Splunk Contracts in the Thames Valley

Splunk
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 73 122 133
Rank change year-on-year +49 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing Splunk 29 23 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.92% 0.86% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 3.65% 1.79% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 14
10th Percentile - £355 £403
25th Percentile £500 £468 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% +5.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £541 £523
90th Percentile £756 £625 £638
South East median daily rate £550 £533 £588
% change year-on-year +3.19% -9.28% +30.56%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +40 25 £550 +3.19% 13
Buckinghamshire +17 4 £628 +69.73% 13
Splunk
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) BGP
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) IPFIX
3 1 (3.45%) LAN
3 1 (3.45%) NGFW
3 1 (3.45%) PuTTY
3 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.45%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JMeter
2 2 (6.90%) JUnit
2 2 (6.90%) Mockito
3 1 (3.45%) Maven
3 1 (3.45%) Toad
General
1 16 (55.17%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (48.28%) Retail
3 13 (44.83%) Telecoms
4 7 (24.14%) Billing
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) IT Manager
2 10 (34.48%) IT Operations Manager
2 10 (34.48%) Operations Manager
3 9 (31.03%) Performance Manager
4 7 (24.14%) Data Manager
5 6 (20.69%) Analyst
6 5 (17.24%) Telecoms Manager
7 4 (13.79%) Senior
7 4 (13.79%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Operations Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Platform Manager
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Camel
1 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
1 2 (6.90%) jQuery
1 2 (6.90%) JSON
1 2 (6.90%) REST
1 2 (6.90%) Spring
1 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
1 2 (6.90%) VML
1 2 (6.90%) Web Services
1 2 (6.90%) WireMock
1 2 (6.90%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
2 10 (34.48%) Data Analysis
2 10 (34.48%) DataOps
3 9 (31.03%) SIEM
4 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
4 6 (20.69%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (17.24%) Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (10.34%) Balanced Scorecard
7 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.34%) Customer Experience
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Management
7 3 (10.34%) Quality Management
7 3 (10.34%) Scorecard
7 3 (10.34%) Security Operations
7 3 (10.34%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) CISSP
2 3 (10.34%) CEH
3 2 (6.90%) CISM
3 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.90%) GCIH
4 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) CCNA
4 1 (3.45%) CCNP
4 1 (3.45%) CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) CFCE
4 1 (3.45%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) GCIA
4 1 (3.45%) GIAC
4 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) QRadar
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Kenna
4 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.45%) Remedy
4 1 (3.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Zscaler