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 26 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 161 232
Rank change year-on-year -77 +71 -61
Contract jobs citing Splunk 584 585 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.79% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.61% 3.79% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 368 274
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £556
% change year-on-year -2.10% -5.62% -4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £47.50
75th Percentile £74.95 - £48.75
90th Percentile £80.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.50

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 22,375 15,442 16,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.20% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,812 9,439 10,467
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,157 809 781
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.00
% change year-on-year +31.83% -21.33% -32.16%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -77 506 £525 - 243
UK excluding London -82 303 £514 -2.10% 159
London -57 226 £550 +4.76% 135
Work from Home -52 157 £520 +4.00% 104
North of England -42 126 £489 +6.78% 47
North West -28 71 £525 +16.67% 38
Midlands -45 47 £575 +12.52% 5
Yorkshire -31 46 £475 -5.00% 9
West Midlands -49 44 £575 +9.52% 4
South West -13 42 £453 -16.06% 24
South East -126 40 £465 -7.00% 40
Scotland -17 31 £425 -6.39% 28
East of England -39 26 £700 +27.27% 5
North East -33 9 £425 -
East Midlands -18 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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 17 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.37%) Apache
4 8 (1.37%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
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%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) 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%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 217 (37.16%) AWS
2 208 (35.62%) Azure
3 100 (17.12%) GitHub
4 79 (13.53%) GCP
5 55 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (8.73%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (6.68%) Entra ID
9 37 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (6.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 35 (5.99%) Datadog
11 29 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.79%) Power Platform
12 28 (4.79%) SaaS
13 27 (4.62%) Serverless
14 26 (4.45%) Amazon S3
15 24 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (12.16%) Firewall
2 56 (9.59%) DNS
3 41 (7.02%) Network Security
4 38 (6.51%) SNMP
5 24 (4.11%) WAN
6 17 (2.91%) BGP
6 17 (2.91%) DHCP
6 17 (2.91%) VPN
7 16 (2.74%) LAN
7 16 (2.74%) TCP/IP
8 15 (2.57%) OSPF
9 12 (2.05%) BIG-IP
10 10 (1.71%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (1.71%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (1.71%) HTTP
10 10 (1.71%) Internet
10 10 (1.71%) Junos
10 10 (1.71%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.54%) Wireless
12 8 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.62%) Power BI
2 26 (4.45%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.91%) Big Data
4 17 (2.91%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.23%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.05%) DynamoDB
6 12 (2.05%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.54%) MySQL
8 8 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.20%) Presto
10 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.03%) Flink
10 6 (1.03%) Redis
11 5 (0.86%) Looker
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 94 (16.10%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.10%) Git
3 58 (9.93%) GitLab
4 43 (7.36%) JIRA
5 32 (5.48%) Gatling
6 31 (5.31%) JMeter
7 20 (3.42%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.88%) Selenium
10 9 (1.54%) JUnit
11 8 (1.37%) Gradle
11 8 (1.37%) Maven
11 8 (1.37%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.20%) Postman
13 6 (1.03%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 140 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.18%) Finance
3 83 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.59%) Banking
5 32 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.71%) Front Office
8 10 (1.71%) Legal
9 9 (1.54%) Retail
10 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.86%) Law
12 4 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.51%) Military
13 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (9.59%) Senior
2 52 (8.90%) Lead
3 51 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (8.56%) Analyst
5 46 (7.88%) Consultant
6 36 (6.16%) Splunk Engineer
7 34 (5.82%) Architect
7 34 (5.82%) Developer
8 25 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 24 (4.11%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (3.94%) Performance Engineer
10 23 (3.94%) Security Engineer
11 19 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (3.25%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.08%) Site Engineer
13 17 (2.91%) Support Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) Applications Support
