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 16 June 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
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 184 238
Rank change year-on-year -38 +54 -80
Contract jobs citing Splunk 585 443 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.50% 0.97%
As % of the Vendors category 2.86% 3.14% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 277 278
10th Percentile £354 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £763 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
75th Percentile £71.64 - -
90th Percentile £79.19 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £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 20,424 14,104 18,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.68% 47.61% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,835 8,673 11,415
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,048 645 1,150
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.35 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +7.14% -44.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.30
90th Percentile £79.65 £69.29 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +35.87% +2.22% -43.15%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -34 511 £525 -4.55% 273
UK excluding London -18 338 £514 -6.55% 268
London -51 200 £550 +4.76% 95
Work from Home -9 146 £530 -1.85% 49
North of England -12 128 £500 -2.44% 59
Yorkshire -5 81 £500 - 14
South East -46 74 £429 -22.05% 67
Midlands -27 53 £563 +4.84% 15
West Midlands -29 48 £565 +3.57% 13
North West -32 46 £513 -5.53% 29
South West +7 39 £450 -14.29% 42
Scotland -5 32 £592 +34.43% 28
East of England -42 25 £688 +25.00% 34
East Midlands -22 5 £447 +3.23% 2
North East - 4 £444 - 16
Wales -13 1 - - 14

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 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.74%) Confluence
3 13 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.03%) TPMS
5 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) 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
Cloud Services
1 178 (30.43%) AWS
2 156 (26.67%) Azure
3 83 (14.19%) GitHub
4 69 (11.79%) GCP
5 63 (10.77%) OpenShift
6 37 (6.32%) Datadog
7 33 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.79%) Entra ID
9 27 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (4.10%) Azure Sentinel
13 22 (3.76%) Serverless
14 21 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (3.59%) Power Platform
15 20 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.25%) SaaS
17 17 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.87%) DNS
2 79 (13.50%) Firewall
3 40 (6.84%) SNMP
4 38 (6.50%) TCP/IP
5 30 (5.13%) BGP
5 30 (5.13%) Network Security
5 30 (5.13%) WAN
6 29 (4.96%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (4.96%) OSPF
7 27 (4.62%) LAN
8 25 (4.27%) BIG-IP
8 25 (4.27%) DHCP
8 25 (4.27%) VXLAN
9 24 (4.10%) Junos
10 20 (3.42%) Cisco ISE
10 20 (3.42%) VPN
11 14 (2.39%) SSL
12 11 (1.88%) Wireless
13 9 (1.54%) MPLS
13 9 (1.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.79%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.42%) Power BI
3 20 (3.42%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.91%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.05%) Big Data
8 10 (1.71%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.37%) MySQL
9 8 (1.37%) Redis
9 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.20%) Presto
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 90 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 60 (10.26%) GitLab
3 42 (7.18%) Git
4 31 (5.30%) Gatling
5 27 (4.62%) JIRA
6 20 (3.42%) JMeter
7 13 (2.22%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.22%) Selenium
8 12 (2.05%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.05%) Serenity BDD
9 10 (1.71%) Jaeger
10 9 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.03%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.03%) Gradle
12 6 (1.03%) JUnit
12 6 (1.03%) Maven
12 6 (1.03%) Snyk
12 6 (1.03%) Xcode
13 5 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 163 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.32%) Finance
3 66 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.89%) Banking
5 43 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.39%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.05%) Retail
9 10 (1.71%) Front Office
10 9 (1.54%) Military
11 8 (1.37%) Legal
12 6 (1.03%) Law
13 4 (0.68%) 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
16 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (13.16%) Analyst
2 64 (10.94%) Architect
3 63 (10.77%) Senior
4 59 (10.09%) Lead
5 39 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (5.98%) Consultant
7 34 (5.81%) SOC Analyst
8 28 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 27 (4.62%) Developer
10 25 (4.27%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.10%) SOC Engineer
12 23 (3.93%) Site Engineer
13 22 (3.76%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.59%) Security Engineer
15 19 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.25%) CyberArk Architect
15 19 (3.25%) Network Engineer
16 16 (2.74%) Performance Engineer
16 16 (2.74%) Test Engineer
