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 13 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
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 202 240
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 -75
Contract jobs citing Splunk 588 392 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.35% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 3.02% 2.85% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 246 260
10th Percentile £356 £390 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £628
90th Percentile £750 £744 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.69 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.22% +2.50% -33.11%
75th Percentile £81.77 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.35 - £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 19,485 13,772 18,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.28% 47.52% 42.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,350 8,611 11,252
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 £618 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -0.61% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 554 1,092
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.46
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -47.06%
75th Percentile £59.56 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.65 £74.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +22.13% +6.98% -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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -1 516 £525 -4.55% 263
UK excluding London +8 344 £513 -6.68% 262
London -28 191 £575 +10.84% 76
Work from Home -21 153 £530 -3.81% 37
North of England -10 126 £482 -13.97% 60
South East -20 84 £433 -21.36% 66
Yorkshire +3 81 £485 -31.50% 16
Midlands -19 55 £520 -3.26% 18
West Midlands -22 50 £529 -4.02% 18
North West -25 44 £489 -9.82% 28
South West +1 37 £450 -26.53% 45
East of England -25 26 £688 +25.00% 36
Scotland +3 24 £610 +41.86% 23
East Midlands -28 5 £447 +14.32%
Wales -8 4 - - 9
North East - 3 £444 - 16

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 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.89%) Confluence
3 12 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.36%) TPMS
5 4 (0.68%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.51%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.68%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.68%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 181 (30.78%) AWS
2 158 (26.87%) Azure
3 78 (13.27%) GCP
4 76 (12.93%) GitHub
5 63 (10.71%) OpenShift
6 38 (6.46%) Datadog
7 34 (5.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 34 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (5.10%) Amazon S3
9 26 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (4.42%) Serverless
10 24 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (3.57%) Entra ID
13 19 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (3.06%) SaaS
15 17 (2.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 83 (14.12%) DNS
1 83 (14.12%) Firewall
2 41 (6.97%) TCP/IP
3 35 (5.95%) SNMP
4 30 (5.10%) WAN
5 29 (4.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 29 (4.93%) LAN
6 28 (4.76%) BGP
7 27 (4.59%) OSPF
8 25 (4.25%) DHCP
8 25 (4.25%) Network Security
8 25 (4.25%) VXLAN
9 24 (4.08%) BIG-IP
9 24 (4.08%) Junos
10 20 (3.40%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (2.89%) VPN
12 15 (2.55%) SSL
13 10 (1.70%) Wireless
14 9 (1.53%) SSH
15 8 (1.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.25%) MongoDB
3 17 (2.89%) Hadoop
4 16 (2.72%) NoSQL
4 16 (2.72%) Power BI
5 14 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.04%) Big Data
7 12 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.87%) MySQL
9 9 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.53%) Redis
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.02%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
13 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 91 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 61 (10.37%) GitLab
3 44 (7.48%) Git
4 34 (5.78%) JIRA
5 22 (3.74%) Gatling
6 16 (2.72%) JMeter
7 13 (2.21%) Jaeger
7 13 (2.21%) LoadRunner
8 10 (1.70%) REST Assured
8 10 (1.70%) Selenium
8 10 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.53%) Postman
10 8 (1.36%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.36%) JUnit
11 7 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.19%) Gradle
11 7 (1.19%) Maven
11 7 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
11 7 (1.19%) Snyk
12 6 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
General
1 172 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.39%) Finance
3 70 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.50%) Banking
6 36 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.70%) Military
10 9 (1.53%) Front Office
10 9 (1.53%) Retail
11 6 (1.02%) Law
11 6 (1.02%) Legal
12 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.34%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.17%) Back Office
15 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (14.29%) Analyst
2 67 (11.39%) Architect
3 55 (9.35%) Senior
4 53 (9.01%) Lead
5 39 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (6.63%) SOC Analyst
6 36 (6.12%) Consultant
7 28 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (4.42%) Data Engineer
9 25 (4.25%) Developer
10 24 (4.08%) SOC Engineer
11 22 (3.74%) Site Engineer
12 19 (3.23%) CyberArk Architect
12 19 (3.23%) Security Engineer
13 18 (3.06%) Network Engineer
14 16 (2.72%) Security Architect
14 16 (2.72%) Splunk Engineer
15 15 (2.55%) Management Consultant
16 14 (2.38%) Firewall Specialist
16 14 (2.38%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.41%) Kafka
2 55 (9.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 51 (8.67%) REST
4 36 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
5 33 (5.61%) Spring Boot
6 27 (4.59%) Spring
7 26 (4.42%) 802.1X
8 25 (4.25%) JSON
9 23 (3.91%) Middleware
10 22 (3.74%) LDAP
11 18 (3.06%) OpenID
11 18 (3.06%) SAML
12 16 (2.72%) CSS
13 13 (2.21%) RESTful
14 12 (2.04%) Playwright
14 12 (2.04%) React
15 10 (1.70%) HTML
15 10 (1.70%) OAuth
15 10 (1.70%) OAuth2
16 9 (1.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.86%) Onboarding
3 47 (7.99%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.80%) PKI
5 30 (5.10%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.76%) Clustering
6 28 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (3.91%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.74%) Cyberattack
10 20 (3.40%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.89%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (2.72%) Security Posture
13 14 (2.38%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.70%) CMDB
15 9 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
15 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.36%) Mainframe
17 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
18 6 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (31.97%) Linux
2 159 (27.04%) Windows
3 57 (9.69%) Unix
4 25 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.06%) AIX
6 9 (1.53%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.19%) Android
8 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.02%) zOS
9 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (36.39%) CI/CD
2 192 (32.65%) DevOps
3 184 (31.29%) Observability
4 153 (26.02%) SIEM
5 124 (21.09%) Cybersecurity
6 123 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 105 (17.86%) Incident Response
9 91 (15.48%) Containerisation
10 88 (14.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 82 (13.95%) Agile
12 72 (12.24%) Security Operations
13 70 (11.90%) High Availability
14 60 (10.20%) ITIL
14 60 (10.20%) Microservices
15 58 (9.86%) Migration
15 58 (9.86%) Test Automation
16 56 (9.52%) Analytics
17 52 (8.84%) Computer Science
18 51 (8.67%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 221 (37.59%) Python
2 93 (15.82%) SQL
3 91 (15.48%) PowerShell
4 86 (14.63%) Bash
5 74 (12.59%) Java
6 39 (6.63%) Search Processing Language
7 26 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.23%) Go
9 14 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (2.21%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.70%) Scala
12 9 (1.53%) Bicep
12 9 (1.53%) Perl
12 9 (1.53%) Rust
13 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.19%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.02%) JCL
15 6 (1.02%) REXX
16 4 (0.68%) C#
17 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 248 (42.18%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 73 (12.41%) DV Cleared
4 64 (10.88%) Degree
5 43 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (6.63%) CISSP
7 34 (5.78%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (5.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.57%) CISM
10 19 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
11 13 (2.21%) AWS Certification
11 13 (2.21%) GIAC
12 12 (2.04%) CEH
13 8 (1.36%) FFIEC
13 8 (1.36%) GCIA
13 8 (1.36%) JNCIA
13 8 (1.36%) JNCIS
14 7 (1.19%) CCSP
14 7 (1.19%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.69%) NIST
2 40 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.91%) NCSC
4 21 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 20 (3.40%) GDPR
6 15 (2.55%) SLA
7 13 (2.21%) QA
8 11 (1.87%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.36%) GLBA
10 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.85%) GRC
11 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.68%) COBIT
12 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (18.03%) Docker
2 18 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.04%) vSphere
5 6 (1.02%) etcd
6 5 (0.85%) Snort
6 5 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.68%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) GPFS
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) Lustre
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Squid
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 179 (30.44%) Kubernetes
2 139 (23.64%) Grafana
3 129 (21.94%) Terraform
4 112 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 107 (18.20%) Ansible
6 25 (4.25%) Argo
6 25 (4.25%) FortiGate
7 22 (3.74%) Nagios
7 22 (3.74%) ZABBIX
8 18 (3.06%) Netcool
9 17 (2.89%) Kibana
9 17 (2.89%) QRadar
9 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
10 15 (2.55%) OpenView
10 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 14 (2.38%) vCenter Server
12 13 (2.21%) Puppet
13 10 (1.70%) Kiali
13 10 (1.70%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 88 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.03%) Dynatrace
3 51 (8.67%) ServiceNow
4 49 (8.33%) Cisco
5 47 (7.99%) SolarWinds
6 44 (7.48%) AppDynamics
7 35 (5.95%) CyberArk
8 33 (5.61%) CrowdStrike
9 31 (5.27%) F5
10 27 (4.59%) Red Hat
10 27 (4.59%) VMware
11 25 (4.25%) BMC
11 25 (4.25%) Juniper
11 25 (4.25%) Tenable
12 23 (3.91%) IBM
13 22 (3.74%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (3.23%) Oracle
15 17 (2.89%) Google
15 17 (2.89%) New Relic
16 16 (2.72%) HP