Splunk Contract Job Trends

Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 February 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
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 196 267
Rank change year-on-year +26 +71 -74
Contract jobs citing Splunk 656 420 391
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.36% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 3.66% 2.93% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 246 242
10th Percentile £350 £403 £403
25th Percentile £417 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £713 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £53.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £91.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.97% +41.88% -29.30%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,905 14,317 19,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.81% 46.32% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,485 8,556 12,267
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 410 927
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.94
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +5.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £58.59
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.17 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +4.33% -7.80%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the UK

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Splunk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Splunk

Splunk
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 February 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
England +19 576 £525 -8.70% 110
UK excluding London +52 370 £500 -9.09% 90
London -6 223 £575 -6.12% 35
Work from Home +5 175 £539 -10.25% 37
North of England +4 143 £500 -9.09% 19
Yorkshire +9 109 £515 -4.94% 12
Midlands +24 107 £525 -2.33% 8
West Midlands +26 103 £525 -4.72% 7
South East +12 89 £375 -34.78% 31
Scotland +25 35 £550 +32.53% 6
North West -31 33 £471 -14.36% 7
South West -20 11 £625 -21.88% 10
East of England -29 6 £600 - 17
Wales - 5 £600 -
East Midlands -27 4 £442 +13.11% 1
North East -12 3 £538 -8.51%

