Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 169 245
Rank change year-on-year -86 +76 -16
Contract jobs citing Splunk 417 917 1,088
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.53% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 2.26% 3.58% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 653 693
10th Percentile £406 £432 £413
25th Percentile £463 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £636 £688 £652
90th Percentile £678 £798 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £24.14 £36.49
25th Percentile - £29.21 £45.70
Median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £56.64
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% -5.80% +13.27%
75th Percentile - £59.80 £68.83
90th Percentile - £60.34 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £56.64
% change year-on-year -25.02% -5.80% +24.47%

All Vendors
UK

Splunk is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 -77 336 £550 -8.33% 89
UK excluding London -55 177 £565 +2.73% 55
London -55 166 £513 -20.54% 38
Work from Home -31 161 £533 -9.28% 48
North of England -42 62 £550 - 18
Yorkshire -7 42 £538 -2.27% 5
South East -20 29 £533 -9.28% 15
South West -13 24 £600 +26.32% 5
East of England +6 20 £625 +4.17% 8
North West -33 20 £550 - 12
Midlands +12 19 £583 -10.38% 5
Scotland +23 18 £575 -2.13% 3
West Midlands +13 11 £626 -5.47% 4
East Midlands +20 8 £359 -48.68% 1
Wales +20 6 £645 -6.25%

