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 25 July 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
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 190 235
Rank change year-on-year -41 +45 -67
Contract jobs citing Splunk 594 502 416
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.53% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 2.71% 3.24% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 310 272
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £722 £775 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £80.48 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.23 - £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 21,914 15,504 17,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.37% 47.39% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,620 9,484 11,076
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 767 942
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.67 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.04 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.36 £25.15 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +40.60% -6.75% -35.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.41 £25.00
% change year-on-year +54.47% -10.37% -22.60%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -51 517 £525 -2.78% 258
UK excluding London -56 314 £515 -6.36% 226
London -28 225 £550 +4.76% 102
Work from Home -46 157 £520 +4.00% 48
North of England -29 127 £505 +6.76% 58
Yorkshire -17 70 £500 +11.11% 15
North West -36 56 £513 -8.89% 29
South East -107 51 £465 -13.41% 41
Midlands -18 49 £581 +19.79% 19
West Midlands -19 46 £581 +19.79% 17
South West -3 40 £450 -21.05% 43
Scotland -14 29 £469 +8.95% 21
East of England -33 27 £688 +25.00% 26
North East - 4 £369 - 14
East Midlands -14 3 £500 +5.26% 2
Wales -15 1 - - 11

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 26 (4.38%) Confluence
2 23 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 5 (0.84%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 192 (32.32%) AWS
2 184 (30.98%) Azure
3 98 (16.50%) GitHub
4 76 (12.79%) GCP
5 62 (10.44%) OpenShift
6 39 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (5.89%) Entra ID
8 32 (5.39%) Datadog
9 31 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 29 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (4.21%) Amazon S3
13 25 (4.21%) Serverless
14 24 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.04%) Power Platform
15 21 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (3.54%) SaaS
16 20 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 84 (14.14%) Firewall
2 77 (12.96%) DNS
3 38 (6.40%) Network Security
3 38 (6.40%) SNMP
4 35 (5.89%) WAN
5 32 (5.39%) BGP
6 30 (5.05%) OSPF
7 29 (4.88%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.71%) DHCP
8 28 (4.71%) LAN
9 26 (4.38%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.21%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.04%) Junos
12 22 (3.70%) VPN
13 21 (3.54%) Cisco ISE
14 20 (3.37%) TCP/IP
15 11 (1.85%) SSL
16 10 (1.68%) Wireless
17 9 (1.52%) Internet
18 8 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.21%) MongoDB
2 23 (3.87%) Power BI
3 21 (3.54%) NoSQL
3 21 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.53%) Big Data
5 15 (2.53%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.68%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.35%) MySQL
8 8 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.18%) Presto
10 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.67%) Flink
12 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.43%) GitLab
3 50 (8.42%) Git
4 37 (6.23%) JIRA
5 34 (5.72%) Gatling
6 24 (4.04%) JMeter
7 15 (2.53%) Selenium
8 14 (2.36%) LoadRunner
9 13 (2.19%) REST Assured
10 12 (2.02%) Serenity BDD
11 11 (1.85%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.35%) Gradle
13 8 (1.35%) JUnit
13 8 (1.35%) Maven
14 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
14 7 (1.18%) Postman
14 7 (1.18%) Snyk
15 6 (1.01%) Artifactory
General
1 152 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.35%) Finance
3 73 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.09%) Banking
5 36 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.36%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Front Office
9 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.68%) Legal
10 8 (1.35%) Military
11 5 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.84%) Law
11 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (10.44%) Analyst
1 62 (10.44%) Lead
2 61 (10.27%) Senior
3 52 (8.75%) Architect
4 48 (8.08%) Consultant
5 42 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (5.56%) Developer
7 26 (4.38%) Data Engineer
8 25 (4.21%) SOC Engineer
9 24 (4.04%) Splunk Engineer
10 23 (3.87%) Security Architect
10 23 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 20 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (3.37%) Security Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) Site Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) Test Engineer
