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 20 January 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 193 248
Rank change year-on-year +40 +55 -42
Contract jobs citing Splunk 663 426 406
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.78% 1.36% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.87% 2.97% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 237 264
10th Percentile £340 £416 £403
25th Percentile £415 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £750 £675
90th Percentile £688 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.13% +4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £53.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% - -
75th Percentile £91.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +40.97% - -

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 17,123 14,324 19,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.93% 45.80% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,055 8,461 12,056
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 423 782
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.00 £16.64
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -23.56% +18.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.50 £60.36
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.97 £25.30 £36.25
% change year-on-year -13.17% -30.21% +42.05%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +32 589 £525 -12.50% 138
UK excluding London +74 381 £500 -13.13% 151
London -10 223 £575 -8.00% 24
Work from Home -1 163 £531 -11.50% 115
North of England -6 135 £496 -18.35% 29
Midlands +30 117 £525 -4.72% 8
West Midlands +40 112 £525 -4.72% 6
South East +30 95 £385 -33.01% 43
Yorkshire +3 91 £518 -16.33% 9
North West -27 42 £452 -21.48% 17
Scotland +36 37 £537 +53.29% 27
South West -4 11 £625 -19.35% 12
East Midlands -30 5 £403 +10.34% 2
East of England -26 4 £575 -2.13% 26
Wales - 4 £600 - 9
North East -15 2 £600 -26.38% 3

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 33 (4.98%) Apache
2 18 (2.71%) Skype for Business
2 18 (2.71%) WebLogic
3 13 (1.96%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.96%) TPMS
4 11 (1.66%) JBoss
5 10 (1.51%) Confluence
5 10 (1.51%) IIS
5 10 (1.51%) iPlanet
5 10 (1.51%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.51%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.21%) Apache Pig
8 7 (1.06%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.45%) SAS
11 2 (0.30%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 23 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Finacle
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 261 (39.37%) AWS
2 161 (24.28%) Azure
3 139 (20.97%) GCP
4 68 (10.26%) GitHub
5 54 (8.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 52 (7.84%) OpenShift
7 43 (6.49%) Serverless
8 32 (4.83%) Datadog
9 29 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (4.07%) SaaS
11 26 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (3.62%) Akamai
14 23 (3.47%) Amazon S3
15 18 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.71%) Sauce Labs
16 17 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.73%) Firewall
2 58 (8.75%) DNS
3 42 (6.33%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.52%) Network Security
5 24 (3.62%) SSL
6 23 (3.47%) HTTP
7 21 (3.17%) Wireshark
8 20 (3.02%) Wireless
9 18 (2.71%) Skype
10 17 (2.56%) VPN
11 15 (2.26%) SNMP
11 15 (2.26%) SSH
12 11 (1.66%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.66%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.75%) BGP
13 5 (0.75%) DHCP
13 5 (0.75%) VSAN
14 4 (0.60%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.60%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 30 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.62%) MySQL
5 22 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.41%) Redis
7 14 (2.11%) Oracle Database
8 12 (1.81%) Power BI
9 11 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.66%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.51%) Apache Hive
11 9 (1.36%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.21%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.75%) Flink
15 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 115 (17.35%) Jenkins
2 105 (15.84%) GitLab
3 49 (7.39%) Git
4 23 (3.47%) JIRA
4 23 (3.47%) Liquibase
5 20 (3.02%) Postman
5 20 (3.02%) Xcode
6 19 (2.87%) Eclipse
7 18 (2.71%) Android Studio
7 18 (2.71%) Browser DevTools
8 17 (2.56%) JUnit
9 14 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.11%) CircleCI
9 14 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 14 (2.11%) Maven
9 14 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.81%) Gradle
11 10 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (1.51%) CA Release Automation
11 10 (1.51%) Selenium
General
1 295 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 157 (23.68%) Finance
3 125 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.65%) Banking
4 64 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 43 (6.49%) Financial Institution
6 29 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.66%) Military
8 10 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.75%) Local Government
10 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Law
11 4 (0.60%) Legal
11 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Retail
13 2 (0.30%) Front Office
13 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 120 (18.10%) Analyst
2 73 (11.01%) Senior
3 60 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (8.45%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.39%) Architect
6 44 (6.64%) Security Engineer
