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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 190 272
Rank change year-on-year +22 +82 -77
Contract jobs citing Splunk 672 421 379
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.37% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 3.70% 2.96% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 244 235
10th Percentile £350 £403 £403
25th Percentile £418 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,146 14,238 19,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.74% 46.42% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,517 12,062
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 403 932
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £27.33
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.76% -17.17%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £58.54
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.41 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.33% -10.81%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +22 592 £525 -8.70% 120
UK excluding London +62 383 £500 -9.09% 102
London -25 226 £575 -4.17% 40
Work from Home -3 175 £540 -10.00% 33
North of England +10 146 £500 -9.09% 21
Midlands +25 110 £525 -2.33% 11
Yorkshire +20 110 £515 -4.94% 15
West Midlands +27 106 £525 -4.72% 8
South East +20 97 £375 -34.78% 33
Scotland +27 35 £550 +32.53% 8
North West -25 35 £481 -12.64% 6
South West -17 11 £625 -21.88% 11
East of England -33 6 £600 - 19
Wales - 5 £600 -
East Midlands -24 4 £442 +13.11% 3
North East -12 3 £538 -8.51%

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 18 (2.68%) Apache
2 16 (2.38%) Skype for Business
3 15 (2.23%) Confluence
4 13 (1.93%) TPMS
5 12 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.64%) Mattermost
7 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.04%) Apache Pig
8 7 (1.04%) IIS
8 7 (1.04%) iPlanet
8 7 (1.04%) JBoss
8 7 (1.04%) WebSphere
8 7 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (0.89%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.45%) SAS
12 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 19 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 245 (36.46%) AWS
2 156 (23.21%) Azure
3 141 (20.98%) GCP
4 76 (11.31%) GitHub
5 69 (10.27%) OpenShift
6 53 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (5.95%) Serverless
8 32 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.61%) Datadog
10 26 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.83%) SaaS
13 19 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.68%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.38%) Akamai
16 16 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (15.18%) Firewall
2 84 (12.50%) DNS
3 49 (7.29%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.02%) Network Security
5 26 (3.87%) SSL
6 25 (3.72%) VPN
7 20 (2.98%) HTTP
7 20 (2.98%) Wireless
8 19 (2.83%) BGP
9 18 (2.68%) OSPF
10 17 (2.53%) DHCP
10 17 (2.53%) Ethernet VPN
10 17 (2.53%) WAN
11 16 (2.38%) LAN
11 16 (2.38%) Skype
11 16 (2.38%) Wireshark
12 15 (2.23%) SNMP
13 14 (2.08%) SSH
14 13 (1.93%) VXLAN
15 12 (1.79%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.72%) Relational Database
5 20 (2.98%) MySQL
6 13 (1.93%) Redis
7 11 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 11 (1.64%) Power BI
8 10 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.49%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.34%) Apache Hive
9 9 (1.34%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.04%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.89%) Tableau
12 4 (0.60%) Flink
13 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 129 (19.20%) Jenkins
2 104 (15.48%) GitLab
3 44 (6.55%) Git
4 27 (4.02%) JIRA
5 21 (3.13%) Liquibase
6 17 (2.53%) Postman
7 16 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (2.38%) Xcode
8 15 (2.23%) Android Studio
8 15 (2.23%) Browser DevTools
8 15 (2.23%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.79%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.79%) JUnit
9 12 (1.79%) Selenium
10 11 (1.64%) Gatling
10 11 (1.64%) Maven
11 10 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.49%) Gradle
11 10 (1.49%) Jaeger
12 8 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
General
1 292 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 158 (23.51%) Finance
3 109 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.23%) Banking
6 46 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (5.65%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.68%) Military
9 13 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.34%) Retail
11 8 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.74%) Legal
13 5 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.60%) Front Office
14 4 (0.60%) Law
15 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.15%) Advertising
17 1 (0.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 128 (19.05%) Analyst
2 76 (11.31%) Senior
3 63 (9.38%) Architect
4 59 (8.78%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 40 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 38 (5.65%) Lead
9 30 (4.46%) Security Analyst
9 30 (4.46%) Splunk Engineer
10 26 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (3.87%) Site Engineer
11 24 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (3.42%) Developer
