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 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 218 162
Rank change year-on-year +62 -56 +79
Contract jobs citing Splunk 197 188 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 0.93% 1.55%
As % of the Vendors category 3.13% 2.20% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 133 262
10th Percentile £380 £381 £376
25th Percentile £441 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £634
90th Percentile £730 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year - -33.11% -9.08%
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year - -33.11% -9.08%

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 6,288 8,560 10,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.18% 42.27% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,946 5,207 6,967
10th Percentile £215 £206 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 959 456
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +97.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.10 £60.64
90th Percentile £70.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £21.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +19.86% -47.03% +88.79%

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 22 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 22 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 +18 63 £575 +4.55% 244
South East +68 50 £550 +3.19% 309
North West +32 37 £560 +1.82% 117
East of England +37 32 £550 -15.38% 157
Scotland +14 27 £435 -18.69% 53
Yorkshire -11 26 £590 +7.27% 102
Midlands +17 20 £537 +28.24% 163
West Midlands +19 15 £551 -15.23% 92
East Midlands +2 5 £391 +8.84% 61
South West +6 4 £613 +11.36% 111
Wales -2 1 £455 -29.40% 20
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 10 (5.08%) JBoss
2 8 (4.06%) Mattermost
2 8 (4.06%) Skype for Business
3 6 (3.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.52%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) Traefik
6 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.83%) AWS
2 20 (10.15%) Cohesity
3 19 (9.64%) OpenShift
4 16 (8.12%) Azure
4 16 (8.12%) GitHub
5 14 (7.11%) GCP
6 7 (3.55%) Datadog
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.05%) Serverless
8 5 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.54%) BlazeMeter
8 5 (2.54%) Collibra
8 5 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.03%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (2.03%) SaaS
9 4 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.23%) DNS
2 26 (13.20%) SAN
3 18 (9.14%) Firewall
4 11 (5.58%) SSL
5 9 (4.57%) VPN
6 8 (4.06%) NAS
6 8 (4.06%) Network Security
6 8 (4.06%) Skype
6 8 (4.06%) Softphone
6 8 (4.06%) Unified Communications
6 8 (4.06%) WebEx
7 7 (3.55%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.54%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (2.54%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.03%) BGP
9 4 (2.03%) WAN
10 3 (1.52%) HTTP
10 3 (1.52%) OSPF
10 3 (1.52%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.11%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (5.58%) RDBMS
4 10 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.54%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.03%) Big Data
8 4 (2.03%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.52%) Tableau
10 2 (1.02%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.51%) DB2
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.51%) Redis
11 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (15.74%) Jenkins
2 26 (13.20%) Git
3 16 (8.12%) JIRA
4 11 (5.58%) GitLab
4 11 (5.58%) TeamCity
5 10 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (4.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (4.57%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (4.57%) SonarQube
7 8 (4.06%) JUnit
8 7 (3.55%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.03%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.52%) Jaeger
10 3 (1.52%) JMeter
10 3 (1.52%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.02%) eggPlant
11 2 (1.02%) Mockito
General
1 31 (15.74%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.69%) Finance
3 23 (11.68%) Banking
4 22 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.58%) Retail
5 11 (5.58%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.05%) Billing
9 5 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Marketing
10 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Legal
12 1 (0.51%) Electronics
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Military
12 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (12.69%) Analyst
2 23 (11.68%) Architect
3 14 (7.11%) Developer
4 13 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.09%) Consultant
6 11 (5.58%) Senior
6 11 (5.58%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (5.08%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.57%) Operations Analyst
8 9 (4.57%) Operations Engineer
8 9 (4.57%) Security Engineer
8 9 (4.57%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.06%) Applications Support
