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 21 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 177 238
Rank change year-on-year -56 +61 -70
Contract jobs citing Splunk 591 505 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.55% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 2.72% 3.26% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 315 271
10th Percentile £363 £361 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.29%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -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 21,737 15,481 17,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.23% 47.51% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,491 9,458 11,258
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,083 765 984
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.90
25th Percentile £19.29 £17.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.93% -3.27% -36.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.07% -10.00% -22.24%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -43 519 £525 -2.78% 242
UK excluding London -60 313 £514 -6.55% 225
London -33 225 £550 +4.76% 88
Work from Home -39 161 £525 +5.00% 41
North of England -21 128 £500 - 50
Yorkshire -18 70 £500 +12.04% 13
North West -30 56 £509 -12.24% 26
South East -100 52 £465 -13.41% 52
Midlands -12 50 £581 +19.79% 19
West Midlands -19 46 £581 +16.55% 17
South West -10 40 £450 -21.05% 37
Scotland -18 26 £514 +16.82% 21
East of England -38 26 £688 +25.00% 29
North East - 5 £413 - 11
East Midlands -11 4 £474 -0.32% 2
Wales -15 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 25 (4.23%) Confluence
2 23 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.85%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.51%) 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%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.68%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) 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
1 185 (31.30%) AWS
2 179 (30.29%) Azure
3 94 (15.91%) GitHub
4 74 (12.52%) GCP
5 67 (11.34%) OpenShift
6 36 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (5.75%) Entra ID
8 31 (5.25%) Datadog
9 29 (4.91%) Azure Sentinel
10 28 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.23%) Power Platform
12 24 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (3.72%) Serverless
15 21 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (3.38%) SaaS
17 19 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.71%) Firewall
2 76 (12.86%) DNS
3 38 (6.43%) Network Security
3 38 (6.43%) SNMP
4 37 (6.26%) WAN
5 32 (5.41%) BGP
6 30 (5.08%) LAN
6 30 (5.08%) OSPF
7 29 (4.91%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.74%) DHCP
9 26 (4.40%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.23%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.06%) Junos
11 24 (4.06%) VPN
12 22 (3.72%) TCP/IP
13 21 (3.55%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (1.69%) MPLS
14 10 (1.69%) Wireless
15 9 (1.52%) Internet
15 9 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.06%) Power BI
3 21 (3.55%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.21%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.54%) Big Data
6 15 (2.54%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.35%) MySQL
9 8 (1.35%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.18%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
13 3 (0.51%) Flink
13 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (15.91%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.14%) GitLab
3 48 (8.12%) Git
4 36 (6.09%) JIRA
5 34 (5.75%) Gatling
6 24 (4.06%) JMeter
7 14 (2.37%) LoadRunner
7 14 (2.37%) Selenium
8 13 (2.20%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.03%) Serenity BDD
10 8 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.18%) Gradle
11 7 (1.18%) JUnit
11 7 (1.18%) Maven
12 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.02%) Postman
12 6 (1.02%) Snyk
12 6 (1.02%) Xcode
13 5 (0.85%) Jaeger
General
1 158 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.63%) Finance
3 71 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.14%) Banking
5 39 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.37%) Retail
8 11 (1.86%) Front Office
9 10 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.69%) Legal
10 8 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.35%) Military
11 5 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.85%) Law
11 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (11.00%) Analyst
2 60 (10.15%) Architect
2 60 (10.15%) Lead
2 60 (10.15%) Senior
3 46 (7.78%) Consultant
4 41 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (5.41%) Developer
6 25 (4.23%) Data Engineer
6 25 (4.23%) SOC Engineer
7 23 (3.89%) Security Architect
7 23 (3.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 22 (3.72%) Splunk Engineer
9 20 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (3.21%) Network Engineer
10 19 (3.21%) Security Engineer
10 19 (3.21%) SOC Analyst
11 18 (3.05%) Site Engineer
11 18 (3.05%) Test Engineer
12 17 (2.88%) Performance Engineer
