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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 195 237
Rank change year-on-year -11 +42 -72
Contract jobs citing Splunk 600 410 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.41% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 3.04% 2.95% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 260 269
10th Percentile £356 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £752 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.69 - £40.00
75th Percentile £81.77 - -
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.35 - £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 19,765 13,886 18,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.96% 47.71% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,516 8,664 11,247
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 568 1,094
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +15.52% -47.85%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.40 £73.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.54 £22.72 £21.46
% change year-on-year +30.01% +5.86% -44.26%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -5 528 £525 -4.55% 240
UK excluding London +5 355 £514 -6.55% 253
London -27 194 £575 +9.52% 63
Work from Home -25 155 £525 -6.75% 32
North of England -11 131 £490 -14.78% 53
Yorkshire 0 84 £475 -19.49% 13
South East -21 84 £433 -20.42% 64
Midlands -16 61 £550 +2.42% 14
West Midlands -16 56 £564 +2.36% 14
North West -29 46 £538 -4.02% 23
South West +1 38 £450 -26.53% 46
East of England -28 26 £688 +25.00% 35
Scotland -3 25 £601 +39.71% 23
East Midlands -27 5 £447 +14.32%
Wales -6 4 - - 11
North East - 4 £444 - 17

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 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.83%) Confluence
3 12 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.17%) TPMS
5 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
5 3 (0.50%) SAS
5 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.50%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.50%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 190 (31.67%) AWS
2 167 (27.83%) Azure
3 84 (14.00%) GitHub
4 77 (12.83%) GCP
5 64 (10.67%) OpenShift
6 39 (6.50%) Datadog
7 35 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (5.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 30 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (4.33%) Serverless
12 25 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (3.83%) Entra ID
15 21 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (3.17%) Power Platform
18 18 (3.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (14.17%) DNS
2 83 (13.83%) Firewall
3 41 (6.83%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.67%) SNMP
5 30 (5.00%) WAN
6 29 (4.83%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (4.83%) LAN
7 28 (4.67%) BGP
8 27 (4.50%) OSPF
9 25 (4.17%) DHCP
9 25 (4.17%) Network Security
9 25 (4.17%) VXLAN
10 24 (4.00%) BIG-IP
10 24 (4.00%) Junos
11 20 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (3.00%) VPN
13 14 (2.33%) SSL
14 10 (1.67%) Wireless
15 8 (1.33%) SSH
16 7 (1.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 28 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.00%) NoSQL
4 18 (3.00%) Power BI
5 17 (2.83%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.00%) Big Data
7 12 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.83%) MySQL
9 9 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.50%) Redis
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.17%) Presto
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.67%) Tableau
13 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (16.17%) Jenkins
2 68 (11.33%) GitLab
3 44 (7.33%) Git
4 34 (5.67%) JIRA
5 28 (4.67%) Gatling
6 17 (2.83%) JMeter
7 15 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 15 (2.50%) Selenium
8 13 (2.17%) Jaeger
8 13 (2.17%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.00%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.33%) Eclipse
11 8 (1.33%) JUnit
11 8 (1.33%) Postman
12 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.17%) Gradle
12 7 (1.17%) Maven
12 7 (1.17%) Snyk
General
1 176 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.00%) Finance
3 69 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (8.83%) Public Sector
5 49 (8.17%) Banking
6 33 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.83%) Retail
10 10 (1.67%) Military
11 9 (1.50%) Front Office
12 7 (1.17%) Legal
13 6 (1.00%) Law
14 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.50%) Advertising
15 3 (0.50%) Local Government
16 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
17 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (13.83%) Analyst
2 63 (10.50%) Architect
3 60 (10.00%) Lead
4 56 (9.33%) Senior
5 40 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 39 (6.50%) SOC Analyst
7 36 (6.00%) Consultant
8 30 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (4.33%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.17%) Developer
11 24 (4.00%) Site Engineer
11 24 (4.00%) SOC Engineer
12 21 (3.50%) Security Engineer
13 20 (3.33%) CyberArk Architect
14 18 (3.00%) Network Engineer
15 16 (2.67%) Security Architect
15 16 (2.67%) Splunk Engineer
16 15 (2.50%) Management Consultant
17 14 (2.33%) Firewall Specialist
