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 26 February 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 198 275
Rank change year-on-year +22 +77 -91
Contract jobs citing Splunk 648 419 372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.37% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 3.50% 2.93% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 248 226
10th Percentile £350 £408 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +2.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £650
90th Percentile £704 £783 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,503 14,299 19,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.65% 46.60% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,677 11,923
10th Percentile £305 £281 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 420 944
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.09 £21.25 £15.48
Median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +15.38% -21.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.21
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.24 £25.28
% change year-on-year -16.92% +7.76% -18.47%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +9 573 £525 -7.45% 73
UK excluding London +48 373 £514 -6.55% 61
London -19 214 £575 -4.17% 19
Work from Home -4 167 £550 -4.35% 34
North of England +11 150 £514 -6.55% 28
Yorkshire +9 116 £516 -11.42% 15
Midlands +18 104 £525 -2.23% 5
West Midlands +20 100 £529 -3.85% 4
South East +10 92 £375 -34.78% 11
North West -28 33 £491 -10.73% 13
Scotland +25 30 £577 +39.04% 8
South West -21 11 £625 -16.67% 7
East of England -26 6 £600 - 2
Wales 0 5 £600 +31.87%
East Midlands -30 4 £442 +2.73% 1
North East -13 3 £538 -8.51%

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 15 (2.31%) Confluence
2 14 (2.16%) Apache
3 13 (2.01%) TPMS
4 12 (1.85%) Skype for Business
5 9 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.08%) Mattermost
6 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.93%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.77%) IIS
8 5 (0.77%) iPlanet
8 5 (0.77%) JBoss
8 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.46%) Apache Pig
10 3 (0.46%) SAS
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 238 (36.73%) AWS
2 156 (24.07%) Azure
3 140 (21.60%) GCP
4 75 (11.57%) GitHub
5 68 (10.49%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 42 (6.48%) Serverless
8 31 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (4.78%) Datadog
9 25 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 21 (3.24%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.78%) SaaS
14 15 (2.31%) AWS KMS
15 13 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (15.43%) Firewall
2 82 (12.65%) DNS
3 45 (6.94%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.48%) Network Security
5 25 (3.86%) SSL
5 25 (3.86%) VPN
6 22 (3.40%) BGP
7 20 (3.09%) Ethernet VPN
7 20 (3.09%) OSPF
8 19 (2.93%) DHCP
8 19 (2.93%) WAN
9 18 (2.78%) LAN
10 17 (2.62%) Wireless
11 16 (2.47%) HTTP
11 16 (2.47%) VXLAN
12 15 (2.31%) SNMP
13 14 (2.16%) BIG-IP
13 14 (2.16%) Junos
13 14 (2.16%) Wireshark
14 13 (2.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.40%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 26 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.78%) MySQL
7 13 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.01%) Redis
8 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.93%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.93%) Power BI
10 6 (0.93%) Tableau
11 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.62%) Flink
12 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 126 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 104 (16.05%) GitLab
3 41 (6.33%) Git
4 27 (4.17%) JIRA
5 22 (3.40%) Liquibase
6 16 (2.47%) Postman
6 16 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (2.16%) Xcode
8 13 (2.01%) Android Studio
8 13 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
8 13 (2.01%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.85%) JUnit
9 12 (1.85%) Selenium
10 11 (1.70%) Gatling
10 11 (1.70%) Maven
11 10 (1.54%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.54%) Gradle
11 10 (1.54%) Jaeger
12 9 (1.39%) Snyk
General
1 285 (43.98%) Social Skills
2 153 (23.61%) Finance
3 107 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 64 (9.88%) Banking
6 46 (7.10%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (6.33%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.78%) Military
9 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.39%) Retail
11 8 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.77%) Legal
12 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Front Office
13 4 (0.62%) Law
14 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.15%) Billing
16 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (18.21%) Analyst
2 76 (11.73%) Senior
3 67 (10.34%) Architect
4 58 (8.95%) SOC Analyst
5 47 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (6.33%) Lead
6 41 (6.33%) Security Engineer
7 38 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 30 (4.63%) Splunk Engineer
9 27 (4.17%) Security Analyst
10 26 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (4.01%) Site Engineer
11 23 (3.55%) Software Engineer
12 22 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (3.24%) Developer
13 21 (3.24%) Network Engineer
