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 23 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
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 180 264
Rank change year-on-year -12 +84 -92
Contract jobs citing Splunk 616 424 395
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.43% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 3.23% 3.04% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 264 238
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £649
90th Percentile £729 £771 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £49.14 £37.35 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £39.38 -
Median hourly rate £75.67 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.55% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £89.38 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £93.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.17 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.26% +2.50% -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 19,075 13,927 18,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.58% 47.12% 42.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,217 8,725 11,807
10th Percentile £310 £290 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 975 466 1,035
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.53 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +22.83% -37.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £76.72 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.43 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.13% +27.56% -38.57%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -12 544 £525 -4.55% 102
UK excluding London +16 362 £500 -9.09% 81
London -29 197 £600 +9.09% 32
Work from Home -24 157 £531 -4.84% 42
North of England -6 149 £514 -11.19% 32
Yorkshire +2 107 £514 -18.70% 10
South East -23 91 £400 -28.09% 19
Midlands -5 88 £525 -2.23% 2
West Midlands 0 83 £525 -4.55% 2
North West -21 41 £500 -9.09% 13
Scotland +13 25 £564 +35.90% 3
South West -5 20 £440 -41.33% 11
Wales -2 5 £600 +31.87% 1
East of England -33 5 £600 - 14
East Midlands -34 5 £447 +3.83%
North East -14 3 £538 -8.51% 9

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 19 (3.08%) Confluence
2 12 (1.95%) TPMS
3 10 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) 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 (0.32%) 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
1 213 (34.58%) AWS
2 155 (25.16%) Azure
3 119 (19.32%) GCP
4 86 (13.96%) GitHub
5 71 (11.53%) OpenShift
6 49 (7.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.49%) Serverless
8 32 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (5.03%) Datadog
10 30 (4.87%) Amazon S3
10 30 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (3.25%) Entra ID
13 20 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (14.77%) Firewall
2 83 (13.47%) DNS
3 41 (6.66%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.71%) Network Security
5 26 (4.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 25 (4.06%) BGP
6 25 (4.06%) WAN
7 24 (3.90%) LAN
8 23 (3.73%) OSPF
9 22 (3.57%) SNMP
9 22 (3.57%) VXLAN
10 21 (3.41%) DHCP
11 20 (3.25%) BIG-IP
11 20 (3.25%) Junos
12 18 (2.92%) SSL
12 18 (2.92%) VPN
13 15 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
14 14 (2.27%) Wireless
15 12 (1.95%) HTTP
15 12 (1.95%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.03%) MongoDB
3 28 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 20 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (2.27%) MySQL
7 12 (1.95%) Hadoop
8 11 (1.79%) Redis
9 10 (1.62%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.97%) Tableau
12 4 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.65%) Flink
13 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 122 (19.81%) Jenkins
2 93 (15.10%) GitLab
3 37 (6.01%) Git
4 32 (5.19%) JIRA
5 14 (2.27%) Gatling
6 12 (1.95%) Liquibase
7 11 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.62%) Android Studio
8 10 (1.62%) Browser DevTools
8 10 (1.62%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.62%) Eclipse
8 10 (1.62%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.62%) Postman
8 10 (1.62%) Xcode
9 9 (1.46%) Selenium
10 8 (1.30%) JUnit
10 8 (1.30%) Maven
10 8 (1.30%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.30%) Snyk
General
1 226 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 129 (20.94%) Finance
3 87 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 59 (9.58%) Banking
6 42 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.03%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.44%) Military
9 13 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.30%) 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 (0.32%) Advertising
14 2 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.16%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (17.53%) Analyst
2 70 (11.36%) Senior
3 65 (10.55%) Architect
4 55 (8.93%) SOC Analyst
5 50 (8.12%) Lead
6 42 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (5.19%) Security Engineer
9 25 (4.06%) Developer
10 24 (3.90%) Security Analyst
10 24 (3.90%) Site Engineer
10 24 (3.90%) Splunk Engineer
11 23 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.41%) Consultant
14 20 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.92%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.92%) GCP Engineer
15 18 (2.92%) Monitoring Analyst
15 18 (2.92%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.20%) Kafka
2 60 (9.74%) REST
3 50 (8.12%) Elastic Stack
4 48 (7.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (6.01%) Spring Boot
6 31 (5.03%) Spring
7 27 (4.38%) RESTful
8 25 (4.06%) JSON
9 24 (3.90%) SAML
10 22 (3.57%) 802.1X
11 20 (3.25%) LDAP
11 20 (3.25%) Middleware
12 19 (3.08%) OpenID
12 19 (3.08%) React
13 16 (2.60%) OAuth
14 15 (2.44%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.44%) Playwright
15 13 (2.11%) CSS
16 12 (1.95%) Keycloak
17 11 (1.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.44%) Onboarding
3 48 (7.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 42 (6.82%) PKI
5 38 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (4.55%) Data Centre
8 26 (4.22%) Management Information System
9 24 (3.90%) Clustering
9 24 (3.90%) Public Cloud
10 21 (3.41%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (3.41%) Cyberattack
11 20 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (3.25%) Security Posture
12 18 (2.92%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.76%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.62%) CMDB
15 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 204 (33.12%) Linux
2 155 (25.16%) Windows
3 61 (9.90%) Unix
4 27 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.79%) Android
6 10 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.30%) 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 (0.32%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.32%) 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 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 202 (32.79%) DevOps
3 180 (29.22%) Observability
4 165 (26.79%) SIEM
5 161 (26.14%) Cybersecurity
6 143 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (23.05%) Incident Response
8 134 (21.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 115 (18.67%) Containerisation
10 103 (16.72%) Agile
11 81 (13.15%) High Availability
12 80 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 77 (12.50%) Microservices
14 76 (12.34%) Security Operations
15 70 (11.36%) Computer Science
16 65 (10.55%) Migration
17 59 (9.58%) Test Automation
18 57 (9.25%) Mentoring
19 56 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
20 55 (8.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 229 (37.18%) Python
2 94 (15.26%) Bash
3 81 (13.15%) PowerShell
4 77 (12.50%) Java
5 73 (11.85%) SQL
6 35 (5.68%) Go
7 31 (5.03%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.92%) Search Processing Language
8 18 (2.92%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.27%) Perl
11 10 (1.62%) Bicep
12 9 (1.46%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.46%) Rust
13 4 (0.65%) Groovy
13 4 (0.65%) JCL
13 4 (0.65%) REXX
14 3 (0.49%) Ruby
14 3 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 245 (39.77%) Security Cleared
2 164 (26.62%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.31%) Degree
4 59 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (9.25%) DV Cleared
6 49 (7.95%) CISSP
7 37 (6.01%) CompTIA Security+
8 32 (5.19%) CISM
9 27 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (3.08%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.92%) CompTIA CySA+
11 18 (2.92%) GIAC
12 16 (2.60%) CEH
13 12 (1.95%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.95%) FFIEC
14 11 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.62%) GCIA
15 10 (1.62%) GCIH
16 8 (1.30%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.30%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.50%) NIST
2 57 (9.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (4.55%) GDPR
4 27 (4.38%) NCSC
5 26 (4.22%) PCI DSS
6 19 (3.08%) QA
7 16 (2.60%) Accessibility
8 14 (2.27%) SLA
9 12 (1.95%) GLBA
10 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.81%) GRC
11 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.65%) COBIT
12 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.32%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 122 (19.81%) Docker
2 21 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.08%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.44%) vSphere
6 6 (0.97%) etcd
6 6 (0.97%) Snort
7 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.49%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.32%) Squid
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) GPFS
9 1 (0.16%) Lustre
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Varnish
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 203 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 147 (23.86%) Grafana
3 136 (22.08%) Terraform
4 113 (18.34%) Ansible
4 113 (18.34%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.52%) Argo
6 21 (3.41%) FortiGate
7 20 (3.25%) QRadar
8 18 (2.92%) Kibana
9 17 (2.76%) vCenter Server
10 16 (2.60%) Fluentd
11 15 (2.44%) Puppet
12 12 (1.95%) Progress Chef
13 11 (1.79%) Nagios
13 11 (1.79%) Nessus
14 10 (1.62%) Istio
14 10 (1.62%) linkerd
15 9 (1.46%) Kiali
16 8 (1.30%) Netcool
16 8 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 103 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.44%) Cisco
3 47 (7.63%) Dynatrace
4 41 (6.66%) AppDynamics
5 40 (6.49%) Google
5 40 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 38 (6.17%) Red Hat
7 34 (5.52%) SolarWinds
8 31 (5.03%) VMware
9 29 (4.71%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (4.71%) Oracle
10 27 (4.38%) F5
10 27 (4.38%) Tenable
11 25 (4.06%) CyberArk
12 22 (3.57%) Qualys
13 21 (3.41%) Cribl.io
14 20 (3.25%) Juniper
15 19 (3.08%) Palo Alto
16 18 (2.92%) Carbon Black
16 18 (2.92%) Extreme Networks