Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Splunk Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £559, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £529 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £559 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 830 212 307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.73% 85.48% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 142 187
10th Percentile £350 £220 £333
25th Percentile £413 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -8.14% -29.50%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 6 March 2026, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow