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 3 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
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 193 253
Rank change year-on-year +3 +60 -83
Contract jobs citing Splunk 615 401 400
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.38% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 3.16% 2.93% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 250 241
10th Percentile £350 £385 £400
25th Percentile £417 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £646
90th Percentile £738 £751 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.12% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.17 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.26% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £86.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £90.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.54% +2.50% -29.30%

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 19,432 13,698 18,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.31% 47.11% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,476 8,655 11,765
10th Percentile £313 £294 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £712 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 485 1,043
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.75 £14.45
Median hourly rate £27.00 £28.60 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +26.66% -43.55%
75th Percentile £59.46 £61.25 £56.37
90th Percentile £78.65 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.76% +24.71% -38.67%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 0 548 £525 -4.55% 117
UK excluding London +15 361 £500 -9.09% 92
London -44 199 £600 +14.29% 39
Work from Home -20 162 £540 -2.00% 45
North of England +1 150 £500 -15.43% 28
Yorkshire +4 104 £507 -27.57% 9
South East -18 94 £428 -22.27% 26
Midlands -9 78 £525 -2.51% 4
West Midlands -6 73 £525 -4.72% 2
North West -33 45 £490 -10.91% 10
South West -3 26 £426 -43.20% 17
Scotland +7 21 £610 +46.99% 2
East of England -37 7 £675 +12.50% 14
Wales -5 5 £600 +31.87% 3
East Midlands -30 5 £447 -4.89% 2
North East -13 3 £538 -8.51% 9

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 20 (3.25%) Confluence
2 11 (1.79%) TPMS
3 10 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) BASE24
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 208 (33.82%) AWS
2 162 (26.34%) Azure
3 120 (19.51%) GCP
4 85 (13.82%) GitHub
5 72 (11.71%) OpenShift
6 50 (8.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 39 (6.34%) Serverless
8 34 (5.53%) Datadog
9 33 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (4.72%) Amazon S3
12 27 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.74%) Entra ID
15 22 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.76%) SaaS
18 15 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (14.63%) Firewall
2 84 (13.66%) DNS
3 40 (6.50%) TCP/IP
4 31 (5.04%) Network Security
5 28 (4.55%) WAN
6 27 (4.39%) Ethernet VPN
6 27 (4.39%) LAN
7 26 (4.23%) BGP
7 26 (4.23%) SNMP
8 25 (4.07%) OSPF
9 23 (3.74%) VXLAN
10 22 (3.58%) BIG-IP
10 22 (3.58%) DHCP
10 22 (3.58%) Junos
11 18 (2.93%) Cisco ISE
12 17 (2.76%) VPN
13 16 (2.60%) SSL
14 15 (2.44%) Wireless
15 12 (1.95%) HTTP
16 11 (1.79%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (4.39%) NoSQL
3 26 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 18 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (1.95%) Hadoop
6 12 (1.95%) MySQL
7 10 (1.63%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.63%) Redis
8 6 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.98%) Tableau
9 4 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.65%) Flink
9 4 (0.65%) Power BI
10 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 116 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 86 (13.98%) GitLab
3 38 (6.18%) Git
4 35 (5.69%) JIRA
5 15 (2.44%) Gatling
6 11 (1.79%) Liquibase
6 11 (1.79%) Postman
7 10 (1.63%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.63%) Jaeger
7 10 (1.63%) Selenium
7 10 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.46%) JMeter
8 9 (1.46%) JUnit
8 9 (1.46%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.30%) Android Studio
9 8 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (1.30%) Gradle
9 8 (1.30%) Maven
9 8 (1.30%) Snyk
9 8 (1.30%) Xcode
General
1 211 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 130 (21.14%) Finance
3 79 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.59%) Banking
5 56 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 40 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.04%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.28%) Military
9 13 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.14%) Retail
11 4 (0.65%) Front Office
11 4 (0.65%) Law
11 4 (0.65%) Legal
11 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.33%) Advertising
13 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 107 (17.40%) Analyst
2 66 (10.73%) Senior
3 64 (10.41%) Architect
4 53 (8.62%) SOC Analyst
5 47 (7.64%) Lead
6 41 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (5.20%) Security Engineer
8 31 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (4.23%) Consultant
9 26 (4.23%) Security Analyst
10 23 (3.74%) Splunk Engineer
11 22 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (3.58%) Developer
11 22 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (3.58%) Site Engineer
12 19 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (3.09%) Network Engineer
13 18 (2.93%) Data Engineer
