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 17 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 173 242
Rank change year-on-year -51 +69 -74
Contract jobs citing Splunk 592 509 415
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.56% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.72% 3.29% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 318 269
10th Percentile £363 £362 £399
25th Percentile £427 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -1.82% -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 21,743 15,464 18,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.29% 47.54% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,516 9,461 11,390
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 756 1,049
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.24 £15.10
Median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.67 £61.30
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.04% -10.00% -19.35%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -54 519 £525 -2.78% 216
UK excluding London -57 311 £517 -4.31% 220
London -38 227 £550 +4.76% 66
Work from Home -34 163 £537 +7.40% 34
North of England -29 128 £500 +5.80% 47
Yorkshire -6 72 £500 +12.04% 13
North West -38 54 £509 -3.05% 23
South East -95 53 £465 -13.41% 52
Midlands -27 46 £581 +19.87% 20
West Midlands -29 42 £582 +16.70% 18
South West -14 40 £450 -21.05% 35
East of England -35 27 £675 +22.73% 28
Scotland -11 26 £514 +16.82% 22
North East - 5 £413 - 11
East Midlands -14 4 £474 +9.35% 2
Wales -12 1 - - 12

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 23 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.72%) Confluence
3 15 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) Apache
4 5 (0.84%) 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%) TPMS
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) 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 (31.42%) AWS
2 180 (30.41%) Azure
3 95 (16.05%) GitHub
4 75 (12.67%) GCP
5 71 (11.99%) OpenShift
6 36 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (5.57%) Entra ID
8 30 (5.07%) Datadog
9 29 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 25 (4.22%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (4.22%) Power Platform
11 24 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.89%) Serverless
13 21 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (3.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.68%) Firewall
2 75 (12.67%) DNS
3 39 (6.59%) SNMP
4 37 (6.25%) Network Security
4 37 (6.25%) WAN
5 32 (5.41%) BGP
6 30 (5.07%) LAN
6 30 (5.07%) OSPF
7 29 (4.90%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.73%) DHCP
9 26 (4.39%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.22%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.05%) Junos
12 23 (3.89%) VPN
13 21 (3.55%) Cisco ISE
13 21 (3.55%) TCP/IP
14 10 (1.69%) MPLS
14 10 (1.69%) SSL
14 10 (1.69%) Wireless
15 9 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.39%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.05%) Power BI
3 21 (3.55%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.21%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.53%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (2.03%) Big Data
9 10 (1.69%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.35%) MySQL
11 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.18%) Presto
11 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.51%) Flink
Development Applications
1 98 (16.55%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.12%) GitLab
3 48 (8.11%) Git
4 34 (5.74%) Gatling
5 32 (5.41%) JIRA
6 23 (3.89%) JMeter
7 14 (2.36%) Selenium
8 13 (2.20%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.20%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.03%) Serenity BDD
10 9 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.35%) Gradle
11 8 (1.35%) JUnit
11 8 (1.35%) Maven
12 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
13 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.01%) Postman
13 6 (1.01%) Snyk
13 6 (1.01%) Xcode
14 5 (0.84%) Jaeger
General
1 161 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 119 (20.10%) Finance
3 71 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (8.95%) Banking
5 39 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.36%) Retail
8 12 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.86%) Legal
10 10 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.69%) Front Office
11 8 (1.35%) Military
12 5 (0.84%) Law
12 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (11.15%) Analyst
2 63 (10.64%) Architect
3 59 (9.97%) Lead
3 59 (9.97%) Senior
4 45 (7.60%) Consultant
5 41 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (5.41%) Developer
7 25 (4.22%) Data Engineer
7 25 (4.22%) SOC Engineer
8 24 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 22 (3.72%) Splunk Engineer
10 21 (3.55%) Security Architect
11 20 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (3.38%) Security Engineer
11 20 (3.38%) SOC Analyst
12 19 (3.21%) Network Engineer
12 19 (3.21%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.04%) CyberArk Architect
