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 6 January 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
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 191 261
Rank change year-on-year +38 +70 -45
Contract jobs citing Splunk 674 429 400
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 1.33% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.93% 2.91% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 240 262
10th Percentile £327 £425 £406
25th Percentile £415 £507 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 £750 £675
90th Percentile £675 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.44% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £76.56 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £86.25 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.37% - -
75th Percentile £92.81 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.38 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +45.37% - -

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 17,163 14,721 18,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.50% 45.73% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,021 8,733 11,968
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 802 431 653
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +63.30%
75th Percentile £46.75 £60.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.51% +91.17%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +31 598 £525 -12.50% 72
UK excluding London +71 387 £500 -13.04% 65
London -5 225 £575 -9.80% 20
Work from Home +1 169 £525 -12.50% 33
North of England +2 136 £496 -17.33% 19
Midlands +33 115 £525 -4.72% 8
West Midlands +39 111 £525 -6.08% 7
South East +38 96 £425 -26.09% 15
Yorkshire -3 89 £515 -16.34% 9
North West -32 45 £453 -21.22% 10
Scotland +35 39 £510 +45.71% 6
South West -9 14 £613 -2.00% 3
East of England -23 5 £575 -2.13% 17
East Midlands -28 4 £381 +4.49% 1
Wales - 4 £600 - 1
North East -15 2 £600 -26.38%

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 33 (4.90%) Apache
2 18 (2.67%) Skype for Business
2 18 (2.67%) WebLogic
3 13 (1.93%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.78%) JBoss
5 11 (1.63%) TPMS
6 10 (1.48%) Confluence
6 10 (1.48%) IIS
6 10 (1.48%) iPlanet
6 10 (1.48%) WebSphere
6 10 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (1.19%) Apache Pig
9 7 (1.04%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.45%) SAS
12 2 (0.30%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 23 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (2.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) BASE24
2 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.15%) RMDS
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 273 (40.50%) AWS
2 172 (25.52%) Azure
3 147 (21.81%) GCP
4 67 (9.94%) GitHub
5 56 (8.31%) Azure Sentinel
6 52 (7.72%) OpenShift
7 50 (7.42%) Serverless
8 32 (4.75%) Datadog
9 31 (4.60%) SaaS
10 28 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (3.41%) Akamai
13 23 (3.41%) Amazon S3
14 21 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.97%) Sauce Labs
16 18 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (13.95%) Firewall
2 60 (8.90%) DNS
3 42 (6.23%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.75%) Network Security
5 26 (3.86%) SSL
6 22 (3.26%) HTTP
7 21 (3.12%) Wireless
7 21 (3.12%) Wireshark
8 18 (2.67%) Skype
9 16 (2.37%) VPN
10 14 (2.08%) SNMP
11 13 (1.93%) SSH
12 11 (1.63%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.63%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.89%) DHCP
13 6 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (0.89%) iSCSI
14 5 (0.74%) BGP
14 5 (0.74%) VSAN
15 4 (0.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (5.93%) NoSQL
3 31 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (3.71%) MySQL
5 25 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.97%) Redis
7 17 (2.52%) Oracle Database
8 12 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.78%) Power BI
9 10 (1.48%) Apache Hive
10 9 (1.34%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.19%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.19%) SQL Server
12 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.74%) Flink
14 4 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 125 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 114 (16.91%) GitLab
3 49 (7.27%) Git
4 28 (4.15%) Liquibase
5 27 (4.01%) JIRA
6 25 (3.71%) Xcode
7 23 (3.41%) Postman
8 21 (3.12%) Eclipse
9 20 (2.97%) Android Studio
9 20 (2.97%) Browser DevTools
10 17 (2.52%) JUnit
11 15 (2.23%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.23%) SonarQube
11 15 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (2.08%) CircleCI
12 14 (2.08%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.93%) Maven
14 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.63%) CA Release Automation
15 10 (1.48%) Selenium
General
1 300 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 165 (24.48%) Finance
3 123 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.39%) Banking
5 66 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 43 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 23 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.63%) Military
9 10 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.89%) Legal
12 5 (0.74%) Local Government
13 4 (0.59%) Law
13 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.45%) Retail
15 2 (0.30%) Front Office
15 2 (0.30%) Marketing
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (17.95%) Analyst
2 73 (10.83%) Senior
3 66 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (8.46%) SOC Analyst
5 47 (6.97%) Architect
6 46 (6.82%) Security Engineer
