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 12 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 185 237
Rank change year-on-year -37 +52 -71
Contract jobs citing Splunk 588 439 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.49% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 2.89% 3.13% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 276 292
10th Percentile £350 £391 £401
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £758 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
75th Percentile £71.64 - -
90th Percentile £79.19 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £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 20,335 14,012 18,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.69% 47.61% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,789 8,619 11,469
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -2.43% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,043 627 1,137
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.33 £14.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% +12.00% -44.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.37 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £23.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% +4.55% -44.37%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -29 516 £525 -4.55% 238
UK excluding London -5 340 £514 -6.55% 248
London -35 202 £550 +4.76% 69
Work from Home -27 148 £530 -1.85% 51
North of England -16 128 £493 -3.90% 45
Yorkshire -1 82 £485 -3.00% 13
South East -57 74 £429 -22.05% 73
Midlands -30 56 £550 +2.42% 13
West Midlands -26 51 £564 +3.39% 12
North West -24 45 £519 -4.38% 20
South West +11 39 £450 -14.29% 42
Scotland -4 31 £592 +34.43% 22
East of England -33 25 £688 +25.00% 35
East Midlands -21 5 £447 +3.23% 1
North East - 4 £444 - 12
Wales -15 1 - - 12

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 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.72%) Confluence
3 13 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.02%) TPMS
5 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.02%) 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 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 180 (30.61%) AWS
2 158 (26.87%) Azure
3 85 (14.46%) GitHub
4 72 (12.24%) GCP
5 63 (10.71%) OpenShift
6 40 (6.80%) Datadog
7 35 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 27 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (4.42%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 23 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (3.57%) Power Platform
14 21 (3.57%) Serverless
15 19 (3.23%) SaaS
16 17 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (14.97%) DNS
2 79 (13.44%) Firewall
3 40 (6.80%) SNMP
3 40 (6.80%) TCP/IP
4 30 (5.10%) BGP
4 30 (5.10%) Network Security
4 30 (5.10%) WAN
5 29 (4.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 29 (4.93%) OSPF
6 27 (4.59%) LAN
7 25 (4.25%) BIG-IP
7 25 (4.25%) DHCP
7 25 (4.25%) VXLAN
8 24 (4.08%) Junos
9 20 (3.40%) Cisco ISE
9 20 (3.40%) VPN
10 14 (2.38%) SSL
11 11 (1.87%) Wireless
12 9 (1.53%) MPLS
12 9 (1.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.10%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.40%) Power BI
4 19 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.89%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.04%) Big Data
8 10 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.36%) MySQL
9 8 (1.36%) Redis
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
10 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 91 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 62 (10.54%) GitLab
3 43 (7.31%) Git
4 31 (5.27%) Gatling
5 29 (4.93%) JIRA
6 20 (3.40%) JMeter
7 13 (2.21%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.21%) Selenium
8 12 (2.04%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
9 11 (1.87%) Jaeger
10 9 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.02%) Gradle
12 6 (1.02%) JUnit
12 6 (1.02%) Maven
12 6 (1.02%) Snyk
12 6 (1.02%) Xcode
13 5 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 166 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.39%) Finance
3 67 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.84%) Banking
5 45 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.04%) Retail
10 10 (1.70%) Front Office
11 9 (1.53%) Military
12 8 (1.36%) Law
12 8 (1.36%) Legal
13 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
16 1 (0.17%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (12.93%) Analyst
2 65 (11.05%) Architect
3 62 (10.54%) Senior
4 61 (10.37%) Lead
5 38 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (6.12%) Consultant
7 34 (5.78%) SOC Analyst
8 29 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 27 (4.59%) Developer
10 25 (4.25%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.08%) SOC Engineer
12 23 (3.91%) Site Engineer
13 22 (3.74%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.57%) Security Engineer
15 20 (3.40%) CyberArk Architect
16 19 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (3.23%) Network Engineer
17 16 (2.72%) Performance Engineer
17 16 (2.72%) Test Engineer
18 15 (2.55%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.24%) Kafka
2 57 (9.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 53 (9.01%) REST
