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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 179 245
Rank change year-on-year -54 +66 -78
Contract jobs citing Splunk 596 506 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.55% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 2.73% 3.27% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 317 272
10th Percentile £363 £362 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.29%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £622
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £80.48 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.23 - £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 21,832 15,477 18,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.27% 47.55% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,569 9,473 11,390
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 758 1,041
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.22
Median hourly rate £34.86 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.61% -3.27% -36.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.24 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.73% -10.00% -22.60%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -48 523 £525 -2.78% 215
UK excluding London -63 314 £515 -6.41% 218
London -26 228 £550 +4.76% 67
Work from Home -33 164 £530 +6.00% 33
North of England -30 129 £500 - 49
Yorkshire -5 73 £500 +12.04% 13
North West -40 54 £509 -9.11% 25
South East -88 53 £465 -13.41% 52
Midlands -22 48 £581 +19.79% 19
West Midlands -27 44 £581 +16.62% 17
South West -10 40 £450 -21.05% 35
East of England -34 27 £675 +22.73% 25
Scotland -13 26 £514 +16.82% 22
North East - 5 £413 - 11
East Midlands -12 4 £474 +9.35% 2
Wales -13 1 - - 12

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 24 (4.03%) Confluence
2 23 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) Apache
4 5 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) TPMS
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 186 (31.21%) AWS
2 180 (30.20%) Azure
3 95 (15.94%) GitHub
4 75 (12.58%) GCP
5 70 (11.74%) OpenShift
6 36 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (5.54%) Entra ID
8 31 (5.20%) Datadog
9 29 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (4.87%) Azure Sentinel
10 25 (4.19%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (4.19%) Power Platform
11 24 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.86%) Serverless
13 21 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (3.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.59%) Firewall
2 76 (12.75%) DNS
3 39 (6.54%) SNMP
4 37 (6.21%) Network Security
4 37 (6.21%) WAN
5 32 (5.37%) BGP
6 30 (5.03%) LAN
6 30 (5.03%) OSPF
7 29 (4.87%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.70%) DHCP
9 26 (4.36%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.19%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.03%) Junos
11 24 (4.03%) VPN
12 22 (3.69%) TCP/IP
13 21 (3.52%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (1.68%) MPLS
14 10 (1.68%) SSL
14 10 (1.68%) Wireless
15 9 (1.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.36%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.03%) Power BI
3 21 (3.52%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.52%) Hadoop
7 14 (2.35%) Big Data
8 13 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.34%) MySQL
10 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.17%) Presto
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.67%) Tableau
14 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.50%) Flink
14 3 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.06%) GitLab
3 49 (8.22%) Git
4 35 (5.87%) JIRA
5 34 (5.70%) Gatling
6 23 (3.86%) JMeter
7 14 (2.35%) Selenium
8 13 (2.18%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.18%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.01%) Serenity BDD
10 9 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.34%) Gradle
11 8 (1.34%) JUnit
11 8 (1.34%) Maven
12 7 (1.17%) Eclipse
13 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.01%) Postman
13 6 (1.01%) Snyk
13 6 (1.01%) Xcode
14 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
General
1 160 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.97%) Finance
3 71 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (8.89%) Banking
5 39 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.35%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.85%) Legal
9 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.68%) Front Office
10 8 (1.34%) Military
11 5 (0.84%) Law
11 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Advertising
13 3 (0.50%) Local Government
14 1 (0.17%) Automotive
14 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (11.07%) Analyst
2 62 (10.40%) Architect
3 59 (9.90%) Lead
3 59 (9.90%) Senior
4 45 (7.55%) Consultant
5 42 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (5.37%) Developer
7 25 (4.19%) Data Engineer
7 25 (4.19%) SOC Engineer
8 24 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 22 (3.69%) Splunk Engineer
10 21 (3.52%) Security Architect
11 20 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (3.36%) Security Engineer
11 20 (3.36%) SOC Analyst
12 19 (3.19%) Network Engineer
12 19 (3.19%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.02%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.85%) CyberArk Architect
