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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 141 196
Rank change year-on-year -101 +55 +8
Contract jobs citing Splunk 613 675 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 2.03% 1.24%
As % of the Vendors category 2.66% 4.26% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 422 283
10th Percentile £350 £360 £419
25th Percentile £425 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -6.42% -5.52%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £44.57 £81.63 £38.05
25th Percentile £53.42 £82.19 £41.13
Median hourly rate £65.57 £88.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.12% +86.84% -
75th Percentile £72.96 £94.69 £61.25
90th Percentile £79.19 £94.88 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.98 - £60.00

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 23,064 15,831 16,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.73% 47.72% 44.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,915 9,761 9,817
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £613 £625
90th Percentile £711 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,434 800 581
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.84 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £24.61 £25.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -24.24% -25.34%
75th Percentile £56.86 £38.42 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.42 £21.30 £30.71
% change year-on-year +9.93% -30.63% -29.82%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -111 515 £525 -0.94% 372
UK excluding London -134 289 £533 +1.43% 190
London -68 259 £525 -2.78% 204
Work from Home -54 160 £535 +7.00% 158
North of England -60 122 £500 - 44
North West -29 70 £525 +13.09% 25
Midlands -89 46 £575 +9.52% 18
West Midlands -78 45 £575 +9.52% 17
South East -118 37 £500 +2.56% 36
Scotland -25 36 £424 -14.52% 25
Yorkshire -64 35 £522 +4.40% 14
South West -24 24 £650 +18.18% 28
East of England -43 23 £576 +4.73% 19
North East -26 17 £425 -29.17% 5
Wales -6 8 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 31 (5.06%) Confluence
2 12 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.31%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.14%) Apache
5 7 (1.14%) IIS
5 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.49%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.16%) Appian
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Mendix
7 1 (0.16%) Mule
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.31%) SAP MDG
1 8 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (38.66%) Azure
2 234 (38.17%) AWS
3 104 (16.97%) GCP
4 99 (16.15%) GitHub
5 56 (9.14%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 44 (7.18%) OpenShift
8 41 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (6.53%) Datadog
10 36 (5.87%) Azure Monitor
10 36 (5.87%) Entra ID
11 34 (5.55%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (5.06%) Power Platform
13 26 (4.24%) SaaS
14 25 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (4.08%) Serverless
15 23 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (3.43%) Amazon S3
17 20 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.44%) Firewall
2 45 (7.34%) DNS
3 42 (6.85%) Network Security
4 29 (4.73%) SNMP
5 24 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.75%) WAN
7 21 (3.43%) VPN
8 14 (2.28%) BGP
8 14 (2.28%) HTTP
9 12 (1.96%) OSPF
9 12 (1.96%) SSL
10 11 (1.79%) DHCP
11 9 (1.47%) Internet
11 9 (1.47%) LAN
11 9 (1.47%) VLAN
11 9 (1.47%) Wireless
12 8 (1.31%) MPLS
12 8 (1.31%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.31%) Wireshark
13 7 (1.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.22%) MongoDB
2 30 (4.89%) Power BI
3 25 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.77%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.28%) Big Data
6 14 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.12%) MySQL
8 11 (1.79%) Tableau
9 9 (1.47%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.31%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.14%) Looker
11 7 (1.14%) Redis
12 6 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.82%) Presto
Development Applications
1 101 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 77 (12.56%) Git
3 63 (10.28%) GitLab
4 52 (8.48%) JIRA
5 23 (3.75%) Gatling
5 23 (3.75%) JMeter
6 21 (3.43%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.12%) LoadRunner
7 13 (2.12%) Selenium
8 11 (1.79%) Postman
9 8 (1.31%) JUnit
9 8 (1.31%) Maven
9 8 (1.31%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.14%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.14%) Gradle
11 6 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.98%) Xcode
General
1 183 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.04%) Finance
3 112 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.09%) Banking
5 41 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.96%) Retail
8 10 (1.63%) Front Office
8 10 (1.63%) Legal
8 10 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.47%) Military
10 5 (0.82%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.82%) Law
10 5 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.65%) Local Government
12 3 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.33%) Advertising
13 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 65 (10.60%) Senior
2 63 (10.28%) Analyst
3 51 (8.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (8.16%) Lead
5 47 (7.67%) Splunk Engineer
6 44 (7.18%) Architect
6 44 (7.18%) Developer
7 40 (6.53%) Security Engineer
8 34 (5.55%) Consultant
9 26 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 23 (3.75%) Test Engineer
