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 25 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
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 193 248
Rank change year-on-year -4 +55 -83
Contract jobs citing Splunk 597 398 416
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.35% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 3.03% 2.84% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 242 251
10th Percentile £354 £382 £405
25th Percentile £425 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £636
90th Percentile £738 £750 £679
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% -25.02%
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% -25.02%

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 19,692 14,016 18,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.23% 47.49% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,581 8,810 11,522
10th Percentile £313 £290 £260
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 £630
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 559 1,077
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.17 £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 £57.50 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.83 £75.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.25 £24.18 £21.46
% change year-on-year +12.70% +12.67% -47.11%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -3 527 £525 -4.55% 151
UK excluding London +16 348 £500 -9.09% 123
London -35 191 £581 +10.74% 59
Work from Home -6 163 £525 -8.70% 71
North of England -13 134 £498 -17.08% 27
Yorkshire -8 89 £500 -23.95% 8
South East -29 88 £433 -21.36% 52
Midlands -11 67 £525 -2.23% 12
West Midlands -9 61 £529 -4.02% 8
North West -28 44 £489 -9.82% 13
South West -14 32 £426 -30.45% 13
Scotland +3 20 £610 +41.86% 1
East of England -34 15 £675 +12.50% 19
East Midlands -33 6 £472 +9.58% 4
Wales -5 4 - - 1
North East -17 3 £444 -40.83% 6

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 22 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.85%) Confluence
3 11 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.68%) TPMS
5 5 (0.84%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) 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
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
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 4 (0.67%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.67%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 201 (33.67%) AWS
2 158 (26.47%) Azure
3 92 (15.41%) GCP
4 83 (13.90%) GitHub
5 68 (11.39%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.87%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.70%) Amazon S3
8 39 (6.53%) Datadog
9 35 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (5.36%) Serverless
11 28 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (4.02%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (3.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 20 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 91 (15.24%) Firewall
2 83 (13.90%) DNS
3 41 (6.87%) TCP/IP
4 31 (5.19%) SNMP
5 30 (5.03%) WAN
6 29 (4.86%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (4.86%) LAN
7 28 (4.69%) BGP
8 27 (4.52%) OSPF
9 26 (4.36%) Network Security
10 25 (4.19%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.02%) BIG-IP
11 24 (4.02%) DHCP
11 24 (4.02%) Junos
12 20 (3.35%) Cisco ISE
13 18 (3.02%) VPN
14 16 (2.68%) SSL
15 12 (2.01%) Wireless
16 11 (1.84%) HTTP
17 10 (1.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.03%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.02%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.85%) Hadoop
5 16 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.51%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.18%) MySQL
8 12 (2.01%) Big Data
9 11 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.68%) Power BI
10 10 (1.68%) Redis
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.17%) Presto
12 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.01%) Tableau
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 99 (16.58%) Jenkins
2 73 (12.23%) GitLab
3 42 (7.04%) Git
4 31 (5.19%) JIRA
5 19 (3.18%) Gatling
6 13 (2.18%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.18%) JMeter
7 12 (2.01%) LoadRunner
8 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.51%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.51%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.51%) Selenium
10 8 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.34%) JUnit
10 8 (1.34%) Postman
11 7 (1.17%) Gradle
11 7 (1.17%) Maven
11 7 (1.17%) Snyk
12 6 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
General
1 184 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.10%) Finance
3 73 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.04%) Banking
6 39 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.52%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.84%) Military
10 8 (1.34%) Retail
11 4 (0.67%) Front Office
11 4 (0.67%) Legal
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Law
12 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Advertising
13 2 (0.34%) Local Government
13 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 90 (15.08%) Analyst
2 64 (10.72%) Architect
3 55 (9.21%) Senior
4 49 (8.21%) Lead
5 45 (7.54%) SOC Analyst
6 39 (6.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (5.03%) Consultant
8 29 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (4.36%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.36%) Security Engineer
10 25 (4.19%) Developer
11 22 (3.69%) Site Engineer
12 21 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (3.52%) Splunk Engineer
13 20 (3.35%) Network Engineer
14 18 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.02%) CyberArk Architect
15 15 (2.51%) Security Architect
16 14 (2.35%) Firewall Specialist
16 14 (2.35%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.06%) Kafka
2 54 (9.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 47 (7.87%) REST
4 37 (6.20%) Spring Boot
5 32 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
6 31 (5.19%) Spring
7 26 (4.36%) 802.1X
8 24 (4.02%) JSON
9 20 (3.35%) LDAP
9 20 (3.35%) Middleware
9 20 (3.35%) OpenID
9 20 (3.35%) SAML
10 16 (2.68%) CSS
10 16 (2.68%) React
11 15 (2.51%) RESTful
12 12 (2.01%) Playwright
13 11 (1.84%) OAuth
13 11 (1.84%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.68%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.68%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 55 (9.21%) Onboarding
3 42 (7.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.70%) PKI
5 31 (5.19%) Data Centre
6 30 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (4.69%) Clustering
8 25 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (3.85%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.85%) Product Ownership
10 21 (3.52%) Cyberattack
11 17 (2.85%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (2.18%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
15 10 (1.68%) CMDB
16 9 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (1.34%) Mainframe
18 7 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 183 (30.65%) Linux
2 150 (25.13%) Windows
3 55 (9.21%) Unix
4 24 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.35%) AIX
6 9 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.34%) zOS
8 6 (1.01%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.50%) 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
1 221 (37.02%) CI/CD
2 194 (32.50%) DevOps
3 188 (31.49%) Observability
4 150 (25.13%) SIEM
5 126 (21.11%) Cybersecurity
6 124 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
7 123 (20.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 112 (18.76%) Incident Response
9 100 (16.75%) Containerisation
10 84 (14.07%) Agile
11 83 (13.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 73 (12.23%) High Availability
13 66 (11.06%) Security Operations
14 64 (10.72%) Migration
15 62 (10.39%) Analytics
15 62 (10.39%) Microservices
16 58 (9.72%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.38%) ITIL
18 53 (8.88%) Computer Science
18 53 (8.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (36.85%) Python
2 92 (15.41%) Bash
3 90 (15.08%) SQL
4 81 (13.57%) PowerShell
5 76 (12.73%) Java
6 29 (4.86%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.19%) Search Processing Language
8 21 (3.52%) Go
9 17 (2.85%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.68%) Bicep
11 10 (1.68%) Scala
11 10 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.51%) Perl
12 9 (1.51%) Rust
13 8 (1.34%) JCL
13 8 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.34%) REXX
14 3 (0.50%) C#
14 3 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 242 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 157 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.06%) Degree
4 62 (10.39%) DV Cleared
5 46 (7.71%) CISSP
6 44 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (5.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 32 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (5.03%) CISM
10 17 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.85%) CompTIA CySA+
11 16 (2.68%) GIAC
12 15 (2.51%) CEH
13 14 (2.35%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.68%) FFIEC
15 8 (1.34%) JNCIA
15 8 (1.34%) JNCIS
16 7 (1.17%) GCIA
16 7 (1.17%) GCIH
16 7 (1.17%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.73%) NIST
2 52 (8.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.02%) NCSC
4 23 (3.85%) GDPR
4 23 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.51%) SLA
6 14 (2.35%) QA
7 11 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.68%) GLBA
9 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.84%) GRC
10 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.67%) COBIT
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 119 (19.93%) Docker
2 20 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.85%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.35%) 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 (0.50%) 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
1 192 (32.16%) Kubernetes
2 139 (23.28%) Grafana
3 137 (22.95%) Terraform
4 106 (17.76%) Prometheus
5 102 (17.09%) Ansible
6 31 (5.19%) Argo
7 25 (4.19%) FortiGate
8 19 (3.18%) Kibana
9 18 (3.02%) QRadar
10 17 (2.85%) Fluentd
10 17 (2.85%) Nagios
11 16 (2.68%) vCenter Server
12 15 (2.51%) ZABBIX
13 13 (2.18%) Netcool
14 12 (2.01%) OpenView
14 12 (2.01%) Puppet
14 12 (2.01%) Tivoli
14 12 (2.01%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 10 (1.68%) Kiali
15 10 (1.68%) linkerd
Vendors
1 90 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.55%) Dynatrace
3 56 (9.38%) Cisco
4 45 (7.54%) AppDynamics
4 45 (7.54%) ServiceNow
4 45 (7.54%) SolarWinds
5 34 (5.70%) CyberArk
6 33 (5.53%) Red Hat
7 31 (5.19%) F5
8 28 (4.69%) VMware
9 27 (4.52%) Tenable
10 25 (4.19%) Juniper
11 24 (4.02%) Cribl.io
11 24 (4.02%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (3.69%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (3.52%) Google
13 21 (3.52%) Oracle
14 20 (3.35%) BMC
15 19 (3.18%) IBM
16 18 (3.02%) Qualys