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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 179 244
Rank change year-on-year -38 +65 -79
Contract jobs citing Splunk 598 511 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.57% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.76% 3.31% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 316 271
10th Percentile £363 £365 £400
25th Percentile £427 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £616
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £44.16 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.84 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 21,678 15,427 18,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.54% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,483 9,438 11,509
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 748 1,120
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.41 £60.83
90th Percentile £83.88 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.56 £24.43
% change year-on-year +50.66% -7.65% -18.57%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -57 525 £525 -2.78% 309
UK excluding London -62 320 £517 -6.05% 310
London -27 225 £550 +4.76% 78
Work from Home -43 163 £537 +3.52% 102
North of England -26 129 £500 +2.82% 63
Yorkshire -15 73 £500 +12.04% 20
South East -90 58 £465 -13.41% 69
North West -34 54 £509 -6.18% 30
Midlands -23 48 £581 +19.79% 24
West Midlands -33 43 £582 +16.70% 20
South West -4 40 £450 -21.05% 70
Scotland -11 27 £557 +23.78% 28
East of England -36 27 £675 +22.73% 36
East Midlands -11 5 £447 +3.23% 4
North East - 5 £413 - 13
Wales -11 1 - - 14

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 23 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.68%) Confluence
3 14 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.67%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) TPMS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 188 (31.44%) AWS
2 180 (30.10%) Azure
3 97 (16.22%) GitHub
4 75 (12.54%) GCP
5 71 (11.87%) OpenShift
6 36 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (5.69%) Entra ID
8 30 (5.02%) Datadog
9 29 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 25 (4.18%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (4.18%) Power Platform
11 24 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.85%) Serverless
13 21 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.71%) Firewall
2 78 (13.04%) DNS
3 39 (6.52%) SNMP
4 38 (6.35%) Network Security
5 37 (6.19%) WAN
6 32 (5.35%) BGP
7 30 (5.02%) LAN
7 30 (5.02%) OSPF
8 29 (4.85%) Ethernet VPN
9 28 (4.68%) DHCP
10 26 (4.35%) BIG-IP
11 25 (4.18%) VXLAN
12 24 (4.01%) Junos
12 24 (4.01%) TCP/IP
13 23 (3.85%) VPN
14 21 (3.51%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.67%) MPLS
15 10 (1.67%) SSL
15 10 (1.67%) Wireless
16 9 (1.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.01%) Power BI
3 21 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.18%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.51%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.01%) Big Data
8 10 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.34%) MySQL
9 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.17%) Presto
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.67%) Tableau
13 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.03%) GitLab
3 50 (8.36%) Git
4 34 (5.69%) Gatling
5 32 (5.35%) JIRA
6 23 (3.85%) JMeter
7 14 (2.34%) Selenium
8 13 (2.17%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.17%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.01%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.67%) Gradle
10 10 (1.67%) JUnit
10 10 (1.67%) Maven
11 9 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.17%) Eclipse
13 6 (1.00%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.00%) Jaeger
13 6 (1.00%) Postman
13 6 (1.00%) Snyk
13 6 (1.00%) Xcode
General
1 163 (27.26%) Social Skills
2 121 (20.23%) Finance
3 73 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.03%) Banking
5 39 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.34%) Retail
8 12 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.84%) Legal
10 10 (1.67%) Front Office
11 8 (1.34%) Military
12 5 (0.84%) Law
12 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Advertising
14 3 (0.50%) Local Government
15 2 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
16 1 (0.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 70 (11.71%) Analyst
2 64 (10.70%) Architect
3 61 (10.20%) Senior
4 59 (9.87%) Lead
5 45 (7.53%) Consultant
6 41 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (5.52%) Developer
8 26 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 25 (4.18%) SOC Engineer
10 24 (4.01%) Data Engineer
11 23 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
12 22 (3.68%) Security Architect
13 21 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (3.51%) Site Engineer
13 21 (3.51%) Splunk Engineer
14 20 (3.34%) Security Engineer
15 19 (3.18%) Network Engineer
16 18 (3.01%) CyberArk Architect
16 18 (3.01%) Test Engineer
17 17 (2.84%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.20%) REST
2 60 (10.03%) Kafka
3 56 (9.36%) OpenTelemetry
4 36 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (6.02%) Spring
5 33 (5.52%) Spring Boot
6 27 (4.52%) 802.1X
7 24 (4.01%) JSON
8 21 (3.51%) LDAP
9 18 (3.01%) OpenID
9 18 (3.01%) SAML
10 16 (2.68%) RESTful
11 13 (2.17%) Playwright
12 12 (2.01%) Middleware
12 12 (2.01%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.84%) OAuth
13 11 (1.84%) OAuth2
13 11 (1.84%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.67%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (1.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 40 (6.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 37 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (6.02%) PKI
6 32 (5.35%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.68%) Clustering
8 27 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.34%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.84%) CMDB
11 14 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
11 14 (2.34%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.34%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.01%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.67%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 159 (26.59%) Linux
2 139 (23.24%) Windows
3 43 (7.19%) Unix
4 18 (3.01%) AIX
4 18 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 2 (0.33%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (38.13%) CI/CD
2 208 (34.78%) Observability
3 191 (31.94%) DevOps
4 142 (23.75%) SIEM
5 133 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 104 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
8 98 (16.39%) Incident Response
8 98 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 87 (14.55%) Agile
10 83 (13.88%) Security Operations
11 78 (13.04%) Containerisation
11 78 (13.04%) High Availability
12 68 (11.37%) ITSM
13 62 (10.37%) ITIL
14 60 (10.03%) Test Automation
15 56 (9.36%) Analytics
16 53 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (8.53%) Cloud Security
18 50 (8.36%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (35.62%) Python
2 90 (15.05%) PowerShell
3 89 (14.88%) SQL
4 74 (12.37%) Java
5 69 (11.54%) Bash
6 46 (7.69%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.18%) Go
8 22 (3.68%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.34%) Bicep
10 12 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (1.84%) Scala
12 10 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.67%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.34%) C#
13 8 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.00%) Perl
14 6 (1.00%) Ruby
15 4 (0.67%) JCL
15 4 (0.67%) REXX
16 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 229 (38.29%) Security Cleared
2 141 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.54%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.19%) CISSP
5 40 (6.69%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (6.52%) Degree
7 29 (4.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 25 (4.18%) CISM
9 22 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.84%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.68%) GIAC
13 14 (2.34%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.84%) CCNP
14 11 (1.84%) CEH
15 10 (1.67%) GCIA
15 10 (1.67%) GCIH
15 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (1.51%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.36%) NIST
2 39 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.84%) NCSC
4 14 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.34%) PCI DSS
4 14 (2.34%) QA
5 12 (2.01%) GDPR
6 9 (1.51%) SLA
7 8 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.84%) GRC
9 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.50%) COBIT
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) GLBA
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 94 (15.72%) Docker
2 25 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.68%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.17%) vSphere
6 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.00%) etcd
8 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Snort
9 2 (0.33%) HDFS
9 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 157 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 146 (24.41%) Grafana
3 143 (23.91%) Terraform
4 114 (19.06%) Prometheus
5 94 (15.72%) Ansible
6 26 (4.35%) FortiGate
7 25 (4.18%) QRadar
8 23 (3.85%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.51%) Argo
10 20 (3.34%) Nagios
11 18 (3.01%) Netcool
12 17 (2.84%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.51%) Kibana
13 15 (2.51%) OpenView
13 15 (2.51%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 13 (2.17%) vCenter Server
15 10 (1.67%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.51%) Control-M
17 8 (1.34%) Puppet
17 8 (1.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 99 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 76 (12.71%) ServiceNow
3 71 (11.87%) Dynatrace
4 60 (10.03%) Cisco
4 60 (10.03%) SolarWinds
5 43 (7.19%) CrowdStrike
6 40 (6.69%) CyberArk
6 40 (6.69%) F5
7 37 (6.19%) AppDynamics
8 30 (5.02%) IBM
9 29 (4.85%) New Relic
10 28 (4.68%) Tenable
11 27 (4.52%) VMware
12 25 (4.18%) Juniper
13 24 (4.01%) Google
14 23 (3.85%) BMC
15 22 (3.68%) Extreme Networks
15 22 (3.68%) Fortinet
16 21 (3.51%) Oracle
17 20 (3.34%) Palo Alto