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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 185 232
Rank change year-on-year -33 +47 -70
Contract jobs citing Splunk 590 442 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.50% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 2.90% 3.15% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 276 289
10th Percentile £350 £391 £410
25th Percentile £424 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £758 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
75th Percentile £71.64 - -
90th Percentile £79.19 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 20,354 14,032 18,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.68% 47.55% 42.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,795 8,637 11,446
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -2.33% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.92% -3.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 631 1,141
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.33 £14.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% +10.59% -44.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.37 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.49 £23.67 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.84% +5.18% -43.11%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -39 517 £525 -4.55% 233
UK excluding London -18 341 £514 -6.55% 243
London -34 202 £550 +4.76% 66
Work from Home -40 149 £525 -2.78% 43
North of England -7 129 £495 -3.41% 44
Yorkshire -5 82 £498 -0.50% 13
South East -48 74 £429 -22.05% 71
Midlands -24 56 £550 +2.42% 14
West Midlands -21 51 £564 +3.39% 12
North West -28 46 £513 -5.53% 19
South West +14 39 £450 -14.29% 43
Scotland -10 31 £592 +34.43% 21
East of England -39 25 £688 +25.00% 33
East Midlands -18 5 £447 +3.23% 2
North East - 4 £444 - 12
Wales -13 1 - - 11

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 23 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.71%) Confluence
3 13 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.02%) TPMS
5 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 182 (30.85%) AWS
2 160 (27.12%) Azure
3 85 (14.41%) GitHub
4 73 (12.37%) GCP
5 63 (10.68%) OpenShift
6 40 (6.78%) Datadog
7 35 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.75%) Entra ID
9 27 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (4.41%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 23 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (3.56%) Power Platform
14 21 (3.56%) Serverless
15 19 (3.22%) SaaS
16 17 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (14.92%) DNS
2 80 (13.56%) Firewall
3 40 (6.78%) SNMP
3 40 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 30 (5.08%) BGP
4 30 (5.08%) Network Security
4 30 (5.08%) WAN
5 29 (4.92%) Ethernet VPN
5 29 (4.92%) OSPF
6 27 (4.58%) LAN
7 25 (4.24%) BIG-IP
7 25 (4.24%) DHCP
7 25 (4.24%) VXLAN
8 24 (4.07%) Junos
9 20 (3.39%) Cisco ISE
9 20 (3.39%) VPN
10 14 (2.37%) SSL
11 11 (1.86%) Wireless
12 9 (1.53%) MPLS
12 9 (1.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.08%) MongoDB
2 27 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.39%) Power BI
3 20 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.22%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.88%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.03%) Big Data
8 10 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.36%) MySQL
9 8 (1.36%) Redis
9 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 91 (15.42%) Jenkins
2 62 (10.51%) GitLab
3 43 (7.29%) Git
4 31 (5.25%) Gatling
5 29 (4.92%) JIRA
6 20 (3.39%) JMeter
7 13 (2.20%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.20%) Selenium
8 12 (2.03%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.03%) Serenity BDD
9 10 (1.69%) Jaeger
10 9 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.02%) Gradle
12 6 (1.02%) JUnit
12 6 (1.02%) Maven
12 6 (1.02%) Snyk
12 6 (1.02%) Xcode
13 5 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 167 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 115 (19.49%) Finance
3 69 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.15%) Banking
5 45 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.03%) Retail
9 10 (1.69%) Front Office
10 9 (1.53%) Military
11 8 (1.36%) Law
11 8 (1.36%) Legal
12 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (13.05%) Analyst
2 64 (10.85%) Architect
3 63 (10.68%) Senior
4 61 (10.34%) Lead
5 38 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (6.10%) Consultant
7 34 (5.76%) SOC Analyst
8 29 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 27 (4.58%) Developer
10 25 (4.24%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.07%) SOC Engineer
12 23 (3.90%) Site Engineer
13 22 (3.73%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.56%) Security Engineer
15 19 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.22%) CyberArk Architect
15 19 (3.22%) Network Engineer
16 16 (2.71%) Performance Engineer
16 16 (2.71%) Test Engineer
17 15 (2.54%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.03%) Kafka
