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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 190 223
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -51
Contract jobs citing Splunk 594 408 437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.42% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 2.97% 2.98% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 266 273
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £771 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.69 - £40.00
75th Percentile £81.77 - -
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 20,001 13,678 18,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.95% 47.74% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,624 8,506 11,301
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 573 1,107
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.55 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £76.62 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +32.22% +4.85% -45.74%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -17 521 £525 -4.55% 224
UK excluding London +9 352 £513 -6.82% 232
London -38 190 £560 +6.16% 64
Work from Home -19 155 £525 -4.72% 31
North of England -16 130 £493 -16.53% 48
Yorkshire -6 83 £475 -19.49% 13
South East -23 80 £429 -22.05% 60
Midlands -24 60 £550 +2.42% 15
West Midlands -22 55 £564 +2.36% 15
North West -30 46 £538 -7.33% 21
South West +12 40 £450 -26.53% 39
Scotland -1 27 £596 +36.95% 22
East of England -36 26 £688 +25.00% 34
East Midlands -26 5 £447 +14.32%
North East - 4 £444 - 14
Wales -13 3 - - 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 23 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.86%) Confluence
3 13 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.01%) TPMS
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 188 (31.65%) AWS
2 163 (27.44%) Azure
3 85 (14.31%) GitHub
4 77 (12.96%) GCP
5 64 (10.77%) OpenShift
6 42 (7.07%) Datadog
7 35 (5.89%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (5.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 30 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (4.04%) Entra ID
11 24 (4.04%) Serverless
12 23 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (3.37%) Power Platform
15 19 (3.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (14.31%) DNS
2 80 (13.47%) Firewall
3 40 (6.73%) TCP/IP
4 39 (6.57%) SNMP
5 30 (5.05%) WAN
6 29 (4.88%) BGP
6 29 (4.88%) Ethernet VPN
7 28 (4.71%) LAN
7 28 (4.71%) OSPF
8 26 (4.38%) Network Security
9 25 (4.21%) BIG-IP
9 25 (4.21%) DHCP
9 25 (4.21%) VXLAN
10 24 (4.04%) Junos
11 20 (3.37%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (3.03%) VPN
13 13 (2.19%) SSL
14 10 (1.68%) Wireless
15 8 (1.35%) MPLS
15 8 (1.35%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.22%) MongoDB
2 29 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.20%) Power BI
5 18 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.86%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (2.02%) Big Data
9 11 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.85%) MySQL
10 10 (1.68%) Redis
11 8 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.18%) Presto
13 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.84%) SQL Server
15 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
15 4 (0.67%) Tableau
16 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 93 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 66 (11.11%) GitLab
3 41 (6.90%) Git
4 32 (5.39%) JIRA
5 29 (4.88%) Gatling
6 18 (3.03%) JMeter
7 15 (2.53%) Selenium
8 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
9 13 (2.19%) Jaeger
9 13 (2.19%) LoadRunner
10 12 (2.02%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.35%) Eclipse
12 8 (1.35%) JUnit
13 7 (1.18%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.18%) Maven
13 7 (1.18%) Postman
13 7 (1.18%) Snyk
13 7 (1.18%) Xcode
General
1 172 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 112 (18.86%) Finance
3 66 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.08%) Banking
6 32 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Retail
10 9 (1.52%) Front Office
10 9 (1.52%) Military
11 8 (1.35%) Legal
12 7 (1.18%) Law
13 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (13.30%) Analyst
2 67 (11.28%) Architect
3 59 (9.93%) Lead
4 58 (9.76%) Senior
5 39 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (6.06%) Consultant
6 36 (6.06%) SOC Analyst
7 30 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 25 (4.21%) Data Engineer
8 25 (4.21%) Developer
8 25 (4.21%) Site Engineer
9 24 (4.04%) SOC Engineer
10 20 (3.37%) CyberArk Architect
10 20 (3.37%) Security Architect
11 18 (3.03%) Security Engineer
12 17 (2.86%) Network Engineer
13 16 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.53%) Management Consultant
14 15 (2.53%) Splunk Engineer
15 14 (2.36%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.96%) Kafka
2 57 (9.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 50 (8.42%) REST
4 37 (6.23%) Spring Boot
