Splunk Contracts in the South East

Splunk
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 175 148
Rank change year-on-year +70 -27 +71
Contract jobs citing Splunk 54 30 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.79% 0.54% 1.28%
As % of the Vendors category 3.42% 1.14% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 56
10th Percentile £425 £361 £447
25th Percentile £470 £464 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -9.28% +30.56%
75th Percentile £640 £597 £638
90th Percentile £683 £650 £688
England median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +5.26%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +49 29 £550 +3.97% 6
Berkshire +40 25 £550 +3.19% 3
Hampshire +33 14 £600 +2.78% 14
Surrey - 8 £475 -
Buckinghamshire +17 4 £628 +69.73% 3
West Sussex - 3 £300 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.70%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) AWS
2 5 (9.26%) Azure
2 5 (9.26%) GitHub
3 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (7.41%) iSCSI
3 3 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (3.70%) VPN
5 1 (1.85%) BGP
5 1 (1.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.85%) IPFIX
5 1 (1.85%) LAN
5 1 (1.85%) NGFW
5 1 (1.85%) PuTTY
5 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.85%) SSL
5 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.85%) WAN
5 1 (1.85%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.41%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.85%) Power BI
6 1 (1.85%) Power Query
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
6 1 (1.85%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.26%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) JMeter
3 2 (3.70%) JUnit
3 2 (3.70%) Mockito
3 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) Toad
General
1 16 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Retail
3 13 (24.07%) Telecoms
4 7 (12.96%) Billing
4 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Finance
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) IT Manager
2 10 (18.52%) IT Operations Manager
2 10 (18.52%) Operations Manager
3 9 (16.67%) Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Performance Manager
4 8 (14.81%) Consultant
5 7 (12.96%) Data Manager
5 7 (12.96%) SOC Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Architect
7 5 (9.26%) Telecoms Manager
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (7.41%) Senior
8 4 (7.41%) Splunk Consultant
8 4 (7.41%) VMware Architect
9 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) Splunk Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Kafka
1 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Camel
3 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.70%) HTML
3 2 (3.70%) jQuery
3 2 (3.70%) JSON
3 2 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) Spring
3 2 (3.70%) VML
3 2 (3.70%) Web Services
3 2 (3.70%) WireMock
3 2 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (1.85%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.85%) LDAP
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 5 (9.26%) Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) SIEM
2 11 (20.37%) Actionable Insight
2 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
2 11 (20.37%) Data Analysis
3 10 (18.52%) DataOps
4 9 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 7 (12.96%) Migration
5 7 (12.96%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (11.11%) Analytics
6 6 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 6 (11.11%) DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (9.26%) Containerisation
7 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.26%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (9.26%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (7.41%) Edge Virtualization
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (7.41%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) Python
1 8 (14.81%) SQL
2 4 (7.41%) Perl
3 3 (5.56%) Go
3 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.70%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) CISSP
4 5 (9.26%) MCSE
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.41%) VCP5
5 4 (7.41%) VCP6
5 4 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (5.56%) CEH
6 3 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.70%) CCNA
7 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.70%) CISM
7 2 (3.70%) GCIH
8 1 (1.85%) CCNP
8 1 (1.85%) CCSP
8 1 (1.85%) CISA
8 1 (1.85%) GCIA
8 1 (1.85%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.56%) NIST
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.41%) NFS
3 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.41%) vSphere
4 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.11%) QRadar
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
3 4 (7.41%) Grafana
3 4 (7.41%) Kibana
3 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) Foglight
4 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.85%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.85%) Packer
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Dynatrace
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) VMware
4 4 (7.41%) NetApp
4 4 (7.41%) Palo Alto
4 4 (7.41%) Veeam
5 3 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 2 (3.70%) Sybase
7 1 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.85%) Kenna
7 1 (1.85%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.85%) Remedy
7 1 (1.85%) Tenable
7 1 (1.85%) Zscaler