Splunk Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Splunk
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 11 October 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
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +22
Contract jobs citing Splunk 51 43 19
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.52% 9.09% 4.30%
As % of the Vendors category 13.67% 16.67% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 8
10th Percentile £372 £380 £575
25th Percentile £450 £525 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £622 £597
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% +4.27% +15.27%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £622
90th Percentile £688 £650 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% +10.29%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 373 258 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 55.01% 54.55% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 145 102
10th Percentile £307 £233 £213
25th Percentile £382 £464 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £619
90th Percentile £635 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £14.18 £18.65
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.81 £18.88
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +7.69% +25.81%
75th Percentile - £41.88 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.29 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.15% +25.00% +17.65%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in South Yorkshire

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Sheffield -12 51 £515 -15.79% 5
Splunk
Yorkshire

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (9.80%) Apache Pig
2 3 (5.88%) TPMS
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (62.75%) GCP
2 30 (58.82%) AWS
3 29 (56.86%) Serverless
4 6 (11.76%) AWS KMS
5 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.84%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) Akamai
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.96%) Azure
8 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.96%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) SNMP
1 3 (5.88%) SSH
1 3 (5.88%) SSL
2 2 (3.92%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (56.86%) NoSQL
2 13 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Apache Hive
3 5 (9.80%) Data Mining
3 5 (9.80%) Hadoop
3 5 (9.80%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 29 (56.86%) Jenkins
2 27 (52.94%) GitLab
3 22 (43.14%) Liquibase
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.96%) Git
5 1 (1.96%) Gradle
5 1 (1.96%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.96%) Maven
5 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (66.67%) Finance
1 34 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (47.06%) Banking
2 24 (47.06%) Financial Institution
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Cloud Engineer
1 14 (27.45%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) GCP Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (13.73%) AWS Software Engineer
8 6 (11.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (9.80%) Data Scientist
9 5 (9.80%) GCP Software Engineer
9 5 (9.80%) Python Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Cryptography Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 2 (3.92%) Analyst
12 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (58.82%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (56.86%) REST
2 29 (56.86%) RESTful
3 5 (9.80%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.96%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.96%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 27 (52.94%) Distributed Systems
1 27 (52.94%) Public Cloud
2 23 (45.10%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) CI/CD
2 36 (70.59%) DevOps
3 31 (60.78%) Containerisation
3 31 (60.78%) Root Cause Analysis
4 30 (58.82%) Agile
5 29 (56.86%) Cryptography
6 28 (54.90%) Microservices
7 27 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (50.98%) Computer Science
9 25 (49.02%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (49.02%) Non-Functional Testing
10 24 (47.06%) Continuous Delivery
10 24 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (47.06%) Data Security
10 24 (47.06%) High Availability
11 22 (43.14%) Software Engineering
12 21 (41.18%) Cost Optimisation
13 20 (39.22%) Change Management
14 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (33.33%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 39 (76.47%) Python
2 28 (54.90%) Go
3 15 (29.41%) Java
4 8 (15.69%) SQL
5 5 (9.80%) Scala
6 4 (7.84%) Perl
6 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.92%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) Groovy
8 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (50.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (50.98%) Degree
1 26 (50.98%) Master's Degree
2 10 (19.61%) AWS Certification
3 8 (15.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.88%) FFIEC
4 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.88%) GDPR
2 3 (5.88%) GLBA
2 3 (5.88%) NIST
3 2 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (47.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Snort
2 1 (1.96%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (66.67%) Ansible
2 32 (62.75%) Kubernetes
3 31 (60.78%) Grafana
4 30 (58.82%) Prometheus
4 30 (58.82%) Terraform
5 2 (3.92%) Control-M
5 2 (3.92%) CSIRT
5 2 (3.92%) Puppet
6 1 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (1.96%) Istio
6 1 (1.96%) Kiali
6 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Google
2 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 3 (5.88%) F5
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) Thales
5 1 (1.96%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.96%) BMC
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Imperva
5 1 (1.96%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.96%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) xMatters