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 9 September 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 152 217
Rank change year-on-year -92 +65 -35
Contract jobs citing Splunk 601 619 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.89% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% 4.01% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 382 271
10th Percentile £350 £360 £413
25th Percentile £414 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £720 £709 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -6.06%
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 22,818 15,440 16,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.89% 47.16% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,031 9,437 10,155
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £627
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 780 691
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.83 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -18.87% -27.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.70 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.72 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +25.56% -29.07% -25.00%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -89 524 £525 - 334
UK excluding London -101 306 £515 -1.90% 215
London -65 242 £550 +4.76% 201
Work from Home -49 168 £525 +5.00% 119
North of England -40 126 £463 +2.10% 53
North West -30 69 £513 +14.40% 39
Midlands -50 51 £575 +9.00% 15
West Midlands -44 48 £575 +7.68% 14
Yorkshire -35 45 £475 -0.21% 11
South West -21 40 £500 -9.09% 20
South East -125 40 £470 -6.00% 57
Scotland -27 33 £438 -3.63% 43
East of England -37 26 £700 +27.27% 14
North East -35 12 £425 - 4
East Midlands -18 2 £563 +56.25% 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 26 (4.33%) Confluence
2 15 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.33%) Apache
4 8 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Mendix
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) 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 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (37.94%) AWS
2 216 (35.94%) Azure
3 101 (16.81%) GitHub
4 82 (13.64%) GCP
5 56 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 43 (7.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.49%) Entra ID
9 36 (5.99%) Datadog
10 35 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (4.99%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.66%) SaaS
13 28 (4.66%) Serverless
14 26 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (4.16%) Amazon S3
16 23 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.65%) Firewall
2 51 (8.49%) DNS
3 39 (6.49%) Network Security
4 38 (6.32%) SNMP
5 23 (3.83%) WAN
6 17 (2.83%) VPN
7 15 (2.50%) TCP/IP
8 13 (2.16%) BGP
8 13 (2.16%) DHCP
9 12 (2.00%) LAN
9 12 (2.00%) Wireless
10 11 (1.83%) HTTP
10 11 (1.83%) OSPF
11 10 (1.66%) Internet
12 8 (1.33%) BIG-IP
12 8 (1.33%) SSL
13 7 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (1.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.83%) Power BI
2 26 (4.33%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.00%) Big Data
5 16 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.16%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.66%) MySQL
9 7 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.16%) Presto
10 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.00%) Flink
11 5 (0.83%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.83%) Looker
11 5 (0.83%) Redis
11 5 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (14.98%) Jenkins
2 58 (9.65%) Git
3 53 (8.82%) GitLab
4 40 (6.66%) JIRA
5 31 (5.16%) Gatling
6 30 (4.99%) JMeter
7 20 (3.33%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.66%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.66%) Selenium
10 8 (1.33%) Gradle
10 8 (1.33%) JUnit
10 8 (1.33%) Maven
10 8 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.16%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.00%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.00%) Postman
12 6 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
12 6 (1.00%) Xcode
General
1 157 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 117 (19.47%) Finance
3 101 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.99%) Banking
5 35 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.83%) Retail
7 11 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.66%) Front Office
8 10 (1.66%) Legal
9 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.83%) Law
9 5 (0.83%) Military
9 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.67%) Local Government
11 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.33%) Advertising
12 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (9.48%) Analyst
2 52 (8.65%) Senior
3 51 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (7.99%) Lead
5 43 (7.15%) Consultant
6 39 (6.49%) Developer
6 39 (6.49%) Splunk Engineer
7 36 (5.99%) Architect
8 31 (5.16%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.49%) SOC Engineer
10 25 (4.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (3.66%) Performance Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Test Engineer
13 18 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.00%) Security Analyst
14 17 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (2.83%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.83%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (2.83%) Support Engineer
15 16 (2.66%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (24.63%) Terraform
2 61 (10.15%) Kafka
3 56 (9.32%) REST
4 48 (7.99%) Elastic Stack
5 46 (7.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.49%) React
7 19 (3.16%) Spring
7 19 (3.16%) Spring Boot
8 18 (3.00%) RESTful
9 16 (2.66%) JSON
10 14 (2.33%) Play Framework
11 13 (2.16%) CSS
11 13 (2.16%) Middleware
12 12 (2.00%) .NET
12 12 (2.00%) OAuth
12 12 (2.00%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.66%) OpenID
14 9 (1.50%) HTML
14 9 (1.50%) SailPoint
14 9 (1.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.65%) Onboarding
2 63 (10.48%) Cloud Native
3 41 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (4.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 21 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.83%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.83%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.33%) CMDB
9 14 (2.33%) PKI
10 13 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.00%) Clustering
12 10 (1.66%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.16%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 166 (27.62%) Linux
2 116 (19.30%) Windows
3 47 (7.82%) Unix
4 27 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.50%) AIX
7 9 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 3 (0.50%) CentOS
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (38.77%) Observability
2 214 (35.61%) CI/CD
3 185 (30.78%) DevOps
4 136 (22.63%) SIEM
5 120 (19.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (19.13%) Incident Response
8 114 (18.97%) Agile
9 91 (15.14%) Cybersecurity
10 79 (13.14%) Containerisation
10 79 (13.14%) Security Operations
11 78 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (12.65%) Root Cause Analysis
12 76 (12.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 64 (10.65%) Incident Management
14 62 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (9.82%) ITSM
16 53 (8.82%) Roadmaps
16 53 (8.82%) Test Automation
17 52 (8.65%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 218 (36.27%) Python
2 113 (18.80%) PowerShell
3 84 (13.98%) SQL
4 76 (12.65%) Bash
5 68 (11.31%) Java
6 57 (9.48%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (5.82%) Go
8 25 (4.16%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.66%) Scala
10 19 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.16%) TypeScript
11 18 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.50%) Perl
13 8 (1.33%) C#
14 7 (1.16%) Bicep
15 5 (0.83%) Ruby
16 4 (0.67%) Groovy
16 4 (0.67%) JCL
16 4 (0.67%) REXX
17 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 227 (37.77%) Security Cleared
2 155 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.98%) DV Cleared
4 50 (8.32%) CISSP
5 44 (7.32%) Degree
6 26 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.83%) CISM
8 19 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (2.83%) GIAC
11 16 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.33%) GCIH
13 13 (2.16%) CEH
14 12 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.50%) CCSP
16 8 (1.33%) GCIA
16 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (1.16%) CCNP
17 7 (1.16%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.16%) NIST
2 25 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.83%) QA
4 16 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.66%) GDPR
5 13 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.50%) NCSC
6 9 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.83%) SLA
9 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.67%) GxP
9 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.50%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 101 (16.81%) Docker
2 25 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.00%) etcd
6 6 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.00%) vSphere
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.33%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 161 (26.79%) Kubernetes
2 147 (24.46%) Grafana
3 100 (16.64%) Prometheus
4 87 (14.48%) Ansible
5 33 (5.49%) QRadar
6 22 (3.66%) ZABBIX
7 20 (3.33%) Nagios
8 17 (2.83%) Kibana
9 16 (2.66%) Argo
10 15 (2.50%) Netcool
11 14 (2.33%) Progress Chef
11 14 (2.33%) Tivoli
12 12 (2.00%) OpenView
12 12 (2.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 10 (1.66%) Control-M
14 9 (1.50%) FortiGate
14 9 (1.50%) SCOM
15 8 (1.33%) Puppet
15 8 (1.33%) WMI
16 7 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 102 (16.97%) Dynatrace
3 70 (11.65%) ServiceNow
4 51 (8.49%) SolarWinds
5 48 (7.99%) CrowdStrike
6 45 (7.49%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.82%) New Relic
8 40 (6.66%) Cisco
9 33 (5.49%) IBM
9 33 (5.49%) Oracle
10 29 (4.83%) Google
11 25 (4.16%) VMware
12 23 (3.83%) CyberArk
13 22 (3.66%) BMC
14 20 (3.33%) F5
14 20 (3.33%) Tenable
15 19 (3.16%) Cribl.io
15 19 (3.16%) Palo Alto
16 17 (2.83%) Qualys
17 13 (2.16%) Fortinet