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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 250 167
Rank change year-on-year +52 -83 +73
Contract jobs citing Splunk 399 422 916
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 0.97% 1.53%
As % of the Vendors category 2.88% 2.28% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 256 655
10th Percentile £382 £409 £428
25th Percentile £431 £463 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £635 £688
90th Percentile £750 £677 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -3.54% +2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile £40.50 - £54.74
Median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% +5.59%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% +5.59%

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 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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 30 April 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 16 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 30 April 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 +50 329 £540 -1.82% 177
UK excluding London +51 178 £545 -3.54% 112
London +32 160 £525 +2.44% 76
Work from Home +30 144 £575 +7.88% 148
North of England +31 65 £608 +10.45% 34
South East +66 53 £550 +3.19% 26
North West +24 33 £543 -1.36% 17
Yorkshire +3 30 £708 +31.72% 13
Scotland +15 24 £430 -25.22% 9
Midlands +25 20 £537 -7.81% 13
West Midlands +19 14 £551 -12.02% 9
East of England +23 10 £600 -4.00% 19
East Midlands +8 6 £431 +19.83% 4
South West +23 5 £613 +2.08% 10
North East - 2 £750 - 4
Wales 0 1 £455 -29.40%

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 18 (4.51%) Confluence
2 16 (4.01%) nginx
3 12 (3.01%) Traefik
4 11 (2.76%) JBoss
5 8 (2.01%) Apache
5 8 (2.01%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.25%) CMS
6 5 (1.25%) Mattermost
6 5 (1.25%) Skype for Business
7 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 118 (29.57%) AWS
2 71 (17.79%) Azure
3 40 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 39 (9.77%) GCP
5 35 (8.77%) GitHub
6 29 (7.27%) OpenShift
7 24 (6.02%) Entra ID
8 22 (5.51%) Datadog
9 21 (5.26%) Serverless
10 19 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (3.51%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.51%) AWS Fargate
12 14 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.52%) DNS
2 36 (9.02%) Firewall
3 34 (8.52%) TCP/IP
4 24 (6.02%) Network Security
5 14 (3.51%) VPN
6 13 (3.26%) HTTP
7 12 (3.01%) NAS
7 12 (3.01%) SMTP
7 12 (3.01%) SSL
8 11 (2.76%) SAN
9 8 (2.01%) BGP
9 8 (2.01%) DHCP
10 7 (1.75%) OSPF
10 7 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.75%) Wireless
11 6 (1.50%) IMAP
11 6 (1.50%) POP3
11 6 (1.50%) WAN
11 6 (1.50%) Wireshark
12 5 (1.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 21 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.51%) RDBMS
6 12 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.76%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.26%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.01%) Big Data
10 7 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.75%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.25%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.25%) Looker
12 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.00%) Flink
12 4 (1.00%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.00%) SAP HANA
12 4 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (20.80%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.78%) Git
3 43 (10.78%) GitLab
4 34 (8.52%) JIRA
5 29 (7.27%) TeamCity
6 20 (5.01%) SonarQube
7 17 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 14 (3.51%) JUnit
9 12 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.76%) Subversion
11 10 (2.51%) Bitbucket
11 10 (2.51%) CA Release Automation
12 8 (2.01%) Maven
13 6 (1.50%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.50%) IntelliJ
13 6 (1.50%) Postman
14 5 (1.25%) Gradle
14 5 (1.25%) Jaeger
14 5 (1.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 88 (22.06%) Finance
2 84 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.03%) Banking
4 45 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 22 (5.51%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.76%) Retail
8 11 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.26%) Marketing
10 7 (1.75%) Billing
10 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.75%) Military
11 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.25%) Electronics
12 5 (1.25%) Front Office
12 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Legal
13 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (10.53%) Analyst
2 42 (10.53%) Senior
3 41 (10.28%) Developer
4 40 (10.03%) Architect
5 30 (7.52%) Consultant
6 28 (7.02%) Splunk Engineer
7 21 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
8 19 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
9 18 (4.51%) Security Engineer
10 17 (4.26%) Lead
10 17 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.76%) Splunk Consultant
