Splunk Contracts

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 4 July 2025, 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 246 158
Rank change year-on-year +70 -88 +75
Contract jobs citing Splunk 495 425 911
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 0.98% 1.62%
As % of the Vendors category 3.29% 2.28% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 280 688
10th Percentile £386 £400 £406
25th Percentile £431 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £700
90th Percentile £775 £688 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year - -33.11% -2.37%
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - £45.25 £60.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year - -33.11% -4.32%

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 15,043 18,639 24,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.60% 42.91% 43.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,201 11,583 16,266
10th Percentile £281 £273 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 1,157 658
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.45 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.19 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -38.91% +81.82%
75th Percentile £52.75 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.58 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.22% -22.94% +50.10%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 Contract 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 4 July 2025. 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 +94 423 £550 +3.19% 821
UK excluding London +57 248 £550 - 484
London +61 187 £525 +5.00% 396
Work from Home +21 139 £537 +0.75% 310
South East +86 78 £550 +3.19% 141
North of England +24 73 £486 -13.93% 123
North West +31 42 £488 -11.36% 82
East of England +40 41 £550 -2.65% 58
Yorkshire -6 31 £486 -16.62% 38
Scotland +7 30 £440 -23.48% 54
Midlands +3 17 £499 +2.26% 47
West Midlands +16 13 £525 -19.31% 28
South West +6 8 £540 +2.86% 49
East Midlands -6 4 £433 -11.18% 19
Wales 0 1 £455 -29.40% 4

