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 27 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
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 156 222
Rank change year-on-year -86 +66 -49
Contract jobs citing Splunk 583 584 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.78% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.60% 3.78% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 365 272
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £711 £786
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £556
% change year-on-year -2.24% -5.62% -4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £44.29 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.84 - -
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 22,410 15,468 16,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.22% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,815 9,456 10,461
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,156 806 773
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.59 £13.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -10.18% -36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.28 £26.08
% change year-on-year +31.58% -18.40% -34.48%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -76 504 £525 - 123
UK excluding London -92 294 £513 -2.24% 95
London -52 233 £525 - 53
Work from Home -41 161 £518 +3.50% 61
North of England -36 122 £475 +4.68% 41
North West -29 68 £514 +14.17% 33
Midlands -49 47 £575 +11.65% 5
Yorkshire -41 45 £485 +2.63% 7
West Midlands -43 44 £575 +8.59% 3
South West -11 42 £453 -16.06% 15
South East -119 35 £465 -7.00% 17
Scotland -15 31 £425 -6.39% 12
East of England -37 26 £700 +27.27% 3
North East -33 9 £425 - 1
East Midlands -18 2 £563 +56.25% 2

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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 17 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.37%) Apache
4 8 (1.37%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 219 (37.56%) AWS
2 210 (36.02%) Azure
3 97 (16.64%) GitHub
4 80 (13.72%) GCP
5 53 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (8.75%) OpenShift
7 39 (6.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 39 (6.69%) Entra ID
8 38 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (6.35%) Datadog
10 35 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.80%) Power Platform
12 28 (4.80%) SaaS
13 27 (4.63%) Serverless
14 26 (4.46%) Amazon S3
15 25 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (11.66%) Firewall
2 53 (9.09%) DNS
3 41 (7.03%) Network Security
4 38 (6.52%) SNMP
5 22 (3.77%) WAN
6 17 (2.92%) VPN
7 15 (2.57%) BGP
7 15 (2.57%) DHCP
7 15 (2.57%) TCP/IP
8 14 (2.40%) LAN
9 13 (2.23%) OSPF
10 10 (1.72%) BIG-IP
10 10 (1.72%) HTTP
10 10 (1.72%) Internet
11 9 (1.54%) Wireless
12 8 (1.37%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (1.37%) Junos
12 8 (1.37%) SSL
12 8 (1.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.63%) Power BI
2 24 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.92%) Big Data
5 16 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.06%) DynamoDB
7 12 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.54%) MySQL
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.20%) Presto
10 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.03%) Flink
10 6 (1.03%) Redis
11 5 (0.86%) Looker
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 93 (15.95%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.12%) Git
3 57 (9.78%) GitLab
4 41 (7.03%) JIRA
5 32 (5.49%) Gatling
6 31 (5.32%) JMeter
7 20 (3.43%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.89%) Selenium
10 9 (1.54%) JUnit
11 8 (1.37%) Gradle
11 8 (1.37%) Maven
11 8 (1.37%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.20%) Postman
13 6 (1.03%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 142 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.55%) Finance
3 84 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.43%) Banking
5 32 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.72%) Front Office
8 10 (1.72%) Legal
9 9 (1.54%) Retail
9 9 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.86%) Law
11 4 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Advertising
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Local Government
12 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (9.09%) Senior
2 51 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (8.75%) Lead
3 49 (8.40%) Analyst
4 47 (8.06%) Consultant
5 37 (6.35%) Splunk Engineer
6 34 (5.83%) Architect
7 33 (5.66%) Developer
8 27 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 25 (4.29%) Security Engineer
9 25 (4.29%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (3.95%) Performance Engineer
11 20 (3.43%) Site Engineer
12 19 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.26%) Test Engineer
13 17 (2.92%) Support Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) Applications Support
14 16 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
15 15 (2.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (25.39%) Terraform
2 62 (10.63%) Kafka
