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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 180 236
Rank change year-on-year -49 +56 -64
Contract jobs citing Splunk 589 507 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.55% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 2.71% 3.27% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 314 271
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.29%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £625
90th Percentile £747 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £80.48 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 21,772 15,486 17,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.28% 47.46% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,534 9,470 11,254
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 759 982
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.74 £12.87
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.04 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -3.27% -36.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.41 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.69% -10.37% -22.60%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -53 516 £525 -2.78% 253
UK excluding London -62 311 £515 -6.41% 234
London -37 224 £550 +4.76% 93
Work from Home -34 159 £525 +5.00% 48
North of England -26 127 £500 - 54
Yorkshire -12 70 £500 +12.04% 13
North West -31 55 £511 -11.94% 28
South East -95 52 £465 -14.44% 53
Midlands -19 49 £581 +19.79% 20
West Midlands -20 46 £581 +19.79% 18
South West -8 40 £450 -21.05% 39
Scotland -18 26 £514 +19.53% 23
East of England -36 26 £688 +25.00% 28
North East - 5 £413 - 13
East Midlands -12 3 £500 +5.26% 2
Wales -16 1 - - 11

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 26 (4.41%) Confluence
2 23 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.85%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
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 2 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 186 (31.58%) AWS
2 181 (30.73%) Azure
3 95 (16.13%) GitHub
4 75 (12.73%) GCP
5 66 (11.21%) OpenShift
6 37 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (5.60%) Datadog
7 33 (5.60%) Entra ID
8 29 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
9 25 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (4.24%) Power Platform
10 24 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (3.74%) Serverless
12 21 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (3.40%) SaaS
14 19 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.75%) Firewall
2 76 (12.90%) DNS
3 38 (6.45%) Network Security
3 38 (6.45%) SNMP
4 35 (5.94%) WAN
5 32 (5.43%) BGP
6 30 (5.09%) OSPF
7 29 (4.92%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.75%) DHCP
8 28 (4.75%) LAN
9 26 (4.41%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.24%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.07%) Junos
12 22 (3.74%) TCP/IP
12 22 (3.74%) VPN
13 21 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (1.70%) Wireless
15 9 (1.53%) Internet
15 9 (1.53%) SSL
16 8 (1.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.24%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.07%) Power BI
3 21 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.55%) Big Data
6 15 (2.55%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.36%) MySQL
9 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
13 3 (0.51%) KDB
13 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.51%) GitLab
3 50 (8.49%) Git
4 37 (6.28%) JIRA
5 34 (5.77%) Gatling
6 24 (4.07%) JMeter
7 15 (2.55%) Selenium
8 14 (2.38%) LoadRunner
9 13 (2.21%) REST Assured
10 12 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.36%) Gradle
12 8 (1.36%) JUnit
12 8 (1.36%) Maven
13 7 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
13 7 (1.19%) Postman
13 7 (1.19%) Snyk
14 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 156 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.19%) Finance
3 72 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.17%) Banking
5 39 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.38%) Retail
8 11 (1.87%) Front Office
9 10 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.70%) Legal
10 8 (1.36%) Military
11 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.85%) Law
12 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (11.04%) Analyst
2 61 (10.36%) Lead
3 60 (10.19%) Senior
4 57 (9.68%) Architect
5 46 (7.81%) Consultant
6 42 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (5.43%) Developer
8 25 (4.24%) Data Engineer
8 25 (4.24%) SOC Engineer
9 23 (3.90%) Security Architect
9 23 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 23 (3.90%) Splunk Engineer
10 20 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (3.23%) Security Engineer
11 19 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
12 18 (3.06%) Site Engineer
12 18 (3.06%) Test Engineer
13 17 (2.89%) Network Engineer
13 17 (2.89%) Performance Engineer
14 15 (2.55%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.71%) REST