2 56 (9.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 53 (8.98%) REST
4 33 (5.59%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.25%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.08%) Spring
7 27 (4.58%) 802.1X
8 21 (3.56%) JSON
8 21 (3.56%) LDAP
9 20 (3.39%) Middleware
10 18 (3.05%) OpenID
10 18 (3.05%) SAML
11 13 (2.20%) Playwright
11 13 (2.20%) RESTful
12 12 (2.03%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.86%) CSS
13 11 (1.86%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.69%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (1.69%) React
15 9 (1.53%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 48 (8.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.10%) PKI
5 28 (4.75%) Clustering
5 28 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 28 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.73%) Cyberattack
9 18 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.88%) CMDB
10 17 (2.88%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.54%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.03%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.02%) Mainframe
15 6 (1.02%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 178 (30.17%) Linux
2 156 (26.44%) Windows
3 51 (8.64%) Unix
4 18 (3.05%) AIX
5 16 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.20%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.85%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.68%) zOS
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (37.29%) CI/CD
2 210 (35.59%) Observability
3 191 (32.37%) DevOps
4 140 (23.73%) SIEM
5 129 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (21.02%) Cybersecurity
7 109 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 108 (18.31%) Incident Response
9 99 (16.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 86 (14.58%) Containerisation
11 83 (14.07%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.86%) Agile
13 67 (11.36%) High Availability
14 65 (11.02%) ITIL
15 56 (9.49%) Migration
15 56 (9.49%) Test Automation
16 55 (9.32%) Analytics
16 55 (9.32%) Microservices
17 53 (8.98%) Root Cause Analysis
17 53 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 218 (36.95%) Python
2 93 (15.76%) SQL
3 87 (14.75%) PowerShell
4 77 (13.05%) Bash
5 71 (12.03%) Java
6 44 (7.46%) Search Processing Language
7 23 (3.90%) Go
7 23 (3.90%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.20%) Bicep
9 10 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.69%) Scala
10 9 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.19%) C#
13 6 (1.02%) Perl
13 6 (1.02%) Rust
14 5 (0.85%) Ruby
15 4 (0.68%) JCL
15 4 (0.68%) REXX
Qualifications
1 241 (40.85%) Security Cleared
2 149 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.81%) Degree
5 47 (7.97%) CISSP
6 37 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (6.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 34 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (4.07%) CISM
9 22 (3.73%) CompTIA CySA+
10 19 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.71%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.37%) GIAC
13 12 (2.03%) CEH
14 11 (1.86%) GCIA
14 11 (1.86%) GCIH
15 9 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.53%) CCSP
15 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.36%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.83%) NIST
2 42 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.39%) NCSC
4 18 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.88%) GDPR
6 16 (2.71%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.37%) SLA
8 10 (1.69%) QA
9 9 (1.53%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 6 (1.02%) GLBA
12 5 (0.85%) GRC
13 4 (0.68%) COBIT
13 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 107 (18.14%) Docker
2 19 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.71%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.03%) vSphere
6 8 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 167 (28.31%) Kubernetes
2 152 (25.76%) Grafana
3 132 (22.37%) Terraform
4 120 (20.34%) Prometheus
5 102 (17.29%) Ansible
6 26 (4.41%) FortiGate
7 25 (4.24%) Argo
8 23 (3.90%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.39%) Nagios
9 20 (3.39%) QRadar
10 18 (3.05%) Netcool
11 17 (2.88%) Kibana
11 17 (2.88%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.54%) OpenView
12 15 (2.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 12 (2.03%) vCenter Server
14 10 (1.69%) Istio
14 10 (1.69%) linkerd
15 8 (1.36%) Fluentd
15 8 (1.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 74 (12.54%) Dynatrace
3 71 (12.03%) ServiceNow
4 55 (9.32%) Cisco
5 54 (9.15%) SolarWinds
6 52 (8.81%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.95%) CrowdStrike
8 39 (6.61%) F5
9 37 (6.27%) CyberArk
10 27 (4.58%) IBM
10 27 (4.58%) Tenable
11 25 (4.24%) Juniper
12 24 (4.07%) VMware
13 23 (3.90%) New Relic
14 22 (3.73%) BMC
14 22 (3.73%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.73%) Oracle
15 21 (3.56%) Google
15 21 (3.56%) Red Hat
16 18 (3.05%) Fortinet