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 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 193 231
Rank change year-on-year -17 +38 -64
Contract jobs citing Splunk 601 409 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.40% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 3.04% 2.95% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 255 264
10th Percentile £357 £389 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.69 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.22% +2.50% -33.11%
75th Percentile £81.77 £41.50 -
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 19,801 13,877 18,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.23% 47.63% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,535 8,680 11,199
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £601 £619 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,003 562 1,089
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.37 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%
75th Percentile £58.96 £56.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.34 £73.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.04 £23.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +26.24% +7.18% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -8 529 £525 -4.55% 261
UK excluding London +12 356 £514 -6.55% 267
London -37 194 £575 +9.52% 68
Work from Home -12 155 £525 -4.72% 44
North of England -5 132 £490 -14.78% 57
Yorkshire 0 85 £485 -25.27% 17
South East -36 84 £433 -21.36% 76
Midlands -25 62 £539 +0.45% 14
West Midlands -20 57 £563 +2.18% 14
North West -23 46 £525 -3.23% 27
South West -5 38 £450 -26.53% 44
East of England -29 26 £688 +25.00% 39
Scotland -5 24 £610 +41.86% 23
East Midlands -25 5 £447 +14.32%
Wales -8 4 - - 10
North East - 4 £444 - 13

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 8 (1.33%) TPMS
5 4 (0.67%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.67%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.50%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 189 (31.45%) AWS
2 163 (27.12%) Azure
3 81 (13.48%) GitHub
4 78 (12.98%) GCP
5 63 (10.48%) OpenShift
6 39 (6.49%) Datadog
7 34 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 34 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (4.99%) Amazon S3
9 26 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (4.33%) Serverless
10 25 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (3.66%) Entra ID
14 21 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.16%) SaaS
16 18 (3.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 84 (13.98%) DNS
2 83 (13.81%) Firewall
3 41 (6.82%) SNMP
3 41 (6.82%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.99%) WAN
5 29 (4.83%) Ethernet VPN
5 29 (4.83%) LAN
6 28 (4.66%) BGP
7 27 (4.49%) OSPF
8 25 (4.16%) DHCP
8 25 (4.16%) Network Security
8 25 (4.16%) VXLAN
9 24 (3.99%) BIG-IP
9 24 (3.99%) Junos
10 20 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (2.83%) VPN
12 15 (2.50%) SSL
13 10 (1.66%) Wireless
14 9 (1.50%) SSH
15 7 (1.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.16%) MongoDB
2 28 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 17 (2.83%) Hadoop
4 17 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.83%) Power BI
5 13 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (2.00%) Big Data
6 12 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.83%) MySQL
8 9 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.50%) Redis
9 7 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.16%) Presto
10 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.67%) Tableau
12 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (16.14%) Jenkins
2 67 (11.15%) GitLab
3 44 (7.32%) Git
4 34 (5.66%) JIRA
5 27 (4.49%) Gatling
6 16 (2.66%) JMeter
7 15 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 15 (2.50%) Selenium
8 13 (2.16%) Jaeger
8 13 (2.16%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.00%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.33%) JUnit
11 8 (1.33%) Postman
12 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.16%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.16%) Gradle
12 7 (1.16%) Maven
12 7 (1.16%) Snyk
General
1 181 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 115 (19.13%) Finance
3 72 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.65%) Banking
4 52 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.83%) Military
9 10 (1.66%) Retail
10 9 (1.50%) Front Office
11 6 (1.00%) Law
11 6 (1.00%) Legal
12 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Advertising
13 3 (0.50%) Local Government
14 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (13.98%) Analyst
2 64 (10.65%) Architect
3 59 (9.82%) Lead
4 56 (9.32%) Senior
5 39 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (6.49%) SOC Analyst
6 36 (5.99%) Consultant
7 29 (4.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 24 (3.99%) Developer
9 24 (3.99%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (3.83%) Site Engineer
11 21 (3.49%) Security Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) CyberArk Architect
13 18 (3.00%) Network Engineer
14 17 (2.83%) Splunk Engineer
15 16 (2.66%) Security Architect
