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 8 November 2025, 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 194 209
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Splunk 707 450 550
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.02% 1.23% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 4.25% 2.74% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 265 406
10th Percentile £359 £423 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -5.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £700
90th Percentile £700 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.58% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £81.63 £38.05 -
25th Percentile £82.19 £41.13 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.84% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 16,647 16,413 21,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.58% 44.86% 45.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,423 9,673 13,717
10th Percentile £283 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 854 512 679
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -29.32% +75.44%
75th Percentile £39.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -21.70% -33.33% +94.32%

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 8 November 2025.

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
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 8 November 2025. 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 +59 640 £530 -7.02% 322
UK excluding London +86 397 £525 -4.55% 263
London +24 245 £575 -4.17% 129
Work from Home +16 175 £523 -4.13% 122
North of England +3 128 £500 -12.85% 34
South East +74 110 £450 -21.74% 152
Midlands +30 92 £528 +2.28% 15
West Midlands +39 89 £530 -5.10% 13
Yorkshire -4 80 £500 -16.67% 16
North West -18 46 £471 -14.36% 14
Scotland +30 34 £477 +0.32% 7
East of England +1 33 £550 -4.35% 22
South West -12 17 £550 +22.22% 26
East Midlands -28 3 £360 -26.15% 2
North East -11 2 £600 -26.38% 4
Wales - 1 £600 - 4

