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 13 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
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 150 228
Rank change year-on-year -84 +78 -48
Contract jobs citing Splunk 596 631 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.92% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 4.06% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 385 267
10th Percentile £350 £360 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £677
90th Percentile £718 £700 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -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 22,742 15,523 17,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.83% 47.16% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,950 9,507 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
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 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 789 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.68 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.44 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £62.13 £43.21 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.00%

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 13 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 13 September 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 13 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 -92 517 £525 - 426
UK excluding London -104 301 £519 -1.24% 361
London -68 241 £525 - 186
Work from Home -43 170 £520 +4.00% 172
North of England -37 127 £463 +1.09% 85
North West -36 71 £513 +12.58% 52
Midlands -46 49 £575 +9.00% 32
West Midlands -47 47 £575 +7.68% 29
Yorkshire -43 42 £469 -1.17% 21
South East -123 40 £485 -3.00% 89
South West -22 34 £625 +13.64% 45
Scotland -27 33 £425 -15.51% 44
East of England -35 26 £700 +27.27% 34
North East -28 14 £425 - 13
East Midlands -20 1 £500 +38.89% 3
Wales - 1 - - 21

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 29 (4.87%) Confluence
2 15 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.17%) Apache
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) MTS
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) 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 (38.09%) AWS
2 214 (35.91%) Azure
3 100 (16.78%) GitHub
4 84 (14.09%) GCP
5 55 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 43 (7.21%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.54%) Entra ID
9 38 (6.38%) Datadog
10 35 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (5.87%) Power Platform
11 34 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (4.70%) SaaS
13 27 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (4.36%) Serverless
15 23 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.86%) Amazon S3
16 22 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.57%) Firewall
2 48 (8.05%) DNS
3 39 (6.54%) Network Security
4 36 (6.04%) SNMP
5 23 (3.86%) WAN
6 17 (2.85%) VPN
7 16 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 12 (2.01%) BGP
8 12 (2.01%) Wireless
9 11 (1.85%) DHCP
9 11 (1.85%) HTTP
9 11 (1.85%) LAN
10 10 (1.68%) Internet
10 10 (1.68%) OSPF
11 9 (1.51%) SSL
12 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.01%) BIG-IP
13 6 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (1.01%) Multicast
14 5 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.70%) Power BI
2 29 (4.87%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.85%) Big Data
5 16 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.85%) MySQL
10 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.17%) Looker
11 7 (1.17%) Presto
12 6 (1.01%) Tableau
13 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.84%) Flink
13 5 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (15.44%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.90%) Git
3 55 (9.23%) GitLab
4 43 (7.21%) JIRA
5 27 (4.53%) Gatling
5 27 (4.53%) JMeter
6 16 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 16 (2.68%) LoadRunner
7 10 (1.68%) Selenium
8 9 (1.51%) Maven
9 8 (1.34%) Gradle
9 8 (1.34%) JUnit
9 8 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.17%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.01%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (1.01%) Xcode
12 5 (0.84%) Cypress.io
General
1 159 (26.68%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.80%) Finance
3 105 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.73%) Banking
5 36 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.85%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.68%) Front Office
9 10 (1.68%) Legal
10 6 (1.01%) Military
11 5 (0.84%) Law
11 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Advertising
14 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 62 (10.40%) Analyst
2 55 (9.23%) Senior
3 51 (8.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (8.05%) Lead
5 42 (7.05%) Consultant
6 40 (6.71%) Developer
6 40 (6.71%) Splunk Engineer
7 35 (5.87%) Architect
8 33 (5.54%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.53%) SOC Engineer