16 15 (2.50%) Management Consultant
17 14 (2.33%) Firewall Specialist
17 14 (2.33%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.98%) Kafka
2 55 (9.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 53 (8.82%) REST
4 38 (6.32%) Spring Boot
5 36 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
6 32 (5.32%) Spring
7 26 (4.33%) 802.1X
8 24 (3.99%) JSON
9 23 (3.83%) Middleware
10 22 (3.66%) LDAP
11 18 (3.00%) OpenID
11 18 (3.00%) SAML
12 17 (2.83%) Playwright
13 16 (2.66%) CSS
14 13 (2.16%) RESTful
15 12 (2.00%) React
15 12 (2.00%) Spring Cloud
16 10 (1.66%) HTML
16 10 (1.66%) SailPoint
17 9 (1.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.82%) Onboarding
3 48 (7.99%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.66%) PKI
5 30 (4.99%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.66%) Clustering
6 28 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (3.99%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.66%) Cyberattack
10 20 (3.33%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (2.66%) 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 8 (1.33%) Mainframe
17 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
18 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 190 (31.61%) Linux
2 162 (26.96%) Windows
3 57 (9.48%) Unix
4 21 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.00%) AIX
6 9 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.16%) Android
7 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.00%) zOS
9 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) SUSE
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (36.77%) CI/CD
2 199 (33.11%) DevOps
3 194 (32.28%) Observability
4 150 (24.96%) SIEM
5 130 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (20.63%) Cybersecurity
7 111 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 108 (17.97%) Incident Response
9 91 (15.14%) Containerisation
9 91 (15.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 83 (13.81%) Agile
11 73 (12.15%) Security Operations
12 71 (11.81%) High Availability
13 64 (10.65%) Microservices
14 63 (10.48%) Test Automation
15 62 (10.32%) ITIL
16 59 (9.82%) Migration
17 56 (9.32%) Analytics
18 52 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 51 (8.49%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 220 (36.61%) Python
2 99 (16.47%) SQL
3 89 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 87 (14.48%) Bash
5 79 (13.14%) Java
6 40 (6.66%) Search Processing Language
7 27 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 20 (3.33%) Go
9 14 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.66%) Scala
12 9 (1.50%) Bicep
12 9 (1.50%) Perl
12 9 (1.50%) Rust
13 8 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.16%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.00%) JCL
15 6 (1.00%) REXX
16 4 (0.67%) C#
17 3 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 251 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 154 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.98%) DV Cleared
4 63 (10.48%) Degree
5 42 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (6.66%) CISSP
7 35 (5.82%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 20 (3.33%) CISM
10 19 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (3.16%) CompTIA CySA+
11 14 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.16%) GIAC
13 12 (2.00%) CEH
14 9 (1.50%) GCIA
15 8 (1.33%) CCSP
15 8 (1.33%) FFIEC
15 8 (1.33%) GCIH
15 8 (1.33%) JNCIA
15 8 (1.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.48%) NIST
2 40 (6.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.66%) NCSC
4 21 (3.49%) PCI DSS
5 20 (3.33%) GDPR
6 16 (2.66%) Accessibility
7 15 (2.50%) SLA
8 14 (2.33%) QA
9 8 (1.33%) GLBA
10 7 (1.16%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.83%) GRC
11 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.67%) COBIT
12 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (18.64%) Docker
2 19 (3.16%) 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 4 (0.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
9 2 (0.33%) HDFS
9 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Squid
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 178 (29.62%) Kubernetes
2 145 (24.13%) Grafana
3 129 (21.46%) Terraform
4 118 (19.63%) Prometheus
5 106 (17.64%) Ansible
6 26 (4.33%) Argo
7 25 (4.16%) FortiGate
8 22 (3.66%) Nagios
8 22 (3.66%) ZABBIX
9 18 (3.00%) Netcool
10 17 (2.83%) Kibana
10 17 (2.83%) QRadar
10 17 (2.83%) Tivoli
11 15 (2.50%) OpenView
11 15 (2.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.33%) vCenter Server
13 13 (2.16%) Puppet
14 10 (1.66%) Istio
14 10 (1.66%) Kiali
14 10 (1.66%) linkerd
Vendors
1 92 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.15%) Dynatrace
3 60 (9.98%) ServiceNow
4 55 (9.15%) Cisco
5 53 (8.82%) SolarWinds
6 46 (7.65%) AppDynamics
7 37 (6.16%) F5
8 36 (5.99%) CyberArk
9 35 (5.82%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (4.49%) Red Hat
10 27 (4.49%) VMware
11 25 (4.16%) BMC
11 25 (4.16%) Juniper
11 25 (4.16%) Tenable
12 24 (3.99%) IBM
13 22 (3.66%) Extreme Networks
14 20 (3.33%) Fortinet
14 20 (3.33%) Oracle
14 20 (3.33%) Palo Alto
15 18 (3.00%) New Relic