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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 159 233
Rank change year-on-year -73 +74 -58
Contract jobs citing Splunk 593 598 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.83% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.87% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 373 276
10th Percentile £350 £360 £406
25th Percentile £413 £420 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £574
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.50% -4.38%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £708 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £44.29 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.50

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 22,420 15,451 16,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.79% 47.18% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,807 9,462 10,397
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 786 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.67 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.28 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.58% -22.62% -30.90%

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 1 September 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 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 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 1 September 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 -84 513 £525 - 316
UK excluding London -92 297 £514 -2.10% 200
London -59 239 £525 - 186
Work from Home -30 165 £525 +5.00% 116
North of England -36 120 £465 +1.64% 56
North West -39 66 £511 +13.50% 43
Midlands -49 51 £575 +9.52% 8
West Midlands -42 48 £575 +8.08% 7
Yorkshire -32 45 £475 +0.15% 11
South West -7 43 £500 -8.26% 22
South East -122 35 £465 -7.00% 48
Scotland -21 32 £438 -3.63% 33
East of England -37 26 £700 +27.27% 20
North East -37 9 £425 - 2
East Midlands -17 2 £563 +56.25% 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 27 (4.55%) Confluence
2 15 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.35%) Apache
4 8 (1.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (38.11%) AWS
2 214 (36.09%) Azure
3 98 (16.53%) GitHub
4 78 (13.15%) GCP
5 54 (9.11%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (8.94%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.58%) Entra ID
9 36 (6.07%) Datadog
10 35 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.89%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.72%) SaaS
14 27 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (4.38%) Serverless
16 25 (4.22%) Amazon S3
17 23 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 65 (10.96%) Firewall
2 52 (8.77%) DNS
3 39 (6.58%) SNMP
4 37 (6.24%) Network Security
5 23 (3.88%) WAN
6 17 (2.87%) VPN
7 15 (2.53%) TCP/IP
8 14 (2.36%) BGP
8 14 (2.36%) DHCP
9 13 (2.19%) LAN
10 12 (2.02%) OSPF
11 11 (1.85%) HTTP
11 11 (1.85%) Wireless
12 10 (1.69%) Internet
13 9 (1.52%) BIG-IP
14 8 (1.35%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (1.35%) SSL
15 7 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (1.18%) Junos
15 7 (1.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.72%) Power BI
2 24 (4.05%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.04%) Big Data
5 15 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.19%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.69%) MySQL
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.18%) Presto
10 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.01%) Flink
10 6 (1.01%) Redis
11 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.84%) Looker
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 91 (15.35%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.95%) Git
3 55 (9.27%) GitLab
4 41 (6.91%) JIRA
5 32 (5.40%) Gatling
5 32 (5.40%) JMeter
6 21 (3.54%) LoadRunner
7 16 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.85%) Selenium
9 9 (1.52%) JUnit
10 8 (1.35%) Gradle
10 8 (1.35%) Maven
10 8 (1.35%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.18%) Postman
12 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
12 6 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 151 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.22%) Finance
3 92 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.11%) Banking
5 36 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.69%) Front Office
8 10 (1.69%) Legal
8 10 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.52%) Retail
10 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.84%) Law
10 5 (0.84%) Military
10 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Local Government
12 3 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (8.94%) Analyst
2 52 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (8.60%) Senior
4 49 (8.26%) Lead
5 45 (7.59%) Consultant
6 38 (6.41%) Splunk Engineer
7 36 (6.07%) Developer
8 35 (5.90%) Architect
9 26 (4.38%) Security Engineer
10 25 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 25 (4.22%) SOC Engineer
11 23 (3.88%) Performance Engineer
12 20 (3.37%) Test Engineer
13 18 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (2.87%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.87%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (2.87%) Support Engineer
