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 17 March 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
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 189 260
Rank change year-on-year -4 +71 -86
Contract jobs citing Splunk 613 424 384
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.44% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 3.24% 3.06% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 264 229
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +0.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £678 £645
90th Percentile £716 £775 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -9.17% +0.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,904 13,856 19,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.79% 47.19% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,088 8,653 11,940
10th Percentile £309 £290 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.47%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 966 460 1,030
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.01 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.89
90th Percentile £76.04 £83.16 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.18% +18.68% -31.02%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -10 541 £525 -4.72% 122
UK excluding London +24 359 £500 -9.17% 125
London -44 193 £600 +9.09% 38
Work from Home -18 152 £540 -6.09% 92
North of England -2 144 £516 -10.84% 42
Yorkshire +4 104 £515 -18.66% 15
Midlands +6 91 £525 -2.23% 4
South East -4 90 £395 -31.30% 25
West Midlands -4 86 £525 -4.55% 4
North West -26 39 £550 - 19
Scotland +17 25 £564 +35.90% 26
South West -9 18 £450 -40.00% 12
East of England -38 6 £600 - 12
Wales -5 5 £600 +31.87% 5
East Midlands -30 5 £447 +3.83%
North East -11 3 £538 -8.51% 8

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 17 (2.77%) Confluence
2 12 (1.96%) TPMS
3 10 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.82%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) BASE24
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) RMDS
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 217 (35.40%) AWS
2 154 (25.12%) Azure
3 123 (20.07%) GCP
4 83 (13.54%) GitHub
5 64 (10.44%) OpenShift
6 50 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 37 (6.04%) Serverless
8 32 (5.22%) Datadog
9 31 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (4.57%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (3.26%) Entra ID
14 20 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (2.61%) SaaS
16 15 (2.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (15.66%) Firewall
2 78 (12.72%) DNS
3 41 (6.69%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.73%) Network Security
5 26 (4.24%) Ethernet VPN
6 25 (4.08%) BGP
6 25 (4.08%) WAN
7 24 (3.92%) LAN
8 23 (3.75%) OSPF
9 22 (3.59%) VXLAN
10 21 (3.43%) DHCP
11 20 (3.26%) BIG-IP
11 20 (3.26%) Junos
11 20 (3.26%) SNMP
12 18 (2.94%) SSL
12 18 (2.94%) VPN
13 15 (2.45%) Cisco ISE
14 14 (2.28%) Wireless
15 12 (1.96%) HTTP
15 12 (1.96%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 28 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.28%) MySQL
7 12 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.96%) Redis
8 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.31%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.31%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.98%) Tableau
10 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.65%) Flink
11 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 118 (19.25%) Jenkins
2 96 (15.66%) GitLab
3 37 (6.04%) Git
4 31 (5.06%) JIRA
5 13 (2.12%) Gatling
6 12 (1.96%) Liquibase
6 12 (1.96%) Postman
6 12 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (1.79%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.79%) Xcode
8 10 (1.63%) Android Studio
8 10 (1.63%) Browser DevTools
8 10 (1.63%) Eclipse
8 10 (1.63%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.63%) JUnit
8 10 (1.63%) Maven
8 10 (1.63%) Selenium
9 9 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.47%) Gradle
9 9 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 232 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 126 (20.55%) Finance
3 93 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 59 (9.62%) Banking
6 43 (7.01%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.06%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.61%) Military
9 13 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.14%) Retail
12 4 (0.65%) Front Office
12 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.65%) Law
12 4 (0.65%) Legal
13 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.33%) Advertising
14 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.16%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (17.29%) Analyst
2 68 (11.09%) Senior
3 63 (10.28%) Architect
4 54 (8.81%) SOC Analyst
5 48 (7.83%) Lead
6 43 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 37 (6.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 33 (5.38%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.40%) Splunk Engineer
10 25 (4.08%) Developer
10 25 (4.08%) Site Engineer
11 24 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (3.92%) Security Analyst
12 22 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) Consultant
14 18 (2.94%) Data Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) Monitoring Analyst
14 18 (2.94%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.09%) Kafka
2 61 (9.95%) REST
3 52 (8.48%) Elastic Stack
4 43 (7.01%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 32 (5.22%) Spring
7 27 (4.40%) RESTful
8 26 (4.24%) JSON
9 24 (3.92%) SAML
10 22 (3.59%) 802.1X
11 20 (3.26%) LDAP
11 20 (3.26%) Middleware
12 19 (3.10%) OpenID
13 17 (2.77%) React
14 16 (2.61%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.61%) OAuth
15 15 (2.45%) Playwright
16 14 (2.28%) CSS
17 12 (1.96%) Keycloak
18 11 (1.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.16%) Onboarding
3 48 (7.83%) Security Operations Centre
4 42 (6.85%) PKI
5 38 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.57%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (4.24%) Management Information System
8 26 (4.24%) Security Posture
9 24 (3.92%) Clustering
9 24 (3.92%) Public Cloud
10 21 (3.43%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (3.43%) Cyberattack
11 20 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (2.94%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.77%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.47%) CMDB
14 9 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 199 (32.46%) Linux
2 149 (24.31%) Windows
3 61 (9.95%) Unix
4 27 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.79%) Android
6 9 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.98%) AIX
8 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.65%) zOS
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.49%) CentOS
9 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (35.89%) CI/CD
2 197 (32.14%) DevOps
3 180 (29.36%) Observability
4 162 (26.43%) Cybersecurity
4 162 (26.43%) SIEM
5 148 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (22.84%) Incident Response
7 131 (21.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 112 (18.27%) Containerisation
9 100 (16.31%) Agile
10 83 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 78 (12.72%) Microservices
12 77 (12.56%) Security Operations
13 75 (12.23%) High Availability
14 70 (11.42%) Computer Science
15 65 (10.60%) Migration
16 63 (10.28%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.14%) Analytics
18 55 (8.97%) Mentoring
18 55 (8.97%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 223 (36.38%) Python
2 90 (14.68%) Bash
3 79 (12.89%) PowerShell
4 78 (12.72%) Java
5 72 (11.75%) SQL
6 35 (5.71%) Go
7 30 (4.89%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.77%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.61%) Search Processing Language
9 16 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.28%) Perl
12 11 (1.79%) Bicep
13 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.47%) Rust
14 5 (0.82%) Groovy
15 4 (0.65%) JCL
15 4 (0.65%) REXX
16 3 (0.49%) Ruby
16 3 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 242 (39.48%) Security Cleared
2 158 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 83 (13.54%) Degree
4 59 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (9.46%) DV Cleared
6 48 (7.83%) CISSP
7 36 (5.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 31 (5.06%) CISM
9 27 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (3.10%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
12 17 (2.77%) GIAC
13 15 (2.45%) CEH
14 12 (1.96%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.96%) FFIEC
15 10 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.63%) GCIA
15 10 (1.63%) GCIH
16 8 (1.31%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.31%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (12.23%) NIST
2 54 (8.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.40%) GDPR
4 26 (4.24%) NCSC
4 26 (4.24%) PCI DSS
5 20 (3.26%) QA
6 16 (2.61%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.28%) SLA
8 12 (1.96%) GLBA
9 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.82%) GRC
10 5 (0.82%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.49%) COBIT
12 3 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 124 (20.23%) Docker
2 21 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.45%) VMware NSX
4 12 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.79%) vSphere
6 6 (0.98%) Snort
7 5 (0.82%) etcd
8 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.49%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.33%) Squid
9 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) GPFS
10 1 (0.16%) Lustre
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Varnish
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 197 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 140 (22.84%) Grafana
3 130 (21.21%) Terraform
4 112 (18.27%) Ansible
5 111 (18.11%) Prometheus
6 30 (4.89%) Argo
7 22 (3.59%) Kibana
8 21 (3.43%) FortiGate
9 18 (2.94%) QRadar
10 17 (2.77%) Puppet
11 15 (2.45%) Fluentd
12 13 (2.12%) Progress Chef
12 13 (2.12%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.79%) Nessus
14 10 (1.63%) CSIRT
14 10 (1.63%) Istio
14 10 (1.63%) linkerd
15 9 (1.47%) Kiali
15 9 (1.47%) logstash
15 9 (1.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 102 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.48%) Cisco
3 47 (7.67%) Dynatrace
4 41 (6.69%) AppDynamics
4 41 (6.69%) Google
5 40 (6.53%) ServiceNow
6 33 (5.38%) F5
7 32 (5.22%) Red Hat
7 32 (5.22%) SolarWinds
8 29 (4.73%) CrowdStrike
8 29 (4.73%) Oracle
9 27 (4.40%) VMware
10 26 (4.24%) Tenable
11 25 (4.08%) CyberArk
12 22 (3.59%) Qualys
13 21 (3.43%) Cribl.io
14 20 (3.26%) Juniper
14 20 (3.26%) Palo Alto
15 18 (2.94%) Carbon Black
15 18 (2.94%) Extreme Networks