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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 173 227
Rank change year-on-year -59 +54 -55
Contract jobs citing Splunk 591 534 412
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.62% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 3.43% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 336 262
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £602 £631 £638
90th Percentile £720 £765 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.82% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £48.65 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.31 - £42.19
90th Percentile £79.19 - £46.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00

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 22,292 15,553 16,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.59% 47.28% 43.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,788 9,509 10,625
10th Percentile £313 £278 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 790 849
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.53 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -10.18% -33.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.51 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £21.70 £27.50
% change year-on-year +49.80% -21.11% -20.29%

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 8 August 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 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 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 8 August 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 -63 514 £525 -1.69% 368
UK excluding London -64 305 £519 -3.94% 250
London -45 229 £550 +4.76% 193
Work from Home -52 151 £524 +4.80% 69
North of England -42 123 £505 +10.27% 61
North West -33 60 £520 +13.66% 33
Yorkshire -20 59 £498 +5.27% 12
South East -95 53 £470 -6.00% 57
Midlands -33 42 £581 +9.73% 19
South West -16 40 £450 -21.05% 41
West Midlands -33 40 £581 +8.19% 18
Scotland -10 28 £423 -15.90% 25
East of England -31 26 £700 +27.27% 29
North East - 4 £413 - 16
East Midlands -13 2 £563 +56.25% 1