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.74%) Apache
1 18 (2.74%) Skype for Business
2 15 (2.29%) Confluence
3 13 (1.98%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.98%) TPMS
4 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.22%) Apache Pig
6 7 (1.07%) IIS
6 7 (1.07%) iPlanet
6 7 (1.07%) JBoss
6 7 (1.07%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.46%) SAS
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (37.04%) AWS
2 154 (23.48%) Azure
3 140 (21.34%) GCP
4 74 (11.28%) GitHub
5 69 (10.52%) OpenShift
6 53 (8.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.10%) Serverless
8 32 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.73%) Datadog
10 26 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.20%) Amazon S3
13 20 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (2.90%) SaaS
14 19 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.74%) Entra ID
16 17 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (2.44%) Akamai
18 15 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.87%) Firewall
2 72 (10.98%) DNS
3 48 (7.32%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.96%) Network Security
5 25 (3.81%) SSL
6 24 (3.66%) VPN
7 20 (3.05%) HTTP
8 19 (2.90%) Wireless
9 18 (2.74%) Skype
10 16 (2.44%) Wireshark
11 15 (2.29%) SNMP
12 14 (2.13%) SSH
13 11 (1.68%) Unified Communications
14 9 (1.37%) BGP
15 8 (1.22%) Kerberos
15 8 (1.22%) OSPF
16 7 (1.07%) DHCP
16 7 (1.07%) WAN
17 6 (0.91%) LAN
17 6 (0.91%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.05%) MySQL
6 13 (1.98%) Redis
7 12 (1.83%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.83%) Power BI
8 10 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.52%) Apache Hive
8 10 (1.52%) Oracle Database
8 10 (1.52%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.22%) Data Mining
10 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.61%) Flink
11 4 (0.61%) Tableau
12 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 127 (19.36%) Jenkins
2 103 (15.70%) GitLab
3 45 (6.86%) Git
4 27 (4.12%) JIRA
5 21 (3.20%) Liquibase
6 17 (2.59%) Postman
7 16 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (2.44%) Xcode
8 15 (2.29%) Android Studio
8 15 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
8 15 (2.29%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.83%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.83%) JUnit
9 12 (1.83%) Maven
10 11 (1.68%) Gradle
10 11 (1.68%) Selenium
11 10 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.52%) Gatling
11 10 (1.52%) Jaeger
12 8 (1.22%) Cucumber
General
1 290 (44.21%) Social Skills
2 159 (24.24%) Finance
3 108 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.30%) Banking
6 45 (6.86%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (5.79%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.29%) Military
9 13 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.37%) Retail
11 8 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.61%) Law
14 3 (0.46%) Front Office
14 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.15%) Local Government
16 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (19.36%) Analyst
2 72 (10.98%) Senior
3 62 (9.45%) Architect
4 59 (8.99%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.40%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 35 (5.34%) Lead
9 30 (4.57%) Security Analyst
9 30 (4.57%) Splunk Engineer
10 26 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (3.96%) Site Engineer
11 24 (3.66%) Support Analyst
12 23 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (3.35%) Developer
13 22 (3.35%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.20%) Monitoring Analyst
15 20 (3.05%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.90%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (10.37%) REST
2 66 (10.06%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (9.91%) Kafka
4 38 (5.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 36 (5.49%) RESTful
5 36 (5.49%) Spring Boot
6 34 (5.18%) SAML
7 31 (4.73%) Spring
8 26 (3.96%) LDAP
8 26 (3.96%) OpenID
9 23 (3.51%) OAuth
10 22 (3.35%) JSON
10 22 (3.35%) Middleware
11 21 (3.20%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.05%) React
13 19 (2.90%) CSS
14 16 (2.44%) GraphQL
15 15 (2.29%) Ajax
15 15 (2.29%) Keycloak
16 14 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.93%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (7.01%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 32 (4.88%) Security Posture
6 30 (4.57%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.81%) Mobile App
8 24 (3.66%) PKI
9 23 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (3.35%) Cyber Defence
11 21 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
12 19 (2.90%) Cyberattack
13 15 (2.29%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.83%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.68%) Clustering
17 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
18 9 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
19 8 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 245 (37.35%) Linux
2 139 (21.19%) Windows
3 89 (13.57%) Unix
4 32 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.90%) Android
5 19 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.07%) CentOS
6 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.61%) zOS
8 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (34.30%) CI/CD
2 217 (33.08%) DevOps
3 184 (28.05%) Cybersecurity
4 173 (26.37%) Observability
5 166 (25.30%) Incident Response
6 165 (25.15%) SIEM
7 149 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (19.21%) Containerisation
10 106 (16.16%) Agile
11 90 (13.72%) Computer Science
12 88 (13.41%) Microservices
13 86 (13.11%) Security Operations
14 72 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 71 (10.82%) Migration
15 71 (10.82%) Root Cause Analysis
16 64 (9.76%) High Availability
17 62 (9.45%) Threat Detection
18 58 (8.84%) Test Automation
19 57 (8.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 245 (37.35%) Python
2 104 (15.85%) PowerShell
3 102 (15.55%) Bash
4 94 (14.33%) SQL
5 93 (14.18%) Java
6 45 (6.86%) Go
7 39 (5.95%) Shell Script
8 32 (4.88%) JavaScript
9 27 (4.12%) Perl
10 19 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.13%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.83%) Scala
13 11 (1.68%) Groovy
13 11 (1.68%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.52%) Bicep
14 10 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
15 9 (1.37%) Rust
16 4 (0.61%) JCL
16 4 (0.61%) R
16 4 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 224 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.63%) SC Cleared
3 101 (15.40%) Degree
4 71 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (7.93%) CISSP
6 51 (7.77%) DV Cleared
7 35 (5.34%) Master's Degree
8 33 (5.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 31 (4.73%) CISM
10 21 (3.20%) GIAC
10 21 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (3.05%) AWS Certification
12 18 (2.74%) CEH
13 16 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
14 13 (1.98%) FFIEC
14 13 (1.98%) GCIA
14 13 (1.98%) GCIH
15 11 (1.68%) MCSE
15 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.28%) NIST
2 58 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.18%) GDPR
4 26 (3.96%) NCSC
5 25 (3.81%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.35%) QA
7 18 (2.74%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.98%) GLBA
9 10 (1.52%) SLA
10 9 (1.37%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.37%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.76%) GRC
12 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (20.58%) Docker
2 53 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.91%) Snort
6 6 (0.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.61%) NFS
9 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.46%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 202 (30.79%) Kubernetes
2 135 (20.58%) Grafana
3 133 (20.27%) Terraform
4 132 (20.12%) Ansible
5 109 (16.62%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.27%) Kibana
7 25 (3.81%) SCOM
8 23 (3.51%) Argo
9 21 (3.20%) HP SiteScope
9 21 (3.20%) Puppet
9 21 (3.20%) QRadar
10 20 (3.05%) Progress Chef
11 16 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.98%) CSIRT
12 13 (1.98%) Fluentd
13 11 (1.68%) logstash
13 11 (1.68%) Nessus
13 11 (1.68%) SCCM
13 11 (1.68%) vCenter Server
14 9 (1.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 148 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.01%) Oracle
3 45 (6.86%) Cisco
3 45 (6.86%) Google
4 44 (6.71%) AppDynamics
4 44 (6.71%) Dynatrace
5 43 (6.55%) ServiceNow
6 37 (5.64%) CrowdStrike
7 31 (4.73%) Red Hat
7 31 (4.73%) VMware
8 28 (4.27%) CyberArk
9 25 (3.81%) Cribl.io
9 25 (3.81%) Qualys
10 23 (3.51%) Carbon Black
11 22 (3.35%) Remedy
12 21 (3.20%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.05%) F5
14 19 (2.90%) Tenable
15 13 (1.98%) SolarWinds
15 13 (1.98%) Thales