Splunk Contracts in the UK excluding London

Splunk
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 224 154
Rank change year-on-year +52 -70 +96
Contract jobs citing Splunk 177 181 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 0.87% 1.55%
As % of the Vendors category 2.83% 2.05% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 124 266
10th Percentile £360 £362 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £643
90th Percentile £750 £667 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile £40.50 - £54.74
Median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% +5.59%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% +5.59%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 8,846 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.84% 42.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 5,327 7,325
10th Percentile £216 £205 £205
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 949 474
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.61 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +25 64 £600 +9.09% 55
South East +70 54 £550 +3.19% 68
North West +27 33 £543 -1.36% 27
Yorkshire -6 29 £709 +31.91% 24
Scotland +19 24 £430 -25.22% 15
Midlands +20 20 £537 -7.81% 30
West Midlands +18 14 £551 -12.02% 20
East of England +18 9 £600 -4.00% 45
East Midlands +12 6 £431 +19.83% 9
South West +21 5 £613 +2.08% 23
North East - 2 £750 - 4
Wales -1 1 £455 -29.40% 2
Splunk
UK

Splunk
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.08%) JBoss
2 7 (3.95%) nginx
2 7 (3.95%) Traefik
3 6 (3.39%) Confluence
4 5 (2.82%) Mattermost
4 5 (2.82%) Skype for Business
5 4 (2.26%) CMS
6 2 (1.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.29%) AWS
2 19 (10.73%) OpenShift
3 16 (9.04%) Azure
4 13 (7.34%) GCP
5 12 (6.78%) GitHub
6 11 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.08%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.82%) Collibra
9 4 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.69%) Apigee
10 3 (1.69%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.69%) SaaS
10 3 (1.69%) Serverless
11 2 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.04%) DNS
1 16 (9.04%) Firewall
2 11 (6.21%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.08%) SSL
4 8 (4.52%) NAS
4 8 (4.52%) Network Security
5 7 (3.95%) SAN
5 7 (3.95%) VPN
6 5 (2.82%) Skype
6 5 (2.82%) Softphone
6 5 (2.82%) Unified Communications
6 5 (2.82%) WebEx
7 4 (2.26%) BGP
7 4 (2.26%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (2.26%) HTTP
7 4 (2.26%) iSCSI
7 4 (2.26%) SMTP
7 4 (2.26%) WAN
8 3 (1.69%) OSPF
8 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.60%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.34%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (6.21%) RDBMS
5 10 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.26%) Big Data
9 4 (2.26%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.69%) Tableau
11 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.13%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.56%) DB2
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.56%) Power BI
12 1 (0.56%) Power Query
12 1 (0.56%) Redis
12 1 (0.56%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.99%) Git
3 16 (9.04%) JIRA
4 15 (8.47%) GitLab
5 11 (6.21%) TeamCity
6 10 (5.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.08%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (5.08%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (5.08%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.39%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.82%) JUnit
10 4 (2.26%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.69%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.69%) JMeter
11 3 (1.69%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.13%) eggPlant
12 2 (1.13%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.13%) Mockito
General
1 29 (16.38%) Finance
2 28 (15.82%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.99%) Banking
5 14 (7.91%) Retail
5 14 (7.91%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.95%) Billing
9 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
9 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Legal
10 2 (1.13%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (13.56%) Analyst
2 21 (11.86%) Architect
3 17 (9.60%) Senior
4 15 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.34%) Consultant
5 13 (7.34%) IT Manager
6 12 (6.78%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (5.65%) Developer
7 10 (5.65%) IT Operations Manager
7 10 (5.65%) Operations Manager
8 9 (5.08%) Performance Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Applications Support
