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 13 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
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 187 272
Rank change year-on-year +16 +85 -71
Contract jobs citing Splunk 662 430 390
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.39% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 3.68% 3.00% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 255 248
10th Percentile £350 £408 £404
25th Percentile £416 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £731 £650
90th Percentile £700 £806 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £533
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.38% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £53.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £91.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.97% +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 17,970 14,337 19,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.92% 46.30% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,533 8,577 12,205
10th Percentile £300 £275 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -1.41%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 876 416 921
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.94 £20.84 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +6.76% -14.87%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.17 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.34% +1.92% -5.45%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +15 583 £525 -8.70% 113
UK excluding London +63 373 £500 -9.26% 87
London -14 227 £575 -8.00% 45
Work from Home +5 175 £531 -11.50% 36
North of England +4 141 £500 -11.70% 15
Midlands +22 114 £525 -2.33% 9
West Midlands +32 110 £525 -4.72% 8
Yorkshire +4 109 £515 -11.67% 8
South East +5 87 £375 -34.78% 29
Scotland +30 35 £550 +32.53% 6
North West -36 31 £453 -17.64% 7
South West -11 11 £625 -21.88% 11
East of England -29 6 £600 - 18
Wales - 5 £600 -
East Midlands -32 4 £442 +13.11% 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 18 (2.72%) Apache
1 18 (2.72%) Skype for Business
2 15 (2.27%) Confluence
3 13 (1.96%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.96%) TPMS
4 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.21%) Apache Pig
6 7 (1.06%) IIS
6 7 (1.06%) iPlanet
6 7 (1.06%) JBoss
6 7 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.45%) SAS
10 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 23 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.45%) 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
1 245 (37.01%) AWS
2 156 (23.56%) Azure
3 144 (21.75%) GCP
4 75 (11.33%) GitHub
5 71 (10.73%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.04%) Serverless
8 33 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.68%) Datadog
10 26 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (2.87%) Akamai
13 19 (2.87%) SaaS
13 19 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.72%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.75%) Firewall
2 68 (10.27%) DNS
3 46 (6.95%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.93%) Network Security
5 24 (3.63%) VPN
6 23 (3.47%) SSL
7 20 (3.02%) HTTP
8 19 (2.87%) Wireless
8 19 (2.87%) Wireshark
9 18 (2.72%) Skype
10 15 (2.27%) SNMP
11 14 (2.11%) SSH
12 11 (1.66%) Unified Communications
13 8 (1.21%) Kerberos
14 7 (1.06%) BGP
15 6 (0.91%) InfiniBand
15 6 (0.91%) MPLS
15 6 (0.91%) NetScaler
15 6 (0.91%) OSPF
16 5 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.14%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.53%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.02%) MySQL
6 14 (2.11%) Redis
7 12 (1.81%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.81%) Power BI
8 11 (1.66%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.51%) Apache Hive
9 10 (1.51%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.21%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.60%) Flink
12 4 (0.60%) Tableau
13 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 129 (19.49%) Jenkins
2 104 (15.71%) GitLab
3 47 (7.10%) Git
4 28 (4.23%) JIRA
5 21 (3.17%) Liquibase
6 18 (2.72%) Postman
7 17 (2.57%) Xcode
8 16 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (2.27%) Android Studio
9 15 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
9 15 (2.27%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.96%) JUnit
10 13 (1.96%) Maven
11 12 (1.81%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.66%) Gradle
12 11 (1.66%) Selenium
13 10 (1.51%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.51%) Gatling
13 10 (1.51%) Jaeger
14 8 (1.21%) REST Assured
General
1 297 (44.86%) Social Skills
2 158 (23.87%) Finance
3 114 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.21%) Banking
6 44 (6.65%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (5.89%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.96%) Military
9 10 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.21%) Retail
11 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.76%) Legal
11 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.60%) Law
13 3 (0.45%) Front Office
13 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Local Government
15 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (19.64%) Analyst
2 72 (10.88%) Senior
3 61 (9.21%) Architect
4 60 (9.06%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.34%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 36 (5.44%) Lead
