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 15 November 2025, 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 190 216
Rank change year-on-year +48 +26 +5
Contract jobs citing Splunk 712 461 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 1.26% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 4.22% 2.80% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 266 384
10th Percentile £358 £416 £400
25th Percentile £425 £480 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £619 £719 £700
90th Percentile £700 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -6.36% -7.29% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £81.63 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £82.19 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.46% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £63.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 -

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 16,887 16,474 21,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 44.97% 45.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 9,701 13,660
10th Percentile £285 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.69%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 522 676
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.25 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.17 £19.94
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -30.61% +75.52%
75th Percentile £40.00 £62.54 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.70 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £28.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -21.16% -36.00% +98.86%

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 15 November 2025.

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
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 15 November 2025. 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 +55 642 £525 -8.70% 166
UK excluding London +73 393 £515 -6.36% 91
London +20 249 £575 -4.17% 76
Work from Home +10 182 £525 -4.55% 74
North of England -7 129 £500 -13.04% 17
South East +69 109 £448 -22.17% 35
Midlands +35 99 £525 +1.79% 13
West Midlands +47 95 £530 -5.10% 10
Yorkshire -4 80 £500 -16.67% 8
North West -18 47 £464 -15.59% 7
Scotland +22 34 £477 +19.13% 2
East of England -19 22 £550 -4.35% 15
South West -9 17 £550 +22.22% 7
East Midlands -24 4 £381 -21.77% 3
North East -14 2 £600 -26.38% 2
Wales - 1 £600 -

