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 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 163 228
Rank change year-on-year -78 +65 -54
Contract jobs citing Splunk 589 563 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.71% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% 3.62% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 357 267
10th Percentile £358 £359 £400
25th Percentile £424 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -4.96% -4.76%
75th Percentile £604 £630 £645
90th Percentile £718 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.81% -1.82% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £48.65 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.31 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.19 - -
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 22,404 15,570 17,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.76% 47.24% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,872 9,523 10,614
10th Percentile £313 £278 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 804 837
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.57 £13.67
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.85 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.11 £21.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +50.76% -23.93% -17.57%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -71 516 £525 -2.23% 421
UK excluding London -78 310 £514 -4.81% 288
London -46 226 £550 +4.76% 228
Work from Home -44 154 £525 +5.00% 94
North of England -35 127 £492 +4.06% 64
North West -36 64 £520 +13.66% 37
Yorkshire -26 55 £485 -3.00% 12
South East -104 52 £468 -7.65% 72
Midlands -38 45 £581 +9.73% 18
West Midlands -34 42 £581 +8.19% 17
South West -21 41 £450 -21.05% 45
Scotland -16 28 £423 -15.90% 38
East of England -34 26 £700 +27.27% 29
North East -36 8 £425 - 15
East Midlands -19 2 £563 +47.49% 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 27 (4.58%) Confluence
2 22 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.36%) Apache
5 6 (1.02%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) 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 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
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 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (35.31%) AWS
2 201 (34.13%) Azure
3 100 (16.98%) GitHub
4 74 (12.56%) GCP
5 53 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (8.32%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.79%) Entra ID
8 38 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (6.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 37 (6.28%) Datadog
10 36 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (4.92%) SaaS
12 27 (4.58%) Power Platform
13 26 (4.41%) Amazon S3
13 26 (4.41%) Serverless
14 24 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (14.43%) Firewall
2 69 (11.71%) DNS
3 44 (7.47%) Network Security
4 38 (6.45%) SNMP
5 35 (5.94%) WAN
6 30 (5.09%) BGP
7 29 (4.92%) DHCP
8 28 (4.75%) LAN
9 27 (4.58%) OSPF
10 24 (4.07%) BIG-IP
10 24 (4.07%) Ethernet VPN
11 23 (3.90%) VXLAN
12 22 (3.74%) Junos
13 19 (3.23%) Cisco ISE
14 18 (3.06%) VPN
15 17 (2.89%) TCP/IP
16 10 (1.70%) Internet
17 9 (1.53%) SSL
17 9 (1.53%) Wireless
18 8 (1.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.41%) Power BI
2 24 (4.07%) MongoDB
3 21 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.89%) Big Data
6 14 (2.38%) Hadoop
6 14 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.70%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.53%) MySQL
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.02%) Flink
11 6 (1.02%) Tableau
12 5 (0.85%) Looker
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) KDB
Development Applications
1 91 (15.45%) Jenkins
2 60 (10.19%) GitLab
3 54 (9.17%) Git
4 39 (6.62%) JIRA
5 32 (5.43%) Gatling
6 31 (5.26%) JMeter
7 20 (3.40%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.38%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.87%) Selenium
10 9 (1.53%) JUnit
10 9 (1.53%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.36%) Gradle
11 8 (1.36%) Maven
12 7 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.19%) Postman
12 7 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 145 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.02%) Finance
3 85 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.17%) Banking
5 30 (5.09%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.87%) Front Office
8 10 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.70%) Legal
9 9 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.53%) Retail
10 8 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.85%) Law
12 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.68%) Military
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Advertising
14 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (10.19%) Lead
2 58 (9.85%) Senior
3 53 (9.00%) Analyst
4 47 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (7.81%) Consultant
6 40 (6.79%) Architect
7 33 (5.60%) Developer
7 33 (5.60%) Splunk Engineer
8 25 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 24 (4.07%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (3.90%) Performance Engineer
11 21 (3.57%) Security Engineer
12 19 (3.23%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.23%) Test Engineer
