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 7 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
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 191 278
Rank change year-on-year -1 +87 -100
Contract jobs citing Splunk 646 422 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.38% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 3.42% 2.94% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 255 232
10th Percentile £350 £403 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £641
90th Percentile £709 £778 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £537
% change year-on-year -6.68% +2.52% -4.62%
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 18,869 14,335 19,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.18% 46.77% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,083 8,807 12,126
10th Percentile £306 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -3.12%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 454 1,014
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.47 £21.24 £14.71
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.39
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +14.58% -26.15%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +3 572 £525 -7.08% 121
UK excluding London +39 372 £513 -6.68% 118
London -27 211 £575 +1.77% 34
Work from Home -13 166 £540 -6.09% 72
North of England +8 154 £518 -12.47% 42
Yorkshire +11 112 £516 -18.42% 21
Midlands +4 97 £525 -2.23% 5
South East +11 96 £395 -30.55% 28
West Midlands +9 93 £525 -4.55% 5
North West -24 41 £575 +3.60% 18
Scotland +22 27 £577 +39.04% 19
South West -19 12 £550 -26.67% 8
East of England -31 6 £600 - 12
Wales +3 5 £600 +31.87% 5
East Midlands -30 4 £442 +2.73%
North East -11 3 £538 -8.51% 3

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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 12 (1.86%) TPMS
3 9 (1.39%) Apache
3 9 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.08%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.62%) Mattermost
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.46%) iPlanet
7 3 (0.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 232 (35.91%) AWS
2 158 (24.46%) Azure
3 136 (21.05%) GCP
4 82 (12.69%) GitHub
5 63 (9.75%) OpenShift
6 54 (8.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 39 (6.04%) Serverless
8 33 (5.11%) Datadog
9 32 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (4.02%) Amazon S3
12 25 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (3.25%) Entra ID
16 18 (2.79%) SaaS
17 15 (2.32%) AWS KMS
18 13 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (16.56%) Firewall
2 84 (13.00%) DNS
3 45 (6.97%) TCP/IP
4 34 (5.26%) Network Security
5 26 (4.02%) BGP
6 25 (3.87%) VPN
7 24 (3.72%) Ethernet VPN
7 24 (3.72%) OSPF
7 24 (3.72%) SSL
8 23 (3.56%) WAN
9 22 (3.41%) LAN
10 21 (3.25%) DHCP
11 20 (3.10%) VXLAN
12 18 (2.79%) BIG-IP
12 18 (2.79%) Junos
13 17 (2.63%) SNMP
14 16 (2.48%) Wireless
15 15 (2.32%) HTTP
16 14 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
17 13 (2.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.42%) MongoDB
3 31 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.48%) MySQL
7 14 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 12 (1.86%) Redis
9 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.24%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.93%) Tableau
12 5 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.77%) Power BI
13 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.46%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.46%) Flink
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 127 (19.66%) Jenkins
2 108 (16.72%) GitLab
3 39 (6.04%) Git
4 31 (4.80%) JIRA
5 16 (2.48%) Liquibase
6 15 (2.32%) Postman
7 14 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (2.01%) Xcode
9 12 (1.86%) Android Studio
9 12 (1.86%) Browser DevTools
9 12 (1.86%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.86%) JUnit
9 12 (1.86%) Selenium
10 11 (1.70%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.55%) Gatling
11 10 (1.55%) Jaeger
11 10 (1.55%) Maven
12 9 (1.39%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.39%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.39%) Gradle
General
1 259 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 143 (22.14%) Finance
3 102 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 65 (10.06%) Banking
6 45 (6.97%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (5.57%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.79%) Military
9 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.08%) Retail
12 6 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.77%) Legal
13 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.62%) Front Office
14 4 (0.62%) Law
15 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.31%) Advertising
16 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 116 (17.96%) Analyst
2 77 (11.92%) Senior
3 67 (10.37%) Architect
4 58 (8.98%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (7.28%) Lead
7 40 (6.19%) Security Engineer
8 39 (6.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 30 (4.64%) Splunk Engineer
10 27 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (4.18%) Site Engineer
11 26 (4.02%) Security Analyst
12 23 (3.56%) Developer
13 22 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (3.41%) Network Engineer
13 22 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (3.10%) Monitoring Analyst
14 20 (3.10%) Security Architect
15 19 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
16 18 (2.79%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.75%) REST
2 62 (9.60%) Kafka
3 59 (9.13%) Elastic Stack
4 38 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 38 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 32 (4.95%) Spring
6 31 (4.80%) RESTful
7 30 (4.64%) SAML
8 26 (4.02%) JSON
9 23 (3.56%) LDAP
10 22 (3.41%) Middleware
10 22 (3.41%) OpenID
11 20 (3.10%) 802.1X
12 19 (2.94%) OAuth
13 18 (2.79%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.63%) React
15 16 (2.48%) CSS
16 15 (2.32%) Playwright
17 13 (2.01%) Keycloak
18 12 (1.86%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
3 45 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 42 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (5.73%) PKI
6 29 (4.49%) Management Information System
7 28 (4.33%) Public Cloud
7 28 (4.33%) Security Posture
8 26 (4.02%) Data Centre
8 26 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.72%) Clustering
10 21 (3.25%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
10 21 (3.25%) Mobile App
11 20 (3.10%) Cyberattack
12 17 (2.63%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.39%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 222 (34.37%) Linux
2 149 (23.07%) Windows
3 72 (11.15%) Unix
4 31 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.17%) Android
7 6 (0.93%) CentOS
8 5 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.62%) zOS
10 3 (0.46%) AIX
10 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.15%) Solaris
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (35.76%) CI/CD
2 211 (32.66%) DevOps
3 183 (28.33%) Observability
4 171 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
5 166 (25.70%) SIEM
6 156 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
7 150 (23.22%) Incident Response
8 141 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 122 (18.89%) Containerisation
10 108 (16.72%) Agile
11 85 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 83 (12.85%) Microservices
13 80 (12.38%) Security Operations
14 78 (12.07%) Computer Science
14 78 (12.07%) High Availability
15 71 (10.99%) Migration
16 65 (10.06%) Test Automation
17 60 (9.29%) Root Cause Analysis
18 59 (9.13%) ITIL
19 57 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 239 (37.00%) Python
2 100 (15.48%) Bash
3 87 (13.47%) PowerShell
4 86 (13.31%) Java
5 80 (12.38%) SQL
6 40 (6.19%) Go
7 30 (4.64%) JavaScript
8 25 (3.87%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.10%) Perl
10 18 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.17%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.01%) Bicep
13 10 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.55%) Search Processing Language
14 9 (1.39%) Rust
15 8 (1.24%) Groovy
16 5 (0.77%) Scala
17 4 (0.62%) JCL
17 4 (0.62%) REXX
18 3 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 237 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 153 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 91 (14.09%) Degree
4 64 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.98%) DV Cleared
6 52 (8.05%) CISSP
7 35 (5.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 33 (5.11%) CISM
9 26 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (4.02%) Master's Degree
10 19 (2.94%) GIAC
11 17 (2.63%) AWS Certification
11 17 (2.63%) CompTIA CySA+
12 15 (2.32%) CEH
13 12 (1.86%) FFIEC
13 12 (1.86%) GCIA
13 12 (1.86%) GCIH
14 9 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.38%) NIST
2 60 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (4.80%) GDPR
4 27 (4.18%) NCSC
5 26 (4.02%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.56%) QA
7 18 (2.79%) Accessibility
8 14 (2.17%) SLA
9 12 (1.86%) GLBA
10 8 (1.24%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.77%) GRC
13 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.46%) COBIT
14 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.46%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
15 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 131 (20.28%) Docker
2 34 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.48%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.86%) vSphere
6 7 (1.08%) Snort
7 5 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.46%) NFS
8 3 (0.46%) Squid
8 3 (0.46%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 3 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.15%) GPFS
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Varnish
10 1 (0.15%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (30.80%) Kubernetes
2 141 (21.83%) Grafana
3 138 (21.36%) Terraform
4 127 (19.66%) Ansible
5 109 (16.87%) Prometheus
6 29 (4.49%) Argo
7 26 (4.02%) Kibana
8 19 (2.94%) FortiGate
8 19 (2.94%) Puppet
9 18 (2.79%) QRadar
10 16 (2.48%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.01%) Fluentd
12 12 (1.86%) Nessus
12 12 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.86%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.70%) CSIRT
13 11 (1.70%) logstash
14 10 (1.55%) Istio
14 10 (1.55%) linkerd
15 9 (1.39%) Kiali
Vendors
1 118 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.82%) Cisco
3 47 (7.28%) ServiceNow
4 45 (6.97%) Google
5 41 (6.35%) Dynatrace
6 39 (6.04%) AppDynamics
7 35 (5.42%) CrowdStrike
7 35 (5.42%) Oracle
8 32 (4.95%) F5
9 31 (4.80%) Red Hat
9 31 (4.80%) SolarWinds
9 31 (4.80%) VMware
10 28 (4.33%) CyberArk
11 26 (4.02%) Cribl.io
11 26 (4.02%) Qualys
12 25 (3.87%) Tenable
13 22 (3.41%) Palo Alto
14 21 (3.25%) Carbon Black
15 20 (3.10%) Zscaler
16 18 (2.79%) Juniper