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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 186 261
Rank change year-on-year +27 +75 -44
Contract jobs citing Splunk 656 429 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 1.35% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.89% 2.95% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 241 268
10th Percentile £334 £420 £404
25th Percentile £415 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +1.18% -1.17%
75th Percentile £613 £750 £675
90th Percentile £688 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -14.43% +0.88% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £76.56 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £86.25 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.37% - -
75th Percentile £92.81 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.38 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +45.37% - -

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 16,847 14,544 19,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.30% 45.76% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,815 8,618 12,039
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £411 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 427 687
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.79 £17.88
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -37.61% +60.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.25 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.04 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.00% -43.82% +80.27%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +32 580 £525 -12.50% 122
UK excluding London +74 374 £492 -14.43% 112
London +3 221 £575 -9.80% 26
Work from Home -5 166 £525 -12.50% 83
North of England +6 133 £486 -20.98% 26
Midlands +30 116 £525 -4.72% 11
West Midlands +42 112 £525 -4.72% 8
South East +41 90 £390 -32.17% 36
Yorkshire +4 89 £515 -16.73% 11
North West -29 42 £452 -24.75% 13
Scotland +35 38 £505 +27.72% 8
South West -19 11 £625 -5.66% 8
East of England -26 4 £575 -2.13% 21
East Midlands -28 4 £381 +4.49% 3
Wales - 4 £600 - 5
North East -12 2 £600 -26.38% 2

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 33 (5.03%) Apache
2 18 (2.74%) Skype for Business
2 18 (2.74%) WebLogic
3 13 (1.98%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.83%) JBoss
5 11 (1.68%) TPMS
6 10 (1.52%) Confluence
6 10 (1.52%) IIS
6 10 (1.52%) iPlanet
6 10 (1.52%) WebSphere
6 10 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (1.22%) Apache Pig
9 7 (1.07%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.76%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.46%) SAS
12 2 (0.30%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 23 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) BASE24
2 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.15%) RMDS
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (40.24%) AWS
2 165 (25.15%) Azure
3 141 (21.49%) GCP
4 66 (10.06%) GitHub
5 55 (8.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 52 (7.93%) OpenShift
7 48 (7.32%) Serverless
8 32 (4.88%) Datadog
9 29 (4.42%) SaaS
10 27 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.51%) Akamai
12 23 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.90%) Sauce Labs
14 18 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 92 (14.02%) Firewall
2 56 (8.54%) DNS
3 40 (6.10%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.42%) Network Security
5 23 (3.51%) HTTP
5 23 (3.51%) SSL
6 21 (3.20%) Wireshark
7 20 (3.05%) Wireless
8 18 (2.74%) Skype
9 16 (2.44%) VPN
10 13 (1.98%) SNMP
10 13 (1.98%) SSH
11 11 (1.68%) Kerberos
11 11 (1.68%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.76%) BGP
12 5 (0.76%) DHCP
12 5 (0.76%) VSAN
13 4 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.61%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.64%) NoSQL
3 30 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (4.42%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.66%) MySQL
5 24 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.74%) Redis
7 15 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 12 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.83%) Power BI
9 11 (1.68%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.52%) Apache Hive
11 8 (1.22%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.22%) SQL Server
12 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.76%) Flink
14 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 118 (17.99%) Jenkins
2 108 (16.46%) GitLab
3 47 (7.16%) Git
4 26 (3.96%) Liquibase
5 25 (3.81%) JIRA
6 22 (3.35%) Xcode
7 21 (3.20%) Postman
8 20 (3.05%) Eclipse
9 19 (2.90%) Android Studio
9 19 (2.90%) Browser DevTools
10 15 (2.29%) Bitbucket
10 15 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (2.13%) CircleCI
11 14 (2.13%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.13%) JUnit
12 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (1.68%) CA Release Automation
12 11 (1.68%) Maven
12 11 (1.68%) SonarQube
13 10 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 296 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 155 (23.63%) Finance
3 122 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.37%) Banking
5 64 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.40%) Financial Institution
7 24 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.68%) Military
9 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.07%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.76%) Local Government
12 4 (0.61%) Law
12 4 (0.61%) Legal
12 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.46%) Retail
14 2 (0.30%) Front Office
14 2 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.30%) Marketing
14 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (17.84%) Analyst
