Splunk Engineer Contracts

Splunk Engineer
UK

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 638 779
Rank change year-on-year +98 +141 -162
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 42 65 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 40 32
10th Percentile £484 £500 £406
25th Percentile £513 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -4.55% +11.39%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £664
90th Percentile £637 £704 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +11.90% +10.53% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
England +83 32 £588 +11.90% 3
London +95 21 £569 +3.41% 1
Work from Home +90 15 £575 +9.52% 5
UK excluding London +45 8 £588 +11.90% 2
North of England +35 5 £588 +17.50% 2
North West +26 5 £588 +42.42% 2
Midlands +27 3 £625 -10.71%
West Midlands +18 2 £625 -10.71%
East Midlands - 1 £625 -

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Splunk
2 14 (33.33%) SIEM
3 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 12 (28.57%) Python
3 12 (28.57%) Finance
4 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
5 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
5 10 (23.81%) Change Management
5 10 (23.81%) Onboarding
6 9 (21.43%) CISSP
6 9 (21.43%) Analytics
7 8 (19.05%) DevOps
7 8 (19.05%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (16.67%) Data Mapping
8 7 (16.67%) Tableau
8 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) Shell Script
8 7 (16.67%) SQL
8 7 (16.67%) ETL
9 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
10 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.90%) Bash
11 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
11 4 (9.52%) ITSM
11 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
12 3 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
12 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (7.14%) Insider Threat

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (2.38%) OCI
3 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) Gatling
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Insider Threat
3 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
1 3 (7.14%) Unix
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) SIEM
2 10 (23.81%) Change Management
3 9 (21.43%) Analytics
4 8 (19.05%) DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 7 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 7 (16.67%) ETL
5 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (9.52%) ITSM
8 3 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 3 (7.14%) Data Analysis
8 3 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (7.14%) Incident Response
8 3 (7.14%) Use Case
9 2 (4.76%) Actionable Insight
9 2 (4.76%) Event Correlation
9 2 (4.76%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) Search Processing Language
3 7 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
5 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) CISSP
4 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Ansible
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle