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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 151 224
Rank change year-on-year -92 +73 -34
Contract jobs citing Splunk 598 621 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.91% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% 4.06% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 378 261
10th Percentile £350 £360 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £720 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -1.61% -4.09% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £44.29 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.84 - -
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 22,747 15,293 16,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.12% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,964 9,367 10,148
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £612 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,253 777 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.60 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.90 £25.15 £30.21
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -16.74% -30.36%
75th Percentile £62.00 £43.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.60%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -98 518 £525 - 573
UK excluding London -108 300 £519 -1.61% 429
London -58 244 £525 - 280
Work from Home -42 172 £520 +4.00% 180
North of England -40 125 £463 -0.38% 109
North West -25 69 £515 +12.57% 64
Midlands -48 49 £575 +9.00% 37
West Midlands -52 47 £575 +7.68% 34
Yorkshire -35 42 £469 -1.17% 29
South East -118 40 £485 -3.00% 97
South West -29 34 £625 +13.64% 55
Scotland -20 33 £425 -15.51% 52
East of England -42 26 £700 +27.27% 37
North East -25 14 £425 - 17
Wales - 2 - - 22
East Midlands -15 1 £500 +38.89% 3

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 29 (4.85%) Confluence
2 15 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.17%) Apache
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Mendix
9 1 (0.17%) MTS
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) 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 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (38.46%) AWS
2 216 (36.12%) Azure
3 100 (16.72%) GitHub
4 87 (14.55%) GCP
5 55 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (8.03%) OpenShift
7 44 (7.36%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.52%) Datadog
8 39 (6.52%) Entra ID
9 35 (5.85%) Power Platform
10 34 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (4.68%) SaaS
12 27 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
13 26 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (4.35%) Serverless
14 23 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (3.85%) Amazon S3
15 22 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.54%) Firewall
2 48 (8.03%) DNS
3 39 (6.52%) Network Security
4 36 (6.02%) SNMP
5 23 (3.85%) WAN
6 17 (2.84%) VPN
7 16 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 12 (2.01%) BGP
8 12 (2.01%) Wireless
9 11 (1.84%) DHCP
9 11 (1.84%) HTTP
9 11 (1.84%) LAN
10 10 (1.67%) Internet
10 10 (1.67%) OSPF
11 9 (1.51%) SSL
12 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.00%) BIG-IP
13 6 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (1.00%) Multicast
14 5 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.69%) Power BI
2 29 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.84%) Big Data
5 16 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.51%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.84%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.84%) MySQL
10 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.17%) Looker
11 7 (1.17%) Presto
11 7 (1.17%) Tableau
12 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.84%) Flink
12 5 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (15.72%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.87%) Git
3 54 (9.03%) GitLab
4 43 (7.19%) JIRA
5 28 (4.68%) Gatling
5 28 (4.68%) JMeter
6 17 (2.84%) LoadRunner
7 16 (2.68%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.67%) Selenium
9 9 (1.51%) Maven
10 8 (1.34%) Gradle
10 8 (1.34%) JUnit
10 8 (1.34%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.17%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.00%) Postman
12 6 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
12 6 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.00%) Xcode
13 5 (0.84%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.84%) Cypress.io
General
1 158 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.90%) Finance
3 105 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.70%) Banking
5 36 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Retail
8 11 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.67%) Front Office
9 10 (1.67%) Legal
10 6 (1.00%) Military
11 5 (0.84%) Law
11 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.33%) Advertising
14 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (10.37%) Analyst
2 57 (9.53%) Senior
3 53 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (8.03%) Lead
5 42 (7.02%) Consultant
6 40 (6.69%) Developer
6 40 (6.69%) Splunk Engineer
7 36 (6.02%) Architect
8 33 (5.52%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.52%) SOC Engineer
10 26 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (3.51%) Test Engineer
12 19 (3.18%) Performance Engineer
12 19 (3.18%) Security Analyst
13 18 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (2.84%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.84%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (2.84%) Support Engineer
15 16 (2.68%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (25.25%) Terraform
2 59 (9.87%) Kafka
3 55 (9.20%) REST
4 52 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (6.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 20 (3.34%) React
6 20 (3.34%) RESTful
6 20 (3.34%) Spring
6 20 (3.34%) Spring Boot
7 16 (2.68%) JSON
8 15 (2.51%) Play Framework
9 14 (2.34%) Middleware
10 13 (2.17%) CSS
10 13 (2.17%) OAuth
10 13 (2.17%) OAuth2
11 12 (2.01%) .NET
12 11 (1.84%) OpenID
13 10 (1.67%) SAML
14 9 (1.51%) HTML
14 9 (1.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 63 (10.54%) Cloud Native
3 42 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 22 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (1.84%) CMDB
10 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.67%) Clustering
11 10 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.51%) PKI
13 8 (1.34%) Blog
13 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 169 (28.26%) Linux
2 108 (18.06%) Windows
3 50 (8.36%) Unix
4 29 (4.85%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.17%) AIX
7 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) zOS
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
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
1 232 (38.80%) Observability
2 216 (36.12%) CI/CD
3 184 (30.77%) DevOps
4 138 (23.08%) SIEM
5 123 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (20.07%) Agile
7 116 (19.40%) Incident Response
8 115 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
10 85 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 80 (13.38%) Containerisation
12 79 (13.21%) Security Operations
13 77 (12.88%) Root Cause Analysis
13 77 (12.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 66 (11.04%) Incident Management
15 63 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 56 (9.36%) Analytics
17 55 (9.20%) ITSM
17 55 (9.20%) Roadmaps
18 54 (9.03%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 212 (35.45%) Python
2 110 (18.39%) PowerShell
3 85 (14.21%) SQL
4 75 (12.54%) Bash
5 68 (11.37%) Java
6 51 (8.53%) Search Processing Language
7 36 (6.02%) Go
8 24 (4.01%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.68%) Scala
10 20 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (2.84%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.51%) Perl
14 8 (1.34%) C#
15 7 (1.17%) Bicep
16 5 (0.84%) Ruby
17 4 (0.67%) Groovy
17 4 (0.67%) JCL
17 4 (0.67%) REXX
18 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 224 (37.46%) Security Cleared
2 156 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.70%) DV Cleared
4 51 (8.53%) CISSP
5 44 (7.36%) Degree
6 25 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.85%) CISM
8 20 (3.34%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.01%) GIAC
10 17 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (2.34%) GCIH
12 13 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (2.17%) CEH
13 10 (1.67%) CCSP
14 9 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.34%) GCIA
16 7 (1.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.35%) NIST
2 26 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.35%) QA
3 24 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.84%) GDPR
5 14 (2.34%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.67%) NCSC
7 9 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.00%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.84%) SLA
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.67%) GRC
10 4 (0.67%) GxP
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.50%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (16.39%) Docker
2 25 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.33%) HDFS
8 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) etcd
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%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 156 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 153 (25.59%) Grafana
3 97 (16.22%) Prometheus
4 85 (14.21%) Ansible
5 34 (5.69%) QRadar
6 21 (3.51%) ZABBIX
7 18 (3.01%) Nagios
8 17 (2.84%) Kibana
9 15 (2.51%) Argo
10 14 (2.34%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.17%) Netcool
11 13 (2.17%) Tivoli
12 11 (1.84%) OpenView
12 11 (1.84%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 10 (1.67%) Control-M
14 9 (1.51%) SCOM
15 8 (1.34%) CASB
15 8 (1.34%) Puppet
15 8 (1.34%) WMI
16 7 (1.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 127 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 102 (17.06%) Dynatrace
3 72 (12.04%) ServiceNow
4 49 (8.19%) CrowdStrike
5 47 (7.86%) SolarWinds
6 43 (7.19%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.69%) Cisco
8 38 (6.35%) New Relic
9 35 (5.85%) Oracle
10 34 (5.69%) Google
10 34 (5.69%) IBM
11 24 (4.01%) VMware
12 23 (3.85%) CyberArk
13 20 (3.34%) BMC
14 19 (3.18%) Cribl.io
14 19 (3.18%) F5
14 19 (3.18%) Palo Alto
14 19 (3.18%) Tenable
15 17 (2.84%) Qualys
16 13 (2.17%) Fortinet