7 39 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (4.83%) Lead
8 32 (4.83%) Security Analyst
9 30 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (4.52%) Splunk Engineer
10 25 (3.77%) Developer
10 25 (3.77%) Site Engineer
11 24 (3.62%) Monitoring Analyst
12 23 (3.47%) Support Analyst
13 22 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Support Engineer
15 20 (3.02%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.71%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
2 66 (9.95%) REST
3 54 (8.14%) Kafka
4 41 (6.18%) RESTful
5 25 (3.77%) AngularJS
5 25 (3.77%) OAuth
5 25 (3.77%) SAML
5 25 (3.77%) Spring Boot
6 23 (3.47%) CSS
6 23 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 23 (3.47%) React
7 21 (3.17%) GraphQL
7 21 (3.17%) Middleware
8 20 (3.02%) OpenID
8 20 (3.02%) Spring
9 19 (2.87%) LDAP
10 18 (2.71%) Ajax
11 16 (2.41%) JSON
11 16 (2.41%) Keycloak
12 13 (1.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.24%) Security Operations Centre
3 45 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (6.18%) Onboarding
5 34 (5.13%) Security Posture
6 33 (4.98%) Public Cloud
7 30 (4.52%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
9 23 (3.47%) Mobile App
9 23 (3.47%) PKI
10 21 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (2.26%) Algorithms
11 15 (2.26%) Cyberattack
12 10 (1.51%) Clustering
12 10 (1.51%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 252 (38.01%) Linux
2 139 (20.97%) Windows
3 107 (16.14%) Unix
4 37 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.47%) Android
5 23 (3.47%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.21%) CentOS
7 7 (1.06%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.60%) Solaris
10 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.60%) zOS
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.15%) VMS
13 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (32.43%) DevOps
2 211 (31.83%) CI/CD
3 185 (27.90%) Cybersecurity
4 183 (27.60%) Incident Response
5 163 (24.59%) SIEM
6 158 (23.83%) Observability
7 142 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 124 (18.70%) Containerisation
10 114 (17.19%) Agile
11 90 (13.57%) Computer Science
12 87 (13.12%) Microservices
13 81 (12.22%) Security Operations
14 78 (11.76%) Threat Detection
15 70 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
15 70 (10.56%) Test Automation
16 59 (8.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 58 (8.75%) High Availability
18 56 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (8.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 244 (36.80%) Python
2 109 (16.44%) SQL
3 105 (15.84%) PowerShell
4 97 (14.63%) Bash
5 89 (13.42%) Java
6 50 (7.54%) Go
7 44 (6.64%) Shell Script
8 37 (5.58%) JavaScript
9 33 (4.98%) Perl
10 22 (3.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (2.26%) Groovy
12 12 (1.81%) Scala
12 12 (1.81%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.66%) Search Processing Language
14 8 (1.21%) Rust
15 5 (0.75%) Bicep
15 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.75%) Swift
16 4 (0.60%) JCL
16 4 (0.60%) REXX
Qualifications
1 216 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 146 (22.02%) SC Cleared
3 108 (16.29%) Degree
4 66 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (8.90%) CISSP
6 52 (7.84%) DV Cleared
7 37 (5.58%) Master's Degree
8 35 (5.28%) CISM
9 26 (3.92%) CEH
10 25 (3.77%) GIAC
11 24 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 21 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (2.87%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.96%) FFIEC
15 12 (1.81%) CompTIA CySA+
15 12 (1.81%) GCIA
16 11 (1.66%) GCIH
16 11 (1.66%) MCSE
16 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.41%) NIST
2 51 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (5.88%) GDPR
4 27 (4.07%) PCI DSS
5 20 (3.02%) QA
6 17 (2.56%) NCSC
7 13 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.96%) GLBA
7 13 (1.96%) HIPAA
8 9 (1.36%) SLA
9 8 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.06%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.30%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 137 (20.66%) Docker
2 54 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.21%) NFS
5 8 (1.21%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 7 (1.06%) vSphere
7 6 (0.90%) Snort
7 6 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
9 4 (0.60%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 188 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 128 (19.31%) Terraform
3 124 (18.70%) Ansible
4 119 (17.95%) Grafana
5 96 (14.48%) Prometheus
6 36 (5.43%) QRadar
7 32 (4.83%) Kibana
8 25 (3.77%) Puppet
8 25 (3.77%) SCOM
9 22 (3.32%) Progress Chef
10 21 (3.17%) CSIRT
10 21 (3.17%) HP SiteScope
11 20 (3.02%) Argo
12 14 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (1.81%) Fluentd
13 12 (1.81%) Nessus
14 10 (1.51%) CA Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.51%) CA Wily
14 10 (1.51%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (1.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 163 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 67 (10.11%) Dynatrace
3 64 (9.65%) AppDynamics
3 64 (9.65%) Oracle
4 50 (7.54%) Cisco
5 44 (6.64%) Google
6 40 (6.03%) ServiceNow
7 37 (5.58%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (5.28%) Qualys
9 29 (4.37%) VMware
10 28 (4.22%) Red Hat
11 23 (3.47%) Carbon Black
11 23 (3.47%) F5
12 21 (3.17%) ArcSight
13 20 (3.02%) CyberArk
13 20 (3.02%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.02%) Remedy
14 17 (2.56%) Cribl.io
14 17 (2.56%) Tenable
15 14 (2.11%) Thales