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 (4.67%) Apache
2 31 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.97%) Skype for Business
4 18 (2.55%) JBoss
4 18 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 16 (2.26%) Mattermost
6 14 (1.98%) Confluence
7 13 (1.84%) SharePoint
7 13 (1.84%) WebSphere
7 13 (1.84%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (1.41%) IIS
8 10 (1.41%) iPlanet
9 8 (1.13%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.85%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.71%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.57%) TPMS
13 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.28%) Mule
14 2 (0.28%) Mule ESB
14 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 22 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
3 1 (0.14%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 273 (38.61%) AWS
2 132 (18.67%) Azure
3 129 (18.25%) GCP
4 67 (9.48%) GitHub
5 57 (8.06%) OpenShift
6 55 (7.78%) SaaS
7 49 (6.93%) Serverless
8 41 (5.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 39 (5.52%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.97%) Akamai
15 20 (2.83%) Cohesity
16 18 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.55%) Sauce Labs
17 17 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 114 (16.12%) Firewall
2 62 (8.77%) DNS
3 39 (5.52%) Network Security
4 26 (3.68%) SSL
5 24 (3.39%) Cisco IOS
5 24 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 22 (3.11%) Wireshark
7 21 (2.97%) Skype
7 21 (2.97%) Wireless
8 19 (2.69%) HTTP
8 19 (2.69%) VPN
9 16 (2.26%) SAN
10 15 (2.12%) Fibre Channel
10 15 (2.12%) iSCSI
11 14 (1.98%) Unified Communications
12 11 (1.56%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.99%) DHCP
13 7 (0.99%) SNMP
14 6 (0.85%) SSH
15 5 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.36%) NoSQL
2 40 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (3.96%) MongoDB
4 27 (3.82%) Relational Database
5 22 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.11%) MySQL
6 19 (2.69%) Oracle Database
6 19 (2.69%) Redis
7 13 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.70%) Power BI
9 10 (1.41%) Apache Hive
10 9 (1.27%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.13%) Data Mining
12 6 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.85%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.71%) SQL Server
14 4 (0.57%) Flink
15 3 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 124 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 99 (14.00%) GitLab
3 55 (7.78%) Git
4 30 (4.24%) JIRA
4 30 (4.24%) Liquibase
5 24 (3.39%) Xcode
6 22 (3.11%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.11%) JUnit
7 21 (2.97%) Postman
8 19 (2.69%) Eclipse
8 19 (2.69%) SonarQube
9 18 (2.55%) Android Studio
9 18 (2.55%) Browser DevTools
9 18 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
10 15 (2.12%) Maven
11 14 (1.98%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (1.98%) CA Release Automation
12 12 (1.70%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.56%) Subversion
14 9 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 266 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 148 (20.93%) Finance
3 117 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.19%) Banking
6 36 (5.09%) Financial Institution
7 28 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.39%) Games
9 16 (2.26%) Military
10 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.41%) Legal
12 9 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.27%) Retail
13 6 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.71%) Local Government
15 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.28%) Marketing
16 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (15.56%) Analyst
2 75 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 73 (10.33%) Architect
4 63 (8.91%) Senior
5 52 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
6 46 (6.51%) Security Engineer
6 46 (6.51%) SOC Analyst
7 37 (5.23%) Security Architect
8 35 (4.95%) Security Analyst
9 34 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 33 (4.67%) Developer
11 26 (3.68%) Site Engineer
11 26 (3.68%) Software Engineer
12 25 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (3.54%) Lead
13 24 (3.39%) Support Analyst
13 24 (3.39%) Support Engineer
14 22 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.11%) Consultant
14 22 (3.11%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (11.03%) Elastic Stack
2 72 (10.18%) REST
3 47 (6.65%) Kafka
4 43 (6.08%) RESTful
5 29 (4.10%) AngularJS
6 28 (3.96%) CSS
6 28 (3.96%) React
7 24 (3.39%) OAuth
8 23 (3.25%) GraphQL
8 23 (3.25%) SAML
9 20 (2.83%) LDAP
9 20 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (2.83%) Spring
10 19 (2.69%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.55%) Ajax
11 18 (2.55%) Web Services
12 16 (2.26%) Keycloak
12 16 (2.26%) YAML
13 14 (1.98%) OpenID
14 13 (1.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.05%) Security Operations Centre
2 52 (7.36%) Onboarding
2 52 (7.36%) Security Posture
3 51 (7.21%) Cloud Native
4 47 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (5.23%) Public Cloud
6 31 (4.38%) CSOC
7 26 (3.68%) PKI
8 25 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
9 24 (3.39%) Management Information System
10 23 (3.25%) Mobile App
11 19 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
12 18 (2.55%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.13%) Clustering
15 8 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.99%) Private Cloud
17 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 224 (31.68%) Linux
2 161 (22.77%) Windows
3 102 (14.43%) Unix
4 49 (6.93%) Windows Server
5 47 (6.65%) Android
6 32 (4.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (4.38%) Mac OS
8 29 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (1.41%) CentOS
11 6 (0.85%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.57%) Solaris
12 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.28%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.28%) VMS
15 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (29.56%) CI/CD
2 206 (29.14%) DevOps
3 192 (27.16%) Cybersecurity
3 192 (27.16%) SIEM
4 172 (24.33%) Incident Response
5 152 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (19.66%) Observability
7 127 (17.96%) Agile
8 119 (16.83%) Containerisation
9 116 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 109 (15.42%) Security Operations
11 84 (11.88%) Microservices
12 72 (10.18%) Computer Science
13 70 (9.90%) Threat Detection
14 69 (9.76%) SOAR
15 64 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
17 60 (8.49%) Test Automation
18 57 (8.06%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 56 (7.92%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 248 (35.08%) Python
2 136 (19.24%) PowerShell
3 114 (16.12%) SQL
4 95 (13.44%) Bash
5 79 (11.17%) Java
6 68 (9.62%) Go
7 47 (6.65%) Shell Script
8 46 (6.51%) JavaScript
9 38 (5.37%) Perl
10 20 (2.83%) Groovy
10 20 (2.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.55%) PromQL
12 12 (1.70%) Scala
12 12 (1.70%) Search Processing Language
13 11 (1.56%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.99%) C++
15 5 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.71%) Swift
16 4 (0.57%) Bicep
17 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (29.56%) Security Cleared
2 127 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 89 (12.59%) Degree
4 75 (10.61%) CISSP
5 62 (8.77%) DV Cleared
6 56 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (6.51%) Master's Degree
8 37 (5.23%) CISM
9 31 (4.38%) CEH
10 30 (4.24%) AWS Certification
11 28 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (3.82%) GIAC
12 27 (3.82%) MCSE
13 25 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (3.11%) GCIA
15 21 (2.97%) GCIH
16 19 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (1.84%) GCFA
19 10 (1.41%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.48%) NIST
2 57 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (5.23%) GDPR
4 16 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.26%) QA
5 14 (1.98%) HIPAA
6 12 (1.70%) NCSC
7 11 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.41%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.99%) SLA
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) GLBA
10 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.42%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.28%) FIPS 140-2
13 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (17.11%) Docker
2 107 (15.13%) Active Directory
3 39 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 21 (2.97%) Virtual Servers
5 19 (2.69%) NFS
5 19 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (2.40%) vSphere
7 8 (1.13%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.85%) Snort
9 5 (0.71%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.57%) Squid
10 4 (0.57%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.57%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 189 (26.73%) Kubernetes
2 132 (18.67%) Ansible
3 128 (18.10%) Grafana
4 126 (17.82%) Terraform
5 105 (14.85%) Prometheus
6 49 (6.93%) SCCM
7 41 (5.80%) QRadar
8 26 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (3.68%) SCOM
9 25 (3.54%) Kibana
10 21 (2.97%) CSIRT
10 21 (2.97%) HP SiteScope
10 21 (2.97%) WSUS
11 20 (2.83%) Progress Chef
12 19 (2.69%) Puppet
13 16 (2.26%) Packer
13 16 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (1.98%) Nessus
15 10 (1.41%) Argo
15 10 (1.41%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 226 (31.97%) Microsoft
2 84 (11.88%) Cisco
3 69 (9.76%) Oracle
4 66 (9.34%) Dynatrace
5 56 (7.92%) Google
6 54 (7.64%) CrowdStrike
7 49 (6.93%) VMware
8 46 (6.51%) AppDynamics
9 45 (6.36%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.95%) Qualys
11 34 (4.81%) Red Hat
12 31 (4.38%) NetApp
13 25 (3.54%) ArcSight
14 24 (3.39%) CyberArk
14 24 (3.39%) Meraki
15 22 (3.11%) Carbon Black
15 22 (3.11%) F5
15 22 (3.11%) Remedy
16 21 (2.97%) IBM
16 21 (2.97%) Veeam