10 26 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (3.52%) Test Engineer
12 19 (3.19%) Performance Engineer
12 19 (3.19%) Security Analyst
13 18 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (2.85%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.85%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (2.85%) Support Engineer
15 16 (2.68%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (25.00%) Terraform
2 57 (9.56%) Kafka
3 55 (9.23%) REST
4 49 (8.22%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (6.71%) OpenTelemetry
6 20 (3.36%) React
6 20 (3.36%) RESTful
6 20 (3.36%) Spring
6 20 (3.36%) Spring Boot
7 16 (2.68%) JSON
8 15 (2.52%) Play Framework
9 13 (2.18%) CSS
9 13 (2.18%) Middleware
9 13 (2.18%) OAuth
9 13 (2.18%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.01%) .NET
11 11 (1.85%) OpenID
12 10 (1.68%) SAML
13 9 (1.51%) HTML
13 9 (1.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.41%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 42 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 22 (3.69%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.85%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.68%) Clustering
11 10 (1.68%) CMDB
11 10 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.51%) PKI
13 8 (1.34%) Blog
13 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 167 (28.02%) Linux
2 108 (18.12%) Windows
3 50 (8.39%) Unix
4 29 (4.87%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.18%) AIX
7 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
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 (38.76%) Observability
2 213 (35.74%) CI/CD
3 183 (30.70%) DevOps
4 137 (22.99%) SIEM
5 123 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 119 (19.97%) Agile
7 115 (19.30%) Incident Response
7 115 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (15.10%) Cybersecurity
9 84 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (13.26%) Containerisation
10 79 (13.26%) Security Operations
11 77 (12.92%) Root Cause Analysis
11 77 (12.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 64 (10.74%) Incident Management
12 64 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (9.40%) Analytics
14 54 (9.06%) ITSM
15 53 (8.89%) Test Automation
15 53 (8.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 213 (35.74%) Python
2 112 (18.79%) PowerShell
3 85 (14.26%) SQL
4 76 (12.75%) Bash
5 68 (11.41%) Java
6 51 (8.56%) Search Processing Language
7 36 (6.04%) Go
8 23 (3.86%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.69%) Scala
10 20 (3.36%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (2.85%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.51%) Perl
14 8 (1.34%) C#
15 7 (1.17%) Bicep
16 5 (0.84%) Ruby
17 4 (0.67%) Groovy
17 4 (0.67%) JCL
17 4 (0.67%) REXX
18 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 221 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 153 (25.67%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.73%) DV Cleared
4 51 (8.56%) CISSP
5 44 (7.38%) Degree
6 25 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.86%) CISM
8 20 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.02%) GIAC
10 17 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (2.35%) GCIH
12 13 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (2.18%) CEH
13 10 (1.68%) CCSP
14 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.34%) Azure Certification
15 8 (1.34%) GCIA
16 7 (1.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.38%) NIST
2 26 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.36%) QA
3 24 (4.03%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.85%) GDPR
5 14 (2.35%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.68%) 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%) GRC
10 4 (0.67%) GxP
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.50%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 98 (16.44%) Docker
2 25 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) etcd
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 154 (25.84%) Kubernetes
2 150 (25.17%) Grafana
3 96 (16.11%) Prometheus
4 86 (14.43%) Ansible
5 33 (5.54%) QRadar
6 21 (3.52%) ZABBIX
7 18 (3.02%) Nagios
8 17 (2.85%) Kibana
9 15 (2.52%) Argo
10 14 (2.35%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.18%) Netcool
11 13 (2.18%) Tivoli
12 11 (1.85%) OpenView
12 11 (1.85%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 10 (1.68%) Control-M
14 9 (1.51%) SCOM
15 8 (1.34%) CASB
15 8 (1.34%) Puppet
15 8 (1.34%) WMI
16 7 (1.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 124 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 101 (16.95%) Dynatrace
3 71 (11.91%) ServiceNow
4 49 (8.22%) CrowdStrike
5 47 (7.89%) SolarWinds
6 43 (7.21%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.71%) Cisco
8 37 (6.21%) New Relic
9 34 (5.70%) Google
9 34 (5.70%) Oracle
10 33 (5.54%) IBM
11 24 (4.03%) VMware
12 23 (3.86%) CyberArk
13 20 (3.36%) BMC
14 19 (3.19%) Cribl.io
14 19 (3.19%) F5
14 19 (3.19%) Palo Alto
14 19 (3.19%) Tenable
15 17 (2.85%) Qualys
16 13 (2.18%) Fortinet