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 23 February 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 194 278
Rank change year-on-year +18 +84 -91
Contract jobs citing Splunk 647 416 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.36% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 3.57% 2.93% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 246 231
10th Percentile £350 £406 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +2.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,129 14,207 19,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.59% 46.55% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,623 8,576 12,120
10th Percentile £304 £280 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.24% -1.65%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 416 947
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.54 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% +11.45% -23.37%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -16.13%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +17 571 £525 -7.41% 116
UK excluding London +56 371 £514 -6.55% 104
London -19 215 £575 -4.17% 37
Work from Home +6 168 £550 -4.35% 42
North of England +17 147 £514 -6.50% 30
Yorkshire +12 113 £518 -4.39% 15
Midlands +17 104 £525 -2.51% 8
West Midlands +14 100 £529 -3.85% 6
South East +17 92 £375 -34.78% 33
North West -27 33 £491 -10.73% 15
Scotland +25 31 £577 +39.04% 10
South West -13 11 £625 - 9
East of England -36 6 £600 - 15
Wales - 5 £600 -
East Midlands -27 4 £442 +13.11% 2
North East -16 3 £538 -8.51%

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 14 (2.16%) Apache
1 14 (2.16%) Confluence
2 13 (2.01%) Skype for Business
2 13 (2.01%) TPMS
3 10 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.24%) Mattermost
5 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.93%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.77%) IIS
7 5 (0.77%) iPlanet
7 5 (0.77%) JBoss
7 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.46%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.46%) SAS
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 239 (36.94%) AWS
2 156 (24.11%) Azure
3 140 (21.64%) GCP
4 74 (11.44%) GitHub
5 68 (10.51%) OpenShift
6 54 (8.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 42 (6.49%) Serverless
8 31 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (4.79%) Datadog
9 26 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (3.55%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.09%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (2.94%) SaaS
13 19 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.32%) AWS KMS
16 14 (2.16%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 99 (15.30%) Firewall
2 81 (12.52%) DNS
3 45 (6.96%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.33%) Network Security
5 25 (3.86%) SSL
5 25 (3.86%) VPN
6 20 (3.09%) BGP
7 19 (2.94%) OSPF
8 18 (2.78%) DHCP
8 18 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
8 18 (2.78%) WAN
8 18 (2.78%) Wireless
9 17 (2.63%) LAN
10 16 (2.47%) HTTP
11 15 (2.32%) SNMP
12 14 (2.16%) VXLAN
12 14 (2.16%) Wireshark
13 13 (2.01%) Junos
13 13 (2.01%) Skype
13 13 (2.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 33 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.94%) MySQL
7 13 (2.01%) Redis
8 11 (1.70%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.39%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.93%) Power BI
11 6 (0.93%) Tableau
12 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.62%) Flink
13 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 125 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 104 (16.07%) GitLab
3 41 (6.34%) Git
4 26 (4.02%) JIRA
5 22 (3.40%) Liquibase
6 16 (2.47%) Postman
7 15 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (2.32%) Xcode
8 14 (2.16%) Android Studio
8 14 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
8 14 (2.16%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.85%) JUnit
9 12 (1.85%) Selenium
10 11 (1.70%) Gatling
10 11 (1.70%) Maven
11 10 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.55%) Gradle
11 10 (1.55%) Jaeger
12 8 (1.24%) Cucumber
General
1 284 (43.89%) Social Skills
2 153 (23.65%) Finance
3 105 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.97%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.74%) Banking
6 46 (7.11%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (6.18%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.78%) Military
9 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.39%) Retail
11 8 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.77%) Legal
12 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Front Office
13 4 (0.62%) Law
14 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.15%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 119 (18.39%) Analyst
2 76 (11.75%) Senior
3 65 (10.05%) Architect
4 58 (8.96%) SOC Analyst
5 47 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.49%) Security Engineer
7 39 (6.03%) Lead
8 38 (5.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 30 (4.64%) Splunk Engineer
10 27 (4.17%) Security Analyst
11 26 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (4.02%) Site Engineer
12 23 (3.55%) Software Engineer
13 22 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (3.40%) Developer
14 21 (3.25%) Network Engineer
14 21 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.09%) Monitoring Analyst
15 20 (3.09%) Security Architect
16 19 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (10.97%) REST
2 67 (10.36%) Elastic Stack
3 64 (9.89%) Kafka
4 40 (6.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (5.87%) Spring Boot
6 36 (5.56%) RESTful
7 32 (4.95%) SAML
7 32 (4.95%) Spring
8 25 (3.86%) LDAP
9 24 (3.71%) JSON
9 24 (3.71%) OpenID
10 23 (3.55%) Middleware
11 21 (3.25%) OAuth
12 20 (3.09%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.94%) React
14 18 (2.78%) CSS
15 15 (2.32%) GraphQL
15 15 (2.32%) Playwright
16 14 (2.16%) 802.1X
16 14 (2.16%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (6.80%) Onboarding
5 34 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.95%) PKI
7 29 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.48%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.71%) Mobile App
10 22 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
11 21 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (3.09%) Clustering
12 20 (3.09%) Data Centre
13 19 (2.94%) Cyberattack
14 13 (2.01%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.55%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
17 6 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 237 (36.63%) Linux
2 150 (23.18%) Windows
3 83 (12.83%) Unix
4 32 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.63%) Android
5 17 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.93%) CentOS
6 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.62%) zOS
9 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.31%) Solaris
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (35.24%) CI/CD
2 216 (33.38%) DevOps
3 183 (28.28%) Observability
4 176 (27.20%) Cybersecurity
5 161 (24.88%) SIEM
6 158 (24.42%) Incident Response
7 156 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (19.63%) Containerisation
10 111 (17.16%) Agile
11 88 (13.60%) Computer Science
12 87 (13.45%) Microservices
13 82 (12.67%) Security Operations
14 77 (11.90%) High Availability
15 74 (11.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 69 (10.66%) Migration
17 67 (10.36%) Root Cause Analysis
18 60 (9.27%) Threat Detection
19 58 (8.96%) Test Automation
20 57 (8.81%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 238 (36.79%) Python
2 100 (15.46%) Bash
3 91 (14.06%) Java
3 91 (14.06%) PowerShell
4 84 (12.98%) SQL
5 46 (7.11%) Go
6 32 (4.95%) JavaScript
7 28 (4.33%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.40%) Perl
9 20 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.55%) Bicep
13 9 (1.39%) Groovy
13 9 (1.39%) Rust
14 7 (1.08%) Scala
14 7 (1.08%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.62%) JCL
15 4 (0.62%) REXX
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 235 (36.32%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 97 (14.99%) Degree
4 71 (10.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (8.81%) DV Cleared
6 52 (8.04%) CISSP
7 34 (5.26%) Master's Degree
8 33 (5.10%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (4.95%) CISM
10 20 (3.09%) GIAC
11 19 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (2.78%) AWS Certification
13 16 (2.47%) CEH
13 16 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
13 16 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (2.01%) FFIEC
15 12 (1.85%) GCIA
15 12 (1.85%) GCIH
16 11 (1.70%) MCSE
16 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.44%) NIST
2 57 (8.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (5.10%) GDPR
4 25 (3.86%) NCSC
5 24 (3.71%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.40%) QA
7 18 (2.78%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.01%) GLBA
9 8 (1.24%) SLA
9 8 (1.24%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.77%) GRC
12 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (20.87%) Docker
2 44 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.32%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.85%) vSphere
6 8 (1.24%) Snort
7 6 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 5 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.62%) NFS
10 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.46%) Squid
11 2 (0.31%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 206 (31.84%) Kubernetes
2 144 (22.26%) Grafana
3 135 (20.87%) Terraform
4 132 (20.40%) Ansible
5 113 (17.47%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.33%) Kibana
7 24 (3.71%) Argo
8 21 (3.25%) Puppet
9 20 (3.09%) QRadar
10 19 (2.94%) Progress Chef
11 15 (2.32%) SCOM
12 14 (2.16%) FortiGate
12 14 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (2.01%) Fluentd
13 13 (2.01%) HP SiteScope
14 12 (1.85%) Nessus
14 12 (1.85%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.70%) CSIRT
15 11 (1.70%) logstash
15 11 (1.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 129 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.19%) Cisco
3 47 (7.26%) Google
4 44 (6.80%) AppDynamics
4 44 (6.80%) Dynatrace
5 43 (6.65%) Oracle
6 41 (6.34%) ServiceNow
7 35 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
8 32 (4.95%) Red Hat
8 32 (4.95%) VMware
9 29 (4.48%) CyberArk
9 29 (4.48%) F5
10 26 (4.02%) Cribl.io
10 26 (4.02%) Qualys
11 25 (3.86%) SolarWinds
12 22 (3.40%) Carbon Black
12 22 (3.40%) Palo Alto
12 22 (3.40%) Tenable
13 17 (2.63%) Remedy
14 13 (2.01%) Juniper