5 36 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
6 31 (5.22%) Spring
7 26 (4.38%) 802.1X
8 22 (3.70%) JSON
8 22 (3.70%) LDAP
8 22 (3.70%) Middleware
9 18 (3.03%) OpenID
9 18 (3.03%) SAML
10 15 (2.53%) CSS
10 15 (2.53%) Playwright
11 13 (2.19%) RESTful
12 12 (2.02%) React
12 12 (2.02%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
13 10 (1.68%) SailPoint
14 9 (1.52%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.61%) Onboarding
3 48 (8.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 41 (6.90%) PKI
5 30 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (4.88%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.71%) Clustering
8 27 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (4.21%) Management Information System
10 22 (3.70%) Cyberattack
11 18 (3.03%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.86%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (2.36%) CMDB
14 14 (2.36%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (1.01%) Mainframe
17 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
18 5 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (31.14%) Linux
2 155 (26.09%) Windows
3 55 (9.26%) Unix
4 20 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.03%) AIX
6 9 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.18%) Android
7 7 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.67%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) SUSE
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (36.70%) CI/CD
2 203 (34.18%) Observability
3 195 (32.83%) DevOps
4 145 (24.41%) SIEM
5 127 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
7 110 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 104 (17.51%) Incident Response
9 94 (15.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 90 (15.15%) Containerisation
11 75 (12.63%) Security Operations
12 72 (12.12%) Agile
13 66 (11.11%) High Availability
14 60 (10.10%) ITIL
14 60 (10.10%) Microservices
14 60 (10.10%) Test Automation
15 57 (9.60%) Migration
16 56 (9.43%) Analytics
17 51 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
18 50 (8.42%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 220 (37.04%) Python
2 94 (15.82%) SQL
3 89 (14.98%) PowerShell
4 84 (14.14%) Bash
5 77 (12.96%) Java
6 41 (6.90%) Search Processing Language
7 26 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.87%) Go
9 12 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.85%) Bicep
10 11 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.68%) Scala
12 9 (1.52%) Rust
13 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.18%) Perl
15 6 (1.01%) C#
16 4 (0.67%) JCL
16 4 (0.67%) REXX
16 4 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 244 (41.08%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 69 (11.62%) DV Cleared
4 62 (10.44%) Degree
5 42 (7.07%) CISSP
6 40 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.54%) CISM
10 20 (3.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 19 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (2.53%) AWS Certification
13 13 (2.19%) GIAC
14 11 (1.85%) CEH
15 10 (1.68%) GCIA
15 10 (1.68%) GCIH
16 9 (1.52%) CCSP
17 8 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (1.35%) JNCIA
17 8 (1.35%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.43%) NIST
2 40 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.70%) NCSC
4 17 (2.86%) GDPR
4 17 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.69%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.53%) SLA
7 12 (2.02%) QA
8 7 (1.18%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.01%) GLBA
10 5 (0.84%) GRC
11 4 (0.67%) COBIT
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 112 (18.86%) Docker
2 18 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.53%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.02%) vSphere
5 6 (1.01%) etcd
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) Snort
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 176 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 149 (25.08%) Grafana
3 130 (21.89%) Terraform
4 123 (20.71%) Prometheus
5 104 (17.51%) Ansible
6 26 (4.38%) Argo
7 25 (4.21%) FortiGate
8 22 (3.70%) Nagios
8 22 (3.70%) ZABBIX
9 18 (3.03%) Kibana
9 18 (3.03%) Netcool
9 18 (3.03%) QRadar
10 17 (2.86%) Tivoli
11 15 (2.53%) OpenView
11 15 (2.53%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 13 (2.19%) vCenter Server
13 12 (2.02%) Puppet
14 10 (1.68%) Istio
14 10 (1.68%) Kiali
14 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 95 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.61%) Dynatrace
3 58 (9.76%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.09%) Cisco
5 53 (8.92%) SolarWinds
6 46 (7.74%) AppDynamics
7 38 (6.40%) CrowdStrike
7 38 (6.40%) F5
8 36 (6.06%) CyberArk
9 26 (4.38%) IBM
9 26 (4.38%) VMware
10 25 (4.21%) Juniper
10 25 (4.21%) Red Hat
11 24 (4.04%) Tenable
12 23 (3.87%) BMC
13 22 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (3.54%) New Relic
14 21 (3.54%) Oracle
15 19 (3.20%) Palo Alto
16 18 (3.03%) Fortinet