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 11 (22.45%) GCP
4 7 (14.29%) Azure
5 4 (8.16%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.16%) Apigee
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (6.12%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.08%) Kong
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub
8 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) Firewall
1 10 (20.41%) Kerberos
2 4 (8.16%) HTTP
2 4 (8.16%) HTTPS
2 4 (8.16%) Network Security
2 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.16%) VPN
3 3 (6.12%) DNS
3 3 (6.12%) SSL
4 1 (2.04%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Jenkins
2 17 (34.69%) Git
3 12 (24.49%) Bitbucket Server
3 12 (24.49%) CA Release Automation
4 11 (22.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (20.41%) GitLab
6 4 (8.16%) Postman
7 3 (6.12%) Jasmine
7 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (4.08%) JIRA
9 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
9 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 21 (42.86%) Finance
2 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Developer
2 7 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (4.08%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) LDAP
1 14 (28.57%) OAuth
2 12 (24.49%) Spring Boot
3 10 (20.41%) OpenID
3 10 (20.41%) SAML
4 9 (18.37%) Spring
5 8 (16.33%) RESTful
6 6 (12.24%) JSON
6 6 (12.24%) XML
7 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.16%) JAX-RS
7 4 (8.16%) JWT
7 4 (8.16%) Node.js
7 4 (8.16%) OAuth2
8 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.12%) CSS3
8 3 (6.12%) HTML5
8 3 (6.12%) NestJS
8 3 (6.12%) Playwright
8 3 (6.12%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
1 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) CSOC
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.82%) Linux
2 16 (32.65%) Windows
3 12 (24.49%) Unix
4 8 (16.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) DevOps
2 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
3 13 (26.53%) Microservices
4 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
4 9 (18.37%) Incident Response
5 8 (16.33%) Cloud Security
5 8 (16.33%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.29%) Agile
6 7 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (14.29%) Observability
6 7 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (12.24%) Analytics
7 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (12.24%) SIEM
7 6 (12.24%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.20%) Task Automation
8 5 (10.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) Java
2 10 (20.41%) Groovy
3 8 (16.33%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.20%) Python
4 5 (10.20%) SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Perl
5 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) CISSP
1 11 (22.45%) Degree
2 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) CISM
4 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
5 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.12%) CISA
6 3 (6.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (6.12%) GSEC
6 3 (6.12%) MCSA
6 3 (6.12%) MCSE
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) NIST
2 9 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.16%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.12%) GDPR
4 3 (6.12%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.04%) SOC 1
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
2 15 (30.61%) Docker
3 8 (16.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (6.12%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 19 (38.78%) Kubernetes
2 13 (26.53%) Progress Chef
3 10 (20.41%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (20.41%) CA Wily
4 8 (16.33%) Tivoli
5 5 (10.20%) Fluentd
5 5 (10.20%) QRadar
5 5 (10.20%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (6.12%) CASB
6 3 (6.12%) Kibana
6 3 (6.12%) Nessus
6 3 (6.12%) Terraform
7 1 (2.04%) Grafana
7 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.04%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.65%) AppDynamics
3 13 (26.53%) Oracle
4 10 (20.41%) Broadcom
4 10 (20.41%) IBM
5 7 (14.29%) Cribl.io
6 5 (10.20%) Dynatrace
7 4 (8.16%) ArcSight
7 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
8 3 (6.12%) Adobe
8 3 (6.12%) Cloudera
8 3 (6.12%) CyberArk
8 3 (6.12%) Remedy
8 3 (6.12%) Tenable
9 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft