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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 173 240
Rank change year-on-year -49 +67 -76
Contract jobs citing Splunk 595 512 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.58% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 3.32% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 318 270
10th Percentile £363 £366 £400
25th Percentile £430 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.81%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £617
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £44.16 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.84 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 21,724 15,443 18,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.28% 47.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,519 9,438 11,491
10th Percentile £313 £281 £272
25th Percentile £413 £403 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 758 1,110
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.31 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.74 £60.75
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £24.47
% change year-on-year +51.07% -8.03% -18.45%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -51 522 £525 -2.78% 248
UK excluding London -57 317 £519 -5.68% 248
London -35 225 £550 +4.76% 64
Work from Home -42 162 £537 +3.52% 36
North of England -36 128 £500 +2.82% 47
Yorkshire -13 72 £500 +12.04% 13
South East -85 57 £465 -13.41% 53
North West -41 54 £509 -6.18% 23
Midlands -29 47 £581 +19.87% 20
West Midlands -25 43 £582 +16.70% 18
South West 0 40 £450 -21.05% 64
Scotland -12 27 £557 +23.78% 17
East of England -36 27 £675 +22.73% 30
North East - 5 £413 - 11
East Midlands -11 4 £474 +9.35% 2
Wales -8 1 - - 12

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 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.70%) Confluence
3 14 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.67%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) TPMS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) 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 2 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 186 (31.26%) AWS
2 180 (30.25%) Azure
3 97 (16.30%) GitHub
4 74 (12.44%) GCP
5 71 (11.93%) OpenShift
6 36 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (5.55%) Entra ID
8 30 (5.04%) Datadog
9 29 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (4.87%) Azure Sentinel
10 25 (4.20%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (4.20%) Power Platform
11 24 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.87%) Serverless
13 21 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.61%) Firewall
2 78 (13.11%) DNS
3 39 (6.55%) SNMP
4 37 (6.22%) Network Security
4 37 (6.22%) WAN
5 32 (5.38%) BGP
6 30 (5.04%) LAN
6 30 (5.04%) OSPF
7 29 (4.87%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.71%) DHCP
9 26 (4.37%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.20%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.03%) Junos
11 24 (4.03%) TCP/IP
12 23 (3.87%) VPN
13 21 (3.53%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (1.68%) MPLS
14 10 (1.68%) SSL
14 10 (1.68%) Wireless
15 9 (1.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.37%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.03%) Power BI
3 21 (3.53%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.52%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (2.02%) Big Data
9 10 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.34%) MySQL
11 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.18%) Presto
11 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.67%) Tableau
14 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (16.47%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.08%) GitLab
3 50 (8.40%) Git
4 34 (5.71%) Gatling
5 32 (5.38%) JIRA
6 23 (3.87%) JMeter
7 14 (2.35%) Selenium
8 13 (2.18%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.18%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.02%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.68%) Gradle
10 10 (1.68%) JUnit
10 10 (1.68%) Maven
11 9 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
13 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.01%) Postman
13 6 (1.01%) Snyk
13 6 (1.01%) Xcode
14 5 (0.84%) Jaeger
General
1 161 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 121 (20.34%) Finance
3 72 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.08%) Banking
5 38 (6.39%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.35%) Retail
8 12 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Legal
10 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.68%) Front Office
11 8 (1.34%) Military
12 5 (0.84%) Law
12 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Advertising
14 3 (0.50%) Local Government
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (11.60%) Analyst
2 63 (10.59%) Architect
3 60 (10.08%) Lead
3 60 (10.08%) Senior
4 45 (7.56%) Consultant
5 41 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (5.55%) Developer
7 25 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 25 (4.20%) SOC Engineer
8 24 (4.03%) Data Engineer
9 22 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
9 22 (3.70%) Splunk Engineer
10 21 (3.53%) Security Architect
