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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 154 213
Rank change year-on-year -87 +59 -18
Contract jobs citing Splunk 606 634 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.92% 1.15%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 4.04% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 395 266
10th Percentile £350 £359 £425
25th Percentile £423 £424 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £574
Median % change year-on-year - -8.50% -4.38%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £688
90th Percentile £724 £697 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £44.29 - £48.75
25th Percentile £51.00 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.69 - £60.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile £79.84 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.45 - £60.00

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 22,864 15,696 17,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.57% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,944 9,651 10,126
10th Percentile £310 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £625
90th Percentile £703 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,300 810 649
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.79 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.97%
75th Percentile £59.19 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.91% -29.00% -29.41%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -95 522 £525 - 493
UK excluding London -110 296 £525 - 369
London -63 254 £525 - 226
Work from Home -34 168 £523 +4.50% 137
North of England -36 124 £463 -1.80% 94
North West -32 69 £525 +14.75% 50
Midlands -64 47 £575 +9.00% 29
West Midlands -54 45 £575 +7.68% 26
South East -122 40 £485 -3.00% 81
Yorkshire -46 39 £475 -0.21% 29
Scotland -31 33 £425 -14.31% 40
South West -24 29 £650 +18.18% 56
East of England -45 27 £675 +22.73% 33
North East -28 16 £425 - 16
Wales - 4 - - 19
East Midlands -15 1 £500 +38.89% 3

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 29 (4.79%) Confluence
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.16%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) MTS
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) SAP MDG
1 8 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (38.28%) AWS
1 232 (38.28%) Azure
2 97 (16.01%) GitHub
3 90 (14.85%) GCP
4 56 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
5 49 (8.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 44 (7.26%) OpenShift
7 41 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (6.60%) Datadog
9 38 (6.27%) Entra ID
10 37 (6.11%) Power Platform
11 36 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
13 26 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (4.29%) SaaS
14 25 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (4.13%) Serverless
15 23 (3.80%) Amazon S3
15 23 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.56%) Firewall
2 42 (6.93%) DNS
3 41 (6.77%) Network Security
4 33 (5.45%) SNMP
5 22 (3.63%) WAN
6 18 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 17 (2.81%) VPN
8 12 (1.98%) HTTP
8 12 (1.98%) Wireless
9 11 (1.82%) BGP
9 11 (1.82%) DHCP
10 10 (1.65%) Internet
10 10 (1.65%) LAN
10 10 (1.65%) SSL
11 9 (1.49%) OSPF
12 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.16%) Wireshark
13 6 (0.99%) Multicast
14 5 (0.83%) 5G
14 5 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.94%) Power BI
2 30 (4.95%) MongoDB
3 26 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.97%) Big Data
4 18 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.15%) MySQL
6 13 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.65%) Tableau
9 9 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.49%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.16%) Looker
11 7 (1.16%) Presto
12 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.99%) Redis
13 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.83%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 93 (15.35%) Jenkins
2 65 (10.73%) Git
3 60 (9.90%) GitLab
4 47 (7.76%) JIRA
5 28 (4.62%) Gatling
5 28 (4.62%) JMeter
6 18 (2.97%) Bitbucket
7 17 (2.81%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.31%) Selenium
9 11 (1.82%) Postman
10 9 (1.49%) Maven
11 8 (1.32%) Gradle
11 8 (1.32%) JUnit
11 8 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.16%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.16%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 167 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 117 (19.31%) Finance
3 107 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.57%) Banking
5 39 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.98%) Retail
9 11 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.65%) Front Office
10 10 (1.65%) Legal
11 7 (1.16%) Military
12 5 (0.83%) Law
12 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
15 2 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 62 (10.23%) Analyst
2 55 (9.08%) Senior
3 52 (8.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (7.76%) Lead
5 42 (6.93%) Splunk Engineer
6 40 (6.60%) Architect
6 40 (6.60%) Developer
7 38 (6.27%) Consultant
8 36 (5.94%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.46%) SOC Engineer
10 26 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 23 (3.80%) Test Engineer
12 20 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.30%) Security Analyst
13 18 (2.97%) Performance Engineer
13 18 (2.97%) Support Engineer
14 17 (2.81%) Security Architect
14 17 (2.81%) Site Engineer
15 16 (2.64%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (25.08%) Terraform
2 63 (10.40%) Kafka
3 57 (9.41%) REST
4 49 (8.09%) Elastic Stack
5 36 (5.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 22 (3.63%) RESTful
7 21 (3.47%) Spring
7 21 (3.47%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.30%) JSON
8 20 (3.30%) Middleware
8 20 (3.30%) OAuth
9 19 (3.14%) OAuth2
10 18 (2.97%) React
11 15 (2.48%) Play Framework
12 13 (2.15%) CSS
13 12 (1.98%) .NET
13 12 (1.98%) OpenID
13 12 (1.98%) SAML
14 10 (1.65%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.06%) Onboarding
2 64 (10.56%) Cloud Native
3 43 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (4.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (3.80%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.97%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.97%) Security Posture
9 13 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
10 12 (1.98%) CMDB
10 12 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.65%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.49%) Clustering
12 9 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.32%) Blog
13 8 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 170 (28.05%) Linux
2 106 (17.49%) Windows
3 52 (8.58%) Unix
4 30 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 25 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.49%) AIX
6 9 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.66%) Android
8 4 (0.66%) CentOS
8 4 (0.66%) VMS
8 4 (0.66%) zOS
9 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) SUSE
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (40.10%) Observability
2 223 (36.80%) CI/CD
3 190 (31.35%) DevOps
4 140 (23.10%) SIEM
5 127 (20.96%) Agile
5 127 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (19.31%) Incident Response
7 116 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
9 86 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (13.53%) Security Operations
11 79 (13.04%) Containerisation
11 79 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
11 79 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 72 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 64 (10.56%) Incident Management
14 62 (10.23%) Analytics
15 59 (9.74%) Test Automation
16 56 (9.24%) Threat Detection
17 55 (9.08%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 207 (34.16%) Python
2 110 (18.15%) PowerShell
3 89 (14.69%) SQL
4 76 (12.54%) Java
5 72 (11.88%) Bash
6 50 (8.25%) Search Processing Language
7 39 (6.44%) Go
8 23 (3.80%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.63%) Scala
9 22 (3.63%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (2.48%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.65%) C#
12 10 (1.65%) Perl
13 7 (1.16%) Bicep
14 6 (0.99%) Groovy
15 5 (0.83%) Ruby
16 4 (0.66%) JCL
16 4 (0.66%) REXX
17 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 223 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 157 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.58%) CISSP
5 46 (7.59%) Degree
6 25 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.63%) AWS Certification
7 22 (3.63%) CISM
8 19 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.97%) GIAC
10 16 (2.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (2.48%) GCIH
12 14 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.82%) CCSP
13 11 (1.82%) CEH
14 9 (1.49%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.32%) GCIA
16 7 (1.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.94%) NIST
2 30 (4.95%) QA
3 25 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.97%) GDPR
5 17 (2.81%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.48%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.65%) NCSC
8 9 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.16%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.99%) SLA
11 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.83%) GRC
12 4 (0.66%) GxP
12 4 (0.66%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.66%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.66%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (17.00%) Docker
2 26 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.66%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
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%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 154 (25.41%) Grafana
3 99 (16.34%) Prometheus
4 85 (14.03%) Ansible
5 32 (5.28%) QRadar
6 17 (2.81%) Kibana
6 17 (2.81%) ZABBIX
7 14 (2.31%) Nagios
7 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.82%) Argo
9 10 (1.65%) Control-M
10 9 (1.49%) CASB
10 9 (1.49%) Netcool
10 9 (1.49%) SCOM
10 9 (1.49%) Tivoli
11 8 (1.32%) Puppet
11 8 (1.32%) WMI
12 7 (1.16%) OpenView
12 7 (1.16%) SCCM
12 7 (1.16%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 129 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 107 (17.66%) Dynatrace
3 76 (12.54%) ServiceNow
4 52 (8.58%) CrowdStrike
5 44 (7.26%) AppDynamics
6 42 (6.93%) SolarWinds
7 40 (6.60%) Google
8 39 (6.44%) Cisco
8 39 (6.44%) New Relic
9 34 (5.61%) Oracle
10 30 (4.95%) IBM
11 21 (3.47%) CyberArk
11 21 (3.47%) VMware
12 20 (3.30%) F5
13 19 (3.14%) Cribl.io
13 19 (3.14%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.97%) Tenable
15 17 (2.81%) Qualys
16 16 (2.64%) BMC
17 13 (2.15%) Fortinet