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 2 February 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 185 269
Rank change year-on-year +23 +84 -66
Contract jobs citing Splunk 672 441 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.75% 1.42% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 3.84% 3.07% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 253 265
10th Percentile £350 £408 £408
25th Percentile £413 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £616 £738 £660
90th Percentile £700 £808 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £551 £537
% change year-on-year -11.52% +2.70% -2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £53.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% - -
75th Percentile £91.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +40.97% - -

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 17,487 14,355 19,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.51% 46.20% 43.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 8,481 12,469
10th Percentile £300 £280 £250
25th Percentile £410 £408 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £635
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 827 420 920
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.78 £20.14 £15.83
Median hourly rate £23.75 £28.21 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% -5.98% -3.69%
75th Percentile £52.27 £61.50 £58.71
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.48 £25.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -14.08% -7.31% +3.74%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +14 595 £525 -9.21% 104
UK excluding London +61 386 £488 -11.52% 106
London -19 227 £575 -6.12% 31
Work from Home 0 175 £540 -10.00% 66
North of England +9 141 £491 -14.42% 22
Midlands +27 115 £525 -2.33% 10
West Midlands +37 108 £525 -4.72% 9
Yorkshire +5 98 £518 -13.57% 10
South East +23 94 £380 -33.91% 20
North West -23 41 £453 -18.38% 12
Scotland +28 38 £550 +32.53% 25
South West -18 11 £625 -21.88% 10
East Midlands -22 7 £438 +11.89% 1
East of England -29 5 £588 -2.08% 16
Wales - 5 £600 - 4
North East -12 4 £538 -8.51%

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 (3.42%) Apache
2 18 (2.68%) Skype for Business
3 16 (2.38%) Confluence
4 13 (1.93%) Mattermost
4 13 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.93%) TPMS
5 10 (1.49%) IIS
5 10 (1.49%) iPlanet
5 10 (1.49%) JBoss
5 10 (1.49%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.19%) Apache Pig
7 8 (1.19%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.45%) SAS
9 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 23 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (2.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Finacle
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 250 (37.20%) AWS
2 152 (22.62%) Azure
3 137 (20.39%) GCP
4 73 (10.86%) GitHub
5 61 (9.08%) OpenShift
6 53 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 41 (6.10%) Serverless
8 32 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.61%) Datadog
10 25 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (3.72%) SaaS
11 24 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.27%) Akamai
14 18 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.38%) Entra ID
15 16 (2.38%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 89 (13.24%) Firewall
2 59 (8.78%) DNS
3 43 (6.40%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.76%) Network Security
5 22 (3.27%) HTTP
5 22 (3.27%) SSL
5 22 (3.27%) Wireshark
6 20 (2.98%) VPN
7 18 (2.68%) Skype
8 17 (2.53%) Wireless
9 15 (2.23%) SNMP
9 15 (2.23%) SSH
10 11 (1.64%) Kerberos
10 11 (1.64%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.89%) BGP
12 5 (0.74%) DHCP
12 5 (0.74%) OSPF
12 5 (0.74%) VSAN
13 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.60%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.06%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.13%) MySQL
6 15 (2.23%) Redis
7 14 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 12 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 12 (1.79%) Power BI
9 11 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.49%) Apache Hive
10 10 (1.49%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.19%) Data Mining
12 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.60%) Flink
13 4 (0.60%) Tableau
14 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 129 (19.20%) Jenkins
2 103 (15.33%) GitLab
3 47 (6.99%) Git
4 29 (4.32%) JIRA
5 20 (2.98%) Liquibase
6 19 (2.83%) Postman
7 18 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 18 (2.68%) Xcode
8 16 (2.38%) Android Studio
8 16 (2.38%) Browser DevTools
8 16 (2.38%) Eclipse
9 14 (2.08%) JUnit
10 13 (1.93%) CircleCI
11 12 (1.79%) Maven
11 12 (1.79%) Selenium
12 11 (1.64%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.49%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.49%) CA Release Automation
13 10 (1.49%) Gatling
13 10 (1.49%) Gradle
General
1 297 (44.20%) Social Skills
2 167 (24.85%) Finance
3 124 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.67%) Banking
5 64 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 41 (6.10%) Financial Institution
7 39 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.93%) Military
9 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.60%) Law
11 4 (0.60%) Legal
11 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Retail
12 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Front Office
13 2 (0.30%) Local Government
13 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (19.35%) Analyst
2 72 (10.71%) Senior
3 64 (9.52%) Architect
4 60 (8.93%) SOC Analyst
5 51 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 46 (6.85%) Security Engineer
7 40 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 35 (5.21%) Lead
9 31 (4.61%) Security Analyst
10 30 (4.46%) Splunk Engineer
11 26 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (3.87%) Site Engineer
12 25 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.57%) Support Analyst
14 22 (3.27%) Developer
14 22 (3.27%) Monitoring Analyst
14 22 (3.27%) Security Architect
15 20 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.83%) Support Engineer
17 18 (2.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.67%) Elastic Stack
2 63 (9.38%) REST
3 58 (8.63%) Kafka
4 37 (5.51%) SAML
5 36 (5.36%) RESTful
6 30 (4.46%) OpenID
7 28 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.87%) LDAP
8 26 (3.87%) OAuth
8 26 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
9 23 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 23 (3.42%) Spring
10 21 (3.13%) CSS
10 21 (3.13%) Middleware
10 21 (3.13%) React
11 17 (2.53%) GraphQL
12 16 (2.38%) Ajax
13 15 (2.23%) Keycloak
14 14 (2.08%) JSON
14 14 (2.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
3 51 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 47 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.36%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.76%) Public Cloud
7 31 (4.61%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.72%) Cyber Defence
9 22 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
9 22 (3.27%) PKI
10 21 (3.13%) Mobile App
11 19 (2.83%) Cyberattack
12 15 (2.23%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.79%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.49%) Clustering
14 10 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.19%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 243 (36.16%) Linux
2 134 (19.94%) Windows
3 92 (13.69%) Unix
4 35 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.27%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.13%) Android
7 7 (1.04%) CentOS
7 7 (1.04%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.60%) zOS
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.45%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.45%) Solaris
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (33.18%) CI/CD
2 220 (32.74%) DevOps
3 201 (29.91%) Cybersecurity
4 179 (26.64%) Incident Response
5 178 (26.49%) SIEM
6 156 (23.21%) Observability
7 147 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 120 (17.86%) Containerisation
10 109 (16.22%) Agile
11 92 (13.69%) Computer Science
12 89 (13.24%) Security Operations
13 87 (12.95%) Microservices
14 74 (11.01%) Threat Detection
15 72 (10.71%) Test Automation
16 68 (10.12%) Root Cause Analysis
17 64 (9.52%) Migration
18 61 (9.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 55 (8.18%) High Availability
20 53 (7.89%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 243 (36.16%) Python
2 110 (16.37%) PowerShell
3 100 (14.88%) SQL
4 99 (14.73%) Bash
5 86 (12.80%) Java
6 44 (6.55%) Go
7 43 (6.40%) Shell Script
8 33 (4.91%) JavaScript
9 29 (4.32%) Perl
10 21 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (2.23%) Groovy
12 13 (1.93%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.79%) Scala
13 12 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
14 9 (1.34%) Bicep
14 9 (1.34%) Rust
15 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.74%) Swift
16 4 (0.60%) JCL
16 4 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 227 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 161 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 107 (15.92%) Degree
4 70 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.63%) CISSP
6 50 (7.44%) DV Cleared
7 36 (5.36%) Master's Degree
8 35 (5.21%) CISM
9 28 (4.17%) GIAC
10 27 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 23 (3.42%) CEH
12 21 (3.13%) AWS Certification
12 21 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (2.38%) CompTIA CySA+
14 13 (1.93%) FFIEC
15 12 (1.79%) GCIA
15 12 (1.79%) GCIH
16 8 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (1.19%) MCSE
16 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.61%) NIST
2 60 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (5.51%) GDPR
4 30 (4.46%) PCI DSS
5 26 (3.87%) NCSC
6 19 (2.83%) QA
7 17 (2.53%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.93%) GLBA
8 13 (1.93%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.49%) SLA
10 9 (1.34%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.45%) GRC
13 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.30%) COBIT
14 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.30%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 138 (20.54%) Docker
2 53 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.34%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.19%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 7 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.89%) Snort
7 6 (0.89%) vSphere
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.74%) NFS
8 5 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
10 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.45%) Veritas File System
10 3 (0.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 194 (28.87%) Kubernetes
2 127 (18.90%) Ansible
3 126 (18.75%) Terraform
4 121 (18.01%) Grafana
5 100 (14.88%) Prometheus
6 32 (4.76%) Kibana
6 32 (4.76%) QRadar
7 25 (3.72%) SCOM
8 22 (3.27%) Progress Chef
9 21 (3.13%) HP SiteScope
9 21 (3.13%) Puppet
10 20 (2.98%) Argo
11 19 (2.83%) CSIRT
12 16 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (1.79%) Fluentd
14 11 (1.64%) SCCM
15 10 (1.49%) CA Single Sign-On
15 10 (1.49%) CA Wily
15 10 (1.49%) logstash
15 10 (1.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 159 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.89%) AppDynamics
2 53 (7.89%) Dynatrace
2 53 (7.89%) Oracle
3 42 (6.25%) Cisco
4 41 (6.10%) Google
5 38 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 35 (5.21%) CrowdStrike
7 29 (4.32%) Qualys
8 28 (4.17%) VMware
9 27 (4.02%) CyberArk
9 27 (4.02%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.57%) Cribl.io
11 21 (3.13%) Carbon Black
11 21 (3.13%) F5
12 20 (2.98%) ArcSight
12 20 (2.98%) Palo Alto
13 19 (2.83%) Remedy
14 16 (2.38%) Tenable
15 15 (2.23%) IBM