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 12 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 168 231
Rank change year-on-year -69 +63 -56
Contract jobs citing Splunk 582 546 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.66% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 3.51% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 344 260
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £604 £630 £638
90th Percentile £719 £759 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -1.82% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £48.65 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.31 - £42.19
90th Percentile £79.19 - £46.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00

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 22,198 15,572 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.59% 47.24% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,745 9,526 10,606
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £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 1,146 796 841
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.48 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.24 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.43 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.96 £21.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +50.06% -23.93% -18.84%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -70 506 £525 -2.23% 453
UK excluding London -76 305 £517 -4.31% 313
London -48 221 £550 +4.76% 244
Work from Home -46 150 £525 +5.00% 107
North of England -39 123 £500 +9.29% 70
North West -32 63 £525 +14.75% 41
Yorkshire -24 56 £485 +2.63% 14
South East -102 53 £470 -8.29% 82
South West -12 41 £450 -21.05% 50
Midlands -38 41 £581 +10.67% 16
West Midlands -30 38 £581 +8.19% 15
Scotland -7 28 £423 -15.90% 42
East of England -33 26 £700 +27.27% 29
North East - 4 £413 - 15
East Midlands -11 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 (4.64%) Confluence
2 22 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.37%) Apache
5 6 (1.03%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.52%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
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 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.86%) 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 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.52%) 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
1 199 (34.19%) AWS
2 196 (33.68%) Azure
3 96 (16.49%) GitHub
4 72 (12.37%) GCP
5 51 (8.76%) OpenShift
6 49 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (6.36%) Entra ID
8 36 (6.19%) Datadog
9 34 (5.84%) Azure Sentinel
10 31 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.81%) SaaS
13 26 (4.47%) Amazon S3
13 26 (4.47%) Serverless
14 25 (4.30%) Power Platform
15 24 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 88 (15.12%) Firewall
2 73 (12.54%) DNS
3 43 (7.39%) Network Security
4 39 (6.70%) SNMP
5 37 (6.36%) WAN
6 31 (5.33%) BGP
6 31 (5.33%) DHCP
7 30 (5.15%) LAN
8 29 (4.98%) OSPF
9 26 (4.47%) BIG-IP
9 26 (4.47%) Ethernet VPN
10 25 (4.30%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.12%) Junos
12 21 (3.61%) Cisco ISE
13 18 (3.09%) TCP/IP
14 17 (2.92%) VPN
15 12 (2.06%) SSL
16 10 (1.72%) Internet
17 8 (1.37%) HTTP
17 8 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.12%) Power BI
2 20 (3.44%) MongoDB
2 20 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.92%) Big Data
5 14 (2.41%) Hadoop
5 14 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.37%) MySQL
8 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.20%) Presto
10 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.03%) Flink
10 6 (1.03%) Tableau
11 5 (0.86%) Looker
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 90 (15.46%) Jenkins
2 58 (9.97%) GitLab
3 51 (8.76%) Git
4 38 (6.53%) JIRA
5 32 (5.50%) Gatling
6 31 (5.33%) JMeter
7 20 (3.44%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.23%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.89%) Selenium
10 9 (1.55%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.37%) JUnit
12 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.20%) Gradle
12 7 (1.20%) Maven
12 7 (1.20%) Postman
12 7 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 142 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 107 (18.38%) Finance
3 81 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.93%) Banking
5 27 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.89%) Retail
8 10 (1.72%) Front Office
8 10 (1.72%) Legal
9 9 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.03%) Military
12 5 (0.86%) Law
13 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.52%) Local Government
14 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.34%) Advertising
15 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (10.48%) Lead
2 58 (9.97%) Senior
3 54 (9.28%) Analyst
4 48 (8.25%) Consultant
5 46 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (7.22%) Architect
7 31 (5.33%) Splunk Engineer
8 30 (5.15%) Developer
9 24 (4.12%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (3.95%) Performance Engineer
10 23 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (3.61%) Security Engineer
12 20 (3.44%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (3.26%) Test Engineer
