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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 189 242
Rank change year-on-year -27 +53 -76
Contract jobs citing Splunk 596 416 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.44% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 2.99% 3.03% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 267 271
10th Percentile £350 £390 £400
25th Percentile £425 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £763 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £75.27 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 19,948 13,741 18,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 47.66% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,535 8,490 11,282
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -1.22% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +1.23% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 604 1,114
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.65% -45.64%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -19 522 £525 -4.55% 267
UK excluding London -9 350 £514 -6.55% 260
London -38 195 £550 +4.76% 85
Work from Home -7 152 £525 -4.55% 45
North of England -13 134 £498 -8.29% 52
Yorkshire -8 85 £485 -11.01% 13
South East -34 76 £425 -18.03% 72
Midlands -22 60 £550 +2.42% 16
West Midlands -20 55 £564 +2.36% 15
North West -19 48 £538 -0.92% 25
South West +1 38 £450 -14.29% 38
Scotland -4 29 £592 +35.98% 26
East of England -40 25 £688 +25.00% 39
East Midlands -25 5 £447 +14.32% 1
North East - 4 £444 - 14
Wales -14 2 - - 11

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 23 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.85%) Confluence
3 13 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.01%) TPMS
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.50%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.50%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 184 (30.87%) AWS
2 164 (27.52%) Azure
3 86 (14.43%) GitHub
4 75 (12.58%) GCP
5 63 (10.57%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.88%) Datadog
7 35 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 27 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (4.53%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.36%) Entra ID
11 24 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.69%) Serverless
14 21 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (3.52%) Power Platform
15 19 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.60%) DNS
2 82 (13.76%) Firewall
3 40 (6.71%) TCP/IP
4 39 (6.54%) SNMP
5 31 (5.20%) WAN
6 30 (5.03%) BGP
7 29 (4.87%) Ethernet VPN
7 29 (4.87%) Network Security
7 29 (4.87%) OSPF
8 28 (4.70%) LAN
9 25 (4.19%) BIG-IP
9 25 (4.19%) DHCP
9 25 (4.19%) VXLAN
10 24 (4.03%) Junos
11 20 (3.36%) Cisco ISE
11 20 (3.36%) VPN
12 14 (2.35%) SSL
13 11 (1.85%) Wireless
14 9 (1.51%) MPLS
15 8 (1.34%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.87%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.36%) Power BI
4 19 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.02%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.85%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (2.01%) Big Data
9 11 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.51%) MySQL
11 8 (1.34%) Redis
12 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.17%) Presto
13 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
14 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
14 4 (0.67%) Tableau
15 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 91 (15.27%) Jenkins
2 63 (10.57%) GitLab
3 40 (6.71%) Git
4 31 (5.20%) JIRA
5 30 (5.03%) Gatling
6 19 (3.19%) JMeter
7 14 (2.35%) Selenium
8 13 (2.18%) Jaeger
8 13 (2.18%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.01%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.01%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.17%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.17%) Gradle
11 7 (1.17%) JUnit
11 7 (1.17%) Maven
11 7 (1.17%) Snyk
11 7 (1.17%) Xcode
12 6 (1.01%) CircleCI
General
1 171 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.13%) Finance
3 68 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.56%) Banking
5 47 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Retail
10 10 (1.68%) Front Office
11 9 (1.51%) Military
12 8 (1.34%) Law
12 8 (1.34%) Legal
13 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Advertising
14 3 (0.50%) Local Government
14 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (12.92%) Analyst
2 71 (11.91%) Architect
3 61 (10.23%) Lead
4 60 (10.07%) Senior
5 39 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (6.04%) Consultant
6 36 (6.04%) SOC Analyst
7 27 (4.53%) Developer
8 26 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 25 (4.19%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.03%) SOC Engineer
11 23 (3.86%) Site Engineer
12 22 (3.69%) Security Architect
13 20 (3.36%) CyberArk Architect
14 19 (3.19%) Network Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) Security Engineer
15 18 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (2.52%) Management Consultant
16 15 (2.52%) Performance Engineer
16 15 (2.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.25%) Kafka
2 58 (9.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 51 (8.56%) REST
4 36 (6.04%) Spring Boot
5 34 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.03%) Spring
7 27 (4.53%) 802.1X
8 23 (3.86%) Middleware
9 22 (3.69%) JSON
9 22 (3.69%) LDAP
10 18 (3.02%) OpenID
10 18 (3.02%) SAML
11 14 (2.35%) Playwright
12 13 (2.18%) CSS
12 13 (2.18%) RESTful
13 12 (2.01%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (1.85%) React
15 10 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
15 10 (1.68%) SailPoint
16 9 (1.51%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.40%) Onboarding
3 49 (8.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 41 (6.88%) PKI
5 30 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.70%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.53%) Clustering
7 27 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (4.19%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.69%) Cyberattack
10 17 (2.85%) CMDB
10 17 (2.85%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.85%) Security Posture
11 16 (2.68%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.18%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.84%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 184 (30.87%) Linux
2 159 (26.68%) Windows
3 51 (8.56%) Unix
4 22 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.02%) AIX
6 12 (2.01%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.01%) Android
9 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.67%) zOS
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (35.91%) CI/CD
2 205 (34.40%) Observability
3 191 (32.05%) DevOps
4 147 (24.66%) SIEM
5 128 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (21.14%) Cybersecurity
7 107 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 103 (17.28%) Incident Response
9 94 (15.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 85 (14.26%) Containerisation
11 78 (13.09%) Security Operations
12 71 (11.91%) Agile
13 65 (10.91%) High Availability
14 63 (10.57%) ITIL
15 59 (9.90%) Microservices
16 57 (9.56%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.40%) Analytics
18 55 (9.23%) Migration
19 52 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
20 51 (8.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 217 (36.41%) Python
2 92 (15.44%) SQL
3 89 (14.93%) PowerShell
4 79 (13.26%) Bash
5 74 (12.42%) Java
6 41 (6.88%) Search Processing Language
7 24 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.69%) Go
9 13 (2.18%) Bicep
10 11 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.68%) Scala
11 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.51%) Rust
13 8 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.17%) Perl
15 6 (1.01%) C#
16 5 (0.84%) Ruby
17 4 (0.67%) JCL
17 4 (0.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 246 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 152 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 69 (11.58%) DV Cleared
4 57 (9.56%) Degree
5 43 (7.21%) CISSP
6 37 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (6.04%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (5.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.69%) CISM
10 20 (3.36%) CompTIA CySA+
11 19 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.35%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.35%) GIAC
13 12 (2.01%) CEH
14 10 (1.68%) GCIA
14 10 (1.68%) GCIH
15 8 (1.34%) CCNP
15 8 (1.34%) CCSP
15 8 (1.34%) JNCIA
15 8 (1.34%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.56%) NIST
2 41 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.52%) NCSC
4 16 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.68%) GDPR
4 16 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.35%) SLA
6 11 (1.85%) QA
7 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.01%) GLBA
9 5 (0.84%) GRC
10 4 (0.67%) COBIT
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 108 (18.12%) Docker
2 18 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.52%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.01%) vSphere
6 6 (1.01%) etcd
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) Snort
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 170 (28.52%) Kubernetes
2 149 (25.00%) Grafana
3 127 (21.31%) Terraform
4 122 (20.47%) Prometheus
5 101 (16.95%) Ansible
6 25 (4.19%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.03%) Argo
8 22 (3.69%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.36%) Nagios
10 19 (3.19%) QRadar
11 18 (3.02%) Kibana
11 18 (3.02%) Netcool
12 17 (2.85%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.52%) OpenView
13 15 (2.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 13 (2.18%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.85%) Puppet
16 10 (1.68%) Kiali
17 9 (1.51%) Istio
17 9 (1.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 94 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 67 (11.24%) Dynatrace
3 62 (10.40%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.06%) Cisco
5 53 (8.89%) SolarWinds
6 52 (8.72%) AppDynamics
7 39 (6.54%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (6.38%) F5
9 36 (6.04%) CyberArk
10 28 (4.70%) Tenable
11 26 (4.36%) IBM
12 25 (4.19%) Juniper
13 24 (4.03%) VMware
14 22 (3.69%) BMC
14 22 (3.69%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.69%) New Relic
14 22 (3.69%) Red Hat
15 20 (3.36%) Oracle
16 19 (3.19%) Google
17 18 (3.02%) Fortinet