13 22 (3.27%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Monitoring Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) Support Analyst
15 19 (2.83%) Data Engineer
15 19 (2.83%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.42%) REST
2 67 (9.97%) Kafka
3 66 (9.82%) Elastic Stack
4 39 (5.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (5.51%) Spring Boot
6 36 (5.36%) RESTful
7 34 (5.06%) SAML
8 32 (4.76%) Spring
9 27 (4.02%) LDAP
10 26 (3.87%) OpenID
11 23 (3.42%) Middleware
11 23 (3.42%) OAuth
12 22 (3.27%) JSON
13 21 (3.13%) AngularJS
14 20 (2.98%) React
15 19 (2.83%) CSS
16 16 (2.38%) GraphQL
17 15 (2.23%) Ajax
17 15 (2.23%) Keycloak
17 15 (2.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.16%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.04%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.91%) PKI
5 33 (4.91%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.76%) Public Cloud
7 30 (4.46%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.87%) Mobile App
9 25 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (3.27%) Cyber Defence
11 21 (3.13%) Clustering
11 21 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
11 21 (3.13%) Data Centre
12 19 (2.83%) Cyberattack
13 15 (2.23%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.93%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 247 (36.76%) Linux
2 153 (22.77%) Windows
3 92 (13.69%) Unix
4 32 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.83%) Android
5 19 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.04%) CentOS
6 7 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.60%) zOS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (33.93%) CI/CD
2 219 (32.59%) DevOps
3 186 (27.68%) Cybersecurity
4 185 (27.53%) Observability
5 168 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 167 (24.85%) SIEM
7 159 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (18.90%) Containerisation
10 105 (15.63%) Agile
11 90 (13.39%) Computer Science
12 89 (13.24%) Microservices
13 88 (13.10%) Security Operations
14 75 (11.16%) High Availability
15 73 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 72 (10.71%) Migration
17 71 (10.57%) Root Cause Analysis
18 62 (9.23%) Threat Detection
19 61 (9.08%) ITIL
20 58 (8.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 247 (36.76%) Python
2 103 (15.33%) Bash
3 101 (15.03%) PowerShell
4 94 (13.99%) Java
5 91 (13.54%) SQL
6 45 (6.70%) Go
7 38 (5.65%) Shell Script
8 32 (4.76%) JavaScript
9 27 (4.02%) Perl
10 21 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.08%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.64%) Groovy
13 11 (1.64%) Scala
14 10 (1.49%) Bicep
14 10 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
15 9 (1.34%) Rust
16 4 (0.60%) JCL
16 4 (0.60%) R
16 4 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 237 (35.27%) Security Cleared
2 158 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 101 (15.03%) Degree
4 71 (10.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.63%) DV Cleared
6 53 (7.89%) CISSP
7 35 (5.21%) Master's Degree
8 34 (5.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 31 (4.61%) CISM
10 21 (3.13%) GIAC
11 20 (2.98%) AWS Certification
12 19 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (2.68%) CEH
14 17 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (2.38%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.93%) FFIEC
16 13 (1.93%) GCIA
16 13 (1.93%) GCIH
17 12 (1.79%) MCSE
17 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.01%) NIST
2 58 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.06%) GDPR
4 26 (3.87%) NCSC
5 25 (3.72%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.42%) QA
7 19 (2.83%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.93%) GLBA
9 10 (1.49%) SLA
10 9 (1.34%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.34%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.74%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 136 (20.24%) Docker
2 51 (7.59%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.23%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.79%) vSphere
6 8 (1.19%) Snort
7 6 (0.89%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.60%) NFS
10 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.45%) Squid
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (30.51%) Kubernetes
2 140 (20.83%) Grafana
3 134 (19.94%) Ansible
3 134 (19.94%) Terraform
4 111 (16.52%) Prometheus
5 28 (4.17%) Kibana
6 24 (3.57%) Argo
7 22 (3.27%) SCOM
8 21 (3.13%) Puppet
8 21 (3.13%) QRadar
9 20 (2.98%) Progress Chef
10 18 (2.68%) HP SiteScope
11 16 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (2.23%) CSIRT
13 13 (1.93%) Fluentd
13 13 (1.93%) FortiGate
14 12 (1.79%) Nessus
14 12 (1.79%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.64%) logstash
15 11 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 148 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.04%) Cisco
3 46 (6.85%) Google
4 45 (6.70%) AppDynamics
4 45 (6.70%) Oracle
4 45 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 44 (6.55%) Dynatrace
6 37 (5.51%) CrowdStrike
7 32 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 32 (4.76%) VMware
8 31 (4.61%) F5
9 29 (4.32%) CyberArk
10 25 (3.72%) Cribl.io
10 25 (3.72%) Qualys
11 23 (3.42%) Carbon Black
11 23 (3.42%) SolarWinds
12 22 (3.27%) Palo Alto
12 22 (3.27%) Remedy
13 20 (2.98%) Tenable
14 13 (1.93%) Thales