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 1 August 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
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 183 233
Rank change year-on-year -53 +50 -58
Contract jobs citing Splunk 583 510 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.55% 1.04%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.29% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 316 265
10th Percentile £363 £361 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -7.29%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £44.16 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.69 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £79.84 - £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 22,051 15,518 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.36% 47.18% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,688 9,504 10,753
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.52% -4.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,117 782 883
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.55 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.60
% change year-on-year +52.32% -12.83% -26.33%

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 1 August 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 1 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 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 1 August 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 -59 510 £525 -2.23% 174
UK excluding London -68 302 £515 -4.63% 97
London -25 227 £550 +4.76% 97
Work from Home -37 151 £522 +4.40% 76
North of England -35 119 £505 +0.90% 28
Yorkshire -18 60 £500 +5.80% 4
North West -38 56 £514 -14.38% 21
South East -95 54 £470 -7.16% 27
Midlands -29 44 £581 +9.73% 8
West Midlands -38 42 £581 +8.80% 7
South West -11 40 £450 -21.05% 14
Scotland -9 27 £423 -14.72% 11
East of England -31 27 £688 +25.00% 8
North East - 3 £369 - 3
East Midlands -16 2 £563 +18.42% 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 26 (4.46%) Confluence
2 22 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.37%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.69%) 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
1 190 (32.59%) AWS
2 186 (31.90%) Azure
3 93 (15.95%) GitHub
4 75 (12.86%) GCP
5 61 (10.46%) OpenShift
6 42 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (6.17%) Datadog
8 34 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (5.83%) Entra ID
9 30 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 27 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.29%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (4.12%) Power Platform
12 24 (4.12%) SaaS
12 24 (4.12%) Serverless
13 20 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.92%) Firewall
2 78 (13.38%) DNS
3 39 (6.69%) Network Security
3 39 (6.69%) SNMP
4 37 (6.35%) WAN
5 32 (5.49%) BGP
6 31 (5.32%) DHCP
7 30 (5.15%) OSPF
8 29 (4.97%) Ethernet VPN
8 29 (4.97%) LAN
9 26 (4.46%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.29%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.12%) Junos
12 21 (3.60%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (3.60%) TCP/IP
12 21 (3.60%) VPN
13 11 (1.89%) SSL
13 11 (1.89%) Wireless
14 10 (1.72%) Internet
15 9 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.95%) Power BI
2 21 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.43%) MongoDB
3 20 (3.43%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.57%) Big Data
4 15 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.40%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.37%) MySQL
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.20%) Presto
9 7 (1.20%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.03%) Flink
11 5 (0.86%) Looker
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
13 3 (0.51%) KDB
Development Applications
1 85 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 55 (9.43%) GitLab
3 51 (8.75%) Git
4 37 (6.35%) JIRA
5 29 (4.97%) Gatling
6 25 (4.29%) JMeter
7 14 (2.40%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.89%) Selenium
10 9 (1.54%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.37%) Gradle
11 8 (1.37%) JUnit
11 8 (1.37%) Maven
11 8 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.20%) Postman
12 7 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 146 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 106 (18.18%) Finance
3 77 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.40%) Banking
5 30 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.40%) Retail
8 11 (1.89%) Front Office
9 10 (1.72%) Legal
10 9 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.03%) Military
11 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.86%) Law
13 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (10.12%) Lead
1 59 (10.12%) Senior
2 54 (9.26%) Analyst
3 49 (8.40%) Consultant
4 45 (7.72%) Architect
5 42 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (5.66%) Developer
7 26 (4.46%) Data Engineer
7 26 (4.46%) Splunk Engineer
8 25 (4.29%) SOC Engineer
9 23 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (3.09%) Network Engineer
11 18 (3.09%) Performance Engineer
11 18 (3.09%) Security Engineer
11 18 (3.09%) Site Engineer
12 16 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (2.74%) Security Architect