9 31 (4.68%) Security Analyst
10 30 (4.53%) Splunk Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) Site Engineer
12 25 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.63%) Support Analyst
14 22 (3.32%) Developer
14 22 (3.32%) Monitoring Analyst
14 22 (3.32%) Software Engineer
15 21 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (3.02%) Data Engineer
16 20 (3.02%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (10.42%) REST
2 66 (9.97%) Elastic Stack
2 66 (9.97%) Kafka
3 38 (5.74%) OpenTelemetry
4 37 (5.59%) Spring Boot
5 36 (5.44%) RESTful
6 34 (5.14%) SAML
7 32 (4.83%) Spring
8 26 (3.93%) OpenID
9 24 (3.63%) LDAP
10 23 (3.47%) OAuth
11 22 (3.32%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.32%) JSON
11 22 (3.32%) Middleware
12 20 (3.02%) CSS
12 20 (3.02%) React
13 16 (2.42%) GraphQL
14 15 (2.27%) Ajax
14 15 (2.27%) Keycloak
15 14 (2.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 48 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.25%) Onboarding
4 34 (5.14%) Security Posture
5 32 (4.83%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.53%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.78%) Mobile App
8 22 (3.32%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
8 22 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (3.17%) PKI
10 19 (2.87%) Cyberattack
11 15 (2.27%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.96%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.36%) Clustering
14 9 (1.36%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 245 (37.01%) Linux
2 136 (20.54%) Windows
3 88 (13.29%) Unix
4 34 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.87%) Android
5 19 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.06%) CentOS
6 7 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.60%) zOS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (34.59%) CI/CD
2 218 (32.93%) DevOps
3 184 (27.79%) Cybersecurity
4 169 (25.53%) Observability
5 168 (25.38%) Incident Response
5 168 (25.38%) SIEM
6 151 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (21.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (19.03%) Containerisation
9 107 (16.16%) Agile
10 90 (13.60%) Computer Science
11 89 (13.44%) Microservices
12 87 (13.14%) Security Operations
13 72 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 71 (10.73%) Root Cause Analysis
15 70 (10.57%) Migration
16 64 (9.67%) Threat Detection
17 62 (9.37%) High Availability
17 62 (9.37%) Test Automation
18 57 (8.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 250 (37.76%) Python
2 107 (16.16%) PowerShell
3 106 (16.01%) Bash
4 95 (14.35%) SQL
5 94 (14.20%) Java
6 45 (6.80%) Go
7 42 (6.34%) Shell Script
8 33 (4.98%) JavaScript
9 27 (4.08%) Perl
10 22 (3.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.11%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.81%) Groovy
12 12 (1.81%) Scala
13 11 (1.66%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.66%) Search Processing Language
14 10 (1.51%) Bicep
15 9 (1.36%) Rust
16 4 (0.60%) JCL
16 4 (0.60%) R
16 4 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 224 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 156 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 101 (15.26%) Degree
4 71 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (7.70%) CISSP
6 50 (7.55%) DV Cleared
7 35 (5.29%) Master's Degree
8 31 (4.68%) CISM
8 31 (4.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.32%) GIAC
10 21 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (3.02%) AWS Certification
12 18 (2.72%) CEH
13 16 (2.42%) CompTIA CySA+
14 13 (1.96%) FFIEC
14 13 (1.96%) GCIA
14 13 (1.96%) GCIH
15 9 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.18%) NIST
2 58 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.14%) GDPR
4 26 (3.93%) NCSC
5 25 (3.78%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.32%) QA
7 18 (2.72%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.96%) GLBA
9 10 (1.51%) SLA
10 9 (1.36%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.76%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.30%) COBIT
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 138 (20.85%) Docker
2 51 (7.70%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.66%) vSphere
6 7 (1.06%) Snort
7 6 (0.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.60%) NFS
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
10 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 207 (31.27%) Kubernetes
2 138 (20.85%) Grafana
3 134 (20.24%) Terraform
4 133 (20.09%) Ansible
5 112 (16.92%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.23%) Kibana
7 25 (3.78%) Argo
7 25 (3.78%) SCOM
8 24 (3.63%) QRadar
9 21 (3.17%) HP SiteScope
9 21 (3.17%) Puppet
10 20 (3.02%) Progress Chef
11 16 (2.42%) CSIRT
11 16 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.96%) Fluentd
13 11 (1.66%) logstash
13 11 (1.66%) SCCM
13 11 (1.66%) vCenter Server
14 10 (1.51%) Nessus
15 9 (1.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 153 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.10%) Google
2 47 (7.10%) Oracle
3 44 (6.65%) AppDynamics
3 44 (6.65%) Cisco
4 43 (6.50%) Dynatrace
5 41 (6.19%) ServiceNow
6 38 (5.74%) CrowdStrike
7 33 (4.98%) Red Hat
8 32 (4.83%) VMware
9 27 (4.08%) CyberArk
10 26 (3.93%) Qualys
11 25 (3.78%) Carbon Black
11 25 (3.78%) Cribl.io
12 22 (3.32%) Palo Alto
13 21 (3.17%) F5
14 20 (3.02%) Remedy
15 17 (2.57%) Tenable
16 13 (1.96%) Thales
17 12 (1.81%) IBM