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 22 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
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 146 214
Rank change year-on-year -90 +68 -21
Contract jobs citing Splunk 609 624 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.92% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 4.05% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 386 263
10th Percentile £350 £360 £425
25th Percentile £423 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £688
90th Percentile £721 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £44.57 - £48.75
25th Percentile £46.40 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £60.00
75th Percentile £72.96 - £67.50
90th Percentile £79.19 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.23 - £60.00

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 22,776 15,426 16,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.50% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,912 9,454 10,092
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £701 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,288 793 656
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -18.87% -30.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £43.75 £63.84
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.33% -29.83% -29.82%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -95 526 £525 - 457
UK excluding London -115 299 £525 -0.47% 365
London -50 255 £525 - 192
Work from Home -39 170 £525 +5.00% 128
North of England -46 123 £463 -1.97% 92
North West -30 69 £525 +14.75% 49
Midlands -66 47 £575 +9.52% 32
West Midlands -62 45 £575 +8.08% 29
South East -114 42 £485 -3.00% 84
Yorkshire -53 39 £475 -2.66% 28
Scotland -26 33 £425 -15.51% 34
South West -21 31 £650 +18.18% 50
East of England -45 27 £675 +22.73% 33
North East -21 15 £425 - 16
Wales - 4 - - 21
East Midlands -18 1 £500 +38.89% 3

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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 14 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.31%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.15%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.66%) IIS
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.49%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Mule
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.31%) SAP MDG
1 8 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (38.10%) AWS
1 232 (38.10%) Azure
2 97 (15.93%) GitHub
3 88 (14.45%) GCP
4 56 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
5 47 (7.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 44 (7.22%) OpenShift
7 43 (7.06%) Datadog
8 41 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (6.57%) Entra ID
10 36 (5.91%) Power Platform
11 35 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (4.76%) SaaS
14 25 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (3.94%) Serverless
16 23 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (3.61%) Amazon S3
18 20 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (10.67%) Firewall
2 44 (7.22%) DNS
3 40 (6.57%) Network Security
4 34 (5.58%) SNMP
5 24 (3.94%) WAN
6 18 (2.96%) TCP/IP
7 17 (2.79%) VPN
8 12 (1.97%) BGP
8 12 (1.97%) DHCP
8 12 (1.97%) HTTP
8 12 (1.97%) LAN
8 12 (1.97%) Wireless
9 10 (1.64%) Internet
9 10 (1.64%) OSPF
9 10 (1.64%) SSL
10 7 (1.15%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.15%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.99%) BIG-IP
11 6 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (0.99%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.75%) Power BI
2 29 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 24 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.96%) Big Data
5 17 (2.79%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.46%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.81%) MySQL
9 9 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.48%) Tableau
10 8 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.15%) Looker
11 7 (1.15%) Presto
12 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.82%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (15.11%) Jenkins
2 64 (10.51%) Git
3 59 (9.69%) GitLab
4 47 (7.72%) JIRA
5 28 (4.60%) Gatling
5 28 (4.60%) JMeter
6 18 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 17 (2.79%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.30%) Selenium
9 10 (1.64%) Postman
10 9 (1.48%) Maven
11 8 (1.31%) Gradle
11 8 (1.31%) JUnit
11 8 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.15%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.15%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 165 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.38%) Finance
3 106 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.52%) Banking
5 38 (6.24%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.97%) Retail
9 11 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.64%) Front Office
10 10 (1.64%) Legal
11 7 (1.15%) Military
12 5 (0.82%) Law
12 5 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
15 2 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 63 (10.34%) Analyst
2 56 (9.20%) Senior
3 52 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (7.72%) Lead
5 42 (6.90%) Architect
5 42 (6.90%) Splunk Engineer
6 40 (6.57%) Developer
7 39 (6.40%) Consultant