2 74 (11.28%) Senior
3 63 (9.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (8.23%) SOC Analyst
5 46 (7.01%) Architect
6 43 (6.55%) Security Engineer
7 36 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (4.88%) Security Analyst
9 31 (4.73%) Lead
10 30 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (4.27%) Splunk Engineer
12 25 (3.81%) Monitoring Analyst
13 24 (3.66%) Developer
14 23 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.51%) Site Engineer
14 23 (3.51%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.51%) Support Analyst
15 22 (3.35%) Support Engineer
16 19 (2.90%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (10.52%) Elastic Stack
1 69 (10.52%) REST
2 54 (8.23%) Kafka
3 44 (6.71%) RESTful
4 27 (4.12%) AngularJS
5 26 (3.96%) Spring Boot
6 25 (3.81%) CSS
7 24 (3.66%) OAuth
7 24 (3.66%) React
8 22 (3.35%) GraphQL
8 22 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 22 (3.35%) SAML
9 20 (3.05%) Middleware
10 19 (2.90%) Ajax
11 18 (2.74%) LDAP
12 17 (2.59%) Keycloak
12 17 (2.59%) OpenID
12 17 (2.59%) Spring
13 16 (2.44%) JSON
14 14 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (6.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 38 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 36 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 36 (5.49%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 27 (4.12%) Cyber Defence
7 24 (3.66%) Mobile App
8 23 (3.51%) PKI
9 20 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.83%) Cyberattack
12 10 (1.52%) Clustering
12 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.22%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 249 (37.96%) Linux
2 136 (20.73%) Windows
3 107 (16.31%) Unix
4 38 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (3.66%) Android
5 24 (3.66%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.22%) CentOS
7 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.61%) Solaris
10 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.61%) zOS
11 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.15%) VMS
13 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (32.62%) DevOps
2 208 (31.71%) CI/CD
3 178 (27.13%) Incident Response
4 176 (26.83%) Cybersecurity
5 158 (24.09%) SIEM
6 154 (23.48%) Observability
7 142 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 123 (18.75%) Containerisation
10 120 (18.29%) Agile
11 89 (13.57%) Computer Science
12 86 (13.11%) Microservices
13 78 (11.89%) Threat Detection
14 77 (11.74%) Security Operations
15 68 (10.37%) Root Cause Analysis
16 66 (10.06%) Test Automation
17 56 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (8.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 53 (8.08%) Mentoring
18 53 (8.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 245 (37.35%) Python
2 109 (16.62%) SQL
3 104 (15.85%) PowerShell
4 96 (14.63%) Bash
5 88 (13.41%) Java
6 54 (8.23%) Go
7 45 (6.86%) Shell Script
8 40 (6.10%) JavaScript
9 35 (5.34%) Perl
10 23 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (2.44%) Groovy
12 12 (1.83%) Scala
12 12 (1.83%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.68%) Search Processing Language
14 7 (1.07%) Rust
15 5 (0.76%) JCL
15 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.76%) PromQL
15 5 (0.76%) Swift
16 4 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 208 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 139 (21.19%) SC Cleared
3 108 (16.46%) Degree
4 67 (10.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (8.99%) CISSP
6 50 (7.62%) DV Cleared
7 41 (6.25%) Master's Degree
8 35 (5.34%) CISM
9 26 (3.96%) CEH
10 24 (3.66%) GIAC
11 23 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.35%) AWS Certification
13 21 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (1.98%) MCSE
14 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.68%) FFIEC
15 11 (1.68%) GCIA
16 10 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
16 10 (1.52%) GCIH
17 9 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.91%) NIST
2 50 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (5.49%) GDPR
4 24 (3.66%) PCI DSS
5 19 (2.90%) QA
6 15 (2.29%) NCSC
7 13 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.98%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.68%) GLBA
9 10 (1.52%) SLA
10 8 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.30%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 134 (20.43%) Docker
2 56 (8.54%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.22%) NFS
5 8 (1.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 7 (1.07%) vSphere
7 6 (0.91%) Snort
7 6 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
9 4 (0.61%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 188 (28.66%) Kubernetes
2 129 (19.66%) Terraform
3 124 (18.90%) Grafana
4 123 (18.75%) Ansible
5 99 (15.09%) Prometheus
6 36 (5.49%) QRadar
7 32 (4.88%) Kibana
8 25 (3.81%) SCOM
9 24 (3.66%) Puppet
10 21 (3.20%) CSIRT
10 21 (3.20%) HP SiteScope
10 21 (3.20%) Progress Chef
11 20 (3.05%) Argo
12 13 (1.98%) Nessus
12 13 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (1.83%) Fluentd
14 10 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.52%) logstash
14 10 (1.52%) Packer
14 10 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 161 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.37%) Dynatrace
2 68 (10.37%) Oracle
3 64 (9.76%) AppDynamics
4 49 (7.47%) Cisco
5 47 (7.16%) Google
6 40 (6.10%) ServiceNow
7 38 (5.79%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (5.49%) Qualys
9 30 (4.57%) Red Hat
10 29 (4.42%) VMware
11 24 (3.66%) Carbon Black
12 22 (3.35%) F5
13 21 (3.20%) Remedy
14 20 (3.05%) ArcSight
15 19 (2.90%) CyberArk
16 18 (2.74%) Palo Alto
16 18 (2.74%) Tenable
17 17 (2.59%) Cribl.io
18 12 (1.83%) Thales