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 19 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 191 268
Rank change year-on-year +22 +77 -78
Contract jobs citing Splunk 662 427 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.39% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 3.64% 2.99% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 250 230
10th Percentile £350 £404 £402
25th Percentile £418 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,193 14,299 19,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.68% 46.42% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,602 11,971
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.43% -1.42%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 407 930
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.97 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.28% -20.24%
75th Percentile £57.63 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.45 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -13.33%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +24 582 £525 -8.70% 135
UK excluding London +58 375 £500 -9.09% 116
London -32 224 £575 -4.17% 44
Work from Home -5 173 £540 -10.00% 41
North of England +2 144 £514 -6.55% 31
Yorkshire +9 109 £516 +3.20% 20
Midlands +13 106 £525 -2.78% 10
West Midlands +16 102 £525 -4.63% 7
South East +18 95 £375 -34.78% 36
Scotland +26 35 £550 +32.53% 12
North West -23 34 £490 -10.91% 11
South West -14 11 £625 -21.88% 10
East of England -32 6 £600 - 18
Wales - 5 £600 -
East Midlands -26 4 £442 +13.11% 3
North East -14 3 £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 17 (2.57%) Apache
2 15 (2.27%) Skype for Business
3 14 (2.11%) Confluence
4 13 (1.96%) TPMS
5 10 (1.51%) Mattermost
5 10 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.91%) Apache Pig
7 6 (0.91%) IIS
7 6 (0.91%) iPlanet
7 6 (0.91%) JBoss
7 6 (0.91%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.91%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.45%) SAS
10 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (36.71%) AWS
2 157 (23.72%) Azure
3 141 (21.30%) GCP
4 75 (11.33%) GitHub
5 68 (10.27%) OpenShift
6 54 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.04%) Serverless
8 32 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.68%) Datadog
10 26 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (3.17%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.87%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.72%) SaaS
15 17 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (2.27%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (15.26%) Firewall
2 84 (12.69%) DNS
3 49 (7.40%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.08%) Network Security
5 25 (3.78%) SSL
5 25 (3.78%) VPN
6 20 (3.02%) HTTP
7 19 (2.87%) BGP
7 19 (2.87%) Wireless
8 18 (2.72%) OSPF
9 17 (2.57%) DHCP
9 17 (2.57%) Ethernet VPN
9 17 (2.57%) WAN
10 16 (2.42%) LAN
11 15 (2.27%) Skype
11 15 (2.27%) Wireshark
12 14 (2.11%) SNMP
13 13 (1.96%) SSH
13 13 (1.96%) VXLAN
14 12 (1.81%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.29%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.53%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.87%) MySQL
6 13 (1.96%) Redis
7 10 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.51%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.51%) Power BI
7 10 (1.51%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.21%) Apache Hive
8 8 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.91%) Data Mining
9 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.91%) Tableau
10 4 (0.60%) Flink
11 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 128 (19.34%) Jenkins
2 104 (15.71%) GitLab
3 42 (6.34%) Git
4 26 (3.93%) JIRA
5 21 (3.17%) Liquibase
6 17 (2.57%) Postman
7 15 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (2.27%) Xcode
8 14 (2.11%) Android Studio
8 14 (2.11%) Browser DevTools
8 14 (2.11%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.81%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.81%) JUnit
9 12 (1.81%) Selenium
10 11 (1.66%) Gatling
10 11 (1.66%) Maven
11 10 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.51%) Gradle
11 10 (1.51%) Jaeger
12 8 (1.21%) Cucumber
General
1 285 (43.05%) Social Skills
2 155 (23.41%) Finance
3 105 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.21%) Banking
6 46 (6.95%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (5.89%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.72%) Military
9 13 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.36%) Retail
11 8 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.60%) Front Office
13 4 (0.60%) Law
14 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.15%) Local Government
16 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (18.88%) Analyst
2 75 (11.33%) Senior
3 63 (9.52%) Architect
4 59 (8.91%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.34%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 38 (5.74%) Lead
9 30 (4.53%) Security Analyst
10 29 (4.38%) Splunk Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) Site Engineer
12 23 (3.47%) Developer
12 23 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (3.32%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Monitoring Analyst