13 18 (3.04%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.87%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.32%) REST
2 59 (9.97%) Kafka
3 55 (9.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 35 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
5 34 (5.74%) Spring
6 32 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 27 (4.56%) 802.1X
8 24 (4.05%) JSON
9 21 (3.55%) LDAP
10 17 (2.87%) OpenID
10 17 (2.87%) SAML
11 16 (2.70%) RESTful
12 13 (2.20%) Playwright
13 12 (2.03%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (1.86%) Middleware
14 11 (1.86%) SailPoint
15 10 (1.69%) .NET
15 10 (1.69%) OAuth
15 10 (1.69%) OAuth2
15 10 (1.69%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.98%) Onboarding
3 37 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.08%) PKI
5 34 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.41%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.73%) Clustering
8 27 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.38%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.87%) CMDB
11 13 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (2.20%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.03%) Management Information System
12 12 (2.03%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.18%) Cyberattack
14 7 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (25.68%) Linux
2 135 (22.80%) Windows
3 41 (6.93%) Unix
4 18 (3.04%) AIX
4 18 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Android
9 4 (0.68%) zOS
10 2 (0.34%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (37.84%) CI/CD
2 207 (34.97%) Observability
3 186 (31.42%) DevOps
4 138 (23.31%) SIEM
5 130 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (19.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 99 (16.72%) Cybersecurity
8 96 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 93 (15.71%) Incident Response
10 87 (14.70%) Agile
11 79 (13.34%) Security Operations
12 76 (12.84%) Containerisation
13 75 (12.67%) High Availability
14 68 (11.49%) ITSM
15 63 (10.64%) ITIL
16 58 (9.80%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.46%) Analytics
18 53 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
19 52 (8.78%) Cloud Security
20 51 (8.61%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (35.64%) Python
2 88 (14.86%) PowerShell
2 88 (14.86%) SQL
3 72 (12.16%) Java
4 67 (11.32%) Bash
5 46 (7.77%) Search Processing Language
6 25 (4.22%) Go
7 22 (3.72%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.20%) Bicep
9 12 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (2.03%) Scala
10 11 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.35%) C#
12 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.01%) Perl
13 6 (1.01%) Ruby
14 4 (0.68%) JCL
14 4 (0.68%) REXX
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 228 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 141 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.30%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.28%) CISSP
5 41 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (5.91%) Degree
7 27 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 26 (4.39%) CISM
9 19 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.87%) AWS Certification
11 15 (2.53%) GIAC
12 12 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
13 11 (1.86%) CCNP
13 11 (1.86%) CEH
14 10 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.52%) CCSP
15 9 (1.52%) GCIA
15 9 (1.52%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.28%) NIST
2 39 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.04%) NCSC
4 17 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.53%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.36%) QA
7 13 (2.20%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.86%) GDPR
9 9 (1.52%) SLA
10 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.68%) GRC
11 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.51%) COBIT
12 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (15.54%) Docker
2 25 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.20%) vSphere
6 8 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.01%) 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
1 154 (26.01%) Kubernetes
2 145 (24.49%) Grafana
3 142 (23.99%) Terraform
4 113 (19.09%) Prometheus
5 92 (15.54%) Ansible
6 26 (4.39%) FortiGate
6 26 (4.39%) QRadar
7 23 (3.89%) ZABBIX
8 21 (3.55%) Argo
9 20 (3.38%) Nagios
10 18 (3.04%) Netcool
11 17 (2.87%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.53%) OpenView
12 15 (2.53%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.36%) Kibana
14 13 (2.20%) vCenter Server
15 9 (1.52%) Control-M
15 9 (1.52%) Progress Chef
16 8 (1.35%) Fluentd
16 8 (1.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 97 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 76 (12.84%) ServiceNow
3 71 (11.99%) Dynatrace
4 60 (10.14%) Cisco
4 60 (10.14%) SolarWinds
5 44 (7.43%) CrowdStrike
6 40 (6.76%) CyberArk
6 40 (6.76%) F5
7 37 (6.25%) AppDynamics
8 30 (5.07%) IBM
8 30 (5.07%) New Relic
9 28 (4.73%) Tenable
10 27 (4.56%) VMware
11 25 (4.22%) Google
11 25 (4.22%) Juniper
12 23 (3.89%) BMC
13 22 (3.72%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (3.72%) Fortinet
14 21 (3.55%) Oracle
15 20 (3.38%) Palo Alto