9 8 (4.06%) IT Operations Manager
9 8 (4.06%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.06%) Messaging Engineer
9 8 (4.06%) Messaging Support
9 8 (4.06%) Messaging Support Engineer
9 8 (4.06%) Operations Manager
9 8 (4.06%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.63%) Kafka
2 15 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (6.09%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.08%) LDAP
4 10 (5.08%) Spring
5 9 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (4.06%) Loki
6 8 (4.06%) Middleware
6 8 (4.06%) REST
6 8 (4.06%) XMPP
7 5 (2.54%) CSS
7 5 (2.54%) React
8 4 (2.03%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.03%) HTML
8 4 (2.03%) Web Services
9 3 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.52%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.52%) JSON
9 3 (1.52%) Keycloak
10 2 (1.02%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.58%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.57%) CSOC
2 9 (4.57%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (4.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (3.55%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.05%) Clustering
5 6 (3.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.02%) PKI
8 2 (1.02%) Replication
9 1 (0.51%) MISP
9 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 65 (32.99%) Windows
2 63 (31.98%) Linux
3 26 (13.20%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 23 (11.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (11.17%) Unix
6 21 (10.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (4.06%) VMS
8 3 (1.52%) AIX
8 3 (1.52%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.02%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (28.43%) SIEM
2 53 (26.90%) CI/CD
3 41 (20.81%) DevOps
4 35 (17.77%) Agile
5 33 (16.75%) Deployment Automation
6 31 (15.74%) Observability
7 30 (15.23%) Build Automation
7 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (13.71%) Microservices
10 21 (10.66%) Incident Response
10 21 (10.66%) Operations Management
11 20 (10.15%) ITIL
11 20 (10.15%) Migration
12 19 (9.64%) Containerisation
13 17 (8.63%) Analytics
14 16 (8.12%) Change Management
14 16 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (7.61%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (7.61%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.37%) Python
2 43 (21.83%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.69%) SQL
4 18 (9.14%) Java
5 14 (7.11%) Shell Script
6 11 (5.58%) Bash
6 11 (5.58%) Perl
7 8 (4.06%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.54%) Ruby
10 4 (2.03%) Go
11 3 (1.52%) C++
11 3 (1.52%) Groovy
12 2 (1.02%) C
13 1 (0.51%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.51%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.51%) Korn
13 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 34 (17.26%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.06%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.05%) MCSE
5 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.54%) CISSP
6 5 (2.54%) Degree
6 5 (2.54%) VCP5
6 5 (2.54%) VCP6
6 5 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.03%) CEH
7 4 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.52%) CCNP
8 3 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.52%) GCIH
9 2 (1.02%) APMG
9 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.02%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) NIST
2 7 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.03%) GDPR
4 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.02%) QA
5 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (20.30%) Active Directory
2 34 (17.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (13.71%) Docker
4 20 (10.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (10.15%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (4.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 8 (4.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.54%) NFS
8 5 (2.54%) vSphere
9 3 (1.52%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (23.86%) Grafana
2 46 (23.35%) Kubernetes
3 44 (22.34%) Ansible
4 30 (15.23%) Prometheus
5 27 (13.71%) Terraform
6 21 (10.66%) SCCM
6 21 (10.66%) WSUS
7 15 (7.61%) Kibana
8 11 (5.58%) Progress Chef
9 9 (4.57%) QRadar
10 8 (4.06%) Puppet
10 8 (4.06%) SCOM
11 5 (2.54%) Control-M
11 5 (2.54%) Istio
12 3 (1.52%) Kiali
12 3 (1.52%) Packer
12 3 (1.52%) SELinux
13 2 (1.02%) Rancher
13 2 (1.02%) RSA Archer
13 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 49 (24.87%) Microsoft
2 39 (19.80%) VMware
3 32 (16.24%) Red Hat
4 27 (13.71%) NetApp
5 22 (11.17%) Dynatrace
6 20 (10.15%) Cisco
7 19 (9.64%) AppDynamics
8 17 (8.63%) Palo Alto
9 11 (5.58%) ServiceNow
10 10 (5.08%) Fortinet
10 10 (5.08%) Oracle
11 9 (4.57%) F5
11 9 (4.57%) SolarWinds
11 9 (4.57%) Veritas
12 7 (3.55%) Cloudera
13 6 (3.05%) IBM
14 5 (2.54%) Confluent
14 5 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (2.54%) Google
14 5 (2.54%) Veeam