2 60 (10.19%) Kafka
3 55 (9.34%) OpenTelemetry
4 33 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (5.60%) Spring
4 33 (5.60%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.58%) 802.1X
6 26 (4.41%) JSON
7 16 (2.72%) RESTful
8 14 (2.38%) LDAP
9 13 (2.21%) Playwright
10 12 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (1.87%) .NET
11 11 (1.87%) Middleware
11 11 (1.87%) SailPoint
12 10 (1.70%) CSS
12 10 (1.70%) Protocol Buffers
12 10 (1.70%) React
13 9 (1.53%) Apache Avro
13 9 (1.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.85%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.11%) PKI
3 36 (6.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 33 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 27 (4.58%) Clustering
6 27 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (3.23%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.89%) CMDB
9 13 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
10 12 (2.04%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.36%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.19%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 154 (26.15%) Linux
2 134 (22.75%) Windows
3 43 (7.30%) Unix
4 18 (3.06%) AIX
4 18 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.68%) Android
8 4 (0.68%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) SUSE
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (36.67%) CI/CD
2 209 (35.48%) Observability
3 186 (31.58%) DevOps
4 132 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (21.90%) SIEM
6 111 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 93 (15.79%) Agile
8 93 (15.79%) Incident Response
9 91 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
10 78 (13.24%) Containerisation
11 77 (13.07%) Security Operations
12 74 (12.56%) High Availability
13 63 (10.70%) ITSM
14 61 (10.36%) ITIL
15 59 (10.02%) Analytics
15 59 (10.02%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.00%) Cloud Security
16 53 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (8.83%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (35.65%) Python
2 88 (14.94%) PowerShell
2 88 (14.94%) SQL
3 74 (12.56%) Java
4 66 (11.21%) Bash
5 44 (7.47%) Search Processing Language
6 26 (4.41%) Go
7 22 (3.74%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (2.04%) Scala
9 11 (1.87%) Bicep
9 11 (1.87%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.36%) C#
11 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.19%) Perl
13 6 (1.02%) Ruby
14 4 (0.68%) JCL
14 4 (0.68%) REXX
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 221 (37.52%) Security Cleared
2 134 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.36%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.32%) CISSP
5 41 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (5.94%) Degree
7 27 (4.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 26 (4.41%) CISM
9 22 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.89%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.55%) GIAC
13 12 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.87%) CCNP
14 11 (1.87%) CEH
15 10 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.53%) CCSP
16 9 (1.53%) GCIA
16 9 (1.53%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.96%) NIST
2 32 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.38%) QA
6 12 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.87%) NCSC
8 10 (1.70%) GDPR
9 9 (1.53%) SLA
10 6 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.85%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.68%) GRC
13 3 (0.51%) COBIT
13 3 (0.51%) GxP
13 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
13 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 94 (15.96%) Docker
2 25 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.21%) vSphere
6 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 150 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 148 (25.13%) Grafana
3 142 (24.11%) Terraform
4 114 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 90 (15.28%) Ansible
6 27 (4.58%) QRadar
7 26 (4.41%) FortiGate
8 23 (3.90%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.57%) Argo
10 20 (3.40%) Nagios
11 18 (3.06%) Netcool
12 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.55%) OpenView
13 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 14 (2.38%) Kibana
15 13 (2.21%) vCenter Server
16 10 (1.70%) Control-M
16 10 (1.70%) Progress Chef
17 8 (1.36%) Puppet
17 8 (1.36%) WMI
Vendors
1 94 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.41%) ServiceNow
3 74 (12.56%) Dynatrace
4 61 (10.36%) SolarWinds
5 58 (9.85%) Cisco
6 44 (7.47%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.79%) F5
8 38 (6.45%) AppDynamics
9 33 (5.60%) CyberArk
10 29 (4.92%) Google
10 29 (4.92%) IBM
10 29 (4.92%) New Relic
11 28 (4.75%) Tenable
12 25 (4.24%) Juniper
12 25 (4.24%) VMware
13 23 (3.90%) BMC
14 22 (3.74%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.74%) Fortinet
14 22 (3.74%) Oracle
14 22 (3.74%) Palo Alto