17 14 (2.33%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (12.67%) Kafka
2 56 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 51 (8.50%) REST
4 39 (6.50%) Spring Boot
5 37 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
6 33 (5.50%) Spring
7 26 (4.33%) 802.1X
8 23 (3.83%) JSON
9 22 (3.67%) LDAP
9 22 (3.67%) Middleware
10 18 (3.00%) OpenID
10 18 (3.00%) SAML
11 16 (2.67%) CSS
11 16 (2.67%) Playwright
12 14 (2.33%) RESTful
13 12 (2.00%) React
13 12 (2.00%) Spring Cloud
14 10 (1.67%) HTML
14 10 (1.67%) SailPoint
15 9 (1.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 49 (8.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.67%) PKI
5 30 (5.00%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.67%) Clustering
6 28 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (4.00%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.67%) Cyberattack
10 20 (3.33%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (2.67%) Security Posture
13 14 (2.33%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.83%) CMDB
15 9 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
15 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (1.17%) Mainframe
17 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (31.50%) Linux
2 158 (26.33%) Windows
3 57 (9.50%) Unix
4 20 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.00%) AIX
6 8 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.17%) Android
7 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.00%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.83%) zOS
10 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) 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
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (37.00%) CI/CD
2 200 (33.33%) DevOps
3 198 (33.00%) Observability
4 149 (24.83%) SIEM
5 130 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (20.50%) Cybersecurity
7 111 (18.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 108 (18.00%) Incident Response
9 93 (15.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 91 (15.17%) Containerisation
11 81 (13.50%) Agile
12 74 (12.33%) Security Operations
13 69 (11.50%) High Availability
14 62 (10.33%) Microservices
15 61 (10.17%) ITIL
15 61 (10.17%) Test Automation
16 58 (9.67%) Migration
17 56 (9.33%) Analytics
18 51 (8.50%) Root Cause Analysis
18 51 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (36.50%) Python
2 96 (16.00%) SQL
3 91 (15.17%) PowerShell
4 89 (14.83%) Bash
5 78 (13.00%) Java
6 41 (6.83%) Search Processing Language
7 26 (4.33%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.50%) Go
9 14 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.67%) Scala
12 9 (1.50%) Bicep
12 9 (1.50%) Rust
13 8 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.33%) Perl
14 7 (1.17%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.83%) C#
15 5 (0.83%) JCL
15 5 (0.83%) REXX
16 3 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 250 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 152 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 73 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 64 (10.67%) Degree
5 42 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (6.83%) CISSP
7 36 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (5.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 20 (3.33%) CISM
9 20 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
10 19 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.17%) GIAC
13 12 (2.00%) CEH
14 10 (1.67%) GCIA
15 9 (1.50%) CCSP
15 9 (1.50%) GCIH
16 8 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (1.33%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.33%) NIST
2 40 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.67%) NCSC
4 20 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 19 (3.17%) GDPR
6 15 (2.50%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.50%) SLA
7 13 (2.17%) QA
8 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.17%) GLBA
9 5 (0.83%) GRC
9 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.67%) COBIT
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (18.83%) Docker
2 19 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.00%) vSphere
5 6 (1.00%) etcd
6 5 (0.83%) Snort
6 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.33%) HDFS
8 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Squid
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 179 (29.83%) Kubernetes
2 147 (24.50%) Grafana
3 129 (21.50%) Terraform
4 121 (20.17%) Prometheus
5 106 (17.67%) Ansible
6 26 (4.33%) Argo
7 25 (4.17%) FortiGate
8 22 (3.67%) Nagios
8 22 (3.67%) ZABBIX
9 18 (3.00%) Kibana
9 18 (3.00%) Netcool
10 17 (2.83%) Tivoli
11 16 (2.67%) QRadar
12 15 (2.50%) OpenView
12 15 (2.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.33%) Puppet
13 14 (2.33%) vCenter Server
14 11 (1.83%) Progress Chef
15 10 (1.67%) Istio
15 10 (1.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 94 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.50%) Dynatrace
3 61 (10.17%) ServiceNow
4 56 (9.33%) Cisco
5 53 (8.83%) SolarWinds
6 46 (7.67%) AppDynamics
7 37 (6.17%) CrowdStrike
7 37 (6.17%) F5
8 36 (6.00%) CyberArk
9 27 (4.50%) Red Hat
9 27 (4.50%) VMware
10 26 (4.33%) IBM
11 25 (4.17%) Juniper
11 25 (4.17%) Tenable
12 24 (4.00%) BMC
13 22 (3.67%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (3.50%) Oracle
15 20 (3.33%) Fortinet
15 20 (3.33%) Palo Alto
16 19 (3.17%) New Relic