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 (4.63%) Apache
2 32 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.95%) Skype for Business
4 18 (2.53%) WebLogic
5 17 (2.39%) JBoss
6 16 (2.25%) Mattermost
7 14 (1.97%) Confluence
8 13 (1.83%) SharePoint
8 13 (1.83%) WebSphere
8 13 (1.83%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (1.40%) IIS
9 10 (1.40%) iPlanet
10 8 (1.12%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.70%) TPMS
13 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.28%) Mule
14 2 (0.28%) Mule ESB
14 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 22 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
3 1 (0.14%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 279 (39.19%) AWS
2 140 (19.66%) Azure
3 130 (18.26%) GCP
4 71 (9.97%) GitHub
5 59 (8.29%) OpenShift
6 56 (7.87%) SaaS
7 50 (7.02%) Serverless
8 45 (6.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 39 (5.48%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.95%) Akamai
16 18 (2.53%) Datadog
16 18 (2.53%) Sauce Labs
17 17 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 113 (15.87%) Firewall
2 54 (7.58%) DNS
3 39 (5.48%) Network Security
4 27 (3.79%) SSL
5 24 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
5 24 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 22 (3.09%) Wireshark
7 21 (2.95%) Skype
7 21 (2.95%) Wireless
8 20 (2.81%) HTTP
9 19 (2.67%) VPN
10 14 (1.97%) Fibre Channel
10 14 (1.97%) iSCSI
10 14 (1.97%) Unified Communications
11 11 (1.54%) Kerberos
12 8 (1.12%) SNMP
13 7 (0.98%) DHCP
13 7 (0.98%) SAN
13 7 (0.98%) SSH
14 5 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.46%) NoSQL
2 41 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (4.07%) MongoDB
4 27 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.09%) MySQL
7 20 (2.81%) Redis
8 19 (2.67%) Oracle Database
9 15 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.69%) Power BI
11 10 (1.40%) Apache Hive
12 9 (1.26%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.12%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.70%) Flink
16 5 (0.70%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.70%) SQL Server
17 3 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 129 (18.12%) Jenkins
2 100 (14.04%) GitLab
3 57 (8.01%) Git
4 30 (4.21%) JIRA
4 30 (4.21%) Liquibase
5 24 (3.37%) Xcode
6 22 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.09%) Postman
7 21 (2.95%) JUnit
8 19 (2.67%) Eclipse
8 19 (2.67%) SonarQube
9 18 (2.53%) Android Studio
9 18 (2.53%) Browser DevTools
9 18 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
10 14 (1.97%) CA Release Automation
10 14 (1.97%) Maven
11 12 (1.69%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.54%) Subversion
13 9 (1.26%) TeamCity
General
1 274 (38.48%) Social Skills
2 151 (21.21%) Finance
3 116 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.13%) Banking
6 36 (5.06%) Financial Institution
7 31 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.37%) Games
9 16 (2.25%) Military
10 10 (1.40%) Legal
10 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.26%) Retail
12 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.70%) Local Government
14 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.28%) Marketing
15 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (15.45%) Analyst
2 76 (10.67%) Architect
3 75 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 67 (9.41%) Senior
5 55 (7.72%) Platform Engineer
6 47 (6.60%) Security Engineer
7 46 (6.46%) SOC Analyst
8 37 (5.20%) Security Architect
8 37 (5.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 34 (4.78%) Security Analyst
10 33 (4.63%) Developer
11 28 (3.93%) Site Engineer
12 26 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (3.65%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.51%) Splunk Engineer
14 24 (3.37%) Lead
14 24 (3.37%) Support Analyst
14 24 (3.37%) Support Engineer
15 22 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
2 73 (10.25%) REST
3 51 (7.16%) Kafka
4 44 (6.18%) RESTful
5 29 (4.07%) AngularJS
6 28 (3.93%) CSS
6 28 (3.93%) React
7 26 (3.65%) OAuth
8 24 (3.37%) SAML
9 23 (3.23%) Spring
9 23 (3.23%) Spring Boot
10 22 (3.09%) GraphQL
11 21 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (2.81%) LDAP
13 18 (2.53%) Ajax
13 18 (2.53%) Web Services
14 17 (2.39%) Keycloak
15 16 (2.25%) YAML
16 15 (2.11%) OpenID
17 14 (1.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.85%) Security Operations Centre
2 53 (7.44%) Onboarding
3 51 (7.16%) Cloud Native
4 50 (7.02%) Security Posture
5 46 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (5.20%) Public Cloud
7 31 (4.35%) CSOC
8 26 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
8 26 (3.65%) PKI
9 24 (3.37%) Management Information System
10 23 (3.23%) Mobile App
11 19 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
12 18 (2.53%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.26%) Clustering
16 8 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (0.98%) Private Cloud
18 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 227 (31.88%) Linux
2 154 (21.63%) Windows
3 101 (14.19%) Unix
4 47 (6.60%) Android
5 39 (5.48%) Windows Server
6 33 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (4.35%) Mac OS
8 22 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.40%) CentOS
10 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.84%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.56%) Solaris
12 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.28%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.28%) VMS
14 2 (0.28%) zOS
15 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (30.34%) CI/CD
2 206 (28.93%) DevOps
3 195 (27.39%) Cybersecurity
4 186 (26.12%) SIEM
5 175 (24.58%) Incident Response
6 154 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (20.51%) Observability
8 124 (17.42%) Containerisation
9 123 (17.28%) Agile
10 121 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 109 (15.31%) Security Operations
12 84 (11.80%) Microservices
13 76 (10.67%) Threat Detection
14 73 (10.25%) SOAR
15 72 (10.11%) Computer Science
16 65 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
17 64 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (8.57%) Test Automation
19 59 (8.29%) Analytics
20 58 (8.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 255 (35.81%) Python
2 131 (18.40%) PowerShell
3 116 (16.29%) SQL
4 94 (13.20%) Bash
5 81 (11.38%) Java
6 70 (9.83%) Go
7 47 (6.60%) Shell Script
8 46 (6.46%) JavaScript
9 38 (5.34%) Perl
10 21 (2.95%) Kusto Query Language
11 19 (2.67%) Groovy
12 18 (2.53%) PromQL
13 12 (1.69%) Scala
13 12 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
13 12 (1.69%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.98%) C++
15 5 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.70%) Swift
16 4 (0.56%) Bicep
17 3 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 201 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 128 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 90 (12.64%) Degree
4 77 (10.81%) CISSP
5 56 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (7.44%) DV Cleared
7 46 (6.46%) Master's Degree
8 39 (5.48%) CISM
9 31 (4.35%) CEH
10 29 (4.07%) AWS Certification
11 28 (3.93%) GIAC
12 27 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (3.65%) MCSE
14 25 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
15 22 (3.09%) GCIA
16 21 (2.95%) GCIH
17 19 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 13 (1.83%) GCFA
20 10 (1.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.83%) NIST
2 58 (8.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (5.34%) GDPR
4 17 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.39%) QA
5 14 (1.97%) HIPAA
5 14 (1.97%) NCSC
6 11 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.54%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.98%) SLA
8 5 (0.70%) GLBA
9 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.42%) GRC
11 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.28%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 123 (17.28%) Docker
2 98 (13.76%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.53%) NFS
4 18 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (2.39%) vSphere
6 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 12 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (1.12%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.84%) Snort
8 6 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.56%) Squid
9 4 (0.56%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.14%) GPFS
10 1 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.14%) Lustre
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 196 (27.53%) Kubernetes
2 131 (18.40%) Terraform
3 130 (18.26%) Grafana
4 125 (17.56%) Ansible
5 105 (14.75%) Prometheus
6 42 (5.90%) QRadar
7 40 (5.62%) SCCM
8 28 (3.93%) Kibana
9 27 (3.79%) SCOM
10 26 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (2.95%) CSIRT
11 21 (2.95%) HP SiteScope
12 20 (2.81%) Progress Chef
13 18 (2.53%) Puppet
14 16 (2.25%) Packer
14 16 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
15 14 (1.97%) Argo
15 14 (1.97%) Nessus
16 12 (1.69%) WSUS
17 11 (1.54%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 217 (30.48%) Microsoft
2 85 (11.94%) Cisco
3 69 (9.69%) Oracle
4 67 (9.41%) Dynatrace
5 57 (8.01%) Google
6 55 (7.72%) CrowdStrike
7 47 (6.60%) AppDynamics
8 43 (6.04%) ServiceNow
9 41 (5.76%) VMware
10 38 (5.34%) Qualys
11 35 (4.92%) Red Hat
12 25 (3.51%) ArcSight
13 24 (3.37%) CyberArk
13 24 (3.37%) Meraki
14 23 (3.23%) Carbon Black
14 23 (3.23%) Remedy
15 22 (3.09%) F5
16 21 (2.95%) IBM
16 21 (2.95%) NetApp
17 20 (2.81%) Veeam