13 21 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.24%) Security Architect
14 20 (3.09%) Monitoring Analyst
15 19 (2.93%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (10.96%) REST
2 67 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
3 64 (9.88%) Kafka
4 40 (6.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (5.86%) Spring Boot
6 36 (5.56%) RESTful
7 32 (4.94%) SAML
7 32 (4.94%) Spring
8 25 (3.86%) LDAP
9 24 (3.70%) JSON
9 24 (3.70%) OpenID
10 23 (3.55%) Middleware
11 21 (3.24%) OAuth
12 19 (2.93%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.78%) React
14 17 (2.62%) CSS
15 15 (2.31%) 802.1X
15 15 (2.31%) Playwright
16 14 (2.16%) GraphQL
16 14 (2.16%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (6.79%) Onboarding
5 34 (5.25%) PKI
5 34 (5.25%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 29 (4.48%) Security Posture
7 25 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.55%) Mobile App
9 22 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
9 22 (3.40%) Data Centre
10 21 (3.24%) Clustering
10 21 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (2.93%) Cyberattack
12 13 (2.01%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 235 (36.27%) Linux
2 151 (23.30%) Windows
3 81 (12.50%) Unix
4 32 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.47%) Android
7 6 (0.93%) CentOS
7 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.62%) zOS
10 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.31%) Solaris
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (35.80%) CI/CD
2 217 (33.49%) DevOps
3 184 (28.40%) Observability
4 178 (27.47%) Cybersecurity
5 161 (24.85%) SIEM
6 160 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
7 156 (24.07%) Incident Response
8 141 (21.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (19.60%) Containerisation
10 113 (17.44%) Agile
11 88 (13.58%) Computer Science
12 87 (13.43%) Microservices
13 81 (12.50%) Security Operations
14 78 (12.04%) High Availability
15 76 (11.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 69 (10.65%) Migration
17 67 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
18 60 (9.26%) Test Automation
19 59 (9.10%) Threat Detection
20 55 (8.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 238 (36.73%) Python
2 100 (15.43%) Bash
3 90 (13.89%) Java
4 89 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 85 (13.12%) SQL
6 46 (7.10%) Go
7 31 (4.78%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.24%) Perl
10 20 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.16%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.70%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.54%) Bicep
14 9 (1.39%) Groovy
14 9 (1.39%) Rust
15 7 (1.08%) Scala
15 7 (1.08%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.62%) JCL
16 4 (0.62%) REXX
17 3 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 236 (36.42%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 97 (14.97%) Degree
4 71 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.95%) DV Cleared
6 53 (8.18%) CISSP
7 34 (5.25%) Master's Degree
8 33 (5.09%) CISM
8 33 (5.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (3.09%) GIAC
11 18 (2.78%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.47%) CEH
12 16 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
13 15 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (2.01%) FFIEC
15 12 (1.85%) GCIA
15 12 (1.85%) GCIH
16 11 (1.70%) MCSE
16 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.57%) NIST
2 57 (8.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (5.09%) GDPR
4 26 (4.01%) NCSC
5 24 (3.70%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.40%) QA
7 18 (2.78%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.01%) GLBA
9 8 (1.23%) SLA
9 8 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.77%) GRC
12 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.31%) COBIT
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 136 (20.99%) Docker
2 43 (6.64%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.47%) VMware NSX
4 12 (1.85%) vSphere
5 7 (1.08%) Snort
6 6 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 5 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.62%) NFS
9 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.46%) Squid
10 2 (0.31%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 207 (31.94%) Kubernetes
2 144 (22.22%) Grafana
3 135 (20.83%) Terraform
4 134 (20.68%) Ansible
5 113 (17.44%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.32%) Kibana
7 24 (3.70%) Argo
8 21 (3.24%) Puppet
9 20 (3.09%) QRadar
10 19 (2.93%) Progress Chef
11 15 (2.31%) FortiGate
12 14 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (2.01%) Fluentd
13 13 (2.01%) SCOM
14 12 (1.85%) Nessus
14 12 (1.85%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.70%) CSIRT
15 11 (1.70%) HP SiteScope
15 11 (1.70%) logstash
15 11 (1.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 126 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.18%) Cisco
3 47 (7.25%) Google
4 44 (6.79%) AppDynamics
4 44 (6.79%) Dynatrace
5 42 (6.48%) Oracle
6 40 (6.17%) ServiceNow
7 35 (5.40%) CrowdStrike
8 33 (5.09%) VMware
9 32 (4.94%) Red Hat
10 29 (4.48%) CyberArk
10 29 (4.48%) F5
11 27 (4.17%) Qualys
12 26 (4.01%) Cribl.io
12 26 (4.01%) SolarWinds
13 23 (3.55%) Palo Alto
13 23 (3.55%) Tenable
14 22 (3.40%) Carbon Black
15 16 (2.47%) Remedy
16 14 (2.16%) Juniper