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 18 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 148 220
Rank change year-on-year -91 +72 -36
Contract jobs citing Splunk 601 634 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.92% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 4.06% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 393 265
10th Percentile £350 £360 £421
25th Percentile £421 £427 £475
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 £699 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -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 £65.23 - £60.00
75th Percentile £72.96 - £67.50
90th Percentile £79.19 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 22,759 15,624 17,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.83% 47.42% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,928 9,586 10,230
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £402 £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 £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,273 791 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.38
25th Percentile £16.70 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%
75th Percentile £62.75 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.92 £21.35 £29.89
% change year-on-year +21.43% -28.58% -29.68%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -93 519 £525 - 487
UK excluding London -107 294 £525 - 378
London -52 252 £525 - 214
Work from Home -46 170 £525 +5.00% 133
North of England -43 120 £463 -1.97% 96
North West -29 66 £525 +14.75% 57
Midlands -60 49 £575 +9.52% 30
West Midlands -55 47 £575 +8.08% 27
South East -117 40 £485 -3.00% 96
Yorkshire -44 39 £475 -2.66% 26
Scotland -24 33 £425 -15.51% 36
South West -19 31 £650 +18.18% 52
East of England -43 26 £700 +27.27% 32
North East -32 15 £425 - 14
Wales - 3 - - 20
East Midlands -19 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 30 (4.99%) Confluence
2 14 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.33%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.16%) Apache
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) SAP MDG
1 8 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 233 (38.77%) AWS
2 227 (37.77%) Azure
3 97 (16.14%) GitHub
4 88 (14.64%) GCP
5 56 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (7.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 46 (7.65%) OpenShift
8 41 (6.82%) Datadog
9 40 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (6.66%) Entra ID
10 36 (5.99%) Power Platform
11 35 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (4.66%) SaaS
14 27 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (4.49%) Serverless
15 24 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (3.99%) Amazon S3
16 22 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.65%) Firewall
2 45 (7.49%) DNS
3 39 (6.49%) Network Security
4 35 (5.82%) SNMP
5 23 (3.83%) WAN
6 17 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.83%) VPN
7 12 (2.00%) BGP
7 12 (2.00%) DHCP
7 12 (2.00%) HTTP
7 12 (2.00%) Wireless
8 11 (1.83%) LAN
9 10 (1.66%) Internet
9 10 (1.66%) OSPF
9 10 (1.66%) SSL
10 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.16%) Wireshark
11 6 (1.00%) BIG-IP
11 6 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (1.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.82%) Power BI
2 29 (4.83%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.83%) Big Data
5 16 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.83%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.83%) MySQL
9 8 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.33%) Tableau
10 7 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.16%) Looker
10 7 (1.16%) Presto
11 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.83%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (15.31%) Jenkins
2 64 (10.65%) Git
3 58 (9.65%) GitLab
4 48 (7.99%) JIRA
5 27 (4.49%) Gatling
5 27 (4.49%) JMeter
6 17 (2.83%) Bitbucket
7 16 (2.66%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.00%) Selenium
9 10 (1.66%) Postman
10 9 (1.50%) Maven
11 8 (1.33%) Gradle
11 8 (1.33%) JUnit
11 8 (1.33%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.16%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.00%) Xcode
14 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 163 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.80%) Finance
3 105 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.48%) Banking
5 37 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.83%) Retail
8 11 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.66%) Front Office
9 10 (1.66%) Legal
10 7 (1.16%) Military
11 5 (0.83%) Law
11 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.33%) Advertising
14 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (10.32%) Analyst
2 56 (9.32%) Senior
3 53 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (7.65%) Lead
5 41 (6.82%) Splunk Engineer
6 40 (6.66%) Developer