9 8 (4.52%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.52%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (4.52%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Data Manager
10 7 (3.95%) Splunk Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Operations Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.12%) Kafka
2 13 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (6.78%) Spring Boot
4 11 (6.21%) LDAP
5 10 (5.65%) Keycloak
6 9 (5.08%) cloud-init
6 9 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (4.52%) Loki
7 8 (4.52%) Middleware
7 8 (4.52%) REST
8 7 (3.95%) Spring
9 5 (2.82%) XMPP
10 4 (2.26%) HTML
10 4 (2.26%) Web Services
11 3 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.69%) CSS
11 3 (1.69%) Gherkin
11 3 (1.69%) jQuery
11 3 (1.69%) JSON
11 3 (1.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.08%) Onboarding
1 9 (5.08%) PKI
2 8 (4.52%) CSOC
2 8 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (4.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.39%) Clustering
4 6 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.26%) Replication
7 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.13%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.13%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 68 (38.42%) Linux
2 45 (25.42%) Windows
3 30 (16.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (16.38%) Unix
5 9 (5.08%) CentOS
6 8 (4.52%) VMS
7 6 (3.39%) Windows Server
7 6 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.69%) AIX
8 3 (1.69%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.94%) CI/CD
2 40 (22.60%) DevOps
3 33 (18.64%) SIEM
4 29 (16.38%) Agile
4 29 (16.38%) Observability
5 26 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (12.99%) Microservices
7 22 (12.43%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (11.30%) Migration
10 19 (10.73%) Incident Response
11 18 (10.17%) Analytics
11 18 (10.17%) Cloud Security
11 18 (10.17%) ITIL
12 17 (9.60%) Containerisation
13 14 (7.91%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (7.91%) Security Operations
14 13 (7.34%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (7.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.51%) Python
2 22 (12.43%) SQL
3 20 (11.30%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.60%) Bash
5 14 (7.91%) Java
6 13 (7.34%) Perl
7 12 (6.78%) Go
7 12 (6.78%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.39%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.82%) Ruby
10 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.69%) C++
12 2 (1.13%) C
12 2 (1.13%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.56%) Korn
13 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.08%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.82%) CISSP
5 5 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.82%) MCSE
5 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.26%) Degree
6 4 (2.26%) VCP5
6 4 (2.26%) VCP6
6 4 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.69%) CCNP
7 3 (1.69%) CEH
7 3 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.13%) CCNA
8 2 (1.13%) CISM
8 2 (1.13%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) NCSC
2 6 (3.39%) NIST
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.26%) QA
5 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.13%) GDPR
6 2 (1.13%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (13.56%) Docker
2 18 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 14 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 8 (4.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.26%) NFS
7 4 (2.26%) vSphere
8 3 (1.69%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (28.25%) Kubernetes
2 44 (24.86%) Grafana
3 31 (17.51%) Prometheus
3 31 (17.51%) Terraform
4 24 (13.56%) Ansible
5 15 (8.47%) Kibana
6 11 (6.21%) Istio
6 11 (6.21%) Progress Chef
7 10 (5.65%) Packer
8 9 (5.08%) Consul
8 9 (5.08%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (5.08%) linkerd
8 9 (5.08%) QRadar
8 9 (5.08%) Rancher
8 9 (5.08%) ZABBIX
9 7 (3.95%) HAProxy
10 6 (3.39%) Puppet
11 5 (2.82%) SCOM
12 4 (2.26%) Control-M
13 3 (1.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (15.82%) Microsoft
1 28 (15.82%) Red Hat
2 19 (10.73%) VMware
3 18 (10.17%) AppDynamics
3 18 (10.17%) Dynatrace
4 17 (9.60%) Cisco
4 17 (9.60%) Palo Alto
5 12 (6.78%) Oracle
6 11 (6.21%) ServiceNow
7 10 (5.65%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.08%) F5
8 9 (5.08%) Okta
8 9 (5.08%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.08%) Veritas
9 7 (3.95%) Apple
9 7 (3.95%) Cloudera
9 7 (3.95%) ESET
9 7 (3.95%) NetApp
10 5 (2.82%) Google
10 5 (2.82%) Symantec