14 16 (2.74%) Data Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (25.51%) Terraform
2 59 (10.10%) Kafka
3 58 (9.93%) REST
4 43 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
5 42 (7.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (3.25%) React
7 18 (3.08%) Spring
7 18 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 17 (2.91%) JSON
8 17 (2.91%) RESTful
9 14 (2.40%) 802.1X
10 13 (2.23%) CSS
10 13 (2.23%) Middleware
11 12 (2.05%) .NET
11 12 (2.05%) OAuth
11 12 (2.05%) OAuth2
11 12 (2.05%) Play Framework
12 10 (1.71%) OpenID
13 9 (1.54%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.96%) Onboarding
2 60 (10.27%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 21 (3.60%) PKI
6 18 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.57%) Clustering
8 15 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.40%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.23%) CMDB
10 13 (2.23%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.71%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 160 (27.40%) Linux
2 117 (20.03%) Windows
3 45 (7.71%) Unix
4 24 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.08%) AIX
7 9 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.03%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.68%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) zOS
11 3 (0.51%) CentOS
11 3 (0.51%) VMS
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.17%) MVS
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (37.50%) Observability
2 218 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 184 (31.51%) DevOps
4 130 (22.26%) SIEM
5 121 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (18.49%) Agile
6 108 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (17.64%) Incident Response
8 84 (14.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 83 (14.21%) Containerisation
10 75 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
11 72 (12.33%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (11.47%) Root Cause Analysis
14 63 (10.79%) Incident Management
15 61 (10.45%) ITSM
16 58 (9.93%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (9.42%) High Availability
19 51 (8.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 216 (36.99%) Python
2 114 (19.52%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.90%) SQL
4 73 (12.50%) Bash
5 68 (11.64%) Java
6 53 (9.08%) Search Processing Language
7 32 (5.48%) Go
8 26 (4.45%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.42%) Scala
10 18 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.91%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.71%) Bicep
13 10 (1.71%) Perl
14 8 (1.37%) C#
15 5 (0.86%) Groovy
16 4 (0.68%) JCL
16 4 (0.68%) REXX
17 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 215 (36.82%) Security Cleared
2 141 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.93%) DV Cleared
4 46 (7.88%) Degree
5 44 (7.53%) CISSP
6 28 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.60%) CISM
8 20 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.08%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.40%) GCIH
12 14 (2.40%) GIAC
13 11 (1.88%) CEH
14 10 (1.71%) CCNP
15 8 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 8 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (1.37%) GCIA
16 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.51%) NIST
2 25 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.77%) QA
4 15 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.40%) GDPR
5 14 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.71%) SLA
7 9 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.37%) NCSC
9 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.86%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.68%) GxP
10 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.34%) COBIT
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 104 (17.81%) Docker
2 25 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.03%) etcd
6 6 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.03%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 156 (26.71%) Kubernetes
2 145 (24.83%) Grafana
3 102 (17.47%) Prometheus
4 86 (14.73%) Ansible
5 29 (4.97%) QRadar
6 24 (4.11%) ZABBIX
7 21 (3.60%) Nagios
8 20 (3.42%) Argo
9 18 (3.08%) Netcool
10 17 (2.91%) Tivoli
11 15 (2.57%) Kibana
11 15 (2.57%) OpenView
11 15 (2.57%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.40%) Progress Chef
13 13 (2.23%) FortiGate
14 10 (1.71%) Control-M
15 8 (1.37%) Puppet
15 8 (1.37%) SCOM
15 8 (1.37%) WMI
16 7 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 116 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 97 (16.61%) Dynatrace
3 74 (12.67%) ServiceNow
4 52 (8.90%) SolarWinds
5 48 (8.22%) Cisco
6 43 (7.36%) AppDynamics
6 43 (7.36%) CrowdStrike
7 39 (6.68%) New Relic
8 35 (5.99%) IBM
9 31 (5.31%) Oracle
10 26 (4.45%) Google
11 24 (4.11%) BMC
11 24 (4.11%) CyberArk
11 24 (4.11%) VMware
12 22 (3.77%) F5
12 22 (3.77%) Fortinet
13 19 (3.25%) Palo Alto
13 19 (3.25%) Tenable
14 18 (3.08%) Cribl.io
14 18 (3.08%) Zscaler