15 20 (3.02%) Network Engineer
16 19 (2.87%) Security Architect
17 18 (2.72%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.57%) REST
2 67 (10.12%) Kafka
3 66 (9.97%) Elastic Stack
4 40 (6.04%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (5.59%) Spring Boot
6 36 (5.44%) RESTful
7 33 (4.98%) SAML
8 32 (4.83%) Spring
9 26 (3.93%) LDAP
10 25 (3.78%) OpenID
11 23 (3.47%) Middleware
12 22 (3.32%) JSON
12 22 (3.32%) OAuth
13 20 (3.02%) AngularJS
14 19 (2.87%) React
15 18 (2.72%) CSS
16 15 (2.27%) GraphQL
16 15 (2.27%) Keycloak
16 15 (2.27%) Playwright
17 14 (2.11%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.16%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.95%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.83%) PKI
5 32 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 32 (4.83%) Security Posture
6 29 (4.38%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (3.78%) Mobile App
8 22 (3.32%) Cyber Defence
9 21 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
10 20 (3.02%) Clustering
10 20 (3.02%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.87%) Cyberattack
12 13 (1.96%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.96%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 244 (36.86%) Linux
2 151 (22.81%) Windows
3 90 (13.60%) Unix
4 32 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.72%) Android
5 18 (2.72%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.06%) CentOS
6 7 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.60%) zOS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (34.29%) CI/CD
2 217 (32.78%) DevOps
3 186 (28.10%) Cybersecurity
4 183 (27.64%) Observability
5 168 (25.38%) SIEM
6 167 (25.23%) Incident Response
7 154 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (21.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (19.03%) Containerisation
10 106 (16.01%) Agile
11 90 (13.60%) Computer Science
12 89 (13.44%) Microservices
13 87 (13.14%) Security Operations
14 75 (11.33%) High Availability
15 73 (11.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 71 (10.73%) Migration
17 67 (10.12%) Root Cause Analysis
18 62 (9.37%) Threat Detection
19 57 (8.61%) Mentoring
19 57 (8.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 243 (36.71%) Python
2 103 (15.56%) Bash
3 97 (14.65%) PowerShell
4 93 (14.05%) Java
5 87 (13.14%) SQL
6 46 (6.95%) Go
7 34 (5.14%) Shell Script
8 31 (4.68%) JavaScript
9 23 (3.47%) Perl
10 21 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.11%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.51%) Bicep
13 10 (1.51%) Groovy
13 10 (1.51%) Scala
13 10 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
14 9 (1.36%) Rust
15 4 (0.60%) JCL
15 4 (0.60%) R
15 4 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 237 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 158 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 100 (15.11%) Degree
4 71 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.76%) DV Cleared
6 53 (8.01%) CISSP
7 35 (5.29%) Master's Degree
8 34 (5.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (4.83%) CISM
10 21 (3.17%) GIAC
11 19 (2.87%) AWS Certification
12 17 (2.57%) CEH
12 17 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (2.42%) CompTIA CySA+
13 16 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (1.96%) FFIEC
14 13 (1.96%) GCIA
14 13 (1.96%) GCIH
15 12 (1.81%) MCSE
15 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.33%) NIST
2 59 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.14%) GDPR
4 26 (3.93%) NCSC
5 24 (3.63%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.47%) QA
7 19 (2.87%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.96%) GLBA
9 10 (1.51%) SOC 2
10 9 (1.36%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.36%) SLA
11 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.76%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (20.39%) Docker
2 47 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.27%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.81%) vSphere
6 8 (1.21%) Snort
7 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.60%) NFS
10 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.45%) Squid
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (30.97%) Kubernetes
2 141 (21.30%) Grafana
3 135 (20.39%) Terraform
4 134 (20.24%) Ansible
5 112 (16.92%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.23%) Kibana
7 24 (3.63%) Argo
8 21 (3.17%) Puppet
8 21 (3.17%) QRadar
9 19 (2.87%) Progress Chef
10 18 (2.72%) SCOM
11 16 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (2.27%) HP SiteScope
13 14 (2.11%) CSIRT
14 13 (1.96%) Fluentd
14 13 (1.96%) FortiGate
15 12 (1.81%) Nessus
15 12 (1.81%) vCenter Server
16 11 (1.66%) logstash
16 11 (1.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 139 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.01%) Cisco
3 46 (6.95%) Google
4 44 (6.65%) AppDynamics
4 44 (6.65%) Dynatrace
5 43 (6.50%) Oracle
6 40 (6.04%) ServiceNow
7 37 (5.59%) CrowdStrike
8 32 (4.83%) Red Hat
8 32 (4.83%) VMware
9 30 (4.53%) CyberArk
9 30 (4.53%) F5
10 26 (3.93%) Qualys
11 25 (3.78%) Cribl.io
12 23 (3.47%) Carbon Black
12 23 (3.47%) SolarWinds
13 22 (3.32%) Palo Alto
14 21 (3.17%) Tenable
15 18 (2.72%) Remedy
16 12 (1.81%) Juniper