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 27 (4.57%) Confluence
2 22 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.35%) Apache
5 6 (1.02%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.68%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 195 (32.99%) AWS
2 191 (32.32%) Azure
3 93 (15.74%) GitHub
4 74 (12.52%) GCP
5 55 (9.31%) OpenShift
6 45 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (6.09%) Datadog
9 34 (5.75%) Entra ID
10 32 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 31 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.74%) SaaS
14 26 (4.40%) Amazon S3
14 26 (4.40%) Serverless
15 24 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (4.06%) Power Platform
16 22 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 91 (15.40%) Firewall
2 78 (13.20%) DNS
3 42 (7.11%) Network Security
4 39 (6.60%) SNMP
5 38 (6.43%) WAN
6 32 (5.41%) BGP
7 31 (5.25%) DHCP
8 30 (5.08%) LAN
8 30 (5.08%) OSPF
9 29 (4.91%) Ethernet VPN
10 26 (4.40%) BIG-IP
11 25 (4.23%) VXLAN
12 24 (4.06%) Junos
13 22 (3.72%) TCP/IP
14 21 (3.55%) Cisco ISE
14 21 (3.55%) VPN
15 13 (2.20%) SSL
16 11 (1.86%) HTTP
16 11 (1.86%) Wireless
17 10 (1.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.89%) Power BI
2 20 (3.38%) MongoDB
2 20 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.54%) Big Data
5 14 (2.37%) Hadoop
5 14 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.35%) MySQL
8 8 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.18%) Presto
10 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.02%) Flink
11 5 (0.85%) Looker
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (14.72%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.98%) GitLab
3 53 (8.97%) Git
4 38 (6.43%) JIRA
5 31 (5.25%) Gatling
6 27 (4.57%) JMeter
7 16 (2.71%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.20%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.86%) Selenium
10 9 (1.52%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.35%) JUnit
12 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.18%) Gradle
12 7 (1.18%) Maven
12 7 (1.18%) Postman
12 7 (1.18%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.02%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 146 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 105 (17.77%) Finance
3 80 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.46%) Banking
5 28 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.37%) Retail
8 10 (1.69%) Front Office
8 10 (1.69%) Legal
9 9 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.02%) Military
12 5 (0.85%) Law
13 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
15 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (9.98%) Lead
2 58 (9.81%) Senior
3 55 (9.31%) Analyst
4 49 (8.29%) Consultant
5 46 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (7.28%) Architect
7 31 (5.25%) Developer
8 29 (4.91%) Splunk Engineer
9 25 (4.23%) SOC Engineer
10 24 (4.06%) Data Engineer
11 22 (3.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 20 (3.38%) Performance Engineer
12 20 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.05%) Network Engineer
13 18 (3.05%) Security Engineer
14 17 (2.88%) Site Engineer
15 16 (2.71%) Security Architect
15 16 (2.71%) SOC Analyst
15 16 (2.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.51%) REST
2 55 (9.31%) Kafka
3 50 (8.46%) OpenTelemetry
4 38 (6.43%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (4.57%) 802.1X
6 26 (4.40%) Spring
6 26 (4.40%) Spring Boot
7 22 (3.72%) JSON
8 15 (2.54%) React
9 14 (2.37%) RESTful
10 11 (1.86%) .NET
10 11 (1.86%) Middleware
10 11 (1.86%) OAuth
10 11 (1.86%) OAuth2
11 10 (1.69%) CSS
11 10 (1.69%) SailPoint
12 9 (1.52%) LDAP
12 9 (1.52%) OpenID
12 9 (1.52%) SAML
13 8 (1.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.83%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.81%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.09%) PKI
4 34 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (5.58%) Security Operations Centre
6 32 (5.41%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.74%) Clustering
8 21 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.88%) CMDB
10 16 (2.71%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.03%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.69%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.52%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (1.02%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 158 (26.73%) Linux
2 136 (23.01%) Windows
3 48 (8.12%) Unix
4 21 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.05%) AIX
6 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Android
9 4 (0.68%) zOS
10 2 (0.34%) CentOS
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (38.41%) Observability
2 216 (36.55%) CI/CD
3 181 (30.63%) DevOps
4 127 (21.49%) SIEM
5 123 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 99 (16.75%) Agile
8 94 (15.91%) Incident Response
8 94 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 84 (14.21%) Containerisation
10 76 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
11 72 (12.18%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.84%) High Availability
13 63 (10.66%) ITSM
14 62 (10.49%) ITIL
15 59 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (9.81%) Analytics
16 58 (9.81%) Test Automation
17 57 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
18 54 (9.14%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (36.21%) Python
2 103 (17.43%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.72%) SQL
4 70 (11.84%) Java
5 69 (11.68%) Bash
6 50 (8.46%) Search Processing Language
7 29 (4.91%) Go
8 23 (3.89%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 15 (2.54%) Scala
11 14 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.20%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.69%) Bicep
13 10 (1.69%) Perl
14 8 (1.35%) C#
14 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.85%) Groovy
16 4 (0.68%) JCL
16 4 (0.68%) REXX
17 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 215 (36.38%) Security Cleared
2 130 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.32%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.29%) CISSP
5 41 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (6.26%) Degree
7 24 (4.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (3.72%) CISM
9 19 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (2.71%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.37%) GCIH
13 12 (2.03%) CEH
14 11 (1.86%) CCNP
14 11 (1.86%) GIAC
15 10 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.69%) GCIA
15 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.52%) CCSP
17 8 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.09%) NIST
2 25 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.55%) QA
4 12 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.69%) GDPR
7 9 (1.52%) SLA
8 8 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.02%) NCSC
10 4 (0.68%) GxP
10 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 97 (16.41%) Docker
2 28 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.52%) vSphere
6 8 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.18%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.02%) etcd
9 3 (0.51%) Snort
10 2 (0.34%) HDFS
10 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.17%) NFS
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.17%) Varnish
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 148 (25.04%) Kubernetes
2 144 (24.37%) Grafana
2 144 (24.37%) Terraform
3 106 (17.94%) Prometheus
4 89 (15.06%) Ansible
5 28 (4.74%) QRadar
6 27 (4.57%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.06%) ZABBIX
8 22 (3.72%) Argo
9 20 (3.38%) Nagios
10 18 (3.05%) Netcool
11 17 (2.88%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.54%) OpenView
12 15 (2.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.37%) Kibana
14 13 (2.20%) Progress Chef
15 9 (1.52%) CASB
15 9 (1.52%) Control-M
15 9 (1.52%) vCenter Server
16 8 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 105 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 90 (15.23%) Dynatrace
3 80 (13.54%) ServiceNow
4 66 (11.17%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.15%) Cisco
6 45 (7.61%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (6.94%) AppDynamics
8 40 (6.77%) F5
9 37 (6.26%) New Relic
10 33 (5.58%) Google
11 32 (5.41%) IBM
12 29 (4.91%) CyberArk
13 27 (4.57%) Tenable
14 25 (4.23%) Juniper
15 24 (4.06%) Palo Alto
15 24 (4.06%) VMware
16 23 (3.89%) BMC
16 23 (3.89%) Oracle
17 22 (3.72%) Extreme Networks
17 22 (3.72%) Fortinet