7 35 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 33 (4.90%) Security Analyst
9 32 (4.75%) Lead
10 31 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (4.01%) Splunk Engineer
12 25 (3.71%) Monitoring Analyst
13 24 (3.56%) Developer
14 23 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.41%) Support Analyst
14 23 (3.41%) Support Engineer
15 22 (3.26%) Site Engineer
16 20 (2.97%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (10.83%) REST
2 72 (10.68%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (8.46%) Kafka
4 46 (6.82%) RESTful
5 31 (4.60%) AngularJS
6 29 (4.30%) CSS
7 27 (4.01%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.86%) React
9 24 (3.56%) OAuth
10 23 (3.41%) GraphQL
11 21 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
11 21 (3.12%) SAML
12 20 (2.97%) Ajax
12 20 (2.97%) LDAP
12 20 (2.97%) Spring
13 19 (2.82%) Middleware
14 18 (2.67%) Keycloak
15 16 (2.37%) JSON
15 16 (2.37%) OpenID
16 15 (2.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (6.97%) Security Operations Centre
3 40 (5.93%) Security Posture
4 38 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.49%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 27 (4.01%) Cyber Defence
8 25 (3.71%) Mobile App
9 24 (3.56%) Cyber Threat
9 24 (3.56%) PKI
10 15 (2.23%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.78%) Cyberattack
12 10 (1.48%) Clustering
12 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.19%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 256 (37.98%) Linux
2 144 (21.36%) Windows
3 113 (16.77%) Unix
4 39 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.86%) Windows Server
6 25 (3.71%) Android
7 9 (1.34%) CentOS
8 8 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (1.04%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.59%) Solaris
11 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.59%) zOS
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.15%) VMS
14 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (32.49%) DevOps
2 214 (31.75%) CI/CD
3 182 (27.00%) Incident Response
4 180 (26.71%) Cybersecurity
5 162 (24.04%) SIEM
6 155 (23.00%) Observability
7 144 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
8 129 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 128 (18.99%) Containerisation
10 125 (18.55%) Agile
11 90 (13.35%) Computer Science
11 90 (13.35%) Microservices
12 82 (12.17%) Security Operations
13 78 (11.57%) Threat Detection
14 69 (10.24%) Root Cause Analysis
15 68 (10.09%) Test Automation
16 60 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (8.46%) Mentoring
18 56 (8.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 55 (8.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 253 (37.54%) Python
2 113 (16.77%) SQL
3 110 (16.32%) PowerShell
4 99 (14.69%) Bash
5 92 (13.65%) Java
6 58 (8.61%) Go
7 47 (6.97%) Shell Script
8 44 (6.53%) JavaScript
9 36 (5.34%) Perl
10 23 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.67%) Groovy
12 13 (1.93%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.78%) Scala
14 11 (1.63%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.89%) PromQL
15 6 (0.89%) Rust
16 5 (0.74%) JCL
16 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.74%) Swift
17 4 (0.59%) REXX
Qualifications
1 213 (31.60%) Security Cleared
2 140 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 110 (16.32%) Degree
4 69 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (9.50%) CISSP
6 53 (7.86%) DV Cleared
7 43 (6.38%) Master's Degree
8 35 (5.19%) CISM
9 26 (3.86%) AWS Certification
9 26 (3.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 26 (3.86%) GIAC
10 25 (3.71%) CEH
11 21 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (2.67%) MCSE
12 18 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.78%) GCIA
14 11 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (1.63%) FFIEC
14 11 (1.63%) GCIH
15 10 (1.48%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.94%) NIST
2 53 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (5.64%) GDPR
4 24 (3.56%) PCI DSS
5 19 (2.82%) QA
6 16 (2.37%) NCSC
7 15 (2.23%) HIPAA
8 13 (1.93%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.63%) GLBA
10 10 (1.48%) SLA
11 9 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.89%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.30%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 139 (20.62%) Docker
2 61 (9.05%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.48%) NFS
6 9 (1.34%) vSphere
7 8 (1.19%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.89%) Snort
8 6 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.59%) Squid
10 4 (0.59%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.59%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 195 (28.93%) Kubernetes
2 135 (20.03%) Terraform
3 131 (19.44%) Grafana
4 127 (18.84%) Ansible
5 105 (15.58%) Prometheus
6 35 (5.19%) QRadar
7 31 (4.60%) Kibana
8 25 (3.71%) SCOM
9 24 (3.56%) Puppet
10 21 (3.12%) CSIRT
10 21 (3.12%) HP SiteScope
10 21 (3.12%) Progress Chef
11 20 (2.97%) Argo
12 16 (2.37%) Nessus
13 13 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (1.78%) Fluentd
15 11 (1.63%) Packer
15 11 (1.63%) SCCM
16 10 (1.48%) CA Wily
16 10 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 171 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.53%) Dynatrace
2 71 (10.53%) Oracle
3 64 (9.50%) AppDynamics
4 51 (7.57%) Google
5 50 (7.42%) Cisco
6 42 (6.23%) CrowdStrike
6 42 (6.23%) ServiceNow
7 37 (5.49%) Qualys
8 31 (4.60%) VMware
9 30 (4.45%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.56%) Remedy
11 23 (3.41%) Carbon Black
12 22 (3.26%) ArcSight
12 22 (3.26%) F5
13 21 (3.12%) CyberArk
13 21 (3.12%) Tenable
14 20 (2.97%) Palo Alto
15 17 (2.52%) Cribl.io
16 12 (1.78%) Thales