14 18 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.09%) Network Engineer
15 17 (2.92%) Site Engineer
16 16 (2.75%) Security Architect
16 16 (2.75%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (10.48%) REST
2 55 (9.45%) Kafka
3 45 (7.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 40 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (4.64%) 802.1X
6 20 (3.44%) Spring
6 20 (3.44%) Spring Boot
7 19 (3.26%) JSON
8 15 (2.58%) React
9 14 (2.41%) RESTful
10 13 (2.23%) Middleware
11 11 (1.89%) .NET
11 11 (1.89%) OAuth
11 11 (1.89%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.72%) CSS
12 10 (1.72%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.55%) LDAP
13 9 (1.55%) OpenID
13 9 (1.55%) SAML
14 8 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.97%) Onboarding
3 35 (6.01%) PKI
4 34 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 31 (5.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 28 (4.81%) Clustering
7 17 (2.92%) CMDB
7 17 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 13 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
10 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.72%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 151 (25.95%) Linux
2 132 (22.68%) Windows
3 45 (7.73%) Unix
4 21 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.09%) AIX
6 9 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.69%) Android
9 4 (0.69%) zOS
10 2 (0.34%) CentOS
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (37.63%) Observability
2 214 (36.77%) CI/CD
3 175 (30.07%) DevOps
4 125 (21.48%) SIEM
5 120 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (19.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 100 (17.18%) Agile
8 92 (15.81%) Incident Response
9 87 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 84 (14.43%) Containerisation
11 76 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
12 70 (12.03%) Security Operations
13 69 (11.86%) High Availability
14 64 (11.00%) ITSM
15 61 (10.48%) ITIL
16 60 (10.31%) Test Automation
17 59 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (9.28%) Analytics
18 54 (9.28%) Root Cause Analysis
19 53 (9.11%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 210 (36.08%) Python
2 101 (17.35%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.78%) SQL
4 65 (11.17%) Bash
4 65 (11.17%) Java
5 50 (8.59%) Search Processing Language
6 29 (4.98%) Go
7 26 (4.47%) JavaScript
8 15 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (2.58%) Scala
9 14 (2.41%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.23%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.72%) Bicep
11 10 (1.72%) Perl
12 8 (1.37%) C#
13 5 (0.86%) Groovy
14 4 (0.69%) JCL
14 4 (0.69%) REXX
15 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 215 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 132 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.08%) CISSP
5 40 (6.87%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (6.53%) Degree
7 22 (3.78%) CISM
8 21 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.92%) AWS Certification
11 16 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (2.06%) GCIH
12 12 (2.06%) GIAC
13 11 (1.89%) CEH
14 10 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.72%) CCNP
14 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.55%) CCSP
16 8 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (1.37%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.01%) NIST
2 23 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.92%) QA
5 12 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.89%) GDPR
7 9 (1.55%) SLA
8 8 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.20%) NCSC
10 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.69%) GxP
11 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.52%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 100 (17.18%) Docker
2 28 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.55%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.37%) vSphere
6 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.03%) 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
Systems Management
1 147 (25.26%) Kubernetes
2 143 (24.57%) Terraform
3 138 (23.71%) Grafana
4 99 (17.01%) Prometheus
5 83 (14.26%) Ansible
6 27 (4.64%) FortiGate
7 26 (4.47%) QRadar
8 24 (4.12%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.61%) Argo
10 20 (3.44%) Nagios
11 18 (3.09%) Netcool
12 17 (2.92%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.58%) OpenView
13 15 (2.58%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 14 (2.41%) Kibana
15 13 (2.23%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.55%) CASB
16 9 (1.55%) Control-M
17 8 (1.37%) Puppet
17 8 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 104 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 94 (16.15%) Dynatrace
3 79 (13.57%) ServiceNow
4 66 (11.34%) SolarWinds
5 59 (10.14%) Cisco
6 43 (7.39%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.04%) AppDynamics
7 41 (7.04%) New Relic
8 37 (6.36%) F5
9 35 (6.01%) IBM
10 29 (4.98%) CyberArk
11 27 (4.64%) Google
11 27 (4.64%) Tenable
12 25 (4.30%) Juniper
13 24 (4.12%) Oracle
14 23 (3.95%) BMC
14 23 (3.95%) VMware
15 22 (3.78%) Extreme Networks
15 22 (3.78%) Fortinet
16 20 (3.44%) Palo Alto