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 27 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
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 198 270
Rank change year-on-year +23 +72 -86
Contract jobs citing Splunk 650 427 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.39% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 3.51% 2.99% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 254 228
10th Percentile £352 £403 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £780 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +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 18,513 14,267 19,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.57% 46.57% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,878 8,671 12,000
10th Percentile £305 £280 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 917 427 953
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.55 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% +11.54% -21.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.50
90th Percentile £74.43 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.13 £25.75
% change year-on-year -16.57% +5.34% -17.14%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +20 576 £525 -7.41% 101
UK excluding London +46 375 £514 -6.55% 86
London -32 214 £575 -4.17% 32
Work from Home 0 166 £550 -4.35% 42
North of England +10 153 £514 -7.34% 30
Yorkshire +5 116 £515 -16.34% 15
Midlands +16 101 £525 -2.23% 5
West Midlands +19 97 £527 -4.20% 4
South East +13 95 £383 -33.48% 23
North West -23 36 £500 -9.09% 14
Scotland +26 29 £577 +39.04% 9
South West -18 11 £625 -16.67% 11
East of England -37 6 £600 - 8
Wales +1 5 £600 +31.87%
East Midlands -27 4 £442 +2.73% 1
North East -16 3 £538 -8.51% 1

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 15 (2.31%) Confluence
2 12 (1.85%) Apache
2 12 (1.85%) TPMS
3 11 (1.69%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.92%) Mattermost
8 5 (0.77%) IIS
8 5 (0.77%) iPlanet
8 5 (0.77%) JBoss
8 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.62%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.46%) Apache Pig
10 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.46%) SAS
11 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.62%) 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
1 237 (36.46%) AWS
2 156 (24.00%) Azure
3 141 (21.69%) GCP
4 77 (11.85%) GitHub
5 66 (10.15%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 42 (6.46%) Serverless
8 32 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (4.62%) Datadog
10 26 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (3.54%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 20 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (2.77%) SaaS
17 15 (2.31%) AWS KMS
18 13 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (15.85%) Firewall
2 85 (13.08%) DNS
3 46 (7.08%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.46%) Network Security
5 25 (3.85%) VPN
6 24 (3.69%) BGP
6 24 (3.69%) SSL
7 22 (3.38%) Ethernet VPN
7 22 (3.38%) OSPF
8 21 (3.23%) DHCP
8 21 (3.23%) WAN
9 20 (3.08%) LAN
10 18 (2.77%) VXLAN
11 17 (2.62%) Wireless
12 16 (2.46%) BIG-IP
12 16 (2.46%) HTTP
12 16 (2.46%) Junos
13 14 (2.15%) SNMP
13 14 (2.15%) Wireshark
14 13 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.54%) MongoDB
2 36 (5.54%) NoSQL
3 26 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.77%) MySQL
6 14 (2.15%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.85%) Redis
8 9 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.38%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.92%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.92%) Power BI
10 6 (0.92%) Tableau
11 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.62%) Flink
12 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 127 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 105 (16.15%) GitLab
3 40 (6.15%) Git
4 29 (4.46%) JIRA
5 22 (3.38%) Liquibase
6 15 (2.31%) Postman
6 15 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (2.15%) Xcode
8 13 (2.00%) Android Studio
8 13 (2.00%) Browser DevTools
8 13 (2.00%) Eclipse
9 11 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 11 (1.69%) Gatling
9 11 (1.69%) JUnit
9 11 (1.69%) Selenium
10 10 (1.54%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.54%) Maven
11 9 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 9 (1.38%) Gradle
12 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
General
1 280 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 151 (23.23%) Finance
3 106 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 66 (10.15%) Banking
6 45 (6.92%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (6.31%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.77%) Military
9 13 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.38%) Retail
11 8 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.77%) Legal
12 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Front Office
13 4 (0.62%) Law
14 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.15%) Billing
16 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (18.00%) Analyst
2 79 (12.15%) Senior
3 67 (10.31%) Architect
4 58 (8.92%) SOC Analyst
5 47 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (6.62%) Lead
7 41 (6.31%) Security Engineer
8 38 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 30 (4.62%) Splunk Engineer
10 26 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (4.00%) Security Analyst
10 26 (4.00%) Site Engineer
11 23 (3.54%) Developer
11 23 (3.54%) Software Engineer
12 22 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (3.38%) Network Engineer
13 21 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.23%) Security Architect
14 20 (3.08%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.08%) Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.77%) REST
2 66 (10.15%) Elastic Stack
3 63 (9.69%) Kafka
4 40 (6.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (5.85%) Spring Boot
6 36 (5.54%) RESTful
7 32 (4.92%) SAML
7 32 (4.92%) Spring
8 25 (3.85%) JSON
8 25 (3.85%) LDAP
9 24 (3.69%) OpenID
10 23 (3.54%) Middleware
11 21 (3.23%) OAuth
12 19 (2.92%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.77%) React
14 17 (2.62%) 802.1X
14 17 (2.62%) CSS
15 15 (2.31%) Playwright
16 14 (2.15%) GraphQL
17 13 (2.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (6.77%) Onboarding
5 36 (5.54%) PKI
6 34 (5.23%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.46%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.46%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.69%) Data Centre
10 23 (3.54%) Clustering
10 23 (3.54%) Mobile App
11 21 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
12 20 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (3.08%) Cyberattack
13 14 (2.15%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.54%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 232 (35.69%) Linux
2 151 (23.23%) Windows
3 79 (12.15%) Unix
4 32 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.77%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.46%) Android
7 6 (0.92%) CentOS
7 6 (0.92%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.62%) zOS
10 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.31%) Solaris
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (36.15%) CI/CD
2 219 (33.69%) DevOps
3 182 (28.00%) Observability
4 177 (27.23%) Cybersecurity
5 162 (24.92%) SIEM
6 161 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (23.54%) Incident Response
8 142 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 129 (19.85%) Containerisation
10 114 (17.54%) Agile
11 89 (13.69%) Computer Science
11 89 (13.69%) Microservices
12 81 (12.46%) Security Operations
13 80 (12.31%) High Availability
13 80 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 69 (10.62%) Migration
15 67 (10.31%) Root Cause Analysis
16 62 (9.54%) Test Automation
17 57 (8.77%) ITIL
17 57 (8.77%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 242 (37.23%) Python
2 101 (15.54%) Bash
3 90 (13.85%) Java
4 89 (13.69%) PowerShell
5 83 (12.77%) SQL
6 46 (7.08%) Go
7 31 (4.77%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.15%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.23%) Perl
10 19 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.15%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.85%) Bicep
13 11 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.38%) Groovy
14 9 (1.38%) Rust
15 7 (1.08%) Scala
15 7 (1.08%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.62%) JCL
16 4 (0.62%) REXX
17 3 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 233 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 152 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 99 (15.23%) Degree
4 72 (11.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (8.77%) DV Cleared
6 51 (7.85%) CISSP
7 34 (5.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 34 (5.23%) Master's Degree
8 32 (4.92%) CISM
9 24 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (3.08%) AWS Certification
11 18 (2.77%) GIAC
12 17 (2.62%) CompTIA CySA+
13 14 (2.15%) CEH
13 14 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.85%) FFIEC
14 12 (1.85%) GCIA
14 12 (1.85%) GCIH
15 11 (1.69%) MCSE
15 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.38%) NIST
2 57 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (4.92%) GDPR
4 26 (4.00%) NCSC
5 23 (3.54%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.38%) QA
7 18 (2.77%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.85%) GLBA
9 8 (1.23%) SLA
9 8 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.77%) GRC
12 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.31%) COBIT
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 137 (21.08%) Docker
2 42 (6.46%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.46%) VMware NSX
4 12 (1.85%) vSphere
5 7 (1.08%) Snort
6 6 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 5 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.62%) NFS
9 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.46%) Squid
10 2 (0.31%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 207 (31.85%) Kubernetes
2 144 (22.15%) Grafana
3 136 (20.92%) Terraform
4 133 (20.46%) Ansible
5 113 (17.38%) Prometheus
6 27 (4.15%) Kibana
7 26 (4.00%) Argo
8 20 (3.08%) Puppet
9 19 (2.92%) QRadar
10 18 (2.77%) Progress Chef
11 17 (2.62%) FortiGate
12 14 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (2.00%) Fluentd
14 12 (1.85%) Nessus
14 12 (1.85%) SCOM
14 12 (1.85%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.69%) CSIRT
15 11 (1.69%) logstash
15 11 (1.69%) SCCM
16 10 (1.54%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 127 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.15%) Cisco
3 47 (7.23%) Google
4 42 (6.46%) AppDynamics
4 42 (6.46%) Dynatrace
5 41 (6.31%) ServiceNow
6 40 (6.15%) Oracle
7 35 (5.38%) CrowdStrike
8 33 (5.08%) VMware
9 32 (4.92%) Red Hat
10 31 (4.77%) F5
11 29 (4.46%) CyberArk
12 28 (4.31%) SolarWinds
13 27 (4.15%) Qualys
14 26 (4.00%) Cribl.io
15 23 (3.54%) Palo Alto
15 23 (3.54%) Tenable
16 22 (3.38%) Carbon Black
17 16 (2.46%) Juniper
18 15 (2.31%) Remedy