8 35 (5.75%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.43%) SOC Engineer
10 26 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 23 (3.78%) Test Engineer
12 20 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.28%) Security Analyst
13 19 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (2.96%) Performance Engineer
14 18 (2.96%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.79%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.79%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.63%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (24.30%) Terraform
2 62 (10.18%) Kafka
3 57 (9.36%) REST
4 49 (8.05%) Elastic Stack
5 35 (5.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.45%) RESTful
6 21 (3.45%) Spring
6 21 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 20 (3.28%) JSON
7 20 (3.28%) Middleware
8 18 (2.96%) OAuth
8 18 (2.96%) OAuth2
8 18 (2.96%) React
9 15 (2.46%) Play Framework
10 13 (2.13%) CSS
11 12 (1.97%) .NET
11 12 (1.97%) OpenID
12 10 (1.64%) OpenAPI
12 10 (1.64%) SAML
12 10 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.33%) Onboarding
2 61 (10.02%) Cloud Native
3 42 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (3.12%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.96%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.97%) CMDB
11 12 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.81%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.64%) Clustering
13 10 (1.64%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.48%) PKI
15 8 (1.31%) Blog
15 8 (1.31%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 171 (28.08%) Linux
2 107 (17.57%) Windows
3 51 (8.37%) Unix
4 30 (4.93%) Windows Server
5 25 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.64%) AIX
7 9 (1.48%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.66%) Android
9 4 (0.66%) CentOS
9 4 (0.66%) VMS
9 4 (0.66%) zOS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) MVS
11 1 (0.16%) Rocky
11 1 (0.16%) SUSE
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (39.90%) Observability
2 223 (36.62%) CI/CD
3 188 (30.87%) DevOps
4 140 (22.99%) SIEM
5 125 (20.53%) Agile
5 125 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (19.21%) Incident Response
7 115 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (15.44%) Cybersecurity
9 85 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (13.79%) Security Operations
11 80 (13.14%) Containerisation
12 78 (12.81%) Root Cause Analysis
12 78 (12.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 72 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (10.34%) Incident Management
15 60 (9.85%) Analytics
16 58 (9.52%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.20%) ITSM
17 56 (9.20%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 206 (33.83%) Python
2 110 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.29%) SQL
4 76 (12.48%) Java
5 71 (11.66%) Bash
6 51 (8.37%) Search Processing Language
7 38 (6.24%) Go
8 23 (3.78%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.61%) Scala
9 22 (3.61%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.64%) C#
12 10 (1.64%) Perl
13 7 (1.15%) Bicep
14 6 (0.99%) Groovy
15 5 (0.82%) Ruby
16 4 (0.66%) JCL
16 4 (0.66%) REXX
17 3 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 225 (36.95%) Security Cleared
2 157 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 53 (8.70%) CISSP
5 46 (7.55%) Degree
6 26 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.78%) CISM
8 21 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.96%) GIAC
11 16 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (2.46%) GCIH
13 14 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (1.97%) CEH
15 11 (1.81%) CCSP
16 9 (1.48%) Azure Certification
16 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.31%) GCIA
18 7 (1.15%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.24%) NIST
2 29 (4.76%) QA
3 25 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.79%) GDPR
6 15 (2.46%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.48%) NCSC
7 9 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.82%) GRC
9 5 (0.82%) SLA
10 4 (0.66%) GxP
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (16.75%) Docker
2 27 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.66%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Firmware
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 152 (24.96%) Grafana
3 97 (15.93%) Prometheus
4 84 (13.79%) Ansible
5 33 (5.42%) QRadar
6 18 (2.96%) ZABBIX
7 17 (2.79%) Kibana
8 15 (2.46%) Nagios
9 14 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.81%) Argo
11 10 (1.64%) Control-M
11 10 (1.64%) Netcool
11 10 (1.64%) Tivoli
12 9 (1.48%) CASB
12 9 (1.48%) SCOM
13 8 (1.31%) OpenView
13 8 (1.31%) Puppet
13 8 (1.31%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 8 (1.31%) WMI
14 7 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 131 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 107 (17.57%) Dynatrace
3 78 (12.81%) ServiceNow
4 52 (8.54%) CrowdStrike
5 45 (7.39%) SolarWinds
6 44 (7.22%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.73%) Cisco
8 39 (6.40%) New Relic
9 38 (6.24%) Google
10 34 (5.58%) Oracle
11 32 (5.25%) IBM
12 23 (3.78%) CyberArk
13 21 (3.45%) F5
13 21 (3.45%) VMware
14 19 (3.12%) Cribl.io
14 19 (3.12%) Palo Alto
15 18 (2.96%) Qualys
15 18 (2.96%) Tenable
16 17 (2.79%) BMC
17 13 (2.13%) Fortinet