14 17 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
14 17 (2.76%) Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.38%) Kafka
2 64 (10.41%) REST
3 48 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
4 47 (7.64%) OpenTelemetry
5 36 (5.85%) Spring Boot
6 30 (4.88%) Spring
7 26 (4.23%) RESTful
8 25 (4.07%) JSON
9 24 (3.90%) 802.1X
9 24 (3.90%) SAML
10 20 (3.25%) LDAP
10 20 (3.25%) Middleware
11 19 (3.09%) OpenID
12 16 (2.60%) OAuth
12 16 (2.60%) React
13 12 (1.95%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.95%) Playwright
14 11 (1.79%) CSS
14 11 (1.79%) Keycloak
14 11 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.62%) Onboarding
3 47 (7.64%) Security Operations Centre
4 39 (6.34%) PKI
5 36 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (4.72%) Data Centre
8 26 (4.23%) Clustering
9 25 (4.07%) Management Information System
10 22 (3.58%) Public Cloud
11 21 (3.41%) Cyber Defence
11 21 (3.41%) Cyberattack
12 20 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (3.25%) Security Posture
13 18 (2.93%) Product Ownership
14 16 (2.60%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.63%) CMDB
16 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
18 6 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 195 (31.71%) Linux
2 149 (24.23%) Windows
3 53 (8.62%) Unix
4 24 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.11%) AIX
6 9 (1.46%) Android
7 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.98%) zOS
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.33%) CentOS
10 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (35.61%) CI/CD
2 201 (32.68%) DevOps
3 180 (29.27%) Observability
4 162 (26.34%) SIEM
5 159 (25.85%) Cybersecurity
6 137 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (21.95%) Incident Response
8 132 (21.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 114 (18.54%) Containerisation
10 94 (15.28%) Agile
11 82 (13.33%) High Availability
12 78 (12.68%) Security Operations
13 77 (12.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 73 (11.87%) Microservices
15 66 (10.73%) Computer Science
16 65 (10.57%) Migration
17 57 (9.27%) Test Automation
18 56 (9.11%) Analytics
18 56 (9.11%) Root Cause Analysis
19 55 (8.94%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 228 (37.07%) Python
2 92 (14.96%) Bash
3 84 (13.66%) PowerShell
4 75 (12.20%) SQL
5 69 (11.22%) Java
6 32 (5.20%) Go
7 27 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.74%) Search Processing Language
9 15 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 12 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.79%) Perl
12 10 (1.63%) Bicep
13 9 (1.46%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.46%) Rust
14 6 (0.98%) JCL
14 6 (0.98%) REXX
15 3 (0.49%) Groovy
15 3 (0.49%) Ruby
15 3 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 249 (40.49%) Security Cleared
2 165 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.17%) Degree
4 60 (9.76%) DV Cleared
5 56 (9.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (8.46%) CISSP
7 38 (6.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 34 (5.53%) CISM
9 30 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (3.25%) GIAC
11 19 (3.09%) CEH
12 18 (2.93%) CompTIA CySA+
13 17 (2.76%) Master's Degree
14 13 (2.11%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.79%) FFIEC
16 10 (1.63%) GCIA
16 10 (1.63%) GCIH
17 8 (1.30%) JNCIA
17 8 (1.30%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.36%) NIST
2 55 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.23%) GDPR
4 25 (4.07%) NCSC
5 24 (3.90%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.44%) QA
7 14 (2.28%) SLA
8 12 (1.95%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.79%) GLBA
10 6 (0.98%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.81%) GRC
11 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.65%) COBIT
12 4 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.33%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 121 (19.67%) Docker
2 19 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.93%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.44%) vSphere
5 14 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.98%) etcd
6 6 (0.98%) Snort
7 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.49%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.33%) Squid
8 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) GPFS
9 1 (0.16%) Lustre
9 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 201 (32.68%) Kubernetes
2 139 (22.60%) Grafana
3 135 (21.95%) Terraform
4 110 (17.89%) Ansible
4 110 (17.89%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.53%) Argo
6 23 (3.74%) FortiGate
7 19 (3.09%) QRadar
8 17 (2.76%) Fluentd
8 17 (2.76%) vCenter Server
9 16 (2.60%) Kibana
9 16 (2.60%) Nagios
10 13 (2.11%) Netcool
10 13 (2.11%) Puppet
10 13 (2.11%) ZABBIX
11 12 (1.95%) OpenView
11 12 (1.95%) Tivoli
11 12 (1.95%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 11 (1.79%) Nessus
12 11 (1.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 102 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.11%) Cisco
3 47 (7.64%) Dynatrace
4 45 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 41 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 36 (5.85%) Google
6 36 (5.85%) Red Hat
7 31 (5.04%) CyberArk
8 28 (4.55%) F5
8 28 (4.55%) Tenable
8 28 (4.55%) VMware
9 27 (4.39%) CrowdStrike
10 24 (3.90%) Oracle
11 22 (3.58%) Juniper
11 22 (3.58%) Qualys
12 21 (3.41%) Cribl.io
13 20 (3.25%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (3.09%) IBM
15 17 (2.76%) BMC