Splunk Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Splunk Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 385 424
Rank change year-on-year +52 +39 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 7 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.034% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.037% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 15
10th Percentile - £420 £444
25th Percentile £425 £509 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £606 -
90th Percentile - £619 £630
UK median daily rate £635 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +10.43% +9.52% -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,849 19,126 21,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.40% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,597 14,946
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,384 1,087
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £18.02
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Splunk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK excluding London

Splunk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK excluding London

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in the UK excluding London

Splunk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +10 3 £618 +5.11% 3
South East - 3 £450 - 2
North West +7 2 £618 +5.11% 3
Midlands +17 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Splunk Engineer
UK

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) SOAR
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace