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 10 December 2025, 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
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 197 236
Rank change year-on-year +46 +39 -17
Contract jobs citing Splunk 680 461 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 1.29% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 3.96% 2.84% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 263 323
10th Percentile £358 £425 £400
25th Percentile £420 £496 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 £744 £678
90th Percentile £696 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £573 £593
% change year-on-year -10.92% -3.50% +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £76.88 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £79.69 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.46% - -
75th Percentile £94.06 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +49.78% - -

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 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 10 December 2025.

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
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 10 December 2025. 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 +43 608 £525 -12.50% 107
UK excluding London +69 378 £510 -10.92% 106
London +4 235 £575 -8.00% 36
Work from Home -5 177 £525 -8.70% 59
North of England -3 129 £478 -20.33% 17
Midlands +32 101 £528 +0.48% 15
South East +41 99 £435 -24.35% 34
West Midlands +43 97 £532 -4.74% 12
Yorkshire -4 80 £507 -17.56% 9
North West -16 47 £453 -19.47% 7
Scotland +34 34 £454 +29.71% 8
South West -15 18 £600 +14.29% 5
East of England -20 12 £575 +4.55% 15
East Midlands -26 4 £381 -21.77% 3
Wales - 3 £600 - 10
North East -7 2 £600 -26.38% 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 33 (4.85%) Apache
2 27 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.65%) Skype for Business
3 18 (2.65%) WebLogic
4 15 (2.21%) JBoss
5 14 (2.06%) Confluence
6 13 (1.91%) Mattermost
6 13 (1.91%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.47%) IIS
7 10 (1.47%) iPlanet
7 10 (1.47%) WebSphere
7 10 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
8 8 (1.18%) Apache Pig
9 7 (1.03%) TPMS
10 6 (0.88%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.44%) SAS
13 2 (0.29%) Mule
13 2 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 23 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (2.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.15%) RMDS
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 268 (39.41%) AWS
2 148 (21.76%) Azure
3 136 (20.00%) GCP
4 67 (9.85%) GitHub
5 53 (7.79%) OpenShift
6 52 (7.65%) Serverless
7 51 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 38 (5.59%) SaaS
9 27 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (3.68%) Amazon S3
12 23 (3.38%) Akamai
12 23 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.79%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (2.50%) Datadog
16 16 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (16.18%) Firewall
2 45 (6.62%) DNS
3 31 (4.56%) Network Security
4 23 (3.38%) SSL
4 23 (3.38%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.24%) HTTP
5 22 (3.24%) Wireshark
6 21 (3.09%) Wireless
7 18 (2.65%) Cisco IOS
7 18 (2.65%) Skype
8 17 (2.50%) VPN
9 12 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
9 12 (1.76%) iSCSI
10 11 (1.62%) Kerberos
10 11 (1.62%) Unified Communications
11 10 (1.47%) SNMP
12 9 (1.32%) SSH
13 7 (1.03%) DHCP
14 4 (0.59%) BGP
14 4 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.47%) NoSQL
2 41 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 27 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (3.82%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.53%) MySQL
7 18 (2.65%) Oracle Database
7 18 (2.65%) Redis
8 12 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.76%) Power BI
9 10 (1.47%) Apache Hive
10 9 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.18%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.74%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.74%) Flink
14 4 (0.59%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 127 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 106 (15.59%) GitLab
3 55 (8.09%) Git
4 31 (4.56%) JIRA
5 30 (4.41%) Liquibase
6 24 (3.53%) Xcode
7 23 (3.38%) Postman
8 20 (2.94%) Eclipse
9 19 (2.79%) Android Studio
9 19 (2.79%) Browser DevTools
10 18 (2.65%) JUnit
11 17 (2.50%) Bitbucket
11 17 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 17 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (1.91%) CA Release Automation
12 13 (1.91%) Cypress.io
13 12 (1.76%) Maven
14 10 (1.47%) CircleCI
14 10 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 280 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 155 (22.79%) Finance
3 119 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.15%) Banking
5 62 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 21 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.79%) Games
9 15 (2.21%) Military
10 9 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.18%) Legal
12 7 (1.03%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.88%) Retail
14 5 (0.74%) Local Government
14 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.29%) Marketing
17 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (17.21%) Analyst
2 71 (10.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (10.00%) Senior
4 52 (7.65%) Architect
5 51 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
6 49 (7.21%) SOC Analyst
7 47 (6.91%) Security Engineer
8 40 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 36 (5.29%) Security Analyst
10 29 (4.26%) Developer
11 28 (4.12%) Site Engineer
12 26 (3.82%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.68%) Splunk Engineer
14 24 (3.53%) Monitoring Analyst
15 23 (3.38%) Support Analyst
15 23 (3.38%) Support Engineer
16 22 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.24%) Lead
17 20 (2.94%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (11.47%) Elastic Stack
2 77 (11.32%) REST
3 48 (7.06%) Kafka
4 47 (6.91%) RESTful
5 30 (4.41%) AngularJS
6 29 (4.26%) CSS
7 27 (3.97%) React
8 24 (3.53%) OAuth
9 22 (3.24%) GraphQL
9 22 (3.24%) Spring Boot
10 21 (3.09%) SAML
10 21 (3.09%) Spring
11 19 (2.79%) Ajax
12 18 (2.65%) LDAP
13 17 (2.50%) Keycloak
13 17 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
14 16 (2.35%) JSON
14 16 (2.35%) Web Services
15 15 (2.21%) OpenID
15 15 (2.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.91%) Security Posture
3 44 (6.47%) Security Operations Centre
4 43 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.44%) Public Cloud
6 25 (3.68%) PKI
7 24 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
7 24 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
7 24 (3.53%) Mobile App
8 21 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.62%) CSOC
11 10 (1.47%) Clustering
11 10 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.18%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 227 (33.38%) Linux
2 144 (21.18%) Windows
3 103 (15.15%) Unix
4 42 (6.18%) Android
5 35 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (4.85%) Windows Server
7 25 (3.68%) Mac OS
8 14 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.47%) CentOS
10 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.59%) Solaris
11 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.59%) zOS
12 3 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.29%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.29%) VMS
14 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (31.62%) CI/CD
2 207 (30.44%) DevOps
3 175 (25.74%) Incident Response
4 172 (25.29%) Cybersecurity
5 159 (23.38%) SIEM
6 147 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (20.59%) Observability
8 131 (19.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (18.53%) Agile
10 123 (18.09%) Containerisation
11 86 (12.65%) Security Operations
12 83 (12.21%) Microservices
13 78 (11.47%) Threat Detection
14 74 (10.88%) Computer Science
15 66 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (9.71%) Test Automation
16 65 (9.56%) Root Cause Analysis
17 58 (8.53%) High Availability
18 57 (8.38%) Continuous Integration
19 55 (8.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 259 (38.09%) Python
2 118 (17.35%) PowerShell
3 116 (17.06%) SQL
4 100 (14.71%) Bash
5 83 (12.21%) Java
6 72 (10.59%) Go
7 46 (6.76%) JavaScript
8 44 (6.47%) Shell Script
9 38 (5.59%) Perl
10 24 (3.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.65%) Groovy
12 16 (2.35%) PromQL
13 14 (2.06%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.76%) Scala
14 12 (1.76%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.88%) C++
16 5 (0.74%) JCL
16 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.74%) Swift
17 4 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 186 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 94 (13.82%) Degree
4 74 (10.88%) CISSP
5 58 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (7.06%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.62%) Master's Degree
8 38 (5.59%) CISM
9 29 (4.26%) AWS Certification
9 29 (4.26%) CEH
10 28 (4.12%) GIAC
11 25 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (3.53%) MCSE
13 22 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
14 20 (2.94%) GCIA
14 20 (2.94%) GCIH
15 19 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (1.76%) GCFA
18 9 (1.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.85%) NIST
2 54 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (5.59%) GDPR
4 22 (3.24%) PCI DSS
5 21 (3.09%) QA
6 16 (2.35%) HIPAA
7 15 (2.21%) NCSC
8 13 (1.91%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.03%) GLBA
11 7 (1.03%) SLA
12 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.44%) GRC
14 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.29%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 121 (17.79%) Docker
2 81 (11.91%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (2.35%) NFS
6 15 (2.21%) vSphere
7 8 (1.18%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 7 (1.03%) Snort
9 6 (0.88%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.74%) Squid
10 5 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.59%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.59%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.44%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.29%) ISA Server
14 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.15%) GPFS
14 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 195 (28.68%) Kubernetes
2 135 (19.85%) Terraform
3 124 (18.24%) Grafana
4 122 (17.94%) Ansible
5 100 (14.71%) Prometheus
6 38 (5.59%) QRadar
7 30 (4.41%) Kibana
8 27 (3.97%) SCCM
9 25 (3.68%) SCOM
10 23 (3.38%) Progress Chef
11 21 (3.09%) CSIRT
11 21 (3.09%) HP SiteScope
12 20 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 19 (2.79%) Puppet
14 16 (2.35%) Argo
14 16 (2.35%) Nessus
15 14 (2.06%) Packer
16 13 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
17 12 (1.76%) Fluentd
18 10 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 199 (29.26%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.74%) Cisco
3 67 (9.85%) Oracle
4 59 (8.68%) Dynatrace
5 58 (8.53%) Google
6 52 (7.65%) CrowdStrike
7 49 (7.21%) AppDynamics
8 45 (6.62%) ServiceNow
9 40 (5.88%) Qualys
10 32 (4.71%) VMware
11 30 (4.41%) Red Hat
12 25 (3.68%) Carbon Black
13 24 (3.53%) ArcSight
13 24 (3.53%) Remedy
14 22 (3.24%) F5
15 20 (2.94%) CyberArk
16 19 (2.79%) Palo Alto
16 19 (2.79%) Tenable
17 18 (2.65%) Meraki
17 18 (2.65%) Veeam