13 15 (2.54%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.51%) REST
2 60 (10.15%) Kafka
3 55 (9.31%) OpenTelemetry
4 33 (5.58%) Spring
4 33 (5.58%) Spring Boot
5 32 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
6 27 (4.57%) 802.1X
7 25 (4.23%) JSON
8 17 (2.88%) LDAP
9 16 (2.71%) RESTful
10 13 (2.20%) OpenID
10 13 (2.20%) Playwright
10 13 (2.20%) SAML
11 12 (2.03%) Spring Cloud
12 11 (1.86%) .NET
12 11 (1.86%) Middleware
12 11 (1.86%) SailPoint
13 10 (1.69%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.69%) Protocol Buffers
13 10 (1.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.15%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.09%) PKI
3 36 (6.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 33 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (5.25%) Data Centre
6 27 (4.57%) Clustering
6 27 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (3.21%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.88%) CMDB
9 13 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
9 13 (2.20%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.03%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.18%) Cyberattack
13 7 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (25.72%) Linux
2 133 (22.50%) Windows
3 43 (7.28%) Unix
4 18 (3.05%) AIX
4 18 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Android
9 4 (0.68%) zOS
10 2 (0.34%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (36.72%) CI/CD
2 209 (35.36%) Observability
3 188 (31.81%) DevOps
4 133 (22.50%) SIEM
5 132 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (16.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 94 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
8 94 (15.91%) Incident Response
9 92 (15.57%) Agile
10 78 (13.20%) Security Operations
11 77 (13.03%) Containerisation
12 74 (12.52%) High Availability
13 66 (11.17%) ITSM
14 61 (10.32%) ITIL
15 59 (9.98%) Analytics
16 58 (9.81%) Test Automation
17 53 (8.97%) Cloud Security
18 52 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 52 (8.80%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (35.70%) Python
2 88 (14.89%) SQL
3 87 (14.72%) PowerShell
4 73 (12.35%) Java
5 65 (11.00%) Bash
6 44 (7.45%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.23%) Go
8 22 (3.72%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.03%) Bicep
9 12 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (2.03%) Scala
10 11 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.35%) C#
12 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.02%) Perl
13 6 (1.02%) Ruby
14 4 (0.68%) JCL
14 4 (0.68%) REXX
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 222 (37.56%) Security Cleared
2 136 (23.01%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.15%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.29%) CISSP
5 41 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (5.92%) Degree
7 27 (4.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 26 (4.40%) CISM
9 22 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.88%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.54%) GIAC
13 12 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.86%) CCNP
14 11 (1.86%) CEH
15 10 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.52%) CCSP
16 9 (1.52%) GCIA
16 9 (1.52%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.61%) NIST
2 36 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.37%) NCSC
6 13 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.20%) QA
7 11 (1.86%) GDPR
8 9 (1.52%) SLA
9 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.85%) GRC
10 5 (0.85%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.51%) COBIT
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.34%) GxP
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (15.57%) Docker
2 25 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.71%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.20%) vSphere
6 7 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) 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
1 151 (25.55%) Kubernetes
2 146 (24.70%) Grafana
3 142 (24.03%) Terraform
4 112 (18.95%) Prometheus
5 90 (15.23%) Ansible
6 27 (4.57%) QRadar
7 26 (4.40%) FortiGate
8 23 (3.89%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.55%) Argo
10 20 (3.38%) Nagios
11 18 (3.05%) Netcool
12 17 (2.88%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.54%) OpenView
13 15 (2.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 14 (2.37%) Kibana
15 13 (2.20%) vCenter Server
16 10 (1.69%) Control-M
17 9 (1.52%) Progress Chef
18 8 (1.35%) Fluentd
18 8 (1.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 95 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 78 (13.20%) ServiceNow
3 73 (12.35%) Dynatrace
4 61 (10.32%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.15%) Cisco
6 44 (7.45%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.77%) F5
8 38 (6.43%) AppDynamics
9 36 (6.09%) CyberArk
10 31 (5.25%) IBM
11 29 (4.91%) New Relic
12 28 (4.74%) Google
12 28 (4.74%) Tenable
13 27 (4.57%) VMware
14 25 (4.23%) Juniper
15 23 (3.89%) BMC
16 22 (3.72%) Extreme Networks
16 22 (3.72%) Fortinet
16 22 (3.72%) Oracle
17 21 (3.55%) Palo Alto