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 5 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
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 152 225
Rank change year-on-year -89 +73 -50
Contract jobs citing Splunk 595 608 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.87% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.96% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 379 274
10th Percentile £350 £359 £413
25th Percentile £417 £420 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £716 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% -6.14%
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 22,554 15,364 16,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.23% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,899 9,399 10,217
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,177 781 711
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.42 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £21.29 £29.00
% change year-on-year +30.34% -26.59% -27.50%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -94 516 £525 - 264
UK excluding London -97 301 £517 -1.57% 180
London -59 239 £550 +4.76% 149
Work from Home -36 165 £525 +5.00% 109
North of England -45 124 £465 +3.33% 49
North West -40 69 £513 +14.40% 39
Midlands -51 51 £575 +9.52% 10
West Midlands -43 48 £575 +8.49% 9
Yorkshire -43 45 £475 +2.97% 7
South West -9 41 £500 -9.09% 17
South East -130 36 £468 -6.50% 51
Scotland -33 33 £438 -3.63% 32
East of England -36 26 £700 +27.27% 11
North East -30 10 £425 - 3
East Midlands -21 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 26 (4.37%) Confluence
2 15 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.34%) Apache
4 8 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
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 (1.51%) 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 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 227 (38.15%) AWS
2 216 (36.30%) Azure
3 100 (16.81%) GitHub
4 80 (13.45%) GCP
5 55 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (8.91%) OpenShift
7 41 (6.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.55%) Entra ID
9 36 (6.05%) Datadog
10 35 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.87%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.71%) SaaS
13 28 (4.71%) Serverless
14 26 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (4.20%) Amazon S3
16 23 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.76%) Firewall
2 51 (8.57%) DNS
3 38 (6.39%) SNMP
4 37 (6.22%) Network Security
5 23 (3.87%) WAN
6 17 (2.86%) VPN
7 15 (2.52%) TCP/IP
8 13 (2.18%) BGP
8 13 (2.18%) DHCP
9 12 (2.02%) LAN
9 12 (2.02%) Wireless
10 11 (1.85%) HTTP
10 11 (1.85%) OSPF
11 10 (1.68%) Internet
12 8 (1.34%) BIG-IP
12 8 (1.34%) SSL
13 7 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (1.18%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (1.01%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.71%) Power BI
2 25 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.03%) Big Data
5 16 (2.69%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.35%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.68%) 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
11 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.84%) Looker
11 5 (0.84%) Redis
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 90 (15.13%) Jenkins
2 58 (9.75%) Git
3 53 (8.91%) GitLab
4 40 (6.72%) JIRA
5 32 (5.38%) Gatling
6 31 (5.21%) JMeter
7 21 (3.53%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.69%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.68%) Selenium
10 8 (1.34%) Gradle
10 8 (1.34%) JUnit
10 8 (1.34%) Maven
10 8 (1.34%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.01%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.01%) Postman
12 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
12 6 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 153 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 115 (19.33%) Finance
3 96 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.08%) Banking
5 35 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.85%) Retail
9 10 (1.68%) Front Office
9 10 (1.68%) Legal
9 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
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 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Advertising
13 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 56 (9.41%) Analyst
2 52 (8.74%) Senior
3 51 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (8.07%) Lead
5 43 (7.23%) Consultant
6 39 (6.55%) Splunk Engineer
7 38 (6.39%) Developer
8 37 (6.22%) Architect
9 29 (4.87%) Security Engineer
10 26 (4.37%) SOC Engineer
11 25 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 23 (3.87%) Performance Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Test Engineer
14 18 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.03%) Security Analyst
