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 3 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
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 151 213
Rank change year-on-year -96 +62 -12
Contract jobs citing Splunk 606 638 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.93% 1.18%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 4.04% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 398 273
10th Percentile £350 £359 £425
25th Percentile £425 £424 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £688
90th Percentile £728 £700 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £44.86 - £38.05
25th Percentile £55.84 £85.00 £41.13
Median hourly rate £65.69 £90.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.01% +89.47% -
75th Percentile £72.17 £95.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.55 - £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.45 - £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 22,835 15,793 16,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.63% 47.65% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,829 9,703 9,998
10th Percentile £310 £278 £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 £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,369 818 626
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.62 £15.81
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -21.41% -25.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.82 £64.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% -29.00% -29.41%

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 3 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 3 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 17 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 3 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 -100 519 £525 -0.05% 539
UK excluding London -116 295 £525 - 405
London -49 253 £525 - 255
Work from Home -48 164 £525 +5.00% 189
North of England -48 124 £475 +0.15% 94
North West -32 66 £525 +14.75% 44
Midlands -68 49 £575 +9.52% 30
West Midlands -57 47 £575 +8.49% 26
Yorkshire -49 41 £500 - 33
South East -114 39 £500 - 80
Scotland -29 33 £425 -14.31% 56
East of England -37 26 £650 +18.18% 33
South West -28 25 £650 +18.18% 67
North East -29 17 £425 - 18
Wales - 6 - - 23
East Midlands -20 1 £500 +38.89% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 25

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 29 (4.79%) Confluence
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.16%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) IIS
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) SAP MDG
1 8 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 242 (39.93%) AWS
2 236 (38.94%) Azure
3 99 (16.34%) GCP
4 98 (16.17%) GitHub
5 56 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (8.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 44 (7.26%) OpenShift
8 42 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (6.44%) Datadog
10 37 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (6.11%) Entra ID
11 36 (5.94%) Power Platform
12 33 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
13 26 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (4.29%) SaaS
13 26 (4.29%) Serverless
14 25 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.80%) Amazon S3
16 22 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.40%) Firewall
2 42 (6.93%) DNS
3 40 (6.60%) Network Security
4 29 (4.79%) SNMP
5 21 (3.47%) WAN
6 19 (3.14%) TCP/IP
7 17 (2.81%) VPN
8 13 (2.15%) HTTP
9 11 (1.82%) SSL
10 10 (1.65%) BGP
10 10 (1.65%) DHCP
11 9 (1.49%) LAN
11 9 (1.49%) Wireless
12 8 (1.32%) Internet
12 8 (1.32%) OSPF
13 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.16%) Wireshark
14 6 (0.99%) Multicast
15 5 (0.83%) 4G
15 5 (0.83%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.78%) Power BI
2 33 (5.45%) MongoDB
3 27 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.47%) NoSQL
5 18 (2.97%) Big Data
6 16 (2.64%) SQL Server
7 14 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.15%) MySQL
9 12 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.82%) Tableau
11 9 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.49%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.32%) Redis
13 7 (1.16%) Looker
13 7 (1.16%) Presto
14 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.83%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 99 (16.34%) Jenkins
2 69 (11.39%) Git
3 66 (10.89%) GitLab
4 47 (7.76%) JIRA
5 27 (4.46%) Gatling
5 27 (4.46%) JMeter
6 20 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 16 (2.64%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.31%) Selenium
9 11 (1.82%) Postman
10 9 (1.49%) Maven
11 8 (1.32%) Gradle
11 8 (1.32%) JUnit
11 8 (1.32%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.16%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.16%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 175 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.47%) Finance
3 108 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.74%) Banking
5 42 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.15%) Retail
8 11 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.65%) Front Office
9 10 (1.65%) Legal
10 8 (1.32%) Military
11 5 (0.83%) Law
11 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (10.73%) Analyst
2 58 (9.57%) Senior
3 53 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (7.92%) Lead
5 44 (7.26%) Developer
5 44 (7.26%) Splunk Engineer
6 42 (6.93%) Architect
7 39 (6.44%) Security Engineer
8 34 (5.61%) Consultant
