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 6 May 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
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 198 247
Rank change year-on-year -2 +49 -69
Contract jobs citing Splunk 592 401 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.37% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.98% 2.89% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 246 259
10th Percentile £351 £383 £404
25th Percentile £425 £432 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £636
90th Percentile £750 £750 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.82% -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% -33.11%
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% -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 19,865 13,894 18,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.72% 47.39% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,636 8,704 11,362
10th Percentile £313 £288 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 570 1,095
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.10 £14.48
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.09% +17.56% -48.57%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.65 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.64%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -1 522 £525 -4.55% 286
UK excluding London +8 340 £513 -6.82% 290
London -11 198 £575 +9.52% 71
Work from Home -23 161 £535 -6.96% 44
North of England -7 125 £482 -19.71% 60
South East -20 85 £433 -21.36% 82
Yorkshire -9 81 £485 -31.59% 19
Midlands -27 62 £525 -2.23% 20
West Midlands -14 56 £527 -4.37% 15
North West -32 43 £489 -9.82% 27
South West -4 35 £440 -28.16% 53
Scotland -4 21 £610 +41.86% 21
East of England -24 20 £688 +14.58% 37
East Midlands -28 6 £472 +20.65% 5
Wales -12 4 - - 11
North East -18 3 £444 -40.83% 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 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.87%) Confluence
3 12 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.52%) TPMS
5 4 (0.68%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.68%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.68%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 185 (31.25%) AWS
2 165 (27.87%) Azure
3 82 (13.85%) GCP
4 81 (13.68%) GitHub
5 65 (10.98%) OpenShift
6 42 (7.09%) Datadog
7 40 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 37 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 28 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (4.56%) Serverless
12 26 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (3.55%) Entra ID
16 20 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
17 18 (3.04%) SaaS
18 17 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (14.02%) DNS
2 82 (13.85%) Firewall
3 40 (6.76%) TCP/IP
4 36 (6.08%) SNMP
5 30 (5.07%) WAN
6 29 (4.90%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (4.90%) LAN
7 28 (4.73%) BGP
8 27 (4.56%) OSPF
9 26 (4.39%) Network Security
10 25 (4.22%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.05%) BIG-IP
11 24 (4.05%) DHCP
11 24 (4.05%) Junos
12 20 (3.38%) Cisco ISE
13 16 (2.70%) SSL
13 16 (2.70%) VPN
14 11 (1.86%) Wireless
15 9 (1.52%) SSH
16 8 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.22%) MongoDB
3 17 (2.87%) Hadoop
3 17 (2.87%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.53%) Power BI
5 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.03%) Big Data
6 12 (2.03%) DynamoDB
6 12 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.86%) MySQL
8 10 (1.69%) Redis
9 8 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.18%) Presto
11 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 95 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 63 (10.64%) GitLab
3 45 (7.60%) Git
4 33 (5.57%) JIRA
5 19 (3.21%) Gatling
6 13 (2.20%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.20%) JMeter
7 12 (2.03%) LoadRunner
8 10 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.52%) Postman
9 9 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.52%) Selenium
10 8 (1.35%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.35%) JUnit
11 7 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.18%) Gradle
11 7 (1.18%) Maven
11 7 (1.18%) Snyk
12 6 (1.01%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 178 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.59%) Finance
3 70 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.28%) Banking
4 49 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.69%) Military
9 8 (1.35%) Front Office
9 8 (1.35%) Retail
10 5 (0.84%) Law
11 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Legal
12 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 2 (0.34%) Local Government
13 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (14.70%) Analyst
2 68 (11.49%) Architect
3 57 (9.63%) Senior
4 51 (8.61%) Lead
5 42 (7.09%) SOC Analyst
6 40 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 36 (6.08%) Consultant
8 31 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (4.39%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.22%) Developer
11 24 (4.05%) Site Engineer
12 22 (3.72%) Security Engineer
13 20 (3.38%) SOC Engineer
14 19 (3.21%) CyberArk Architect
14 19 (3.21%) Splunk Engineer
15 18 (3.04%) Network Engineer
16 15 (2.53%) Management Consultant
16 15 (2.53%) Security Architect
17 14 (2.36%) Firewall Specialist
17 14 (2.36%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.33%) Kafka
2 56 (9.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 52 (8.78%) REST
4 35 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (5.91%) Spring Boot
5 29 (4.90%) Spring
6 26 (4.39%) 802.1X
6 26 (4.39%) JSON
7 23 (3.89%) Middleware
8 21 (3.55%) LDAP
9 19 (3.21%) OpenID
9 19 (3.21%) SAML
10 16 (2.70%) CSS
11 12 (2.03%) Playwright
11 12 (2.03%) React
11 12 (2.03%) RESTful
12 11 (1.86%) OAuth
12 11 (1.86%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.69%) HTML
13 10 (1.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.14%) Onboarding
3 44 (7.43%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.76%) PKI
5 31 (5.24%) Data Centre
6 30 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (4.73%) Clustering
8 25 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (3.89%) Management Information System
10 22 (3.72%) Cyberattack
11 21 (3.55%) Product Ownership
12 18 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (2.53%) Security Posture
14 13 (2.20%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.69%) CMDB
16 9 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
16 9 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (1.35%) Mainframe
18 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
19 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (31.42%) Linux
2 157 (26.52%) Windows
3 55 (9.29%) Unix
4 23 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.04%) AIX
6 9 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.35%) zOS
8 6 (1.01%) Android
9 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) 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
1 217 (36.66%) CI/CD
2 196 (33.11%) DevOps
3 189 (31.93%) Observability
4 151 (25.51%) SIEM
5 125 (21.11%) Cybersecurity
6 124 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (18.07%) Incident Response
9 98 (16.55%) Containerisation
10 89 (15.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 81 (13.68%) Agile
12 73 (12.33%) High Availability
13 70 (11.82%) Security Operations
14 64 (10.81%) Migration
15 59 (9.97%) Analytics
15 59 (9.97%) ITIL
16 58 (9.80%) Microservices
16 58 (9.80%) Test Automation
17 51 (8.61%) Computer Science
17 51 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (37.84%) Python
2 95 (16.05%) SQL
3 92 (15.54%) PowerShell
4 89 (15.03%) Bash
5 74 (12.50%) Java
6 36 (6.08%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.22%) JavaScript
8 20 (3.38%) Go
9 14 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (2.20%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.52%) Bicep
11 9 (1.52%) Perl
11 9 (1.52%) Rust
11 9 (1.52%) Scala
12 8 (1.35%) JCL
12 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.35%) REXX
13 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.51%) C#
14 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 245 (41.39%) Security Cleared
2 153 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 68 (11.49%) DV Cleared
4 64 (10.81%) Degree
5 42 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (6.76%) CISSP
7 34 (5.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 33 (5.57%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.89%) CISM
10 19 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (3.04%) CompTIA CySA+
12 15 (2.53%) GIAC
13 14 (2.36%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.36%) CEH
14 9 (1.52%) FFIEC
15 8 (1.35%) JNCIA
15 8 (1.35%) JNCIS
16 7 (1.18%) CCNP
16 7 (1.18%) GCIA
16 7 (1.18%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.97%) NIST
2 41 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.05%) NCSC
4 22 (3.72%) PCI DSS
5 20 (3.38%) GDPR
6 15 (2.53%) SLA
7 13 (2.20%) QA
8 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.52%) GLBA
10 7 (1.18%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.84%) GRC
11 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.68%) COBIT
12 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 107 (18.07%) Docker
2 17 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.87%) VMware NSX
3 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.36%) vSphere
5 6 (1.01%) etcd
6 5 (0.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 5 (0.84%) Snort
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) GPFS
9 1 (0.17%) Lustre
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Squid
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 184 (31.08%) Kubernetes
2 141 (23.82%) Grafana
3 131 (22.13%) Terraform
4 109 (18.41%) Prometheus
5 106 (17.91%) Ansible
6 31 (5.24%) Argo
7 25 (4.22%) FortiGate
8 21 (3.55%) Nagios
8 21 (3.55%) ZABBIX
9 19 (3.21%) Kibana
10 18 (3.04%) Netcool
10 18 (3.04%) QRadar
11 17 (2.87%) Tivoli
12 16 (2.70%) vCenter Server
13 15 (2.53%) OpenView
13 15 (2.53%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 13 (2.20%) Puppet
15 10 (1.69%) Fluentd
15 10 (1.69%) linkerd
15 10 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.97%) Dynatrace
3 52 (8.78%) ServiceNow
4 50 (8.45%) Cisco
5 47 (7.94%) SolarWinds
6 45 (7.60%) AppDynamics
7 35 (5.91%) CyberArk
8 31 (5.24%) F5
9 30 (5.07%) CrowdStrike
9 30 (5.07%) Red Hat
10 28 (4.73%) VMware
11 26 (4.39%) BMC
11 26 (4.39%) Tenable
12 25 (4.22%) Juniper
13 23 (3.89%) IBM
14 22 (3.72%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (3.38%) Google
15 20 (3.38%) Oracle
16 18 (3.04%) Qualys
17 16 (2.70%) HP