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (7.67%) Confluence
2 19 (4.56%) CMS
3 18 (4.32%) SAS
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.20%) IBM Notes
4 5 (1.20%) JBoss
4 5 (1.20%) nginx
5 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.72%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) IIS
7 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Trello
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 138 (33.09%) AWS
2 112 (26.86%) Azure
3 36 (8.63%) GCP
4 32 (7.67%) GitHub
5 30 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (4.80%) PaaS
9 20 (4.80%) SaaS
10 17 (4.08%) Datadog
11 16 (3.84%) Serverless
12 12 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (2.88%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (2.40%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.16%) Miro
15 9 (2.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.99%) Firewall
2 37 (8.87%) TCP/IP
3 30 (7.19%) DNS
4 19 (4.56%) VPN
5 18 (4.32%) HTTP
6 16 (3.84%) DHCP
7 15 (3.60%) Network Security
8 12 (2.88%) WAN
9 10 (2.40%) Kerberos
9 10 (2.40%) VLAN
10 9 (2.16%) Wireshark
11 8 (1.92%) NAS
11 8 (1.92%) SAN
11 8 (1.92%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (1.68%) FTP
12 7 (1.68%) LAN
12 7 (1.68%) SMTP
13 5 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.71%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (6.47%) MySQL
3 21 (5.04%) Relational Database
3 21 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.36%) Tableau
6 13 (3.12%) RDBMS
7 10 (2.40%) Power BI
8 9 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.20%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.96%) Big Data
12 4 (0.96%) Metadata
13 3 (0.72%) Presto
Development Applications
1 77 (18.47%) Jenkins
2 53 (12.71%) JIRA
3 47 (11.27%) Git
4 30 (7.19%) GitLab
5 21 (5.04%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (3.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (3.12%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.64%) Burp Suite
9 8 (1.92%) Selenium
10 7 (1.68%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.68%) Gatling
10 7 (1.68%) JMeter
10 7 (1.68%) Travis CI
11 6 (1.44%) AppScan
11 6 (1.44%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.20%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (1.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 93 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.39%) Finance
3 48 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.35%) Banking
5 30 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.92%) Legal
7 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (0.96%) Retail
9 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.72%) Front Office
9 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Aviation
10 2 (0.48%) Back Office
10 2 (0.48%) Games
10 2 (0.48%) Military
10 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (15.83%) Analyst
2 48 (11.51%) Splunk Engineer
3 44 (10.55%) Senior
4 40 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (8.87%) Security Engineer
6 33 (7.91%) SOC Analyst
7 32 (7.67%) Developer
8 25 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 24 (5.76%) Architect
10 22 (5.28%) Lead
11 20 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.80%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.08%) Data Analyst
12 17 (4.08%) Programmer
12 17 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (4.08%) Systems Programmer
12 17 (4.08%) z/OS Systems Programmer
13 15 (3.60%) SOC Engineer
14 14 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
15 13 (3.12%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.83%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (4.56%) ISPF
3 15 (3.60%) REST
4 14 (3.36%) JSON
4 14 (3.36%) Kafka
5 13 (3.12%) LDAP
6 10 (2.40%) HTML
7 9 (2.16%) Lambda Expressions
8 7 (1.68%) CSS
8 7 (1.68%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.68%) Web Services
8 7 (1.68%) YAML
9 6 (1.44%) Loki
9 6 (1.44%) XML
10 4 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.96%) OAuth
10 4 (0.96%) OLE
11 3 (0.72%) .NET
11 3 (0.72%) Drools
11 3 (0.72%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.95%) Security Operations Centre
2 26 (6.24%) Public Cloud
3 21 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.80%) Clustering
5 19 (4.56%) Cloud Native
5 19 (4.56%) Mainframe
6 17 (4.08%) Data Centre
7 16 (3.84%) Cyberattack
8 13 (3.12%) Security Posture
9 12 (2.88%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.40%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.16%) Replication
13 8 (1.92%) PKI
14 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.44%) CCTV
15 6 (1.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 111 (26.62%) Linux
2 106 (25.42%) Windows
3 31 (7.43%) Unix
4 27 (6.47%) Windows Server
5 21 (5.04%) zOS
6 19 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (1.92%) Solaris
8 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.96%) CentOS
10 3 (0.72%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.48%) Android
11 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (29.26%) DevOps
2 88 (21.10%) Agile
3 70 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
4 68 (16.31%) CI/CD
5 64 (15.35%) SIEM
6 61 (14.63%) Incident Response
6 61 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (11.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 47 (11.27%) Security Operations
9 43 (10.31%) Analytics
10 42 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (8.87%) Use Case
12 36 (8.63%) Containerisation
13 33 (7.91%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (7.19%) Project Management
15 29 (6.95%) Microservices
15 29 (6.95%) Risk Management
16 27 (6.47%) Performance Monitoring
16 27 (6.47%) Scrum
17 26 (6.24%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (35.73%) Python
2 61 (14.63%) Bash
3 59 (14.15%) PowerShell
3 59 (14.15%) SQL
4 40 (9.59%) Java
5 24 (5.76%) Go
6 19 (4.56%) JCL
6 19 (4.56%) REXX
7 17 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.60%) Assembly Language
8 15 (3.60%) Search Processing Language
9 14 (3.36%) Perl
9 14 (3.36%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.12%) Ruby
11 8 (1.92%) C
11 8 (1.92%) C++
11 8 (1.92%) Groovy
12 6 (1.44%) C#
13 4 (0.96%) PHP
13 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.76%) Degree
4 16 (3.84%) CISSP
5 15 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.20%) SANS
8 4 (0.96%) CCNP
8 4 (0.96%) CISM
9 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.72%) CCDP
9 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.48%) CCNA
10 2 (0.48%) CEH
11 1 (0.24%) CCSP
11 1 (0.24%) CISA
11 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.24%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.67%) QA
2 18 (4.32%) NIST
3 16 (3.84%) GDPR
4 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.68%) NCSC
7 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.96%) SLA
9 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.72%) GRC
9 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (18.94%) Docker
2 28 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.52%) Active Directory
4 19 (4.56%) Time Sharing Option
5 15 (3.60%) ACF2
5 15 (3.60%) RACF
6 5 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.96%) Snort
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.48%) XenApp
9 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (21.34%) Kubernetes
2 72 (17.27%) Terraform
3 71 (17.03%) Ansible
4 51 (12.23%) Prometheus
5 43 (10.31%) Grafana
6 39 (9.35%) Puppet
7 34 (8.15%) Kibana
8 27 (6.47%) Progress Chef
9 26 (6.24%) Nagios
10 20 (4.80%) Graylog
11 19 (4.56%) OMEGAMON
12 15 (3.60%) logstash
13 12 (2.88%) HP Fortify
14 11 (2.64%) Netcool
15 10 (2.40%) Nessus
15 10 (2.40%) Opsgenie
16 8 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
16 8 (1.92%) Tivoli
16 8 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 88 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.91%) VMware
3 32 (7.67%) Cisco
4 28 (6.71%) IBM
5 26 (6.24%) Dynatrace
6 20 (4.80%) Oracle
7 19 (4.56%) Broadcom
8 18 (4.32%) Adobe
8 18 (4.32%) LogRhythm
9 17 (4.08%) AppDynamics
10 16 (3.84%) Darktrace
10 16 (3.84%) FireEye
10 16 (3.84%) New Relic
11 15 (3.60%) ServiceNow
12 13 (3.12%) CyberArk
13 12 (2.88%) Palo Alto
14 11 (2.64%) Qualys
15 10 (2.40%) Google
15 10 (2.40%) PagerDuty
16 8 (1.92%) CrowdStrike