Splunk Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Splunk
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 17 June 2026, 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Splunk 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.80% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile £474 - -
North East median daily rate £413 - -

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 190 102 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 30.25% 42.68% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 73 43
10th Percentile £359 £236 £276
25th Percentile £416 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £549
90th Percentile £650 £635 £649
North East median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 6
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.41 -
Median hourly rate £69.44 £35.63 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +94.92% +154.65% -56.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.16 £17.56
90th Percentile - £48.86 £18.75
North East median hourly rate £69.44 £19.25 £15.75
% change year-on-year +260.73% +22.26% -51.55%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Splunk job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Tyne and Wear

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 5 £413 - 14
Splunk
North East

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Gatling
2 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Consul
3 1 (20.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Packer
3 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Google