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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 110 133
Rank change year-on-year +34 +23 +20
Contract jobs citing Splunk 23 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.58% 0.95% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 2.90% 2.02% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 12
10th Percentile £488 £355 £397
25th Percentile £500 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -8.97%
75th Percentile £570 £544 £531
90th Percentile £716 £630 £663
South East median daily rate £537 £533 £588
% change year-on-year +0.75% -9.28% +27.03%

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 1,237 1,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 54.50% 47.07% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 741 916
10th Percentile £308 £206 £280
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 72 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.89 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.56 £19.00
Median hourly rate £19.46 £50.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -61.09% +3.31% +265.28%
75th Percentile £49.00 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.75 £61.96 £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 29 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 29 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 +29 17 £525 -1.50% 63
Buckinghamshire +16 6 £628 +69.73% 27
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Domino
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
1 5 (21.74%) Network Security
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.35%) BGP
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
4 1 (4.35%) IPFIX
4 1 (4.35%) LAN
4 1 (4.35%) NGFW
4 1 (4.35%) PuTTY
4 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.35%) SSL
4 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.35%) WAN
4 1 (4.35%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JMeter
2 2 (8.70%) JUnit
2 2 (8.70%) Mockito
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Games
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Analyst
1 4 (17.39%) Consultant
1 4 (17.39%) Developer
1 4 (17.39%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (8.70%) Architect
2 2 (8.70%) CyberArk Consultant
2 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Platform Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
2 2 (8.70%) Senior
2 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Security Presales Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Camel
1 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
1 2 (8.70%) jQuery
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
1 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
1 2 (8.70%) VML
1 2 (8.70%) Web Services
1 2 (8.70%) WireMock
1 2 (8.70%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Security Posture
2 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.04%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) CSOC
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Android
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) SIEM
2 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (34.78%) Incident Response
3 7 (30.43%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (26.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Security Operations
6 4 (17.39%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (13.04%) Analytics
7 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
7 3 (13.04%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) SOAR
7 3 (13.04%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 3 (13.04%) Threat Detection
8 2 (8.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (8.70%) SDLC
8 2 (8.70%) Threat Analysis
8 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) CISSP
2 4 (17.39%) CEH
3 3 (13.04%) GCIH
4 2 (8.70%) CISM
4 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.70%) GCIA
5 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) CFCE
5 1 (4.35%) CISA
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) ECSA
5 1 (4.35%) GCFA
5 1 (4.35%) GIAC
5 1 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) QRadar
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (13.04%) CyberArk
3 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.70%) Broadcom
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
4 2 (8.70%) Meraki
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) Symantec
5 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (4.35%) Computacenter
5 1 (4.35%) Kenna
5 1 (4.35%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.35%) Remedy
5 1 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Zscaler