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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 164 232
Rank change year-on-year -76 +68 -61
Contract jobs citing Splunk 574 566 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.72% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 2.56% 3.65% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 358 270
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £416 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -7.04% -5.83%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £714 £733 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £539 £556
% change year-on-year -4.69% -3.19% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £47.50
75th Percentile £74.95 - £48.75
90th Percentile £80.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.50

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 22,385 15,513 17,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.79% 47.27% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,864 9,479 10,592
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 809 818
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -10.18% -31.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.43 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.70 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.28% -21.11% -21.43%

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 19 August 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 19 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 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 19 August 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 -76 501 £525 -0.05% 353
UK excluding London -80 297 £513 -4.69% 300
London -51 224 £550 +4.76% 153
Work from Home -55 153 £518 +3.50% 87
North of England -46 126 £475 +2.14% 62
North West -38 65 £515 +12.57% 33
Yorkshire -26 53 £475 -5.00% 15
Midlands -38 42 £578 +10.10% 18
South East -121 42 £468 -6.50% 78
South West -14 41 £450 -21.05% 46
West Midlands -50 39 £578 +7.94% 18
Scotland -11 28 £423 -15.90% 35
East of England -42 26 £700 +27.27% 32
North East -31 8 £425 - 14
East Midlands -19 2 £563 +47.49%

