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 17 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 158 229
Rank change year-on-year -83 +71 -58
Contract jobs citing Splunk 574 565 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.71% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 2.57% 3.61% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 357 270
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £422 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -4.96% -5.83%
75th Percentile £601 £630 £645
90th Percentile £710 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £540 £556
% change year-on-year -4.81% -2.92% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £47.50
75th Percentile £74.95 - £48.75
90th Percentile £80.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.50

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 22,333 15,640 16,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.25% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,840 9,561 10,600
10th Percentile £313 £278 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.41% -4.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,148 809 830
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.99 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £21.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +41.51% -22.22% -17.22%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -74 501 £525 -2.23% 348
UK excluding London -85 296 £514 -4.81% 290
London -48 225 £550 +4.76% 155
Work from Home -48 153 £520 +4.00% 79
North of England -41 125 £482 +1.94% 59
North West -26 64 £520 +13.66% 31
Yorkshire -20 53 £475 -5.00% 13
Midlands -40 43 £578 +9.16% 16
South East -110 42 £468 -7.65% 79
South West -13 41 £450 -21.05% 48
West Midlands -43 40 £578 +7.64% 15
Scotland -10 28 £423 -15.90% 32
East of England -35 26 £700 +27.27% 31
North East -35 8 £425 - 15
East Midlands -20 2 £563 +47.49% 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 27 (4.70%) Confluence
2 22 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.39%) Apache
5 6 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.52%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
7 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) Mendix
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.70%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 207 (36.06%) AWS
2 200 (34.84%) Azure
3 98 (17.07%) GitHub
4 73 (12.72%) GCP
5 53 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (8.36%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.97%) Entra ID
8 39 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 37 (6.45%) Datadog
10 36 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (5.05%) SaaS
12 27 (4.70%) Power Platform
13 26 (4.53%) Amazon S3
13 26 (4.53%) Serverless
14 24 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (12.89%) Firewall
2 57 (9.93%) DNS
3 44 (7.67%) Network Security
4 38 (6.62%) SNMP
5 25 (4.36%) WAN
6 20 (3.48%) BGP
7 19 (3.31%) DHCP
8 18 (3.14%) LAN
8 18 (3.14%) VPN
9 17 (2.96%) OSPF
10 16 (2.79%) TCP/IP
11 14 (2.44%) BIG-IP
11 14 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 13 (2.26%) VXLAN
13 12 (2.09%) Junos
14 11 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.74%) Internet
16 9 (1.57%) Wireless
17 8 (1.39%) HTTP
17 8 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.53%) Power BI
2 23 (4.01%) MongoDB
3 21 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.96%) Big Data
6 14 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.74%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.74%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.57%) MySQL
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.22%) Presto
11 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.05%) Flink
11 6 (1.05%) Tableau
12 5 (0.87%) Looker
13 4 (0.70%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.70%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 89 (15.51%) Jenkins
2 58 (10.10%) GitLab
3 54 (9.41%) Git
4 39 (6.79%) JIRA
5 32 (5.57%) Gatling
6 31 (5.40%) JMeter
7 20 (3.48%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.92%) Selenium
10 9 (1.57%) JUnit
10 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.39%) Gradle
11 8 (1.39%) Maven
11 8 (1.39%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.22%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.22%) Postman
13 6 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.05%) Xcode
General
1 141 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.34%) Finance
3 85 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.41%) Banking
5 30 (5.23%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.92%) Front Office
8 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.74%) Legal
9 9 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.57%) Retail
10 8 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.87%) Law
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.52%) Local Government
13 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.35%) Advertising
14 2 (0.35%) Billing
14 2 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (9.76%) Lead
2 54 (9.41%) Senior
3 51 (8.89%) Analyst
4 47 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (8.01%) Consultant
6 39 (6.79%) Architect
7 34 (5.92%) Splunk Engineer
8 32 (5.57%) Developer
9 25 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 24 (4.18%) SOC Engineer
11 23 (4.01%) Performance Engineer
12 21 (3.66%) Security Engineer
13 19 (3.31%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.31%) Test Engineer
14 18 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.14%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
16 16 (2.79%) Security Architect
17 15 (2.61%) Management Consultant
17 15 (2.61%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.45%) REST
2 55 (9.58%) Kafka
3 42 (7.32%) OpenTelemetry
4 40 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (3.14%) JSON
5 18 (3.14%) Spring
5 18 (3.14%) Spring Boot
6 16 (2.79%) 802.1X
7 15 (2.61%) React
8 14 (2.44%) RESTful
9 13 (2.26%) Middleware
10 12 (2.09%) .NET
11 11 (1.92%) OAuth
11 11 (1.92%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.92%) Play Framework
12 10 (1.74%) CSS
12 10 (1.74%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.57%) OpenID
13 9 (1.57%) SAML
14 7 (1.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.28%) Cloud Native
1 59 (10.28%) Onboarding
2 36 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 24 (4.18%) PKI
5 21 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.96%) Clustering
7 15 (2.61%) CMDB
7 15 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
8 14 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.92%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.92%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 149 (25.96%) Linux
2 118 (20.56%) Windows
3 42 (7.32%) Unix
4 24 (4.18%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.14%) AIX
7 9 (1.57%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.39%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.70%) Android
10 4 (0.70%) zOS
11 3 (0.52%) CentOS
11 3 (0.52%) VMS
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (37.80%) CI/CD
2 209 (36.41%) Observability
3 175 (30.49%) DevOps
4 127 (22.13%) SIEM
5 121 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (18.47%) Agile
8 98 (17.07%) Incident Response
9 89 (15.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 84 (14.63%) Containerisation
11 75 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
12 71 (12.37%) Security Operations
13 61 (10.63%) Test Automation
14 60 (10.45%) ITSM
15 59 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (9.93%) High Availability
16 57 (9.93%) Root Cause Analysis
17 55 (9.58%) Incident Management
17 55 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (9.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 213 (37.11%) Python
2 107 (18.64%) PowerShell
3 87 (15.16%) SQL
4 66 (11.50%) Bash
5 65 (11.32%) Java
6 52 (9.06%) Search Processing Language
7 31 (5.40%) Go
8 25 (4.36%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.31%) Scala
10 15 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (2.26%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.74%) Bicep
13 10 (1.74%) Perl
14 8 (1.39%) C#
15 5 (0.87%) Groovy
16 4 (0.70%) JCL
16 4 (0.70%) REXX
17 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 206 (35.89%) Security Cleared
2 132 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.19%) CISSP
5 41 (7.14%) Degree
6 33 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (4.36%) CISM
8 19 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.96%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.44%) GIAC
12 13 (2.26%) GCIH
13 11 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.92%) CEH
14 10 (1.74%) CCNP
15 9 (1.57%) CCSP
16 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
16 8 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (1.39%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.45%) NIST
2 25 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.14%) QA
5 14 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.26%) GDPR
6 13 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.57%) NCSC
7 9 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.57%) SLA
8 5 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.70%) GxP
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 100 (17.42%) Docker
2 25 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.05%) etcd
7 6 (1.05%) vSphere
8 2 (0.35%) HDFS
8 2 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (25.96%) Terraform
2 148 (25.78%) Kubernetes
3 140 (24.39%) Grafana
4 100 (17.42%) Prometheus
5 87 (15.16%) Ansible
6 28 (4.88%) QRadar
7 24 (4.18%) ZABBIX
8 20 (3.48%) Nagios
9 19 (3.31%) Argo
10 18 (3.14%) Netcool
11 17 (2.96%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.61%) FortiGate
12 15 (2.61%) OpenView
12 15 (2.61%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.44%) Kibana
13 14 (2.44%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.57%) Control-M
15 8 (1.39%) Puppet
15 8 (1.39%) SCOM
15 8 (1.39%) WMI
Vendors
1 109 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.55%) Dynatrace
3 77 (13.41%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.41%) SolarWinds
5 50 (8.71%) Cisco
6 42 (7.32%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.14%) AppDynamics
7 41 (7.14%) New Relic
8 35 (6.10%) IBM
9 27 (4.70%) Google
10 26 (4.53%) Oracle
11 25 (4.36%) CyberArk
11 25 (4.36%) F5
12 23 (4.01%) BMC
12 23 (4.01%) Tenable
13 22 (3.83%) Fortinet
13 22 (3.83%) VMware
14 20 (3.48%) Palo Alto
15 19 (3.31%) Cribl.io
16 18 (3.14%) Zscaler