15 17 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (2.86%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.86%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.69%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (24.54%) Terraform
2 61 (10.25%) Kafka
3 56 (9.41%) REST
4 47 (7.90%) Elastic Stack
5 46 (7.73%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.53%) React
7 19 (3.19%) Spring
7 19 (3.19%) Spring Boot
8 18 (3.03%) RESTful
9 16 (2.69%) JSON
10 13 (2.18%) CSS
10 13 (2.18%) Middleware
10 13 (2.18%) Play Framework
11 12 (2.02%) .NET
11 12 (2.02%) OAuth
11 12 (2.02%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.68%) OpenID
13 9 (1.51%) HTML
13 9 (1.51%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.10%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 41 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 20 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.69%) PKI
9 15 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.35%) CMDB
11 13 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.02%) Clustering
13 10 (1.68%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (1.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (27.73%) Linux
2 116 (19.50%) Windows
3 47 (7.90%) Unix
4 27 (4.54%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.52%) AIX
7 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 3 (0.50%) CentOS
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (38.82%) Observability
2 214 (35.97%) CI/CD
3 186 (31.26%) DevOps
4 131 (22.02%) SIEM
5 120 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (18.82%) Agile
8 110 (18.49%) Incident Response
9 87 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
10 79 (13.28%) Containerisation
11 77 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (12.77%) Root Cause Analysis
12 76 (12.77%) Security Operations
12 76 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 63 (10.59%) Incident Management
14 62 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (9.92%) ITSM
16 53 (8.91%) Test Automation
17 52 (8.74%) Roadmaps
17 52 (8.74%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 214 (35.97%) Python
2 109 (18.32%) PowerShell
3 83 (13.95%) SQL
4 75 (12.61%) Bash
5 68 (11.43%) Java
6 57 (9.58%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (5.88%) Go
8 25 (4.20%) JavaScript
9 21 (3.53%) Scala
10 19 (3.19%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.19%) TypeScript
11 18 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.51%) Perl
13 8 (1.34%) C#
14 7 (1.18%) Bicep
15 5 (0.84%) Ruby
16 4 (0.67%) Groovy
16 4 (0.67%) JCL
16 4 (0.67%) REXX
17 3 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 223 (37.48%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 48 (8.07%) CISSP
5 44 (7.39%) Degree
6 26 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.87%) CISM
8 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (2.52%) GIAC
13 14 (2.35%) GCIH
14 12 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (1.85%) CEH
16 9 (1.51%) CCSP
17 8 (1.34%) GCIA
17 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
18 7 (1.18%) Azure Certification
18 7 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.22%) NIST
2 25 (4.20%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.87%) QA
4 16 (2.69%) GDPR
5 15 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.51%) NCSC
7 9 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.01%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.84%) SLA
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.67%) GxP
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.50%) GRC
11 3 (0.50%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 102 (17.14%) Docker
2 25 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) 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%) ISA Server
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%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 161 (27.06%) Kubernetes
2 146 (24.54%) Grafana
3 100 (16.81%) Prometheus
4 86 (14.45%) Ansible
5 29 (4.87%) QRadar
6 22 (3.70%) ZABBIX
7 20 (3.36%) Nagios
8 17 (2.86%) Kibana
9 16 (2.69%) Argo
10 15 (2.52%) Netcool
11 14 (2.35%) Progress Chef
11 14 (2.35%) Tivoli
12 12 (2.02%) OpenView
12 12 (2.02%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 10 (1.68%) Control-M
14 9 (1.51%) FortiGate
14 9 (1.51%) SCOM
15 8 (1.34%) Puppet
15 8 (1.34%) WMI
16 7 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 122 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 102 (17.14%) Dynatrace
3 70 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 51 (8.57%) SolarWinds
5 47 (7.90%) CrowdStrike
6 46 (7.73%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.89%) New Relic
8 40 (6.72%) Cisco
9 33 (5.55%) IBM
9 33 (5.55%) Oracle
10 28 (4.71%) Google
11 25 (4.20%) VMware
12 23 (3.87%) CyberArk
13 22 (3.70%) BMC
14 20 (3.36%) F5
14 20 (3.36%) Tenable
15 19 (3.19%) Cribl.io
15 19 (3.19%) Palo Alto
16 17 (2.86%) Qualys
17 13 (2.18%) Fortinet