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 29 April 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
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 194 248
Rank change year-on-year -7 +54 -77
Contract jobs citing Splunk 594 395 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.35% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 3.00% 2.85% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 243 252
10th Percentile £356 £382 £406
25th Percentile £425 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £636
90th Percentile £738 £750 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.69 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.22% +2.50% -33.11%
75th Percentile £81.77 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.35 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.38% +2.50% -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 19,803 13,848 18,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.06% 47.47% 42.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,660 8,700 11,393
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 995 560 1,077
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.54 £18.13 £14.36
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.52 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.46
% change year-on-year +11.64% +12.70% -46.08%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +6 524 £525 -4.55% 218
UK excluding London +11 341 £500 -9.09% 219
London -37 195 £575 +9.52% 66
Work from Home -17 161 £525 -8.70% 27
North of England -16 134 £498 -17.08% 43
Yorkshire -7 88 £500 -23.95% 13
South East -29 84 £433 -21.36% 62
Midlands -20 62 £525 -2.23% 14
West Midlands -16 56 £525 -4.72% 14
North West -20 45 £490 -9.68% 19
South West -6 31 £426 -30.45% 41
Scotland -2 20 £610 +41.86% 12
East of England -29 17 £675 +12.50% 30
East Midlands -38 6 £472 +9.58%
Wales -9 4 - - 10
North East -14 3 £444 -40.83% 11

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 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.86%) Confluence
3 12 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.68%) TPMS
5 5 (0.84%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.67%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 198 (33.33%) AWS
2 163 (27.44%) Azure
3 90 (15.15%) GCP
4 86 (14.48%) GitHub
5 69 (11.62%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 39 (6.57%) Datadog
8 38 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (6.23%) Amazon S3
10 31 (5.22%) Serverless
11 27 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.04%) Entra ID
14 20 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.82%) Firewall
2 87 (14.65%) DNS
3 41 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 31 (5.22%) SNMP
5 30 (5.05%) WAN
6 29 (4.88%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (4.88%) LAN
7 28 (4.71%) BGP
8 27 (4.55%) OSPF
9 26 (4.38%) Network Security
10 25 (4.21%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.04%) BIG-IP
11 24 (4.04%) DHCP
11 24 (4.04%) Junos
12 22 (3.70%) VPN
13 20 (3.37%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (2.86%) SSL
15 11 (1.85%) HTTP
15 11 (1.85%) Wireless
16 10 (1.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 17 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 17 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 15 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.19%) Power BI
6 12 (2.02%) Big Data
7 11 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.68%) MySQL
8 10 (1.68%) Redis
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.18%) Presto
10 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.01%) Tableau
11 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 96 (16.16%) Jenkins
2 70 (11.78%) GitLab
3 42 (7.07%) Git
4 31 (5.22%) JIRA
5 19 (3.20%) Gatling
6 13 (2.19%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.19%) JMeter
7 12 (2.02%) LoadRunner
8 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.52%) Selenium
10 8 (1.35%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.35%) JUnit
10 8 (1.35%) Postman
11 7 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.18%) Gradle
11 7 (1.18%) Maven
11 7 (1.18%) Snyk
12 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
13 5 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
General
1 179 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.19%) Finance
3 74 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.91%) Banking
6 39 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (3.37%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Military
10 8 (1.35%) Retail
11 4 (0.67%) Front Office
12 3 (0.51%) Advertising
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Law
12 3 (0.51%) Legal
13 2 (0.34%) Local Government
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 90 (15.15%) Analyst
2 64 (10.77%) Architect
3 55 (9.26%) Senior
4 50 (8.42%) Lead
5 45 (7.58%) SOC Analyst
6 42 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (5.05%) Consultant
7 30 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 27 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 26 (4.38%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.21%) Developer
11 22 (3.70%) Site Engineer
12 20 (3.37%) Splunk Engineer
13 19 (3.20%) Network Engineer
14 18 (3.03%) CyberArk Architect
14 18 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (2.69%) SOC Engineer
17 15 (2.53%) Security Architect
18 14 (2.36%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.12%) Kafka
2 55 (9.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 46 (7.74%) REST
4 37 (6.23%) Spring Boot
5 32 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
6 31 (5.22%) Spring
7 26 (4.38%) 802.1X
8 24 (4.04%) JSON
9 20 (3.37%) LDAP
9 20 (3.37%) Middleware
9 20 (3.37%) OpenID
9 20 (3.37%) SAML
10 15 (2.53%) CSS
10 15 (2.53%) React
11 14 (2.36%) RESTful
12 12 (2.02%) Playwright
13 11 (1.85%) OAuth
13 11 (1.85%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.68%) HTML
14 10 (1.68%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 43 (7.24%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.73%) PKI
5 31 (5.22%) Data Centre
6 30 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (4.71%) Clustering
8 24 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (3.70%) Cyberattack
9 22 (3.70%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.54%) Product Ownership
11 18 (3.03%) Security Posture
12 16 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
15 10 (1.68%) CMDB
16 9 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (1.35%) Mainframe
18 7 (1.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 178 (29.97%) Linux
2 148 (24.92%) Windows
3 52 (8.75%) Unix
4 23 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.36%) AIX
6 9 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.35%) zOS
8 5 (0.84%) Android
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (37.37%) CI/CD
2 197 (33.16%) DevOps
3 187 (31.48%) Observability
4 150 (25.25%) SIEM
5 127 (21.38%) Cybersecurity
6 123 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 122 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (18.18%) Incident Response
9 101 (17.00%) Containerisation
10 86 (14.48%) Agile
11 85 (14.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 72 (12.12%) High Availability
13 68 (11.45%) Security Operations
14 63 (10.61%) Migration
15 61 (10.27%) Microservices
16 60 (10.10%) Analytics
17 58 (9.76%) ITIL
17 58 (9.76%) Test Automation
18 52 (8.75%) Computer Science
19 49 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 217 (36.53%) Python
2 89 (14.98%) Bash
2 89 (14.98%) SQL
3 81 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 75 (12.63%) Java
5 28 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.38%) Search Processing Language
7 18 (3.03%) Go
8 17 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.68%) Bicep
10 10 (1.68%) Scala
11 9 (1.52%) Rust
11 9 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.35%) JCL
12 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.35%) Perl
12 8 (1.35%) REXX
13 3 (0.51%) C#
13 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 246 (41.41%) Security Cleared
2 161 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.94%) Degree
4 63 (10.61%) DV Cleared
5 45 (7.58%) CISSP
6 43 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (5.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 32 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (5.05%) CISM
10 17 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
11 15 (2.53%) CEH
11 15 (2.53%) GIAC
12 13 (2.19%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.68%) FFIEC
14 8 (1.35%) JNCIA
14 8 (1.35%) JNCIS
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.18%) CCNP
15 7 (1.18%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.62%) NIST
2 51 (8.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.04%) NCSC
4 23 (3.87%) PCI DSS
5 22 (3.70%) GDPR
6 15 (2.53%) SLA
7 13 (2.19%) QA
8 11 (1.85%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.68%) GLBA
10 7 (1.18%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.84%) GRC
11 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.67%) COBIT
12 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (19.36%) Docker
2 20 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.86%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.36%) vSphere
6 6 (1.01%) etcd
7 5 (0.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 5 (0.84%) Snort
7 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) GPFS
10 1 (0.17%) Lustre
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Squid
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 193 (32.49%) Kubernetes
2 142 (23.91%) Grafana
3 137 (23.06%) Terraform
4 107 (18.01%) Prometheus
5 100 (16.84%) Ansible
6 31 (5.22%) Argo
7 25 (4.21%) FortiGate
8 19 (3.20%) Kibana
9 18 (3.03%) QRadar
10 17 (2.86%) Fluentd
10 17 (2.86%) Nagios
11 16 (2.69%) vCenter Server
12 15 (2.53%) ZABBIX
13 13 (2.19%) Netcool
14 12 (2.02%) OpenView
14 12 (2.02%) Puppet
14 12 (2.02%) Tivoli
14 12 (2.02%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 10 (1.68%) Istio
15 10 (1.68%) Kiali
Vendors
1 90 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.60%) Dynatrace
3 51 (8.59%) Cisco
4 46 (7.74%) ServiceNow
5 45 (7.58%) AppDynamics
6 44 (7.41%) SolarWinds
7 34 (5.72%) CyberArk
8 32 (5.39%) Red Hat
9 31 (5.22%) F5
10 28 (4.71%) VMware
11 27 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (4.55%) Tenable
12 25 (4.21%) Juniper
13 24 (4.04%) Cribl.io
14 22 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
15 21 (3.54%) Google
16 20 (3.37%) BMC
17 19 (3.20%) IBM
17 19 (3.20%) Oracle
17 19 (3.20%) Qualys