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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 196 272
Rank change year-on-year +24 +76 -85
Contract jobs citing Splunk 656 419 377
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.36% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 3.59% 2.93% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 248 232
10th Percentile £350 £403 £403
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +3.86% -8.33%
75th Percentile £629 £713 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,275 14,301 19,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.62% 46.53% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,638 12,154
10th Percentile £303 £277 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +0.10% -1.42%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 419 944
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £27.33
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +6.10% -21.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -14.75%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +15 580 £525 -8.10% 143
UK excluding London +46 373 £514 -6.55% 130
London -24 222 £575 -4.17% 40
Work from Home +4 172 £540 -8.09% 66
North of England +13 148 £514 -6.55% 32
Yorkshire +6 113 £518 +3.50% 18
Midlands +18 104 £525 -2.51% 11
West Midlands +19 100 £529 -3.85% 7
South East +15 93 £375 -34.78% 42
North West -28 34 £490 -10.91% 13
Scotland +21 31 £577 +39.04% 11
South West -16 11 £625 -21.88% 12
East of England -29 6 £600 - 21
Wales - 5 £600 - 2
East Midlands -25 4 £442 +13.11% 3
North East -19 3 £538 -8.51% 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 15 (2.29%) Apache
2 14 (2.13%) Confluence
3 13 (1.98%) Skype for Business
3 13 (1.98%) TPMS
4 10 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.22%) Mattermost
5 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.91%) IIS
6 6 (0.91%) iPlanet
6 6 (0.91%) JBoss
6 6 (0.91%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.91%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Pig
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.46%) SAS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.61%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (37.04%) AWS
2 158 (24.09%) Azure
3 140 (21.34%) GCP
4 74 (11.28%) GitHub
5 68 (10.37%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 42 (6.40%) Serverless
8 33 (5.03%) Datadog
9 31 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (3.05%) Entra ID
15 19 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.90%) SaaS
15 19 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (2.29%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (15.40%) Firewall
2 81 (12.35%) DNS
3 45 (6.86%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.42%) Network Security
5 25 (3.81%) SSL
5 25 (3.81%) VPN
6 20 (3.05%) BGP
7 19 (2.90%) OSPF
8 18 (2.74%) DHCP
8 18 (2.74%) Ethernet VPN
8 18 (2.74%) WAN
8 18 (2.74%) Wireless
9 17 (2.59%) LAN
10 16 (2.44%) HTTP
11 15 (2.29%) SNMP
12 14 (2.13%) VXLAN
12 14 (2.13%) Wireshark
13 13 (1.98%) Junos
13 13 (1.98%) Skype
13 13 (1.98%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 33 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.90%) MySQL
7 13 (1.98%) Redis
8 11 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.37%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.22%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.07%) Power BI
12 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.91%) Tableau
13 5 (0.76%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.76%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.61%) Flink
15 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 128 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 104 (15.85%) GitLab
3 42 (6.40%) Git
4 26 (3.96%) JIRA
5 22 (3.35%) Liquibase
6 16 (2.44%) Postman
7 15 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (2.29%) Xcode
8 14 (2.13%) Android Studio
8 14 (2.13%) Browser DevTools
8 14 (2.13%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.83%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.83%) JUnit
9 12 (1.83%) Selenium
10 11 (1.68%) Gatling
10 11 (1.68%) Maven
11 10 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.52%) Gradle
11 10 (1.52%) Jaeger
12 8 (1.22%) Cucumber
General
1 285 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 156 (23.78%) Finance
3 107 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.82%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.60%) Banking
6 46 (7.01%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (6.25%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.74%) Military
9 13 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.37%) Retail
11 8 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.61%) Front Office
13 4 (0.61%) Law
14 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.15%) Billing
16 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (18.75%) Analyst
2 77 (11.74%) Senior
3 66 (10.06%) Architect
4 59 (8.99%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.40%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 38 (5.79%) Lead
9 30 (4.57%) Security Analyst
9 30 (4.57%) Splunk Engineer
10 26 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (3.96%) Site Engineer
11 23 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.51%) Software Engineer
12 22 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (3.35%) Developer
13 21 (3.20%) Monitoring Analyst
13 21 (3.20%) Network Engineer
13 21 (3.20%) Security Architect
14 19 (2.90%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (10.82%) REST
2 67 (10.21%) Elastic Stack
3 66 (10.06%) Kafka
4 40 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (5.79%) Spring Boot
6 36 (5.49%) RESTful
7 33 (5.03%) SAML
8 32 (4.88%) Spring
9 26 (3.96%) LDAP
10 25 (3.81%) OpenID
11 24 (3.66%) JSON
12 23 (3.51%) Middleware
13 22 (3.35%) OAuth
14 20 (3.05%) AngularJS
15 19 (2.90%) React
16 18 (2.74%) CSS
17 15 (2.29%) GraphQL
17 15 (2.29%) Playwright
18 14 (2.13%) 802.1X
18 14 (2.13%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.74%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (6.71%) Onboarding
5 34 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.88%) PKI
7 29 (4.42%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.42%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.66%) Mobile App
10 22 (3.35%) Cyber Defence
11 21 (3.20%) Clustering
11 21 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
11 21 (3.20%) Data Centre
12 19 (2.90%) Cyberattack
13 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.68%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
17 6 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 238 (36.28%) Linux
2 152 (23.17%) Windows
3 85 (12.96%) Unix
4 32 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 17 (2.59%) Android
7 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.91%) CentOS
9 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.61%) zOS
11 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.30%) Solaris
13 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (35.06%) CI/CD
2 218 (33.23%) DevOps
3 183 (27.90%) Observability
4 180 (27.44%) Cybersecurity
5 164 (25.00%) SIEM
6 161 (24.54%) Incident Response
7 157 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (21.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (19.36%) Containerisation
10 111 (16.92%) Agile
11 89 (13.57%) Microservices
12 88 (13.41%) Computer Science
13 84 (12.80%) Security Operations
14 77 (11.74%) High Availability
15 76 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 70 (10.67%) Migration
17 67 (10.21%) Root Cause Analysis
18 61 (9.30%) Threat Detection
19 58 (8.84%) Test Automation
20 57 (8.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 238 (36.28%) Python
2 100 (15.24%) Bash
3 92 (14.02%) Java
3 92 (14.02%) PowerShell
4 85 (12.96%) SQL
5 46 (7.01%) Go
6 32 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.57%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.35%) Perl
9 21 (3.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.52%) Bicep
12 10 (1.52%) Groovy
13 9 (1.37%) Rust
14 8 (1.22%) Scala
15 7 (1.07%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.61%) JCL
16 4 (0.61%) REXX
17 3 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 238 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 156 (23.78%) SC Cleared
3 98 (14.94%) Degree
4 71 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.84%) DV Cleared
6 54 (8.23%) CISSP
7 34 (5.18%) CompTIA Security+
7 34 (5.18%) Master's Degree
8 33 (5.03%) CISM
9 21 (3.20%) GIAC
10 20 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.90%) AWS Certification
12 17 (2.59%) CEH
13 16 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
13 16 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (1.98%) FFIEC
14 13 (1.98%) GCIA
14 13 (1.98%) GCIH
15 12 (1.83%) MCSE
15 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.28%) NIST
2 58 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (5.03%) GDPR
4 25 (3.81%) NCSC
5 24 (3.66%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.35%) QA
7 18 (2.74%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.98%) GLBA
9 9 (1.37%) SLA
10 8 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.07%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.76%) GRC
13 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.30%) ISO 15022
15 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
15 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 137 (20.88%) Docker
2 45 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.29%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.83%) vSphere
6 8 (1.22%) Snort
7 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.61%) NFS
10 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.46%) Squid
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 208 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 144 (21.95%) Grafana
3 135 (20.58%) Terraform
4 132 (20.12%) Ansible
5 113 (17.23%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.27%) Kibana
7 24 (3.66%) Argo
8 21 (3.20%) Puppet
9 20 (3.05%) QRadar
10 19 (2.90%) Progress Chef
11 16 (2.44%) SCOM
11 16 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (2.13%) FortiGate
13 13 (1.98%) Fluentd
13 13 (1.98%) HP SiteScope
14 12 (1.83%) CSIRT
14 12 (1.83%) Nessus
14 12 (1.83%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.68%) logstash
15 11 (1.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 134 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.08%) Cisco
3 47 (7.16%) Google
4 45 (6.86%) AppDynamics
5 44 (6.71%) Dynatrace
5 44 (6.71%) Oracle
6 41 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 37 (5.64%) CrowdStrike
8 32 (4.88%) Red Hat
8 32 (4.88%) VMware
9 30 (4.57%) CyberArk
10 29 (4.42%) F5
11 28 (4.27%) Qualys
12 26 (3.96%) Cribl.io
13 25 (3.81%) SolarWinds
14 23 (3.51%) Carbon Black
14 23 (3.51%) Tenable
15 22 (3.35%) Palo Alto
16 18 (2.74%) Remedy
17 13 (1.98%) Juniper