Splunk Contract Job Trends in Reading

Splunk
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 13 January 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 67 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Splunk 7 14 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.97% 1.57% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 3.28% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £355 - £487
25th Percentile £385 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £450 - £600
90th Percentile £465 - £630
Berkshire median daily rate £380 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -24.00% -4.76% +2.44%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 457 427 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 63.56% 48.03% 52.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 267 373
10th Percentile £306 £384 £207
25th Percentile £450 £500 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £652 £623
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 14
10th Percentile £14.50 £27.08 £54.66
25th Percentile £57.69 £28.31 £60.12
Median hourly rate £81.00 £35.75 £62.54
Median % change year-on-year +126.57% -42.84% +13.71%
75th Percentile £94.94 £50.59 £64.57
90th Percentile £99.75 £65.16 £66.08
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £56.75 £61.45
% change year-on-year -28.74% -7.65% +11.72%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Reading

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Splunk

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (14.29%) Datadog
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Fastify
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) Jest
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Forensic Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) Malware Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Behavioural Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Digital Forensics
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Advanced Persistent Threat
6 1 (14.29%) Blue Team
6 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
1 5 (71.43%) GCFA
1 5 (71.43%) GCIA
1 5 (71.43%) GCIH
2 4 (57.14%) CFCE
3 3 (42.86%) GIAC
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) GDPR
3 3 (42.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ArcSight
2 3 (42.86%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (42.86%) LogRhythm
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Carbon Black
3 1 (14.29%) Google