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 31 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 158 226
Rank change year-on-year -79 +68 -46
Contract jobs citing Splunk 589 599 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.82% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 3.85% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 374 276
10th Percentile £350 £360 £406
25th Percentile £413 £420 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £574
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -8.50% -4.38%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £650
90th Percentile £700 £707 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
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 22,440 15,554 16,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.75% 47.20% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,821 9,526 10,400
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £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 1,170 794 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.01 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -30.51%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -88 509 £525 - 214
UK excluding London -86 296 £513 -2.38% 145
London -44 237 £538 +2.38% 113
Work from Home -30 165 £520 +4.00% 79
North of England -41 120 £465 +1.64% 49
North West -33 66 £511 +13.50% 37
Midlands -45 50 £578 +10.10% 8
West Midlands -38 47 £578 +8.65% 7
Yorkshire -40 45 £475 +0.15% 10
South West -10 43 £457 -16.24% 17
South East -128 35 £465 -7.00% 36
Scotland -20 32 £438 -3.63% 17
East of England -31 26 £700 +27.27% 13
North East -28 9 £425 - 2
East Midlands -16 2 £563 +56.25% 1

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 28 (4.75%) Confluence
2 15 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.36%) Apache
4 8 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.19%) 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 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (37.86%) AWS
2 212 (35.99%) Azure
3 97 (16.47%) GitHub
4 78 (13.24%) GCP
5 53 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (8.83%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.62%) Entra ID
9 35 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (5.94%) Datadog
10 32 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.75%) Power Platform
11 28 (4.75%) SaaS
12 27 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (4.24%) Serverless
14 24 (4.07%) Amazon S3
15 23 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.21%) Firewall
2 52 (8.83%) DNS
3 40 (6.79%) SNMP
4 38 (6.45%) Network Security
5 23 (3.90%) WAN
6 17 (2.89%) VPN
7 15 (2.55%) TCP/IP
8 14 (2.38%) BGP
8 14 (2.38%) DHCP
9 13 (2.21%) LAN
10 12 (2.04%) OSPF
11 11 (1.87%) HTTP
11 11 (1.87%) Wireless
12 10 (1.70%) Internet
13 9 (1.53%) BIG-IP
14 8 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (1.36%) SSL
15 7 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (1.19%) Junos
15 7 (1.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.58%) Power BI
2 24 (4.07%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.06%) Big Data
5 15 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.70%) MySQL
9 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.19%) Presto
10 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.02%) Flink
10 6 (1.02%) Redis
11 5 (0.85%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.85%) Looker
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 90 (15.28%) Jenkins
2 58 (9.85%) Git
3 55 (9.34%) GitLab
4 42 (7.13%) JIRA
5 32 (5.43%) Gatling
5 32 (5.43%) JMeter
6 21 (3.57%) LoadRunner
7 16 (2.72%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.87%) Selenium
9 9 (1.53%) JUnit
10 8 (1.36%) Gradle
10 8 (1.36%) Maven
10 8 (1.36%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.19%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
11 7 (1.19%) Postman
12 6 (1.02%) Serenity BDD
12 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 150 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.35%) Finance
3 90 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.17%) Banking
5 35 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.70%) Front Office
8 10 (1.70%) Legal
8 10 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.53%) Retail
10 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.85%) Law
10 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.68%) Local Government
11 4 (0.68%) Military
12 3 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (8.83%) Analyst
2 50 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (8.49%) Senior
3 49 (8.32%) Lead
4 46 (7.81%) Consultant
5 38 (6.45%) Splunk Engineer
6 36 (6.11%) Developer
7 35 (5.94%) Architect
8 26 (4.41%) Security Engineer
9 25 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 25 (4.24%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (3.90%) Performance Engineer
11 20 (3.40%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (2.89%) Site Engineer
13 17 (2.89%) SOC Analyst
13 17 (2.89%) Support Engineer
14 16 (2.72%) Applications Support
15 15 (2.55%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (24.45%) Terraform
2 62 (10.53%) Kafka
3 58 (9.85%) REST
4 46 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (7.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (3.23%) React
6 19 (3.23%) Spring
6 19 (3.23%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.06%) RESTful
8 17 (2.89%) JSON
9 13 (2.21%) CSS
9 13 (2.21%) Middleware
10 12 (2.04%) .NET
10 12 (2.04%) OAuth
10 12 (2.04%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.04%) Play Framework
11 11 (1.87%) 802.1X
12 10 (1.70%) OpenID
13 9 (1.53%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.71%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.06%) PKI
7 16 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.38%) CMDB
10 13 (2.21%) Clustering
10 13 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.70%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.70%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.53%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (1.02%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 164 (27.84%) Linux
2 115 (19.52%) Windows
3 46 (7.81%) Unix
4 25 (4.24%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.06%) AIX
7 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.68%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) zOS
11 3 (0.51%) CentOS
11 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (38.20%) Observability
2 212 (35.99%) CI/CD
3 184 (31.24%) DevOps
4 131 (22.24%) SIEM
5 118 (20.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (18.85%) Agile
6 111 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (18.00%) Incident Response
8 83 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
9 81 (13.75%) Containerisation
10 76 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 75 (12.73%) Security Operations
12 73 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 72 (12.22%) Root Cause Analysis
14 64 (10.87%) Incident Management
15 60 (10.19%) ITSM
15 60 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (8.83%) Cloud Security
16 52 (8.83%) High Availability
16 52 (8.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 216 (36.67%) Python
2 113 (19.19%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.60%) SQL
4 74 (12.56%) Bash
5 69 (11.71%) Java
6 58 (9.85%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (5.94%) Go
8 26 (4.41%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.40%) Scala
10 18 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 18 (3.06%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.89%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.53%) Perl
13 8 (1.36%) C#
14 7 (1.19%) Bicep
15 5 (0.85%) Groovy
15 5 (0.85%) Ruby
16 4 (0.68%) JCL
16 4 (0.68%) REXX
17 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 225 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 153 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 47 (7.98%) CISSP
5 42 (7.13%) Degree
6 25 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.74%) CISM
8 19 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.06%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.72%) GIAC
11 14 (2.38%) GCIH
12 12 (2.04%) CEH
13 10 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (1.36%) GCIA
14 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.19%) CCNP
15 7 (1.19%) CCSP
15 7 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.45%) NIST
2 26 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 22 (3.74%) QA
5 15 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.38%) GDPR
7 13 (2.21%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.70%) NCSC
9 9 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.02%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.85%) SLA
12 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.68%) GxP
12 4 (0.68%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.34%) COBIT
14 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 102 (17.32%) Docker
2 25 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.02%) etcd
6 6 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.02%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 160 (27.16%) Kubernetes
2 144 (24.45%) Grafana
3 100 (16.98%) Prometheus
4 85 (14.43%) Ansible
5 29 (4.92%) QRadar
6 25 (4.24%) ZABBIX
7 23 (3.90%) Nagios
8 18 (3.06%) Netcool
9 17 (2.89%) Argo
9 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
10 16 (2.72%) Kibana
11 15 (2.55%) OpenView
11 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.38%) Progress Chef
13 10 (1.70%) Control-M
13 10 (1.70%) FortiGate
14 9 (1.53%) SCOM
15 8 (1.36%) Puppet
15 8 (1.36%) WMI
16 7 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 118 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 101 (17.15%) Dynatrace
3 70 (11.88%) ServiceNow
4 53 (9.00%) SolarWinds
5 45 (7.64%) CrowdStrike
6 44 (7.47%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.96%) New Relic
8 40 (6.79%) Cisco
9 36 (6.11%) IBM
10 32 (5.43%) Oracle
11 27 (4.58%) Google
12 25 (4.24%) VMware
13 24 (4.07%) BMC
13 24 (4.07%) CyberArk
14 21 (3.57%) Tenable
15 19 (3.23%) Cribl.io
15 19 (3.23%) F5
15 19 (3.23%) Palo Alto
16 15 (2.55%) HP
16 15 (2.55%) Qualys