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 27 (4.70%) Confluence
2 22 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.39%) Apache
5 6 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.52%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
7 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) Mendix
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.70%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 210 (36.59%) AWS
2 203 (35.37%) Azure
3 98 (17.07%) GitHub
4 75 (13.07%) GCP
5 53 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (8.54%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (6.79%) Entra ID
9 37 (6.45%) Datadog
10 36 (6.27%) Azure Sentinel
11 35 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (5.05%) SaaS
13 27 (4.70%) Power Platform
14 26 (4.53%) Amazon S3
14 26 (4.53%) Serverless
15 24 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 21 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (12.89%) Firewall
2 57 (9.93%) DNS
3 44 (7.67%) Network Security
4 38 (6.62%) SNMP
5 25 (4.36%) WAN
6 20 (3.48%) BGP
7 19 (3.31%) DHCP
8 18 (3.14%) LAN
9 17 (2.96%) OSPF
9 17 (2.96%) VPN
10 16 (2.79%) TCP/IP
11 14 (2.44%) BIG-IP
12 13 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
12 13 (2.26%) VXLAN
13 12 (2.09%) Junos
14 11 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.74%) Internet
16 8 (1.39%) HTTP
16 8 (1.39%) SSL
16 8 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.53%) Power BI
2 25 (4.36%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (2.96%) Big Data
6 14 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.74%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.74%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.57%) MySQL
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.22%) Presto
11 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.05%) Flink
12 5 (0.87%) Looker
12 5 (0.87%) Redis
13 4 (0.70%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.70%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 93 (16.20%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.28%) GitLab
3 56 (9.76%) Git
4 41 (7.14%) JIRA
5 32 (5.57%) Gatling
6 31 (5.40%) JMeter
7 20 (3.48%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.79%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.92%) Selenium
10 9 (1.57%) JUnit
10 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.39%) Gradle
11 8 (1.39%) Maven
11 8 (1.39%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.22%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.22%) Postman
13 6 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.05%) Xcode
General
1 141 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.34%) Finance
3 86 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.23%) Banking
5 30 (5.23%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.74%) Front Office
7 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.74%) Legal
8 9 (1.57%) Retail
9 8 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.87%) Law
11 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.52%) Local Government
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.35%) Advertising
12 2 (0.35%) Billing
12 2 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (9.76%) Lead
2 54 (9.41%) Senior
3 49 (8.54%) Analyst
3 49 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (8.01%) Consultant
5 39 (6.79%) Architect
6 34 (5.92%) Developer
6 34 (5.92%) Splunk Engineer
7 25 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 24 (4.18%) SOC Engineer
9 23 (4.01%) Performance Engineer
10 21 (3.66%) Security Engineer
11 19 (3.31%) Data Engineer
11 19 (3.31%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (3.14%) Site Engineer
13 17 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (2.79%) Security Architect
15 15 (2.61%) Applications Support
15 15 (2.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (10.63%) REST
2 56 (9.76%) Kafka
3 41 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 41 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (3.14%) JSON
4 18 (3.14%) Spring
4 18 (3.14%) Spring Boot
5 17 (2.96%) React
6 16 (2.79%) 802.1X
6 16 (2.79%) RESTful
7 12 (2.09%) .NET
7 12 (2.09%) CSS
7 12 (2.09%) Middleware
8 11 (1.92%) OAuth
8 11 (1.92%) OAuth2
8 11 (1.92%) Play Framework
9 9 (1.57%) HTML
9 9 (1.57%) OpenID
9 9 (1.57%) SailPoint
9 9 (1.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.28%) Cloud Native
1 59 (10.28%) Onboarding
2 36 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 24 (4.18%) PKI
5 21 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.96%) Clustering
7 15 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.44%) CMDB
8 14 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
8 14 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.92%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.92%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 153 (26.66%) Linux
2 118 (20.56%) Windows
3 42 (7.32%) Unix
4 25 (4.36%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.14%) AIX
7 9 (1.57%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.39%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.70%) Android
10 4 (0.70%) zOS
11 3 (0.52%) CentOS
11 3 (0.52%) VMS
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.17%) MVS
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (38.50%) CI/CD
2 209 (36.41%) Observability
3 179 (31.18%) DevOps
4 126 (21.95%) SIEM
5 121 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 113 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (18.82%) Agile
8 99 (17.25%) Incident Response
9 88 (15.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 83 (14.46%) Containerisation
11 74 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
12 71 (12.37%) Security Operations
13 62 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (10.63%) Test Automation
15 60 (10.45%) ITSM
15 60 (10.45%) Root Cause Analysis
16 58 (10.10%) High Availability
17 57 (9.93%) Incident Management
18 55 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 54 (9.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 216 (37.63%) Python
2 109 (18.99%) PowerShell
3 88 (15.33%) SQL
4 69 (12.02%) Bash
5 65 (11.32%) Java
6 52 (9.06%) Search Processing Language
7 31 (5.40%) Go
8 27 (4.70%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.31%) Scala
10 16 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (2.26%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.74%) Bicep
13 10 (1.74%) Perl
14 8 (1.39%) C#
15 5 (0.87%) Groovy
16 4 (0.70%) JCL
16 4 (0.70%) REXX
17 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 209 (36.41%) Security Cleared
2 134 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.93%) DV Cleared
4 46 (8.01%) CISSP
5 43 (7.49%) Degree
6 33 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (4.18%) CISM
8 19 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.14%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.44%) GIAC
13 13 (2.26%) GCIH
14 11 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.92%) CEH
15 10 (1.74%) CCNP
16 9 (1.57%) CCSP
17 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
17 8 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
17 8 (1.39%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.27%) NIST
2 24 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 20 (3.48%) QA
5 14 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.26%) GDPR
6 13 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.57%) NCSC
7 9 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.57%) SLA
8 5 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.70%) GxP
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 103 (17.94%) Docker
2 25 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.05%) etcd
7 6 (1.05%) vSphere
8 2 (0.35%) HDFS
8 2 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 152 (26.48%) Kubernetes
2 149 (25.96%) Terraform
3 140 (24.39%) Grafana
4 100 (17.42%) Prometheus
5 86 (14.98%) Ansible
6 28 (4.88%) QRadar
7 24 (4.18%) ZABBIX
8 21 (3.66%) Nagios
9 19 (3.31%) Argo
10 18 (3.14%) Netcool
11 17 (2.96%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.61%) FortiGate
12 15 (2.61%) Kibana
12 15 (2.61%) OpenView
12 15 (2.61%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.44%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.57%) Control-M
15 8 (1.39%) Puppet
15 8 (1.39%) SCOM
15 8 (1.39%) WMI
Vendors
1 111 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.55%) Dynatrace
3 75 (13.07%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.41%) SolarWinds
5 49 (8.54%) Cisco
6 42 (7.32%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.14%) New Relic
8 40 (6.97%) AppDynamics
9 35 (6.10%) IBM
10 27 (4.70%) Google
11 26 (4.53%) Oracle
12 24 (4.18%) CyberArk
12 24 (4.18%) F5
13 23 (4.01%) BMC
13 23 (4.01%) VMware
14 22 (3.83%) Fortinet
14 22 (3.83%) Tenable
15 19 (3.31%) Cribl.io
15 19 (3.31%) Palo Alto
16 18 (3.14%) Zscaler