17 15 (2.56%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.97%) Kafka
2 57 (9.74%) OpenTelemetry
3 53 (9.06%) REST
4 33 (5.64%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.13%) Spring
7 27 (4.62%) 802.1X
8 21 (3.59%) JSON
8 21 (3.59%) LDAP
9 19 (3.25%) OpenID
9 19 (3.25%) SAML
10 17 (2.91%) Middleware
11 13 (2.22%) Playwright
11 13 (2.22%) RESTful
12 12 (2.05%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.88%) CSS
13 11 (1.88%) React
13 11 (1.88%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.71%) OAuth
14 10 (1.71%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.43%) Onboarding
3 48 (8.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.15%) PKI
5 29 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.79%) Clustering
6 28 (4.79%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.93%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.76%) Cyberattack
10 18 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.91%) CMDB
11 17 (2.91%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.56%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.05%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
16 6 (1.03%) Mainframe
16 6 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 176 (30.09%) Linux
2 154 (26.32%) Windows
3 49 (8.38%) Unix
4 18 (3.08%) AIX
5 16 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.22%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.20%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.85%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.68%) zOS
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (37.09%) CI/CD
2 206 (35.21%) Observability
3 187 (31.97%) DevOps
4 140 (23.93%) SIEM
5 128 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (20.85%) Cybersecurity
7 110 (18.80%) Incident Response
8 108 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (16.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 84 (14.36%) Containerisation
11 83 (14.19%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.97%) Agile
13 67 (11.45%) High Availability
14 62 (10.60%) ITIL
15 56 (9.57%) Migration
15 56 (9.57%) Test Automation
16 55 (9.40%) Analytics
17 53 (9.06%) ITSM
18 52 (8.89%) Microservices
19 50 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (36.58%) Python
2 90 (15.38%) SQL
3 82 (14.02%) PowerShell
4 72 (12.31%) Bash
5 69 (11.79%) Java
6 44 (7.52%) Search Processing Language
7 23 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.59%) Go
9 13 (2.22%) Bicep
10 10 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.71%) Scala
10 10 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.20%) C#
13 6 (1.03%) Perl
13 6 (1.03%) Rust
13 6 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.85%) Ruby
15 4 (0.68%) JCL
15 4 (0.68%) REXX
Qualifications
1 237 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 146 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.45%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.06%) Degree
5 47 (8.03%) CISSP
6 37 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (6.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 35 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (4.10%) CISM
9 22 (3.76%) CompTIA CySA+
10 19 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.74%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.39%) GIAC
13 12 (2.05%) CEH
14 11 (1.88%) GCIA
14 11 (1.88%) GCIH
15 9 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.54%) CCSP
15 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.37%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.91%) NIST
2 42 (7.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.42%) NCSC
4 18 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.91%) GDPR
6 16 (2.74%) Accessibility
7 12 (2.05%) SLA
8 10 (1.71%) QA
9 9 (1.54%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.37%) SOC 2
11 6 (1.03%) GLBA
12 5 (0.85%) GRC
13 4 (0.68%) COBIT
13 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 102 (17.44%) Docker
2 19 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.74%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.05%) vSphere
6 8 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.03%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 163 (27.86%) Kubernetes
2 147 (25.13%) Grafana
3 131 (22.39%) Terraform
4 117 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 100 (17.09%) Ansible
6 26 (4.44%) Argo
6 26 (4.44%) FortiGate
7 23 (3.93%) ZABBIX
8 20 (3.42%) Nagios
8 20 (3.42%) QRadar
9 18 (3.08%) Netcool
10 17 (2.91%) Kibana
10 17 (2.91%) Tivoli
11 15 (2.56%) OpenView
11 15 (2.56%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 12 (2.05%) vCenter Server
13 10 (1.71%) Istio
13 10 (1.71%) linkerd
14 8 (1.37%) Fluentd
14 8 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.31%) Dynatrace
3 69 (11.79%) ServiceNow
4 55 (9.40%) Cisco
5 54 (9.23%) SolarWinds
6 49 (8.38%) AppDynamics
7 41 (7.01%) CrowdStrike
8 39 (6.67%) F5
9 37 (6.32%) CyberArk
10 27 (4.62%) IBM
10 27 (4.62%) Tenable
11 25 (4.27%) Juniper
12 24 (4.10%) VMware
13 23 (3.93%) New Relic
14 22 (3.76%) BMC
14 22 (3.76%) Extreme Networks
15 21 (3.59%) Google
15 21 (3.59%) Red Hat
16 20 (3.42%) Oracle
17 18 (3.08%) Fortinet