11 22 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (3.59%) SOC Engineer
12 21 (3.43%) Security Analyst
13 20 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.26%) Security Architect
14 19 (3.10%) Support Engineer
15 18 (2.94%) Applications Support
16 17 (2.77%) Site Engineer
16 17 (2.77%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (25.45%) Terraform
2 62 (10.11%) Kafka
3 55 (8.97%) REST
4 49 (7.99%) Elastic Stack
5 36 (5.87%) OpenTelemetry
6 25 (4.08%) RESTful
7 22 (3.59%) JSON
7 22 (3.59%) React
7 22 (3.59%) Spring
7 22 (3.59%) Spring Boot
8 21 (3.43%) OAuth
9 20 (3.26%) Middleware
10 19 (3.10%) OAuth2
11 13 (2.12%) CSS
11 13 (2.12%) OpenID
11 13 (2.12%) Play Framework
12 12 (1.96%) SAML
13 11 (1.79%) .NET
14 10 (1.63%) HTML
14 10 (1.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.26%) Cloud Native
1 69 (11.26%) Onboarding
2 44 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 24 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
4 24 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.94%) CMDB
7 18 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.45%) Cyber Defence
9 14 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.12%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.79%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.63%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) Blog
13 8 (1.31%) Clustering
13 8 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 177 (28.87%) Linux
2 109 (17.78%) Windows
3 55 (8.97%) Unix
4 33 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 27 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.98%) AIX
7 6 (0.98%) macOS
8 5 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
8 5 (0.82%) Android
9 4 (0.65%) CentOS
9 4 (0.65%) VMS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Rocky
11 1 (0.16%) SUSE
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (40.29%) Observability
2 228 (37.19%) CI/CD
3 192 (31.32%) DevOps
4 144 (23.49%) SIEM
5 135 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (21.37%) Agile
7 123 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (19.25%) Incident Response
9 99 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
10 91 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (14.36%) Security Operations
12 84 (13.70%) Root Cause Analysis
12 84 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 83 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 81 (13.21%) Containerisation
15 67 (10.93%) Incident Management
16 60 (9.79%) Cloud Security
16 60 (9.79%) Test Automation
17 58 (9.46%) AI
17 58 (9.46%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 213 (34.75%) Python
2 108 (17.62%) PowerShell
3 82 (13.38%) SQL
4 80 (13.05%) Java
5 79 (12.89%) Bash
6 47 (7.67%) Search Processing Language
7 41 (6.69%) Go
8 27 (4.40%) JavaScript
9 26 (4.24%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.10%) Scala
11 18 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.94%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.63%) Bicep
12 10 (1.63%) Perl
13 8 (1.31%) C#
14 6 (0.98%) Groovy
14 6 (0.98%) Ruby
15 4 (0.65%) C
15 4 (0.65%) C++
15 4 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 221 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 158 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 50 (8.16%) CISSP
5 46 (7.50%) Degree
6 22 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (3.59%) CISM
7 20 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.77%) GIAC
10 16 (2.61%) GCIH
11 15 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (1.96%) CCSP
13 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.47%) CEH
14 9 (1.47%) GCIA
15 7 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.04%) NIST
2 35 (5.71%) QA
3 29 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.08%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.10%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.94%) GDPR
6 18 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.96%) NCSC
8 8 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.98%) GRC
9 6 (0.98%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.82%) ISO 31000
10 5 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 5 (0.82%) SLA
10 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.65%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.49%) HIPAA
System Software
1 101 (16.48%) Docker
2 31 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.82%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.33%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) Firmware
9 1 (0.16%) HDFS
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) NFS
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 160 (26.10%) Grafana
2 155 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 101 (16.48%) Prometheus
4 95 (15.50%) Ansible
5 35 (5.71%) QRadar
6 15 (2.45%) Kibana
7 14 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.12%) ZABBIX
9 11 (1.79%) Argo
10 10 (1.63%) CASB
10 10 (1.63%) Nagios
11 9 (1.47%) SCOM
12 8 (1.31%) Control-M
12 8 (1.31%) Puppet
12 8 (1.31%) SCCM
12 8 (1.31%) WMI
13 6 (0.98%) Istio
13 6 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.98%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.82%) Netcool
Vendors
1 133 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 112 (18.27%) Dynatrace
3 76 (12.40%) ServiceNow
4 53 (8.65%) CrowdStrike
5 46 (7.50%) Google
6 42 (6.85%) AppDynamics
6 42 (6.85%) Cisco
7 40 (6.53%) Oracle
8 37 (6.04%) SolarWinds
9 35 (5.71%) New Relic
10 27 (4.40%) IBM
11 25 (4.08%) F5
12 24 (3.92%) Palo Alto
13 23 (3.75%) VMware
14 20 (3.26%) Qualys
15 19 (3.10%) Cribl.io
16 18 (2.94%) Tenable
17 16 (2.61%) Fortinet
18 15 (2.45%) CyberArk
19 14 (2.28%) Rapid7