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 16 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 148 227
Rank change year-on-year -87 +79 -43
Contract jobs citing Splunk 599 635 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.93% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 4.08% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 392 258
10th Percentile £350 £360 £417
25th Percentile £413 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £574
Median % change year-on-year - -8.50% -4.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £678
90th Percentile £718 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £44.57 - -
25th Percentile £46.40 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.23 - £47.50
75th Percentile £72.96 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.19 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 22,712 15,566 16,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.26% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,926 9,545 10,148
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
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 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 789 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -16.17% -31.56%
75th Percentile £63.00 £43.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.36% -29.37% -27.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -97 519 £525 - 590
UK excluding London -103 301 £525 - 435
London -69 244 £525 - 282
Work from Home -39 172 £520 +4.00% 184
North of England -47 125 £463 -1.80% 112
North West -26 68 £520 +13.66% 69
Midlands -49 50 £575 +9.00% 38
West Midlands -53 48 £575 +7.68% 36
Yorkshire -51 42 £475 -2.66% 29
South East -120 41 £500 - 99
Scotland -25 33 £425 -15.51% 51
South West -28 33 £650 +18.18% 56
East of England -35 26 £700 +27.27% 37
North East -25 15 £425 - 15
Wales - 2 - - 22
East Midlands -14 1 £500 +38.89% 2

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 (4.84%) Confluence
2 14 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.17%) Apache
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) 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
1 231 (38.56%) AWS
2 217 (36.23%) Azure
3 101 (16.86%) GitHub
4 87 (14.52%) GCP
5 56 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (7.85%) OpenShift
7 45 (7.51%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.51%) Datadog
8 39 (6.51%) Entra ID
9 36 (6.01%) Power Platform
10 34 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (4.67%) SaaS
12 27 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (4.51%) Serverless
13 24 (4.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (4.01%) Amazon S3
14 22 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.52%) Firewall
2 48 (8.01%) DNS
3 39 (6.51%) Network Security
4 35 (5.84%) SNMP
5 23 (3.84%) WAN
6 17 (2.84%) VPN
7 16 (2.67%) TCP/IP
8 12 (2.00%) BGP
8 12 (2.00%) 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 (1.50%) SSL
12 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.00%) BIG-IP
13 6 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (1.00%) Multicast
13 6 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.84%) Power BI
2 29 (4.84%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.84%) Big Data
5 16 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.84%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.84%) MySQL
9 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.34%) Tableau
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.17%) Looker
10 7 (1.17%) Presto
11 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.83%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 93 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.85%) Git
3 54 (9.02%) GitLab
4 43 (7.18%) JIRA
5 28 (4.67%) Gatling
5 28 (4.67%) JMeter
6 17 (2.84%) LoadRunner
7 16 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.67%) Selenium
9 9 (1.50%) 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 (0.83%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 162 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.70%) Finance
3 105 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.52%) Banking
5 37 (6.18%) 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 (0.83%) Law
11 5 (0.83%) 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%) Billing
Job Titles
1 63 (10.52%) Analyst
2 57 (9.52%) Senior
3 52 (8.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (8.01%) Lead
5 41 (6.84%) Consultant
6 40 (6.68%) Developer
6 40 (6.68%) Splunk Engineer
7 36 (6.01%) Architect
8 33 (5.51%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.51%) SOC Engineer
10 26 (4.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (3.51%) Test Engineer
12 19 (3.17%) Performance Engineer
12 19 (3.17%) Security Analyst
13 18 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.01%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (2.84%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.84%) Support Engineer
15 16 (2.67%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (25.21%) Terraform
2 58 (9.68%) Kafka
3 54 (9.02%) REST
4 51 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (6.68%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.51%) RESTful
7 20 (3.34%) React
7 20 (3.34%) Spring
7 20 (3.34%) Spring Boot
8 16 (2.67%) JSON
9 15 (2.50%) Middleware
9 15 (2.50%) Play Framework
10 14 (2.34%) OAuth
10 14 (2.34%) OAuth2
11 13 (2.17%) CSS
12 12 (2.00%) .NET
12 12 (2.00%) OpenID
13 10 (1.67%) SAML
14 9 (1.50%) HTML
14 9 (1.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.35%) Onboarding
2 63 (10.52%) Cloud Native
3 42 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.01%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (3.84%) 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 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.50%) PKI
13 8 (1.34%) Blog
13 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 168 (28.05%) Linux
2 107 (17.86%) Windows
3 50 (8.35%) Unix
4 29 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.00%) AIX
7 9 (1.50%) 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
1 233 (38.90%) Observability
2 217 (36.23%) CI/CD
3 184 (30.72%) DevOps
4 139 (23.21%) SIEM
5 123 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (20.03%) Agile
7 116 (19.37%) Incident Response
8 115 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (15.53%) Cybersecurity
10 86 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (13.52%) Containerisation
12 80 (13.36%) Security Operations
13 77 (12.85%) Root Cause Analysis
13 77 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 65 (10.85%) Incident Management
15 64 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 59 (9.85%) Analytics
17 55 (9.18%) ITSM
17 55 (9.18%) Use Case
18 54 (9.02%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 211 (35.23%) Python
2 109 (18.20%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.36%) SQL
4 75 (12.52%) Bash
5 68 (11.35%) Java
6 51 (8.51%) Search Processing Language
7 36 (6.01%) Go
8 24 (4.01%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.67%) Scala
10 20 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 19 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (2.84%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.50%) Perl
14 8 (1.34%) C#
15 7 (1.17%) Bicep
16 5 (0.83%) 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 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 156 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.68%) CISSP
5 46 (7.68%) Degree
6 25 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.84%) CISM
8 20 (3.34%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (3.01%) GIAC
11 17 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (2.50%) GCIH
13 13 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (2.17%) CEH
14 10 (1.67%) CCSP
15 9 (1.50%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.34%) GCIA
17 7 (1.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.34%) NIST
2 26 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.34%) QA
3 25 (4.17%) 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 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.00%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.83%) SLA
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/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.50%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (16.36%) Docker
2 25 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) 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 (26.04%) Kubernetes
2 153 (25.54%) Grafana
3 97 (16.19%) Prometheus
4 85 (14.19%) Ansible
5 33 (5.51%) QRadar
6 20 (3.34%) ZABBIX
7 17 (2.84%) Kibana
7 17 (2.84%) Nagios
8 15 (2.50%) Argo
9 14 (2.34%) Progress Chef
10 12 (2.00%) Netcool
10 12 (2.00%) Tivoli
11 10 (1.67%) Control-M
11 10 (1.67%) OpenView
11 10 (1.67%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 9 (1.50%) SCOM
13 8 (1.34%) CASB
13 8 (1.34%) Puppet
13 8 (1.34%) WMI
14 7 (1.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 127 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.20%) Dynatrace
3 72 (12.02%) ServiceNow
4 49 (8.18%) CrowdStrike
5 46 (7.68%) SolarWinds
6 43 (7.18%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.68%) Cisco
8 38 (6.34%) New Relic
9 35 (5.84%) Google
10 34 (5.68%) Oracle
11 33 (5.51%) IBM
12 24 (4.01%) VMware
13 23 (3.84%) CyberArk
14 19 (3.17%) BMC
14 19 (3.17%) Cribl.io
14 19 (3.17%) F5
14 19 (3.17%) Palo Alto
14 19 (3.17%) Tenable
15 17 (2.84%) Qualys
16 13 (2.17%) Fortinet