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 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 163 139
Rank change year-on-year +63 -24 +83
Contract jobs citing Splunk 51 29 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.71% 0.53% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 3.23% 1.13% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 58
10th Percentile £414 £355 £418
25th Percentile £464 £425 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £533 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -9.28% +23.68%
75th Percentile £635 £600 £633
90th Percentile £663 £650 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 2,562 2,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 53.11% 46.89% 49.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,556 1,911
10th Percentile £220 £213 £205
25th Percentile £381 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £523 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +1.46% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 182 130
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £16.21
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.25 £20.47
Median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% +5.56% +130.77%
75th Percentile £58.39 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £70.63 £67.02 £75.08
England median hourly rate £26.39 £22.08 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.56% -35.07% +59.25%

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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 21 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 21 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 +40 27 £525 -1.50% 29
Berkshire +39 23 £525 -1.50% 14
Hampshire +32 15 £600 +2.78% 18
Surrey - 6 £463 - 2
Buckinghamshire +17 4 £628 +69.73% 15
West Sussex +19 3 £300 -25.00% 3
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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 3 (5.88%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.69%) AWS
2 5 (9.80%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) GitHub
3 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.92%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (9.80%) Firewall
1 5 (9.80%) iSCSI
2 3 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (3.92%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) BGP
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) IPFIX
4 1 (1.96%) LAN
4 1 (1.96%) NGFW
4 1 (1.96%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.96%) SSL
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.96%) WAN
4 1 (1.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.84%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.92%) Tableau
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) Power Query
4 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
1 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.88%) JUnit
3 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.92%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) JMeter
3 2 (3.92%) Mockito
3 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.96%) Maven
4 1 (1.96%) Toad
General
1 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Retail
3 10 (19.61%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.76%) Billing
5 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Finance
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
6 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) IT Manager
2 8 (15.69%) IT Operations Manager
2 8 (15.69%) Operations Manager
3 7 (13.73%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Consultant
3 7 (13.73%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Performance Manager
5 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (9.80%) VMware Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Data Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 4 (7.84%) Splunk Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Telecoms Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.88%) Kafka
2 3 (5.88%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Camel
3 2 (3.92%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.92%) HTML
3 2 (3.92%) jQuery
3 2 (3.92%) JSON
3 2 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.92%) REST
3 2 (3.92%) VML
3 2 (3.92%) Web Services
3 2 (3.92%) WireMock
3 2 (3.92%) XML
4 1 (1.96%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.96%) LDAP
4 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) SIEM
2 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
3 10 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (19.61%) Incident Response
4 9 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 8 (15.69%) DataOps
5 8 (15.69%) Threat Intelligence
6 7 (13.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (13.73%) Migration
7 6 (11.76%) Analytics
7 6 (11.76%) DevOps
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.80%) Agile
8 5 (9.80%) Edge Virtualization
8 5 (9.80%) Microservices
8 5 (9.80%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (9.80%) Security Monitoring
8 5 (9.80%) Security Operations
8 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 7 (13.73%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) Java
3 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.92%) Go
4 2 (3.92%) Perl
4 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) MCSE
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) CISSP
4 5 (9.80%) VCP5
4 5 (9.80%) VCP6
4 5 (9.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (7.84%) CEH
6 3 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (5.88%) GCIH
7 2 (3.92%) CCNA
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.92%) CISM
7 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.92%) Degree
7 2 (3.92%) GCIA
8 1 (1.96%) ECSA
8 1 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.88%) NIST
3 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.92%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
1 6 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (9.80%) NFS
2 5 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.80%) vSphere
3 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) QRadar
3 4 (7.84%) Kibana
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.92%) Ansible
5 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.96%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.96%) Packer
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Dynatrace
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) VMware
4 5 (9.80%) NetApp
4 5 (9.80%) Veeam
5 4 (7.84%) Palo Alto
5 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (3.92%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.96%) Cisco
8 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.96%) IBM
8 1 (1.96%) Kenna
8 1 (1.96%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.96%) Remedy
8 1 (1.96%) Tenable
8 1 (1.96%) Zscaler