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 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
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 186 230
Rank change year-on-year -29 +44 -68
Contract jobs citing Splunk 594 411 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.43% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 2.98% 2.99% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 265 275
10th Percentile £350 £389 £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 £627 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £765 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £75.27 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
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 19,935 13,729 18,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.81% 47.72% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,521 8,508 11,350
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.78% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.87% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 599 1,121
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.04 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +24.81% +15.43% -46.92%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.65% -45.64%

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 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 3 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 3 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 -19 520 £525 -4.55% 258
UK excluding London +4 350 £514 -6.55% 259
London -49 193 £555 +5.71% 74
Work from Home -5 153 £525 -4.55% 47
North of England -17 133 £495 -8.76% 56
Yorkshire -5 84 £475 -12.84% 13
South East -33 76 £425 -20.86% 68
Midlands -16 60 £550 +2.42% 17
West Midlands -18 55 £564 +2.36% 17
North West -25 48 £538 -0.92% 28
South West +8 39 £450 -26.53% 38
Scotland +3 29 £592 +35.98% 26
East of England -38 25 £688 +25.00% 38
East Midlands -27 5 £447 +14.32%
North East - 4 £444 - 15
Wales -11 2 - - 10

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%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.01%) 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 (1.01%) 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
1 184 (30.98%) AWS
2 165 (27.78%) Azure
3 84 (14.14%) GitHub
4 76 (12.79%) GCP
5 63 (10.61%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.90%) Datadog
7 33 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (5.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 27 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.38%) Entra ID
11 24 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.70%) Serverless
14 20 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.37%) Power Platform
15 19 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (14.48%) DNS
2 81 (13.64%) Firewall
3 40 (6.73%) TCP/IP
4 39 (6.57%) SNMP
5 31 (5.22%) WAN
6 30 (5.05%) BGP
7 29 (4.88%) Ethernet VPN
7 29 (4.88%) Network Security
7 29 (4.88%) OSPF
8 28 (4.71%) LAN
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 19 (3.20%) VPN
13 14 (2.36%) SSL
14 11 (1.85%) Wireless
15 9 (1.52%) MPLS
16 8 (1.35%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.88%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.20%) Power BI
3 19 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.02%) Big Data
8 11 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.52%) MySQL
10 8 (1.35%) Redis
11 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.18%) Presto
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.67%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (15.49%) Jenkins
2 64 (10.77%) GitLab
3 41 (6.90%) Git
4 32 (5.39%) JIRA
5 30 (5.05%) Gatling
6 19 (3.20%) JMeter
7 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
7 14 (2.36%) Selenium
8 13 (2.19%) Jaeger
9 12 (2.02%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.02%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.35%) JUnit
12 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.18%) Gradle
12 7 (1.18%) Maven
12 7 (1.18%) Postman
12 7 (1.18%) Snyk
13 6 (1.01%) CircleCI
General
1 169 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.02%) Finance
3 67 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.59%) Banking
5 47 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Retail
10 10 (1.68%) Front Office
11 9 (1.52%) Military
12 8 (1.35%) Law
12 8 (1.35%) Legal
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%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 79 (13.30%) Analyst
2 70 (11.78%) Architect
3 60 (10.10%) Lead
3 60 (10.10%) Senior
4 38 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (6.40%) SOC Analyst
5 36 (6.06%) Consultant
6 26 (4.38%) Developer
6 26 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 25 (4.21%) Data Engineer
8 24 (4.04%) SOC Engineer
9 23 (3.87%) Site Engineer
10 22 (3.70%) Security Architect
11 20 (3.37%) CyberArk Architect
12 19 (3.20%) Network Engineer
12 19 (3.20%) Security Engineer
13 18 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.53%) Management Consultant
14 15 (2.53%) Performance Engineer
14 15 (2.53%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.46%) Kafka
2 58 (9.76%) OpenTelemetry
3 50 (8.42%) REST
4 36 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 35 (5.89%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.05%) Spring
7 27 (4.55%) 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 14 (2.36%) Playwright
11 13 (2.19%) CSS
12 12 (2.02%) RESTful
12 12 (2.02%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.85%) React
14 10 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (1.68%) SailPoint
15 9 (1.52%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.44%) Onboarding
3 49 (8.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 41 (6.90%) PKI
5 30 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.71%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.55%) Clustering
7 27 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (4.21%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.70%) Cyberattack
10 17 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.86%) Security Posture
11 16 (2.69%) CMDB
11 16 (2.69%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.19%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.84%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 183 (30.81%) Linux
2 159 (26.77%) Windows
3 50 (8.42%) Unix
4 22 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.03%) AIX
6 12 (2.02%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.01%) Android
8 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
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
1 214 (36.03%) CI/CD
2 202 (34.01%) Observability
3 191 (32.15%) DevOps
4 147 (24.75%) SIEM
5 127 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
7 106 (17.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 102 (17.17%) Incident Response
9 92 (15.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 84 (14.14%) Containerisation
11 78 (13.13%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.78%) Agile
13 65 (10.94%) High Availability
14 62 (10.44%) ITIL
15 59 (9.93%) Microservices
16 58 (9.76%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.43%) Analytics
18 55 (9.26%) Migration
19 51 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
19 51 (8.59%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 217 (36.53%) Python
2 92 (15.49%) SQL
3 89 (14.98%) PowerShell
4 79 (13.30%) Bash
5 74 (12.46%) Java
6 41 (6.90%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.70%) Go
9 13 (2.19%) Bicep
10 12 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.68%) Scala
11 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.52%) Rust
13 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.18%) C#
14 7 (1.18%) Perl
14 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.67%) JCL
15 4 (0.67%) REXX
15 4 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 244 (41.08%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 69 (11.62%) DV Cleared
4 57 (9.60%) Degree
5 43 (7.24%) CISSP
6 37 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (5.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.70%) CISM
10 20 (3.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 19 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.36%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.36%) GIAC
13 12 (2.02%) CEH
14 10 (1.68%) GCIA
14 10 (1.68%) GCIH
15 8 (1.35%) CCNP
15 8 (1.35%) CCSP
15 8 (1.35%) JNCIA
15 8 (1.35%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.60%) NIST
2 41 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.54%) NCSC
4 16 (2.69%) GDPR
4 16 (2.69%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.53%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.36%) 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 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 108 (18.18%) Docker
2 18 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.53%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.02%) vSphere
6 6 (1.01%) etcd
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) Snort
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 169 (28.45%) Kubernetes
2 148 (24.92%) Grafana
3 126 (21.21%) Terraform
4 121 (20.37%) Prometheus
5 101 (17.00%) Ansible
6 25 (4.21%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.04%) Argo
8 22 (3.70%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.37%) Nagios
10 19 (3.20%) QRadar
11 18 (3.03%) Kibana
11 18 (3.03%) Netcool
12 17 (2.86%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.53%) OpenView
13 15 (2.53%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 13 (2.19%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.85%) Puppet
16 10 (1.68%) Kiali
17 9 (1.52%) Istio
17 9 (1.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 95 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.77%) Dynatrace
3 61 (10.27%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.09%) Cisco
5 53 (8.92%) SolarWinds
6 49 (8.25%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.73%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (6.40%) F5
9 36 (6.06%) CyberArk
10 28 (4.71%) Tenable
11 26 (4.38%) IBM
12 25 (4.21%) Juniper
13 24 (4.04%) VMware
14 22 (3.70%) BMC
14 22 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.70%) Red Hat
15 21 (3.54%) New Relic
15 21 (3.54%) Oracle
16 19 (3.20%) Google
17 18 (3.03%) Fortinet