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (4.85%) IBM Domino
1 24 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.43%) Confluence
2 17 (3.43%) JBoss
3 9 (1.82%) Mattermost
3 9 (1.82%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.61%) Apache
5 3 (0.61%) CMS
5 3 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 152 (30.71%) AWS
2 74 (14.95%) Azure
3 47 (9.49%) GitHub
4 46 (9.29%) GCP
5 42 (8.48%) OpenShift
6 35 (7.07%) SaaS
7 30 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (5.25%) Datadog
11 25 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (4.65%) Serverless
13 21 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (4.04%) Cohesity
15 18 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (2.22%) Apigee
17 10 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
18 8 (1.62%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 74 (14.95%) Firewall
2 40 (8.08%) DNS
3 30 (6.06%) SAN
4 27 (5.45%) Cisco IOS
5 24 (4.85%) Network Security
6 17 (3.43%) SSL
6 17 (3.43%) VPN
7 13 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
7 13 (2.63%) iSCSI
7 13 (2.63%) TCP/IP
8 12 (2.42%) NAS
9 9 (1.82%) Skype
9 9 (1.82%) Softphone
9 9 (1.82%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.82%) WebEx
10 8 (1.62%) Wireshark
11 7 (1.41%) Wireless
12 6 (1.21%) BGP
12 6 (1.21%) Internet
12 6 (1.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.05%) Relational Database
2 23 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 18 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.64%) RDBMS
5 15 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (1.82%) Redis
8 7 (1.41%) Big Data
8 7 (1.41%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.21%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.81%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.81%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.61%) DB2
12 3 (0.61%) Tableau
13 2 (0.40%) Flink
Development Applications
1 78 (15.76%) Jenkins
2 61 (12.32%) Git
3 39 (7.88%) JIRA
4 37 (7.47%) GitLab
5 26 (5.25%) TeamCity
6 23 (4.65%) JUnit
6 23 (4.65%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.64%) Bitbucket
7 18 (3.64%) Bitbucket Server
8 15 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (2.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (2.63%) CA Release Automation
11 11 (2.22%) Maven
12 10 (2.02%) Artifactory
13 8 (1.62%) IntelliJ
13 8 (1.62%) Subversion
14 7 (1.41%) Gradle
14 7 (1.41%) Mockito
15 5 (1.01%) Cucumber
15 5 (1.01%) JMeter
General
1 106 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.37%) Finance
3 53 (10.71%) Banking
4 50 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.85%) Games
8 14 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.82%) Military
11 8 (1.62%) Marketing
12 7 (1.41%) Retail
13 6 (1.21%) Legal
13 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.01%) Front Office
15 4 (0.81%) Electronics
15 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (14.55%) Architect
2 53 (10.71%) Analyst
3 49 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (9.70%) Developer
5 34 (6.87%) Consultant
6 30 (6.06%) Splunk Engineer
7 29 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (5.86%) Senior
8 28 (5.66%) Security Architect
9 26 (5.25%) SOC Analyst
10 23 (4.65%) Site Engineer
10 23 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (4.44%) Security Engineer
12 18 (3.64%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.03%) Applications Support
13 15 (3.03%) Security Analyst
14 14 (2.83%) Lead
15 13 (2.63%) Infrastructure Architect
15 13 (2.63%) Python Engineer
15 13 (2.63%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
1 39 (7.88%) Kafka
2 33 (6.67%) Spring
3 27 (5.45%) Spring Boot
4 22 (4.44%) REST
5 19 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
6 16 (3.23%) LDAP
7 14 (2.83%) React
8 13 (2.63%) CSS
9 11 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.22%) Web Services
10 10 (2.02%) JSON
11 9 (1.82%) .NET
11 9 (1.82%) HTML
11 9 (1.82%) Loki
11 9 (1.82%) Middleware
11 9 (1.82%) XMPP
12 8 (1.62%) JMS
12 8 (1.62%) JPA
13 7 (1.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.51%) Onboarding
2 51 (10.30%) Security Operations Centre
3 31 (6.26%) CSOC
4 26 (5.25%) Security Posture
5 25 (5.05%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (4.65%) Cloud Native
7 22 (4.44%) Management Information System
8 16 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.02%) Clustering
10 10 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.82%) Replication
12 8 (1.62%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.21%) PKI
14 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 5 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 125 (25.25%) Windows
2 120 (24.24%) Linux
3 38 (7.68%) Unix
4 37 (7.47%) Windows Server
5 34 (6.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (5.66%) Android
8 27 (5.45%) Mac OS
9 21 (4.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.41%) Solaris
11 6 (1.21%) VMS
12 3 (0.61%) AIX
13 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.20%) CentOS
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (29.29%) SIEM
2 139 (28.08%) CI/CD
3 129 (26.06%) DevOps
4 103 (20.81%) Cybersecurity
5 98 (19.80%) Observability
6 96 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (15.56%) Security Operations
8 75 (15.15%) Agile
9 71 (14.34%) Incident Response
10 69 (13.94%) Microservices
11 55 (11.11%) Migration
12 54 (10.91%) SOAR
13 50 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
14 49 (9.90%) Containerisation
15 48 (9.70%) Deployment Automation
16 46 (9.29%) Use Case
17 40 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 35 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
19 34 (6.87%) Build Automation
19 34 (6.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 147 (29.70%) Python
2 108 (21.82%) PowerShell
3 67 (13.54%) SQL
4 58 (11.72%) Bash
5 52 (10.51%) Java
6 26 (5.25%) Perl
7 23 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.84%) Go
8 19 (3.84%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.43%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.82%) C++
11 8 (1.62%) Groovy
12 7 (1.41%) Ruby
13 6 (1.21%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (1.01%) C#
15 4 (0.81%) C
16 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.40%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.40%) ActionScript 2.0
18 1 (0.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 131 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 85 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.29%) DV Cleared
4 28 (5.66%) Degree
5 25 (5.05%) CISSP
6 15 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.03%) GCIH
6 15 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.83%) MCSE
8 13 (2.63%) GCIA
9 12 (2.42%) CEH
10 11 (2.22%) AWS Certification
10 11 (2.22%) VCP5
10 11 (2.22%) VCP6
10 11 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.82%) CISM
12 9 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.05%) NIST
2 22 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.84%) GDPR
4 9 (1.82%) SLA
5 7 (1.41%) QA
6 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.81%) GRC
8 4 (0.81%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.61%) NCSC
10 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.40%) PSD2
11 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 79 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 76 (15.35%) Docker
3 49 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (4.04%) Virtual Servers
4 20 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (3.03%) NFS
6 13 (2.63%) vSphere
7 12 (2.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 11 (2.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.61%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.61%) iptables
9 3 (0.61%) Lustre
9 3 (0.61%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.40%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.40%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.20%) Snort
11 1 (0.20%) Squid
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 129 (26.06%) Kubernetes
2 89 (17.98%) Grafana
3 88 (17.78%) Ansible
4 72 (14.55%) Terraform
5 62 (12.53%) Prometheus
6 45 (9.09%) SCCM
7 27 (5.45%) QRadar
8 25 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (4.24%) WSUS
10 20 (4.04%) Progress Chef
11 19 (3.84%) Kibana
12 16 (3.23%) Puppet
13 9 (1.82%) SCOM
14 8 (1.62%) Control-M
14 8 (1.62%) Packer
15 6 (1.21%) Argo
15 6 (1.21%) Istio
15 6 (1.21%) Netcool
15 6 (1.21%) Tivoli
16 5 (1.01%) Podman
Vendors
1 122 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 69 (13.94%) VMware
3 64 (12.93%) Cisco
4 55 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 45 (9.09%) Dynatrace
6 38 (7.68%) NetApp
6 38 (7.68%) ServiceNow
7 30 (6.06%) AppDynamics
8 29 (5.86%) Oracle
9 27 (5.45%) CrowdStrike
10 25 (5.05%) Meraki
11 23 (4.65%) IBM
11 23 (4.65%) Palo Alto
12 21 (4.24%) Google
13 15 (3.03%) Fortinet
14 14 (2.83%) LogRhythm
14 14 (2.83%) Qualys
15 13 (2.63%) CyberArk
15 13 (2.63%) Veeam
16 12 (2.42%) Veritas