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 12 September 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 149 223
Rank change year-on-year -90 +74 -45
Contract jobs citing Splunk 597 631 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.91% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 2.61% 4.06% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 387 273
10th Percentile £350 £360 £413
25th Percentile £413 £426 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £675
90th Percentile £716 £704 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.64% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £44.29 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 22,867 15,556 17,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.91% 47.12% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,033 9,517 10,292
10th Percentile £313 £276 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 792 694
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%
75th Percentile £62.25 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.95 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.19 £21.24 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.31% -29.20% -25.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -103 518 £525 - 419
UK excluding London -108 302 £519 -2.17% 359
London -63 242 £525 - 182
Work from Home -43 169 £520 +4.00% 163
North of England -46 127 £463 +1.09% 83
North West -25 71 £513 +12.58% 52
Midlands -54 50 £575 +9.00% 31
West Midlands -49 48 £575 +7.68% 28
Yorkshire -49 42 £469 -1.52% 19
South East -119 39 £485 -3.00% 90
South West -21 35 £600 +9.09% 45
Scotland -27 33 £425 -15.51% 42
East of England -35 26 £700 +27.27% 35
North East -32 14 £425 - 13
East Midlands -21 1 £500 +38.89% 3
Wales - 1 - - 21

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 29 (4.86%) Confluence
2 15 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.34%) Apache
4 8 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Mendix
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) 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 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 229 (38.36%) AWS
2 215 (36.01%) Azure
3 101 (16.92%) GitHub
4 85 (14.24%) GCP
5 56 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (7.87%) OpenShift
7 43 (7.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.53%) Entra ID
9 37 (6.20%) Datadog
10 35 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (5.86%) Power Platform
11 34 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (4.69%) SaaS
13 27 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (4.52%) Serverless
14 24 (4.02%) Amazon S3
15 23 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.55%) Firewall
2 48 (8.04%) DNS
3 39 (6.53%) Network Security
4 37 (6.20%) SNMP
5 22 (3.69%) WAN
6 17 (2.85%) VPN
7 16 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 12 (2.01%) Wireless
9 11 (1.84%) BGP
9 11 (1.84%) DHCP
9 11 (1.84%) HTTP
9 11 (1.84%) LAN
10 10 (1.68%) Internet
11 9 (1.51%) OSPF
11 9 (1.51%) SSL
12 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.01%) BIG-IP
13 6 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (0.84%) Multicast
14 5 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.70%) Power BI
2 29 (4.86%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.02%) Big Data
5 16 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.51%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.84%) MySQL
10 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.17%) Looker
11 7 (1.17%) Presto
12 6 (1.01%) Flink
12 6 (1.01%) Tableau
13 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (15.41%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.88%) Git
3 55 (9.21%) GitLab
4 43 (7.20%) JIRA
5 27 (4.52%) Gatling
5 27 (4.52%) JMeter
6 16 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 16 (2.68%) LoadRunner
7 10 (1.68%) Selenium
8 9 (1.51%) Maven
9 8 (1.34%) Gradle
9 8 (1.34%) JUnit
9 8 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.17%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.01%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 159 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.77%) Finance
3 105 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.55%) Banking
5 36 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Retail
8 11 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.68%) Front Office
9 10 (1.68%) Legal
10 6 (1.01%) Military
11 5 (0.84%) Law
11 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Advertising
14 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 62 (10.39%) Analyst
2 53 (8.88%) Senior
3 51 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (8.04%) Lead
5 42 (7.04%) Consultant
6 41 (6.87%) Developer
7 40 (6.70%) Splunk Engineer
8 36 (6.03%) Architect
9 33 (5.53%) Security Engineer
10 27 (4.52%) SOC Engineer
11 26 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 21 (3.52%) Test Engineer
13 19 (3.18%) Performance Engineer
13 19 (3.18%) Security Analyst