3 58 (9.95%) REST
4 46 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (7.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (3.26%) React
6 19 (3.26%) Spring
6 19 (3.26%) Spring Boot
7 17 (2.92%) RESTful
8 16 (2.74%) JSON
9 13 (2.23%) CSS
9 13 (2.23%) Middleware
10 12 (2.06%) .NET
10 12 (2.06%) 802.1X
10 12 (2.06%) OAuth
10 12 (2.06%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.06%) Play Framework
11 10 (1.72%) OpenID
12 9 (1.54%) SailPoint
12 9 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.98%) Onboarding
2 61 (10.46%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (3.26%) PKI
6 17 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (2.40%) CMDB
9 14 (2.40%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.23%) Clustering
11 12 (2.06%) Product Ownership
11 12 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.37%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
15 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 160 (27.44%) Linux
2 115 (19.73%) Windows
3 46 (7.89%) Unix
4 25 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.09%) AIX
7 9 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.03%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.69%) Android
10 4 (0.69%) zOS
11 3 (0.51%) CentOS
11 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
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 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (38.25%) Observability
2 215 (36.88%) CI/CD
3 184 (31.56%) DevOps
4 128 (21.96%) SIEM
5 120 (20.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (18.52%) Agile
7 107 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (17.84%) Incident Response
9 82 (14.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 80 (13.72%) Containerisation
11 74 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
12 72 (12.35%) Security Operations
13 71 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (11.66%) Root Cause Analysis
15 65 (11.15%) Incident Management
16 60 (10.29%) ITSM
17 58 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (9.43%) Test Automation
19 54 (9.26%) High Availability
20 52 (8.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 214 (36.71%) Python
2 112 (19.21%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.92%) SQL
4 75 (12.86%) Bash
5 69 (11.84%) Java
6 55 (9.43%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (6.00%) Go
8 26 (4.46%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.43%) Scala
10 18 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.92%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.72%) Perl
14 8 (1.37%) Bicep
14 8 (1.37%) C#
15 5 (0.86%) Groovy
15 5 (0.86%) Ruby
16 4 (0.69%) JCL
16 4 (0.69%) REXX
17 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 214 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 142 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.95%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.55%) CISSP
4 44 (7.55%) Degree
5 25 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (3.60%) CISM
7 19 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 16 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (2.40%) GCIH
10 14 (2.40%) GIAC
11 11 (1.89%) CEH
12 9 (1.54%) CCNP
13 8 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (1.37%) GCIA
14 7 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
15 6 (1.03%) CCSP
15 6 (1.03%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.52%) NIST
2 25 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.77%) QA
4 15 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.40%) GDPR
5 14 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.72%) SLA
7 9 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.37%) NCSC
9 6 (1.03%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.69%) GxP
11 4 (0.69%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.34%) COBIT
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 104 (17.84%) Docker
2 25 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.03%) etcd
6 6 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.03%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 157 (26.93%) Kubernetes
2 146 (25.04%) Grafana
3 103 (17.67%) Prometheus
4 87 (14.92%) Ansible
5 29 (4.97%) QRadar
6 25 (4.29%) ZABBIX
7 23 (3.95%) Nagios
8 18 (3.09%) Argo
8 18 (3.09%) Netcool
9 17 (2.92%) Tivoli
10 16 (2.74%) Kibana
11 15 (2.57%) OpenView
11 15 (2.57%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.40%) Progress Chef
13 11 (1.89%) FortiGate
14 10 (1.72%) Control-M
15 9 (1.54%) SCOM
16 8 (1.37%) Puppet
16 8 (1.37%) WMI
17 7 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 116 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 100 (17.15%) Dynatrace
3 75 (12.86%) ServiceNow
4 52 (8.92%) SolarWinds
5 45 (7.72%) AppDynamics
5 45 (7.72%) Cisco
6 44 (7.55%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.86%) New Relic
8 36 (6.17%) IBM
9 32 (5.49%) Oracle
10 26 (4.46%) Google
11 25 (4.29%) VMware
12 24 (4.12%) BMC
12 24 (4.12%) CyberArk
13 20 (3.43%) F5
13 20 (3.43%) Fortinet
14 19 (3.26%) Palo Alto
14 19 (3.26%) Tenable
15 18 (3.09%) Cribl.io
16 16 (2.74%) Zscaler