Splunk Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Splunk
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 March 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
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Splunk 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.38% 0.89% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 16.95% 1.47% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £416 £464 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £478 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +9.26% -22.22%
75th Percentile £490 £492 £466
90th Percentile £524 - £471
Hampshire median daily rate £458 £600 £438
% change year-on-year -23.75% +37.14% -24.73%

All Vendors
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 59 68 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 31.72% 60.71% 52.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 66
10th Percentile £373 £200 £419
25th Percentile £416 £363 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £631
90th Percentile £614 £658 £700
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 31
10th Percentile £20.50 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £45.21 £37.50 £53.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +17.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.13 £68.51
90th Percentile £49.13 £68.75 £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 £59.13 £57.35
% change year-on-year -66.17% +3.10% +76.46%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Splunk

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 8 (80.00%) GitHub
1 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (90.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Kafka
1 9 (90.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) Observability
2 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) GitOps
4 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 5 (50.00%) SBOM
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Coaching
6 1 (10.00%) People Management
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Bash
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
1 9 (90.00%) Grafana
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Argo
3 6 (60.00%) Istio
3 6 (60.00%) linkerd
4 2 (20.00%) Packer
5 1 (10.00%) Nagios
5 1 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor