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 22 November 2025, 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
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 195 222
Rank change year-on-year +48 +27 0
Contract jobs citing Splunk 691 470 514
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 1.28% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 4.04% 2.85% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 266 370
10th Percentile £358 £423 £400
25th Percentile £420 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £613 £738 £688
90th Percentile £688 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -7.05% -7.29% +6.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £81.63 £38.25 -
25th Percentile £82.19 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.46% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £46.94 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £61.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 -

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 17,086 16,497 21,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 44.90% 45.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 9,710 13,557
10th Percentile £288 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 888 529 681
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.65
25th Percentile £18.26 £18.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.87 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.88 £74.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.41% -38.54% +97.78%

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 22 November 2025.

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
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 22 November 2025. 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 +44 621 £525 -8.70% 149
UK excluding London +63 382 £511 -7.05% 100
London +20 238 £553 -7.92% 67
Work from Home -5 176 £525 -4.55% 71
North of England -9 127 £496 -13.74% 13
South East +67 109 £448 -21.32% 39
Midlands +30 101 £525 +1.79% 15
West Midlands +50 97 £530 -5.10% 12
Yorkshire -11 79 £500 -17.70% 8
North West -25 46 £458 -16.82% 2
Scotland +23 33 £454 +13.50% 4
South West -10 17 £550 +22.22% 9
East of England -21 12 - - 13
East Midlands -24 4 £381 -21.77% 3
North East -7 2 £600 -26.38% 3
Wales - 1 £600 - 8

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 33 (4.78%) Apache
2 32 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.60%) Skype for Business
3 18 (2.60%) WebLogic
4 17 (2.46%) JBoss
5 14 (2.03%) Confluence
6 13 (1.88%) Mattermost
6 13 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.88%) WebSphere
6 13 (1.88%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (1.45%) IIS
7 10 (1.45%) iPlanet
8 8 (1.16%) Apache Pig
9 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.87%) TPMS
10 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.29%) Mule
12 2 (0.29%) Mule ESB
12 2 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
3 1 (0.14%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (38.21%) AWS
2 137 (19.83%) Azure
3 130 (18.81%) GCP
4 68 (9.84%) GitHub
5 59 (8.54%) OpenShift
6 47 (6.80%) Serverless
7 46 (6.66%) Azure Sentinel
8 45 (6.51%) SaaS
9 30 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 27 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (3.04%) Akamai
15 19 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.60%) Sauce Labs
17 17 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.32%) Datadog
18 16 (2.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 112 (16.21%) Firewall
2 44 (6.37%) DNS
3 37 (5.35%) Network Security
4 25 (3.62%) SSL
5 24 (3.47%) Cisco IOS
6 22 (3.18%) Wireshark
7 21 (3.04%) TCP/IP
7 21 (3.04%) Wireless
8 20 (2.89%) HTTP
9 18 (2.60%) Skype
10 17 (2.46%) VPN
11 14 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
11 14 (2.03%) iSCSI
12 11 (1.59%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.59%) Unified Communications
13 9 (1.30%) SNMP
14 8 (1.16%) SSH
15 7 (1.01%) DHCP
16 5 (0.72%) Internet
17 4 (0.58%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.51%) NoSQL
2 40 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (4.34%) MongoDB
4 27 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.18%) MySQL
7 18 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 18 (2.60%) Redis
8 12 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.74%) Power BI
9 10 (1.45%) Apache Hive
10 9 (1.30%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.16%) Data Mining
12 7 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.72%) Flink
14 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server
15 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 126 (18.23%) Jenkins
2 99 (14.33%) GitLab
3 54 (7.81%) Git
4 30 (4.34%) Liquibase
5 29 (4.20%) JIRA
6 23 (3.33%) Xcode
7 21 (3.04%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.04%) Postman
8 19 (2.75%) Eclipse
8 19 (2.75%) JUnit
9 18 (2.60%) Android Studio
9 18 (2.60%) Browser DevTools
9 18 (2.60%) SonarQube
9 18 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
10 14 (2.03%) CA Release Automation
11 13 (1.88%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.88%) Maven
12 10 (1.45%) Subversion
13 9 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 273 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 153 (22.14%) Finance
3 119 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.55%) Banking
5 60 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.35%) Financial Institution
7 25 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.47%) Games
9 15 (2.17%) Military
10 10 (1.45%) Legal
10 10 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.30%) Retail
12 6 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.72%) Local Government
14 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.29%) Law
15 2 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 110 (15.92%) Analyst
2 72 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 67 (9.70%) Senior
4 63 (9.12%) Architect
5 57 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
6 47 (6.80%) Security Engineer
7 46 (6.66%) SOC Analyst
8 36 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 34 (4.92%) Security Analyst
10 31 (4.49%) Developer
11 27 (3.91%) Site Engineer
12 26 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.62%) Security Architect
13 25 (3.62%) Splunk Engineer
14 23 (3.33%) Support Analyst
15 22 (3.18%) Consultant
15 22 (3.18%) Lead
16 21 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.04%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (11.29%) Elastic Stack
2 75 (10.85%) REST
3 51 (7.38%) Kafka
4 44 (6.37%) RESTful
5 28 (4.05%) AngularJS
5 28 (4.05%) React
6 27 (3.91%) CSS
7 26 (3.76%) OAuth
8 24 (3.47%) SAML
9 22 (3.18%) GraphQL
10 21 (3.04%) Spring
10 21 (3.04%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.89%) LDAP
11 20 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
12 18 (2.60%) Ajax
13 17 (2.46%) Keycloak
13 17 (2.46%) Web Services
14 16 (2.32%) YAML
15 15 (2.17%) JSON
15 15 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 51 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 50 (7.24%) Security Posture
4 45 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (6.08%) Onboarding
6 37 (5.35%) Public Cloud
7 26 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (3.76%) PKI
8 23 (3.33%) Mobile App
9 22 (3.18%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.89%) CSOC
11 19 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
12 18 (2.60%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.30%) Clustering
16 8 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
17 7 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 227 (32.85%) Linux
2 152 (22.00%) Windows
3 100 (14.47%) Unix
4 47 (6.80%) Android
5 34 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (4.78%) Windows Server
7 31 (4.49%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.45%) CentOS
10 6 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.58%) Solaris
11 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.43%) zOS
13 2 (0.29%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.29%) VMS
14 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (30.82%) CI/CD
2 200 (28.94%) DevOps
3 184 (26.63%) Cybersecurity
4 172 (24.89%) Incident Response
5 166 (24.02%) SIEM
6 146 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (20.12%) Observability
8 121 (17.51%) Agile
8 121 (17.51%) Containerisation
9 120 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 98 (14.18%) Security Operations
11 84 (12.16%) Microservices
12 74 (10.71%) Threat Detection
13 72 (10.42%) Computer Science
14 67 (9.70%) Root Cause Analysis
15 64 (9.26%) SOAR
16 63 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (9.12%) Test Automation
17 58 (8.39%) Analytics
17 58 (8.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 255 (36.90%) Python
2 122 (17.66%) PowerShell
3 115 (16.64%) SQL
4 95 (13.75%) Bash
5 81 (11.72%) Java
6 70 (10.13%) Go
7 45 (6.51%) JavaScript
8 44 (6.37%) Shell Script
9 39 (5.64%) Perl
10 21 (3.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.60%) Groovy
12 17 (2.46%) PromQL
13 13 (1.88%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.74%) Scala
14 12 (1.74%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (1.01%) C++
16 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.72%) Swift
17 4 (0.58%) Bicep
17 4 (0.58%) JCL
Qualifications
1 186 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 119 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 89 (12.88%) Degree
4 77 (11.14%) CISSP
5 56 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (6.80%) DV Cleared
7 46 (6.66%) Master's Degree
8 39 (5.64%) CISM
9 30 (4.34%) CEH
10 28 (4.05%) GIAC
11 27 (3.91%) AWS Certification
11 27 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (3.76%) MCSE
13 22 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (3.04%) GCIA
15 20 (2.89%) GCIH
16 19 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (1.74%) GCFA
19 10 (1.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.99%) NIST
2 56 (8.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (5.35%) GDPR
4 18 (2.60%) PCI DSS
4 18 (2.60%) QA
5 14 (2.03%) HIPAA
5 14 (2.03%) NCSC
6 12 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.01%) SLA
9 6 (0.87%) GLBA
10 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.43%) GRC
12 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.29%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 118 (17.08%) Docker
2 88 (12.74%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.60%) NFS
4 18 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (2.46%) vSphere
6 8 (1.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (0.87%) Snort
7 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.58%) Squid
9 4 (0.58%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.14%) GPFS
11 1 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 192 (27.79%) Kubernetes
2 129 (18.67%) Terraform
3 124 (17.95%) Grafana
4 116 (16.79%) Ansible
5 100 (14.47%) Prometheus
6 43 (6.22%) QRadar
7 33 (4.78%) SCCM
8 28 (4.05%) Kibana
9 26 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (3.47%) SCOM
11 21 (3.04%) CSIRT
11 21 (3.04%) HP SiteScope
12 20 (2.89%) Progress Chef
13 16 (2.32%) Packer
13 16 (2.32%) Puppet
13 16 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (2.03%) Argo
14 14 (2.03%) Nessus
15 12 (1.74%) Fluentd
16 10 (1.45%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 208 (30.10%) Microsoft
2 82 (11.87%) Cisco
3 68 (9.84%) Oracle
4 66 (9.55%) Dynatrace
5 58 (8.39%) Google
6 55 (7.96%) CrowdStrike
7 49 (7.09%) AppDynamics
8 44 (6.37%) ServiceNow
9 38 (5.50%) Qualys
10 34 (4.92%) VMware
11 32 (4.63%) Red Hat
12 25 (3.62%) ArcSight
13 24 (3.47%) CyberArk
13 24 (3.47%) Meraki
14 23 (3.33%) Carbon Black
14 23 (3.33%) Remedy
15 22 (3.18%) F5
16 20 (2.89%) IBM
16 20 (2.89%) Veeam
17 17 (2.46%) Palo Alto