15 16 (2.70%) Applications Support
16 15 (2.53%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (24.62%) Terraform
2 62 (10.46%) Kafka
3 57 (9.61%) REST
4 46 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (7.42%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (3.20%) React
6 19 (3.20%) Spring
6 19 (3.20%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.04%) RESTful
8 17 (2.87%) JSON
9 13 (2.19%) CSS
9 13 (2.19%) Middleware
10 12 (2.02%) .NET
10 12 (2.02%) OAuth
10 12 (2.02%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.02%) Play Framework
11 10 (1.69%) 802.1X
11 10 (1.69%) OpenID
12 9 (1.52%) SailPoint
12 9 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.80%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.46%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.04%) PKI
7 16 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.53%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.36%) CMDB
10 13 (2.19%) Clustering
10 13 (2.19%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.52%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.52%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 164 (27.66%) Linux
2 116 (19.56%) Windows
3 47 (7.93%) Unix
4 25 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (2.87%) AIX
7 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.67%) Android
10 4 (0.67%) zOS
11 3 (0.51%) CentOS
11 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (38.28%) Observability
2 213 (35.92%) CI/CD
3 186 (31.37%) DevOps
4 131 (22.09%) SIEM
5 120 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 113 (19.06%) Agile
6 113 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (18.04%) Incident Response
8 83 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
9 81 (13.66%) Containerisation
10 76 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (12.65%) Security Operations
11 75 (12.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 73 (12.31%) Root Cause Analysis
13 64 (10.79%) Incident Management
14 61 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 60 (10.12%) ITSM
16 52 (8.77%) High Availability
16 52 (8.77%) Test Automation
17 51 (8.60%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 216 (36.42%) Python
2 112 (18.89%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.50%) SQL
4 75 (12.65%) Bash
5 69 (11.64%) Java
6 57 (9.61%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (5.90%) Go
8 26 (4.38%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.37%) Scala
10 19 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (2.87%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.52%) Perl
14 8 (1.35%) C#
15 7 (1.18%) Bicep
16 5 (0.84%) Groovy
16 5 (0.84%) Ruby
17 4 (0.67%) JCL
17 4 (0.67%) REXX
18 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 228 (38.45%) Security Cleared
2 154 (25.97%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.12%) DV Cleared
4 47 (7.93%) CISSP
5 42 (7.08%) Degree
6 25 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.71%) CISM
8 19 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.04%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.70%) GIAC
12 14 (2.36%) GCIH
13 12 (2.02%) CEH
14 10 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (1.35%) GCIA
15 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (1.18%) CCNP
16 7 (1.18%) CCSP
16 7 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.24%) NIST
2 25 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.88%) QA
4 15 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.36%) GDPR
6 12 (2.02%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.69%) NCSC
8 9 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.84%) SLA
11 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.67%) GxP
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.51%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) COBIT
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 103 (17.37%) Docker
2 25 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.01%) etcd
6 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.01%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 161 (27.15%) Kubernetes
2 147 (24.79%) Grafana
3 101 (17.03%) Prometheus
4 86 (14.50%) Ansible
5 29 (4.89%) QRadar
6 24 (4.05%) ZABBIX
7 22 (3.71%) Nagios
8 17 (2.87%) Argo
8 17 (2.87%) Netcool
9 16 (2.70%) Kibana
9 16 (2.70%) Tivoli
10 14 (2.36%) OpenView
10 14 (2.36%) Progress Chef
10 14 (2.36%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 10 (1.69%) Control-M
11 10 (1.69%) FortiGate
12 9 (1.52%) SCOM
13 8 (1.35%) Puppet
13 8 (1.35%) WMI
14 7 (1.18%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 118 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 102 (17.20%) Dynatrace
3 70 (11.80%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.11%) SolarWinds
5 46 (7.76%) AppDynamics
6 45 (7.59%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (6.91%) New Relic
8 39 (6.58%) Cisco
9 35 (5.90%) IBM
10 33 (5.56%) Oracle
11 27 (4.55%) Google
12 26 (4.38%) VMware
13 24 (4.05%) BMC
13 24 (4.05%) CyberArk
14 21 (3.54%) Tenable
15 19 (3.20%) Cribl.io
15 19 (3.20%) F5
15 19 (3.20%) Palo Alto
16 15 (2.53%) Qualys
17 14 (2.36%) HP