12 14 (3.51%) Applications Support
12 14 (3.51%) Java Developer
12 14 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (3.26%) IT Manager
13 13 (3.26%) Site Engineer
14 12 (3.01%) Network Engineer
14 12 (3.01%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.53%) Kafka
2 30 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (5.51%) Spring
4 19 (4.76%) REST
4 19 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 16 (4.01%) LDAP
6 15 (3.76%) Keycloak
7 14 (3.51%) cloud-init
8 13 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (2.76%) .NET
10 10 (2.51%) HTML
10 10 (2.51%) Web Services
11 9 (2.26%) Loki
11 9 (2.26%) Middleware
11 9 (2.26%) React
12 8 (2.01%) CSS
12 8 (2.01%) Node.js
13 7 (1.75%) JPA
13 7 (1.75%) JSON
13 7 (1.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.52%) Onboarding
2 27 (6.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 18 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.51%) Clustering
3 18 (4.51%) Security Posture
4 17 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.76%) Replication
6 14 (3.51%) PKI
7 13 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.51%) CSOC
9 8 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.50%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 133 (33.33%) Linux
2 76 (19.05%) Windows
3 53 (13.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (13.03%) Unix
5 14 (3.51%) CentOS
6 11 (2.76%) Solaris
6 11 (2.76%) VMS
7 9 (2.26%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.75%) AIX
10 3 (0.75%) Android
10 3 (0.75%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.25%) Debian
12 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (31.83%) CI/CD
2 111 (27.82%) DevOps
3 87 (21.80%) SIEM
4 76 (19.05%) Observability
5 68 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (15.79%) Agile
7 54 (13.53%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (12.03%) Microservices
10 46 (11.53%) Incident Response
11 44 (11.03%) Migration
12 39 (9.77%) Security Operations
13 37 (9.27%) Cloud Security
13 37 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (9.02%) High Availability
15 31 (7.77%) Test Automation
16 29 (7.27%) Analytics
17 28 (7.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 27 (6.77%) Containerisation
18 27 (6.77%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 138 (34.59%) Python
2 49 (12.28%) SQL
3 47 (11.78%) Bash
3 47 (11.78%) PowerShell
4 44 (11.03%) Java
5 27 (6.77%) Perl
6 24 (6.02%) Go
7 23 (5.76%) Shell Script
8 20 (5.01%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.76%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.76%) Groovy
11 8 (2.01%) Ruby
12 7 (1.75%) C
12 7 (1.75%) C++
13 6 (1.50%) C#
13 6 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.50%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.50%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.02%) AWS Certification
4 21 (5.26%) Degree
5 16 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.26%) CISSP
7 8 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.50%) CCNP
9 6 (1.50%) GIAC
10 5 (1.25%) CEH
10 5 (1.25%) GCIH
10 5 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.00%) CISM
11 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.00%) GCIA
11 4 (1.00%) MCSE
11 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.01%) GDPR
2 15 (3.76%) NIST
2 15 (3.76%) QA
3 14 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.51%) NCSC
4 10 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.25%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.50%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 55 (13.78%) Docker
2 28 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 25 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 11 (2.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 7 (1.75%) NFS
8 4 (1.00%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (1.00%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.75%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.75%) iptables
9 3 (0.75%) Lustre
9 3 (0.75%) vSphere
10 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 99 (24.81%) Kubernetes
2 77 (19.30%) Terraform
3 73 (18.30%) Grafana
4 59 (14.79%) Ansible
5 50 (12.53%) Prometheus
6 28 (7.02%) QRadar
7 20 (5.01%) ZABBIX
8 18 (4.51%) Kibana
9 17 (4.26%) Consul
9 17 (4.26%) Istio
9 17 (4.26%) Packer
10 16 (4.01%) Progress Chef
11 15 (3.76%) linkerd
12 14 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (3.51%) Rancher
13 13 (3.26%) Puppet
14 12 (3.01%) HAProxy
15 8 (2.01%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (2.01%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.78%) Red Hat
3 45 (11.28%) ServiceNow
4 43 (10.78%) VMware
5 36 (9.02%) Dynatrace
6 32 (8.02%) AppDynamics
7 30 (7.52%) Cisco
8 29 (7.27%) Palo Alto
9 27 (6.77%) Oracle
10 21 (5.26%) Okta
11 20 (5.01%) CyberArk
12 18 (4.51%) Fortinet
13 17 (4.26%) IBM
14 15 (3.76%) F5
14 15 (3.76%) LogRhythm
15 13 (3.26%) EMC
16 12 (3.01%) Apple
16 12 (3.01%) Google
16 12 (3.01%) SolarWinds
16 12 (3.01%) Veritas