7 39 (6.49%) Architect
8 38 (6.32%) Consultant
9 34 (5.66%) Security Engineer
10 27 (4.49%) SOC Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 21 (3.49%) Test Engineer
13 19 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (3.16%) Security Analyst
14 18 (3.00%) Performance Engineer
14 18 (3.00%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.83%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.83%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.66%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (25.12%) Terraform
2 60 (9.98%) Kafka
3 57 (9.48%) REST
4 50 (8.32%) Elastic Stack
5 36 (5.99%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.49%) RESTful
7 20 (3.33%) JSON
7 20 (3.33%) React
7 20 (3.33%) Spring
7 20 (3.33%) Spring Boot
8 19 (3.16%) Middleware
9 18 (3.00%) OAuth
9 18 (3.00%) OAuth2
10 15 (2.50%) Play Framework
11 13 (2.16%) CSS
12 12 (2.00%) .NET
12 12 (2.00%) OpenID
13 10 (1.66%) OpenAPI
13 10 (1.66%) SAML
13 10 (1.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.15%) Onboarding
2 61 (10.15%) Cloud Native
3 42 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (5.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 13 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
10 12 (2.00%) CMDB
11 11 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Clustering
12 10 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.50%) PKI
14 8 (1.33%) Blog
14 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 167 (27.79%) Linux
2 105 (17.47%) Windows
3 48 (7.99%) Unix
4 28 (4.66%) Windows Server
5 24 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.83%) AIX
7 9 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (40.10%) Observability
2 221 (36.77%) CI/CD
3 186 (30.95%) DevOps
4 137 (22.80%) SIEM
5 127 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 126 (20.97%) Agile
7 117 (19.47%) Incident Response
8 115 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (15.31%) Cybersecurity
10 87 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (13.48%) Security Operations
12 80 (13.31%) Containerisation
13 77 (12.81%) Root Cause Analysis
13 77 (12.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 68 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (10.65%) Incident Management
16 60 (9.98%) Analytics
17 58 (9.65%) Test Automation
18 56 (9.32%) ITSM
19 54 (8.99%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 208 (34.61%) Python
2 109 (18.14%) PowerShell
3 85 (14.14%) SQL
4 72 (11.98%) Bash
5 71 (11.81%) Java
6 50 (8.32%) Search Processing Language
7 37 (6.16%) Go
8 24 (3.99%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.66%) Scala
9 22 (3.66%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 17 (2.83%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.50%) Perl
13 8 (1.33%) C#
14 7 (1.16%) Bicep
15 5 (0.83%) Groovy
15 5 (0.83%) Ruby
16 4 (0.67%) JCL
16 4 (0.67%) REXX
17 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 224 (37.27%) Security Cleared
2 156 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.65%) DV Cleared
4 51 (8.49%) CISSP
5 46 (7.65%) Degree
6 25 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.66%) CISM
8 20 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.83%) GIAC
11 16 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (2.50%) GCIH
13 13 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (2.00%) CEH
15 10 (1.66%) CCSP
16 9 (1.50%) Azure Certification
16 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.33%) GCIA
18 7 (1.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.16%) NIST
2 28 (4.66%) QA
3 25 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.83%) GDPR
5 14 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.50%) NCSC
6 9 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.83%) SLA
9 4 (0.67%) GRC
9 4 (0.67%) GxP
9 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (16.64%) Docker
2 25 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (25.79%) Kubernetes
2 153 (25.46%) Grafana
3 99 (16.47%) Prometheus
4 84 (13.98%) Ansible
5 32 (5.32%) QRadar
6 19 (3.16%) ZABBIX
7 17 (2.83%) Kibana
8 16 (2.66%) Nagios
9 14 (2.33%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.83%) Argo
10 11 (1.83%) Netcool
10 11 (1.83%) Tivoli
11 10 (1.66%) Control-M
12 9 (1.50%) OpenView
12 9 (1.50%) SCOM
12 9 (1.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 8 (1.33%) CASB
13 8 (1.33%) Puppet
13 8 (1.33%) WMI
14 7 (1.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 129 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 104 (17.30%) Dynatrace
3 77 (12.81%) ServiceNow
4 50 (8.32%) CrowdStrike
5 45 (7.49%) SolarWinds
6 42 (6.99%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.66%) Cisco
8 37 (6.16%) New Relic
9 36 (5.99%) Google
10 34 (5.66%) Oracle
11 32 (5.32%) IBM
12 23 (3.83%) CyberArk
13 21 (3.49%) VMware
14 20 (3.33%) F5
15 19 (3.16%) Cribl.io
15 19 (3.16%) Palo Alto
16 18 (3.00%) BMC
16 18 (3.00%) Tenable
17 17 (2.83%) Qualys
18 13 (2.16%) Fortinet