14 18 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (2.85%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.85%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.85%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.68%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (25.13%) Terraform
2 58 (9.72%) Kafka
3 56 (9.38%) REST
4 49 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (6.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.52%) React
7 20 (3.35%) RESTful
7 20 (3.35%) Spring
7 20 (3.35%) Spring Boot
8 16 (2.68%) JSON
9 15 (2.51%) Play Framework
10 13 (2.18%) CSS
10 13 (2.18%) Middleware
10 13 (2.18%) OAuth
10 13 (2.18%) OAuth2
11 12 (2.01%) .NET
12 11 (1.84%) OpenID
13 10 (1.68%) SAML
14 9 (1.51%) HTML
14 9 (1.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.39%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 42 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 22 (3.69%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.85%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
9 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.68%) Clustering
11 10 (1.68%) CMDB
11 10 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.51%) PKI
13 8 (1.34%) Blog
13 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 167 (27.97%) Linux
2 109 (18.26%) Windows
3 50 (8.38%) Unix
4 29 (4.86%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.35%) AIX
7 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
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
1 232 (38.86%) Observability
2 214 (35.85%) CI/CD
3 184 (30.82%) DevOps
4 137 (22.95%) SIEM
5 123 (20.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 119 (19.93%) Agile
7 115 (19.26%) Incident Response
7 115 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (15.08%) Cybersecurity
9 84 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (13.23%) Containerisation
10 79 (13.23%) Security Operations
11 77 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 76 (12.73%) Root Cause Analysis
13 64 (10.72%) Incident Management
14 63 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 56 (9.38%) Analytics
16 54 (9.05%) ITSM
16 54 (9.05%) Test Automation
17 53 (8.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 214 (35.85%) Python
2 113 (18.93%) PowerShell
3 85 (14.24%) SQL
4 76 (12.73%) Bash
5 69 (11.56%) Java
6 52 (8.71%) Search Processing Language
7 36 (6.03%) Go
8 24 (4.02%) JavaScript
9 23 (3.85%) Scala
10 20 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (3.02%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.51%) Perl
13 8 (1.34%) C#
14 7 (1.17%) Bicep
15 5 (0.84%) Ruby
16 4 (0.67%) Groovy
16 4 (0.67%) JCL
16 4 (0.67%) REXX
17 3 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 222 (37.19%) Security Cleared
2 154 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 51 (8.54%) CISSP
5 44 (7.37%) Degree
6 25 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.85%) CISM
8 20 (3.35%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.02%) GIAC
10 17 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (2.35%) GCIH
12 13 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (2.18%) CEH
13 10 (1.68%) CCSP
14 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.34%) Azure Certification
15 8 (1.34%) GCIA
16 7 (1.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.37%) NIST
2 26 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.19%) QA
4 24 (4.02%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.85%) GDPR
6 14 (2.35%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.68%) NCSC
8 9 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.84%) SLA
11 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.67%) GRC
11 4 (0.67%) GxP
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.50%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (16.58%) Docker
2 25 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) etcd
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 155 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 151 (25.29%) Grafana
3 97 (16.25%) Prometheus
4 86 (14.41%) Ansible
5 33 (5.53%) QRadar
6 22 (3.69%) ZABBIX
7 19 (3.18%) Nagios
8 17 (2.85%) Kibana
9 15 (2.51%) Argo
10 14 (2.35%) Netcool
10 14 (2.35%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.18%) Tivoli
12 11 (1.84%) OpenView
12 11 (1.84%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 10 (1.68%) Control-M
14 9 (1.51%) SCOM
15 8 (1.34%) CASB
15 8 (1.34%) Puppet
15 8 (1.34%) WMI
16 7 (1.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 124 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 101 (16.92%) Dynatrace
3 71 (11.89%) ServiceNow
4 49 (8.21%) CrowdStrike
5 48 (8.04%) SolarWinds
6 43 (7.20%) AppDynamics
7 39 (6.53%) Cisco
8 37 (6.20%) New Relic
9 34 (5.70%) Google
9 34 (5.70%) Oracle
10 32 (5.36%) IBM
11 24 (4.02%) VMware
12 23 (3.85%) CyberArk
13 21 (3.52%) BMC
14 19 (3.18%) Cribl.io
14 19 (3.18%) F5
14 19 (3.18%) Palo Alto
14 19 (3.18%) Tenable
15 17 (2.85%) Qualys
16 13 (2.18%) Fortinet