13 17 (2.86%) Network Engineer
13 17 (2.86%) Performance Engineer
13 17 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.78%) REST
2 64 (10.77%) Kafka
3 60 (10.10%) OpenTelemetry
4 34 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
5 33 (5.56%) Spring
5 33 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 27 (4.55%) 802.1X
7 26 (4.38%) JSON
8 16 (2.69%) RESTful
9 14 (2.36%) React
10 13 (2.19%) OAuth
10 13 (2.19%) OAuth2
10 13 (2.19%) Playwright
11 12 (2.02%) Middleware
11 12 (2.02%) Spring Cloud
12 11 (1.85%) .NET
12 11 (1.85%) SailPoint
13 10 (1.68%) CSS
13 10 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
14 9 (1.52%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.43%) Onboarding
3 37 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.06%) PKI
5 34 (5.72%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (5.22%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.71%) Clustering
7 28 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (3.20%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.86%) CMDB
10 13 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 12 (2.02%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.52%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 154 (25.93%) Linux
2 134 (22.56%) Windows
3 44 (7.41%) Unix
4 18 (3.03%) AIX
4 18 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.67%) Android
8 4 (0.67%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (36.87%) CI/CD
2 217 (36.53%) Observability
3 184 (30.98%) DevOps
4 132 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (21.21%) SIEM
6 109 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 96 (16.16%) Incident Response
7 96 (16.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 94 (15.82%) Agile
9 85 (14.31%) Cybersecurity
10 80 (13.47%) Containerisation
11 75 (12.63%) High Availability
11 75 (12.63%) Security Operations
12 61 (10.27%) ITIL
13 60 (10.10%) ITSM
14 59 (9.93%) Analytics
14 59 (9.93%) Test Automation
15 54 (9.09%) Cloud Security
15 54 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (8.75%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (35.52%) Python
2 91 (15.32%) PowerShell
3 89 (14.98%) SQL
4 75 (12.63%) Java
5 67 (11.28%) Bash
6 44 (7.41%) Search Processing Language
7 29 (4.88%) Go
8 22 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.36%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (2.19%) Scala
11 12 (2.02%) Bicep
11 12 (2.02%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.35%) C#
12 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.35%) Perl
13 6 (1.01%) Ruby
14 4 (0.67%) JCL
14 4 (0.67%) REXX
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 217 (36.53%) Security Cleared
2 132 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.27%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.25%) CISSP
5 41 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (5.89%) Degree
7 26 (4.38%) CISM
8 25 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.86%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.53%) GIAC
13 11 (1.85%) CCNP
13 11 (1.85%) CEH
14 10 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.68%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.52%) CCSP
15 9 (1.52%) GCIA
15 9 (1.52%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.23%) NIST
2 27 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.36%) QA
5 12 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.68%) GDPR
7 9 (1.52%) SLA
8 6 (1.01%) NCSC
8 6 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.84%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.67%) GRC
11 3 (0.51%) COBIT
11 3 (0.51%) GxP
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 97 (16.33%) Docker
2 25 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.36%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.19%) vSphere
6 7 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.01%) etcd
8 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 151 (25.42%) Kubernetes
2 150 (25.25%) Grafana
3 146 (24.58%) Terraform
4 115 (19.36%) Prometheus
5 91 (15.32%) Ansible
6 27 (4.55%) QRadar
7 26 (4.38%) FortiGate
8 25 (4.21%) Argo
9 23 (3.87%) ZABBIX
10 20 (3.37%) Nagios
11 18 (3.03%) Netcool
12 17 (2.86%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.53%) OpenView
13 15 (2.53%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 14 (2.36%) Kibana
15 13 (2.19%) vCenter Server
16 10 (1.68%) Control-M
16 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
17 8 (1.35%) Puppet
17 8 (1.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 97 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.47%) Dynatrace
3 79 (13.30%) ServiceNow
4 61 (10.27%) SolarWinds
5 58 (9.76%) Cisco
6 45 (7.58%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.73%) F5
8 38 (6.40%) AppDynamics
9 32 (5.39%) New Relic
10 29 (4.88%) Google
10 29 (4.88%) IBM
11 28 (4.71%) CyberArk
11 28 (4.71%) Tenable
12 25 (4.21%) Juniper
12 25 (4.21%) VMware
13 23 (3.87%) BMC
14 22 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.70%) Fortinet
14 22 (3.70%) Oracle
14 22 (3.70%) Palo Alto