12 16 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
13 15 (2.57%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.01%) REST
2 56 (9.61%) Kafka
2 56 (9.61%) OpenTelemetry
3 34 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (4.80%) Spring
4 28 (4.80%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.63%) 802.1X
6 25 (4.29%) JSON
7 15 (2.57%) RESTful
8 14 (2.40%) React
9 11 (1.89%) .NET
9 11 (1.89%) Middleware
9 11 (1.89%) OAuth
9 11 (1.89%) OAuth2
9 11 (1.89%) SailPoint
10 10 (1.72%) CSS
11 9 (1.54%) LDAP
11 9 (1.54%) Protocol Buffers
12 8 (1.37%) Apache Avro
12 8 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.78%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.17%) PKI
4 34 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (5.49%) Data Centre
5 32 (5.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 28 (4.80%) Clustering
7 26 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.92%) CMDB
9 16 (2.74%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
10 12 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.89%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.54%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 6 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 154 (26.42%) Linux
2 135 (23.16%) Windows
3 45 (7.72%) Unix
4 20 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (3.26%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.09%) AIX
7 9 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.03%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.69%) Android
10 4 (0.69%) zOS
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (37.56%) Observability
2 213 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 178 (30.53%) DevOps
4 127 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (21.27%) SIEM
6 111 (19.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 98 (16.81%) Agile
8 97 (16.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 89 (15.27%) Incident Response
10 81 (13.89%) Containerisation
11 75 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
12 72 (12.35%) High Availability
13 70 (12.01%) Security Operations
14 63 (10.81%) ITSM
15 60 (10.29%) ITIL
16 58 (9.95%) Analytics
16 58 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
17 55 (9.43%) Test Automation
18 53 (9.09%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 210 (36.02%) Python
2 97 (16.64%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.92%) SQL
4 72 (12.35%) Java
5 70 (12.01%) Bash
6 46 (7.89%) Search Processing Language
7 29 (4.97%) Go
8 22 (3.77%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.57%) Scala
10 14 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (2.23%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.72%) Bicep
13 9 (1.54%) Perl
14 8 (1.37%) C#
14 8 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.69%) Groovy
15 4 (0.69%) JCL
15 4 (0.69%) REXX
15 4 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 210 (36.02%) Security Cleared
2 125 (21.44%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.06%) CISSP
5 41 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (5.83%) Degree
7 25 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (3.77%) CISM
9 21 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 18 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.06%) CEH
12 11 (1.89%) CCNP
12 11 (1.89%) GCIH
12 11 (1.89%) GIAC
13 10 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.72%) GCIA
13 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.54%) CCSP
15 8 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.17%) NIST
2 26 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.43%) QA
4 13 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.54%) GDPR
6 9 (1.54%) SLA
7 6 (1.03%) NCSC
8 5 (0.86%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.51%) GRC
10 3 (0.51%) GxP
10 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.34%) COBIT
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 96 (16.47%) Docker
2 27 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.23%) VMware NSX
5 12 (2.06%) vSphere
6 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.03%) etcd
8 3 (0.51%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 148 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 147 (25.21%) Terraform
3 146 (25.04%) Grafana
4 107 (18.35%) Prometheus
5 87 (14.92%) Ansible
6 29 (4.97%) QRadar
7 26 (4.46%) FortiGate
8 24 (4.12%) Argo
9 23 (3.95%) ZABBIX
10 20 (3.43%) Nagios
11 18 (3.09%) Netcool
12 17 (2.92%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.57%) OpenView
13 15 (2.57%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 14 (2.40%) Kibana
15 12 (2.06%) vCenter Server
16 10 (1.72%) Control-M
16 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
17 8 (1.37%) Puppet
17 8 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 100 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 84 (14.41%) Dynatrace
3 79 (13.55%) ServiceNow
4 64 (10.98%) SolarWinds
5 59 (10.12%) Cisco
6 46 (7.89%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.03%) AppDynamics
8 40 (6.86%) F5
9 35 (6.00%) New Relic
10 33 (5.66%) Google
11 30 (5.15%) CyberArk
11 30 (5.15%) IBM
12 28 (4.80%) Tenable
13 27 (4.63%) VMware
14 25 (4.29%) Juniper
15 23 (3.95%) BMC
15 23 (3.95%) Oracle
15 23 (3.95%) Palo Alto
16 22 (3.77%) Extreme Networks
16 22 (3.77%) Fortinet