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 25 October 2025, 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 197 214
Rank change year-on-year +54 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Splunk 675 453 578
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 1.23% 1.21%
As % of the Vendors category 4.21% 2.73% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 272 433
10th Percentile £359 £419 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £598
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -5.14% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £700
90th Percentile £700 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.58% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £81.63 £38.05 -
25th Percentile £82.19 £41.13 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.84% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 16,036 16,574 21,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.68% 44.83% 45.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,943 9,756 13,892
10th Percentile £280 £291 £263
25th Percentile £405 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 542 685
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.79
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -24.72% +79.95%
75th Percentile £38.80 £64.01 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £30.41 £41.50
% change year-on-year -27.66% -26.72% +94.84%

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 25 October 2025.

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
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 25 October 2025. 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 +62 610 £527 -6.81% 175
UK excluding London +78 377 £525 -4.55% 149
London +22 236 £543 -9.58% 52
Work from Home +2 159 £500 -9.09% 140
North of England +4 117 £476 -15.28% 41
South East +79 106 £460 -18.28% 56
Midlands +24 86 £525 - 15
West Midlands +39 83 £528 -5.55% 15
Yorkshire +6 72 £476 -20.67% 14
North West -22 43 £464 -15.59% 20
East of England +1 36 £550 -4.35% 14
Scotland +18 34 £477 +0.32% 3
South West -11 14 £550 +22.22% 19
East Midlands -19 3 £360 -26.15%
North East -9 2 £600 -26.38% 7
Wales - 1 £600 - 4

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 (4.59%) Apache
1 31 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.41%) Skype for Business
3 18 (2.67%) JBoss
3 18 (2.67%) Mattermost
4 17 (2.52%) WebLogic
5 14 (2.07%) Confluence
5 14 (2.07%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.93%) WebSphere
6 13 (1.93%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (1.48%) IIS
7 10 (1.48%) iPlanet
8 8 (1.19%) Apache Pig
8 8 (1.19%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.44%) TPMS
11 2 (0.30%) Mule
11 2 (0.30%) Mule ESB
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 22 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Finacle
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 249 (36.89%) AWS
2 118 (17.48%) Azure
3 114 (16.89%) GCP
4 61 (9.04%) GitHub
5 53 (7.85%) SaaS
6 49 (7.26%) OpenShift
7 46 (6.81%) Serverless
8 36 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (4.30%) Amazon S3
9 29 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (3.11%) Cohesity
13 20 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (2.81%) Akamai
14 19 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (2.67%) Datadog
16 16 (2.37%) Sauce Labs
17 15 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 100 (14.81%) Firewall
2 60 (8.89%) DNS
3 37 (5.48%) Network Security
4 26 (3.85%) SSL
5 24 (3.56%) Cisco IOS
6 23 (3.41%) Skype
6 23 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.41%) Wireshark
7 19 (2.81%) SAN
7 19 (2.81%) Wireless
8 16 (2.37%) Fibre Channel
8 16 (2.37%) HTTP
8 16 (2.37%) iSCSI
8 16 (2.37%) Unified Communications
9 13 (1.93%) VPN
10 11 (1.63%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.04%) DHCP
12 6 (0.89%) Internet
12 6 (0.89%) SNMP
13 5 (0.74%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.11%) NoSQL
2 37 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.81%) Oracle Database
5 19 (2.81%) Redis
6 18 (2.67%) MySQL
7 11 (1.63%) Power BI
8 10 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.48%) Apache Hive
9 9 (1.33%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.19%) Data Mining
11 7 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.74%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.74%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.44%) Big Data
13 3 (0.44%) DB2
13 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 120 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 87 (12.89%) GitLab
3 56 (8.30%) Git
4 29 (4.30%) JIRA
4 29 (4.30%) Liquibase
5 24 (3.56%) JUnit
6 22 (3.26%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.26%) Xcode
7 19 (2.81%) Postman
7 19 (2.81%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (2.52%) Eclipse
10 16 (2.37%) Android Studio
10 16 (2.37%) Browser DevTools
11 15 (2.22%) Maven
12 14 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
12 14 (2.07%) CA Release Automation
13 12 (1.78%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.63%) Subversion
15 10 (1.48%) Artifactory
General
1 250 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 147 (21.78%) Finance
3 109 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.48%) Banking
5 62 (9.19%) Public Sector
6 35 (5.19%) Financial Institution
7 27 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.56%) Games
9 15 (2.22%) Military
10 10 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.33%) Legal
11 9 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.33%) Retail
12 8 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.04%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.74%) Local Government
15 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.30%) Marketing
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (15.56%) Analyst
2 76 (11.26%) Architect
3 72 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 66 (9.78%) Senior
5 44 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (5.93%) SOC Analyst
7 38 (5.63%) Security Architect
8 37 (5.48%) Security Engineer
9 34 (5.04%) Developer
9 34 (5.04%) Security Analyst
10 33 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 27 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 26 (3.85%) Site Engineer
12 26 (3.85%) Support Analyst
13 25 (3.70%) Lead
14 22 (3.26%) Consultant
14 22 (3.26%) Splunk Engineer
14 22 (3.26%) Support Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (2.96%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (11.41%) Elastic Stack
2 69 (10.22%) REST
3 45 (6.67%) Kafka
4 40 (5.93%) RESTful
5 28 (4.15%) AngularJS
5 28 (4.15%) CSS
6 25 (3.70%) React
7 22 (3.26%) SAML
8 21 (3.11%) GraphQL
8 21 (3.11%) OAuth
8 21 (3.11%) Spring
9 20 (2.96%) LDAP
10 18 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.67%) Web Services
11 16 (2.37%) Ajax
11 16 (2.37%) Keycloak
11 16 (2.37%) YAML
12 14 (2.07%) Node.js
13 13 (1.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 52 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.70%) Onboarding
3 49 (7.26%) Security Posture
4 46 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 31 (4.59%) CSOC
7 26 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (3.85%) PKI
8 25 (3.70%) Management Information System
9 21 (3.11%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.96%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.19%) Clustering
14 8 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.04%) Private Cloud
16 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 216 (32.00%) Linux
2 159 (23.56%) Windows
3 97 (14.37%) Unix
4 53 (7.85%) Windows Server
5 45 (6.67%) Android
6 36 (5.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (4.59%) Mac OS
8 29 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (1.48%) CentOS
11 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.59%) Solaris
12 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.30%) VMS
14 1 (0.15%) AIX
14 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (29.19%) DevOps
2 195 (28.89%) CI/CD
3 189 (28.00%) SIEM
4 188 (27.85%) Cybersecurity
5 163 (24.15%) Incident Response
6 147 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (18.67%) Observability
8 122 (18.07%) Agile
9 108 (16.00%) Containerisation
9 108 (16.00%) Security Operations
10 98 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 83 (12.30%) Microservices
12 69 (10.22%) Computer Science
12 69 (10.22%) SOAR
13 68 (10.07%) Threat Detection
14 60 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
15 59 (8.74%) Test Automation
16 56 (8.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 54 (8.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 235 (34.81%) Python
2 142 (21.04%) PowerShell
3 118 (17.48%) SQL
4 88 (13.04%) Bash
5 77 (11.41%) Java
6 65 (9.63%) Go
7 45 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 42 (6.22%) JavaScript
9 36 (5.33%) Perl
10 20 (2.96%) Groovy
11 18 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.67%) PromQL
12 12 (1.78%) Search Processing Language
13 11 (1.63%) Scala
13 11 (1.63%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.19%) C++
15 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.74%) Swift
16 3 (0.44%) Bicep
16 3 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 199 (29.48%) Security Cleared
2 117 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 85 (12.59%) Degree
4 64 (9.48%) CISSP
5 61 (9.04%) DV Cleared
6 53 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (6.67%) Master's Degree
8 29 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (4.15%) AWS Certification
9 28 (4.15%) CEH
9 28 (4.15%) CISM
9 28 (4.15%) MCSE
10 26 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (3.56%) GIAC
12 20 (2.96%) GCIA
13 19 (2.81%) GCIH
14 16 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (1.78%) GCFA
17 10 (1.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.15%) NIST
2 45 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.04%) GDPR
4 15 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.22%) QA
5 13 (1.93%) HIPAA
6 12 (1.78%) NCSC
7 11 (1.63%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.48%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.04%) SLA
10 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.44%) GLBA
11 3 (0.44%) GRC
12 2 (0.30%) FIPS 140-2
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (16.30%) Docker
2 107 (15.85%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 24 (3.56%) Virtual Servers
5 20 (2.96%) NFS
5 20 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (2.52%) vSphere
7 8 (1.19%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.89%) Snort
9 4 (0.59%) Squid
9 4 (0.59%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.59%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (0.59%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 173 (25.63%) Kubernetes
2 134 (19.85%) Ansible
3 123 (18.22%) Grafana
4 111 (16.44%) Terraform
5 100 (14.81%) Prometheus
6 52 (7.70%) SCCM
7 42 (6.22%) QRadar
8 28 (4.15%) SCOM
9 26 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (3.70%) Kibana
11 24 (3.56%) WSUS
12 22 (3.26%) Progress Chef
13 21 (3.11%) CSIRT
13 21 (3.11%) HP SiteScope
14 19 (2.81%) Puppet
15 15 (2.22%) Nessus
16 13 (1.93%) Packer
16 13 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (1.48%) Argo
17 10 (1.48%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 222 (32.89%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.85%) Cisco
3 66 (9.78%) Dynatrace
3 66 (9.78%) Oracle
4 56 (8.30%) Google
5 53 (7.85%) CrowdStrike
5 53 (7.85%) VMware
6 42 (6.22%) AppDynamics
6 42 (6.22%) ServiceNow
7 35 (5.19%) NetApp
8 34 (5.04%) Qualys
9 33 (4.89%) Red Hat
10 25 (3.70%) ArcSight
11 24 (3.56%) Meraki
12 23 (3.41%) CyberArk
12 23 (3.41%) IBM
13 22 (3.26%) F5
13 22 (3.26%) Remedy
13 22 (3.26%) Veeam
14 20 (2.96%) Carbon Black