Splunk Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Splunk
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Splunk 55 27 10
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 7.94% 7.67% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 15.32% 13.99% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 17 7
10th Percentile £384 £288 £590
25th Percentile £450 £480 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £624
90th Percentile £738 £635 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +14.29%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 359 193 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 51.80% 54.83% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 114 91
10th Percentile £314 £230 £388
25th Percentile £403 £429 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £529 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -9.95% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £690 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -8.57% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £13.14 £18.65
25th Percentile - £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +70.53%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +90.43%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Sheffield

Splunk
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 6 (10.91%) TPMS
2 5 (9.09%) Apache Pig
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) GCP
2 33 (60.00%) AWS
3 31 (56.36%) Serverless
4 6 (10.91%) AWS KMS
5 5 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.45%) Akamai
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.64%) Azure
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.82%) Apigee
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.82%) Kong
8 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.82%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) SNMP
1 6 (10.91%) SSH
1 6 (10.91%) SSL
2 2 (3.64%) DNS
2 2 (3.64%) Firewall
2 2 (3.64%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.82%) HTTP
3 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (56.36%) NoSQL
2 14 (25.45%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.09%) Apache Hive
3 5 (9.09%) Data Mining
3 5 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 5 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (58.18%) Jenkins
2 30 (54.55%) GitLab
3 23 (41.82%) Liquibase
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.82%) Git
5 1 (1.82%) Gradle
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.82%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (70.91%) Finance
2 37 (67.27%) Social Skills
3 27 (49.09%) Banking
4 25 (45.45%) Financial Institution
5 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 14 (25.45%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (21.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (20.00%) Senior
6 10 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (16.36%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (14.55%) AWS Software Engineer
9 7 (12.73%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (10.91%) Cryptography Engineer
11 5 (9.09%) Data Scientist
11 5 (9.09%) GCP Software Engineer
11 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (9.09%) Python Engineer
12 4 (7.27%) Data Engineer
12 4 (7.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 2 (3.64%) Splunk Engineer
13 2 (3.64%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (56.36%) REST
2 31 (56.36%) RESTful
3 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.82%) XML
4 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (52.73%) Distributed Systems
1 29 (52.73%) Public Cloud
2 23 (41.82%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (69.09%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (69.09%) CI/CD
1 38 (69.09%) DevOps
2 34 (61.82%) Cryptography
3 33 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 33 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 32 (58.18%) Agile
5 30 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (52.73%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (52.73%) Data Security
6 29 (52.73%) Microservices
7 28 (50.91%) Computer Science
7 28 (50.91%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (49.09%) Non-Functional Testing
9 26 (47.27%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (45.45%) High Availability
11 23 (41.82%) Cost Optimisation
11 23 (41.82%) Software Engineering
12 20 (36.36%) Change Management
13 19 (34.55%) Data Encryption
13 19 (34.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (74.55%) Python
2 30 (54.55%) Go
3 14 (25.45%) Java
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
5 5 (9.09%) Scala
6 4 (7.27%) Perl
6 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
8 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (50.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 28 (50.91%) Degree
1 28 (50.91%) Master's Degree
2 11 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (14.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.91%) FFIEC
5 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) PCI DSS
2 6 (10.91%) GDPR
2 6 (10.91%) GLBA
2 6 (10.91%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 25 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Snort
2 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (65.45%) Ansible
2 34 (61.82%) Kubernetes
3 33 (60.00%) Grafana
3 33 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 33 (60.00%) Terraform
4 2 (3.64%) CSIRT
4 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.64%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
5 1 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.82%) Kibana
5 1 (1.82%) logstash
5 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Google
2 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 5 (9.09%) Thales
3 3 (5.45%) F5
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.82%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco
4 1 (1.82%) Imperva
4 1 (1.82%) Pure Storage
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.82%) VMware