14 17 (2.85%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.24%) REST
2 59 (9.90%) Kafka
3 55 (9.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 35 (5.87%) Elastic Stack
5 34 (5.70%) Spring
6 32 (5.37%) Spring Boot
7 27 (4.53%) 802.1X
8 24 (4.03%) JSON
9 20 (3.36%) LDAP
10 16 (2.68%) OpenID
10 16 (2.68%) RESTful
10 16 (2.68%) SAML
11 13 (2.18%) Playwright
12 12 (2.01%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.85%) .NET
13 11 (1.85%) Middleware
13 11 (1.85%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.68%) CSS
14 10 (1.68%) OAuth
14 10 (1.68%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.09%) Cloud Native
2 64 (10.74%) Onboarding
3 37 (6.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.04%) PKI
5 34 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.37%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.70%) Clustering
8 27 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.36%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.85%) CMDB
11 13 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (2.18%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 12 (2.01%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.17%) Cyberattack
14 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 154 (25.84%) Linux
2 136 (22.82%) Windows
3 41 (6.88%) Unix
4 18 (3.02%) AIX
4 18 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.67%) Android
8 4 (0.67%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) 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
1 223 (37.42%) CI/CD
2 210 (35.23%) Observability
3 189 (31.71%) DevOps
4 137 (22.99%) SIEM
5 133 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 98 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
8 96 (16.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 93 (15.60%) Incident Response
10 90 (15.10%) Agile
11 79 (13.26%) Security Operations
12 76 (12.75%) Containerisation
13 75 (12.58%) High Availability
14 68 (11.41%) ITSM
15 63 (10.57%) ITIL
16 58 (9.73%) Analytics
16 58 (9.73%) Test Automation
17 53 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 52 (8.72%) Cloud Security
19 51 (8.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (35.74%) Python
2 90 (15.10%) PowerShell
3 88 (14.77%) SQL
4 73 (12.25%) Java
5 68 (11.41%) Bash
6 46 (7.72%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.19%) Go
8 22 (3.69%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.18%) Bicep
10 12 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (2.01%) Scala
11 11 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.34%) C#
13 8 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.01%) Perl
14 6 (1.01%) Ruby
15 4 (0.67%) JCL
15 4 (0.67%) REXX
16 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 227 (38.09%) Security Cleared
2 140 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.23%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.22%) CISSP
5 41 (6.88%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (5.87%) Degree
7 27 (4.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 26 (4.36%) CISM
9 20 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.85%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.52%) GIAC
13 12 (2.01%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.85%) CCNP
14 11 (1.85%) CEH
15 10 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.51%) CCSP
16 9 (1.51%) GCIA
16 9 (1.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.05%) NIST
2 38 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.85%) NCSC
4 15 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.35%) QA
6 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.85%) GDPR
8 9 (1.51%) SLA
9 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.67%) GRC
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.50%) COBIT
11 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.17%) GLBA
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 92 (15.44%) Docker
2 25 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.68%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.18%) vSphere
6 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.01%) etcd
8 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 153 (25.67%) Kubernetes
2 146 (24.50%) Grafana
3 142 (23.83%) Terraform
4 113 (18.96%) Prometheus
5 92 (15.44%) Ansible
6 26 (4.36%) FortiGate
6 26 (4.36%) QRadar
7 23 (3.86%) ZABBIX
8 21 (3.52%) Argo
9 20 (3.36%) Nagios
10 18 (3.02%) Netcool
11 17 (2.85%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.52%) OpenView
12 15 (2.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.35%) Kibana
14 13 (2.18%) vCenter Server
15 9 (1.51%) Control-M
15 9 (1.51%) Progress Chef
16 8 (1.34%) Fluentd
16 8 (1.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 97 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 77 (12.92%) ServiceNow
3 72 (12.08%) Dynatrace
4 61 (10.23%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.07%) Cisco
6 44 (7.38%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.71%) F5
8 39 (6.54%) CyberArk
9 37 (6.21%) AppDynamics
10 30 (5.03%) IBM
10 30 (5.03%) New Relic
11 28 (4.70%) Tenable
12 27 (4.53%) Google
12 27 (4.53%) VMware
13 25 (4.19%) Juniper
14 23 (3.86%) BMC
15 22 (3.69%) Extreme Networks
15 22 (3.69%) Fortinet
15 22 (3.69%) Oracle
16 20 (3.36%) Palo Alto