4 34 (5.78%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.27%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.10%) Spring
7 27 (4.59%) 802.1X
8 22 (3.74%) LDAP
9 21 (3.57%) JSON
9 21 (3.57%) Middleware
10 19 (3.23%) OpenID
10 19 (3.23%) SAML
11 13 (2.21%) Playwright
11 13 (2.21%) RESTful
12 12 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.87%) CSS
13 11 (1.87%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.70%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (1.70%) React
15 9 (1.53%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.54%) Onboarding
3 48 (8.16%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.12%) PKI
5 29 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.76%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.59%) Clustering
7 27 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (4.08%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.74%) Cyberattack
10 18 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.89%) CMDB
11 17 (2.89%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.55%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.04%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (1.02%) AI Agents
16 6 (1.02%) Mainframe
16 6 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (29.93%) Linux
2 155 (26.36%) Windows
3 50 (8.50%) Unix
4 18 (3.06%) AIX
5 16 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.21%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.85%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.68%) zOS
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (37.24%) CI/CD
2 210 (35.71%) Observability
3 189 (32.14%) DevOps
4 141 (23.98%) SIEM
5 127 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (21.26%) Cybersecurity
7 110 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (18.20%) Incident Response
9 98 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 85 (14.46%) Containerisation
11 82 (13.95%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.90%) Agile
13 66 (11.22%) High Availability
14 65 (11.05%) ITIL
15 56 (9.52%) Microservices
15 56 (9.52%) Migration
15 56 (9.52%) Test Automation
16 55 (9.35%) Analytics
17 53 (9.01%) ITSM
17 53 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 215 (36.56%) Python
2 91 (15.48%) SQL
3 85 (14.46%) PowerShell
4 77 (13.10%) Bash
5 71 (12.07%) Java
6 43 (7.31%) Search Processing Language
7 23 (3.91%) Go
7 23 (3.91%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.21%) Bicep
9 10 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.70%) Scala
10 9 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.19%) C#
12 7 (1.19%) Rust
13 6 (1.02%) Perl
14 5 (0.85%) Ruby
15 4 (0.68%) JCL
15 4 (0.68%) REXX
Qualifications
1 240 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 148 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.39%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.01%) Degree
5 47 (7.99%) CISSP
6 37 (6.29%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (6.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 34 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (4.08%) CISM
9 22 (3.74%) CompTIA CySA+
10 19 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.72%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.38%) GIAC
13 12 (2.04%) CEH
14 11 (1.87%) GCIA
14 11 (1.87%) GCIH
15 9 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.53%) CCSP
16 8 (1.36%) CCNP
16 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.03%) NIST
2 43 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.57%) NCSC
4 18 (3.06%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.89%) GDPR
6 16 (2.72%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.38%) SLA
8 10 (1.70%) QA
9 8 (1.36%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.36%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.02%) GLBA
11 5 (0.85%) GRC
12 4 (0.68%) COBIT
12 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 107 (18.20%) Docker
2 19 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.72%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.04%) vSphere
6 8 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 168 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 152 (25.85%) Grafana
3 130 (22.11%) Terraform
4 120 (20.41%) Prometheus
5 100 (17.01%) Ansible
6 26 (4.42%) FortiGate
7 25 (4.25%) Argo
8 22 (3.74%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.40%) Nagios
9 20 (3.40%) QRadar
10 18 (3.06%) Netcool
11 17 (2.89%) Kibana
11 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.55%) OpenView
12 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 12 (2.04%) vCenter Server
14 10 (1.70%) Istio
14 10 (1.70%) linkerd
15 8 (1.36%) Fluentd
15 8 (1.36%) Kiali
Vendors
1 89 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.24%) Dynatrace
3 70 (11.90%) ServiceNow
4 55 (9.35%) Cisco
5 54 (9.18%) SolarWinds
6 52 (8.84%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.97%) CrowdStrike
8 39 (6.63%) F5
9 38 (6.46%) CyberArk
10 27 (4.59%) IBM
10 27 (4.59%) Tenable
11 25 (4.25%) Juniper
12 24 (4.08%) VMware
13 23 (3.91%) New Relic
14 22 (3.74%) BMC
14 22 (3.74%) Extreme Networks
15 21 (3.57%) Google
15 21 (3.57%) Oracle
15 21 (3.57%) Red Hat
16 18 (3.06%) Fortinet