13 18 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.06%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.89%) Network Engineer
15 16 (2.72%) Security Architect
16 15 (2.55%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (10.36%) REST
2 56 (9.51%) Kafka
3 43 (7.30%) OpenTelemetry
4 40 (6.79%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.41%) 802.1X
6 20 (3.40%) Spring
6 20 (3.40%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.06%) JSON
8 15 (2.55%) React
9 14 (2.38%) RESTful
10 13 (2.21%) Middleware
11 12 (2.04%) .NET
12 11 (1.87%) OAuth
12 11 (1.87%) OAuth2
12 11 (1.87%) Play Framework
13 10 (1.70%) CSS
13 10 (1.70%) SailPoint
14 9 (1.53%) OpenID
14 9 (1.53%) SAML
15 8 (1.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.02%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.60%) PKI
5 32 (5.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 29 (4.92%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.58%) Clustering
8 16 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.55%) CMDB
10 14 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (2.38%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.38%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.87%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.87%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.02%) Equities
15 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 152 (25.81%) Linux
2 131 (22.24%) Windows
3 43 (7.30%) Unix
4 24 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.06%) AIX
7 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.36%) 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
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 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (37.35%) Observability
2 219 (37.18%) CI/CD
3 176 (29.88%) DevOps
4 128 (21.73%) SIEM
5 122 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (17.83%) Agile
8 100 (16.98%) Incident Response
9 89 (15.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 85 (14.43%) Containerisation
11 77 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
12 73 (12.39%) Security Operations
13 68 (11.54%) High Availability
14 64 (10.87%) ITSM
15 61 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (10.36%) Test Automation
16 60 (10.19%) ITIL
17 57 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
18 56 (9.51%) Analytics
19 55 (9.34%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 215 (36.50%) Python
2 107 (18.17%) PowerShell
3 88 (14.94%) SQL
4 67 (11.38%) Bash
5 66 (11.21%) Java
6 52 (8.83%) Search Processing Language
7 31 (5.26%) Go
8 25 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.23%) Scala
10 16 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.21%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.70%) Bicep
13 10 (1.70%) Perl
14 8 (1.36%) C#
15 5 (0.85%) Groovy
16 4 (0.68%) JCL
16 4 (0.68%) REXX
17 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 217 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 133 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 48 (8.15%) CISSP
5 41 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (6.96%) Degree
6 25 (4.24%) CISM
7 19 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (2.89%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.38%) GIAC
12 13 (2.21%) GCIH
13 11 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.87%) CEH
14 10 (1.70%) CCNP
15 9 (1.53%) CCSP
16 8 (1.36%) Azure Certification
16 8 (1.36%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (1.36%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.28%) NIST
2 25 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.06%) QA
5 15 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.21%) GDPR
6 13 (2.21%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.53%) NCSC
7 9 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.53%) SLA
8 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.68%) GxP
9 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 101 (17.15%) Docker
2 26 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.19%) vSphere
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.34%) Snort
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 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 150 (25.47%) Terraform
3 143 (24.28%) Grafana
4 101 (17.15%) Prometheus
5 88 (14.94%) Ansible
6 28 (4.75%) QRadar
7 25 (4.24%) FortiGate
8 24 (4.07%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.40%) Argo
9 20 (3.40%) Nagios
10 18 (3.06%) Netcool
11 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.55%) OpenView
12 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.38%) Kibana
13 14 (2.38%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.53%) Control-M
15 8 (1.36%) Puppet
15 8 (1.36%) SCOM
15 8 (1.36%) WMI
Vendors
1 111 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.13%) Dynatrace
3 77 (13.07%) ServiceNow
4 64 (10.87%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.19%) Cisco
6 42 (7.13%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (6.96%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.96%) New Relic
8 35 (5.94%) F5
8 35 (5.94%) IBM
9 28 (4.75%) Google
10 26 (4.41%) CyberArk
10 26 (4.41%) Oracle
11 24 (4.07%) Juniper
11 24 (4.07%) Tenable
12 23 (3.90%) BMC
12 23 (3.90%) VMware
13 22 (3.74%) Fortinet
14 20 (3.40%) Extreme Networks
14 20 (3.40%) Palo Alto