11 20 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (3.36%) Security Engineer
11 20 (3.36%) Site Engineer
12 19 (3.19%) Network Engineer
13 18 (3.03%) CyberArk Architect
13 18 (3.03%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.86%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.26%) REST
2 59 (9.92%) Kafka
3 55 (9.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 36 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (6.05%) Spring
5 32 (5.38%) Spring Boot
6 27 (4.54%) 802.1X
7 24 (4.03%) JSON
8 21 (3.53%) LDAP
9 17 (2.86%) OpenID
9 17 (2.86%) SAML
10 16 (2.69%) RESTful
11 13 (2.18%) Playwright
12 12 (2.02%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.85%) Middleware
13 11 (1.85%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.68%) OAuth
14 10 (1.68%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (1.68%) React
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.92%) Onboarding
3 39 (6.55%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.05%) PKI
5 32 (5.38%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.71%) Clustering
7 27 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (3.36%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.86%) CMDB
10 14 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (2.18%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.18%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.68%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 156 (26.22%) Linux
2 138 (23.19%) Windows
3 42 (7.06%) Unix
4 18 (3.03%) AIX
4 18 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 2 (0.34%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (37.82%) CI/CD
2 207 (34.79%) Observability
3 189 (31.76%) DevOps
4 140 (23.53%) SIEM
5 132 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (19.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 101 (16.97%) Cybersecurity
8 97 (16.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 96 (16.13%) Incident Response
10 87 (14.62%) Agile
11 81 (13.61%) Security Operations
12 77 (12.94%) Containerisation
12 77 (12.94%) High Availability
13 68 (11.43%) ITSM
14 62 (10.42%) ITIL
15 60 (10.08%) Test Automation
16 56 (9.41%) Analytics
17 52 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 51 (8.57%) Cloud Security
19 50 (8.40%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (35.46%) Python
2 88 (14.79%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.62%) SQL
4 73 (12.27%) Java
5 68 (11.43%) Bash
6 46 (7.73%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.20%) Go
8 22 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.18%) Bicep
10 12 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (1.85%) Scala
12 10 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.34%) C#
13 8 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.01%) Perl
14 6 (1.01%) Ruby
15 4 (0.67%) JCL
15 4 (0.67%) REXX
16 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 229 (38.49%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 48 (8.07%) CISSP
5 40 (6.72%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (6.39%) Degree
7 29 (4.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 25 (4.20%) CISM
9 22 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.86%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.52%) GIAC
13 14 (2.35%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.85%) CCNP
14 11 (1.85%) CEH
15 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (1.51%) CCSP
16 9 (1.51%) GCIA
16 9 (1.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.24%) NIST
2 38 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.86%) NCSC
4 14 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.35%) QA
5 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.85%) GDPR
7 9 (1.51%) SLA
8 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.67%) GRC
9 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.50%) COBIT
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (15.46%) Docker
2 25 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.69%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.18%) vSphere
6 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.01%) etcd
8 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 154 (25.88%) Kubernetes
2 145 (24.37%) Grafana
3 141 (23.70%) Terraform
4 113 (18.99%) Prometheus
5 93 (15.63%) Ansible
6 26 (4.37%) FortiGate
7 25 (4.20%) QRadar
8 23 (3.87%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.53%) Argo
10 20 (3.36%) Nagios
11 18 (3.03%) Netcool
12 17 (2.86%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.52%) Kibana
13 15 (2.52%) OpenView
13 15 (2.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 13 (2.18%) vCenter Server
15 9 (1.51%) Control-M
15 9 (1.51%) Progress Chef
16 8 (1.34%) Puppet
16 8 (1.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 97 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 76 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 71 (11.93%) Dynatrace
4 60 (10.08%) Cisco
4 60 (10.08%) SolarWinds
5 43 (7.23%) CrowdStrike
6 40 (6.72%) CyberArk
6 40 (6.72%) F5
7 37 (6.22%) AppDynamics
8 30 (5.04%) IBM
9 29 (4.87%) New Relic
10 28 (4.71%) Tenable
11 27 (4.54%) VMware
12 25 (4.20%) Juniper
13 24 (4.03%) Google
14 23 (3.87%) BMC
15 22 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
15 22 (3.70%) Fortinet
16 21 (3.53%) Oracle
17 20 (3.36%) Palo Alto