9 26 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 25 (4.13%) SOC Engineer
11 24 (3.96%) Test Engineer
12 21 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (3.47%) Security Analyst
13 20 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (2.97%) Security Architect
14 18 (2.97%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.81%) Performance Engineer
15 17 (2.81%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (25.58%) Terraform
2 64 (10.56%) Kafka
3 55 (9.08%) REST
4 50 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
5 35 (5.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 25 (4.13%) RESTful
7 21 (3.47%) OAuth
7 21 (3.47%) Spring
7 21 (3.47%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.30%) JSON
8 20 (3.30%) Middleware
8 20 (3.30%) React
9 19 (3.14%) OAuth2
10 15 (2.48%) CSS
10 15 (2.48%) Play Framework
11 13 (2.15%) OpenID
12 12 (1.98%) SAML
13 11 (1.82%) HTML
14 10 (1.65%) .NET
14 10 (1.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.39%) Onboarding
2 68 (11.22%) Cloud Native
3 44 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 25 (4.13%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.97%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.64%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.31%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (2.31%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.15%) CMDB
12 12 (1.98%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.65%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.32%) Blog
15 8 (1.32%) Clustering
15 8 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 174 (28.71%) Linux
2 106 (17.49%) Windows
3 55 (9.08%) Unix
4 32 (5.28%) Windows Server
5 25 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.83%) AIX
10 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.66%) Android
10 4 (0.66%) CentOS
10 4 (0.66%) VMS
11 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.33%) zOS
13 1 (0.17%) MVS
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (39.77%) Observability
2 227 (37.46%) CI/CD
3 193 (31.85%) DevOps
4 143 (23.60%) SIEM
5 135 (22.28%) Agile
6 130 (21.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 119 (19.64%) Incident Response
7 119 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (16.01%) Cybersecurity
9 91 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (14.03%) Security Operations
11 81 (13.37%) Containerisation
12 80 (13.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 79 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 74 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (10.56%) Incident Management
16 59 (9.74%) Analytics
17 58 (9.57%) Security Monitoring
17 58 (9.57%) Test Automation
18 57 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 207 (34.16%) Python
2 107 (17.66%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.19%) SQL
4 78 (12.87%) Java
5 77 (12.71%) Bash
6 45 (7.43%) Search Processing Language
7 40 (6.60%) Go
8 26 (4.29%) JavaScript
9 25 (4.13%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.63%) Scala
11 18 (2.97%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (2.64%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.65%) Perl
14 8 (1.32%) Bicep
14 8 (1.32%) C#
15 6 (0.99%) Groovy
16 5 (0.83%) Ruby
17 3 (0.50%) C
17 3 (0.50%) C++
17 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 225 (37.13%) Security Cleared
2 160 (26.40%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.24%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.09%) CISSP
5 45 (7.43%) Degree
6 22 (3.63%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.47%) CISM
8 19 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.81%) GIAC
10 16 (2.64%) GCIH
11 15 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (1.98%) CCSP
13 9 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 9 (1.49%) CEH
13 9 (1.49%) GCIA
13 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.44%) NIST
2 34 (5.61%) QA
3 29 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.13%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.14%) GDPR
6 18 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.98%) NCSC
8 9 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.16%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.99%) GRC
10 6 (0.99%) SLA
11 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.83%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.83%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.66%) GxP
12 4 (0.66%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (17.49%) Docker
2 29 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.83%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.33%) HDFS
8 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (26.24%) Grafana
2 158 (26.07%) Kubernetes
3 102 (16.83%) Prometheus
4 86 (14.19%) Ansible
5 36 (5.94%) QRadar
6 17 (2.81%) Kibana
7 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.15%) ZABBIX
9 12 (1.98%) Argo
10 10 (1.65%) CASB
10 10 (1.65%) Control-M
10 10 (1.65%) Nagios
11 9 (1.49%) SCOM
12 8 (1.32%) Puppet
12 8 (1.32%) SCCM
12 8 (1.32%) WMI
13 6 (0.99%) Istio
13 6 (0.99%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (22.28%) Microsoft
2 106 (17.49%) Dynatrace
3 74 (12.21%) ServiceNow
4 53 (8.75%) CrowdStrike
5 44 (7.26%) Google
6 43 (7.10%) AppDynamics
7 38 (6.27%) Cisco
7 38 (6.27%) New Relic
8 37 (6.11%) SolarWinds
9 36 (5.94%) Oracle
10 25 (4.13%) IBM
11 21 (3.47%) F5
11 21 (3.47%) Palo Alto
11 21 (3.47%) VMware
12 19 (3.14%) Cribl.io
13 18 (2.97%) Qualys
14 17 (2.81%) CyberArk
14 17 (2.81%) Tenable
15 13 (2.15%) ArcSight
15 13 (2.15%) Fortinet