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 7 July 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 175 244
Rank change year-on-year -48 +69 -82
Contract jobs citing Splunk 588 497 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.56% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.75% 3.29% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 306 278
10th Percentile £363 £387 £399
25th Percentile £428 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £622
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £44.16 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.84 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 21,399 15,126 18,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.10% 47.53% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,317 9,264 11,573
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 719 1,152
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.84 £12.41
25th Percentile £19.08 £17.33 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.08 £53.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -23.24%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -50 517 £525 -4.55% 323
UK excluding London -53 313 £520 -5.45% 264
London -44 223 £550 +4.76% 128
Work from Home -42 153 £550 +2.42% 85
North of England -21 126 £500 +2.82% 64
Yorkshire -7 73 £500 +2.82% 18
South East -85 55 £470 -14.55% 62
North West -33 51 £501 +2.82% 33
Midlands -25 49 £581 +16.55% 19
West Midlands -29 44 £582 +10.92% 16
South West -3 39 £450 -16.67% 46
East of England -42 27 £675 +22.73% 36
Scotland -18 26 £557 +26.59% 18
East Midlands -14 5 £447 +3.23% 3
North East - 5 £413 - 13
Wales -17 1 - - 13

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 23 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.23%) Confluence
3 13 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
6 2 (0.34%) TPMS
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
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%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 182 (30.95%) AWS
2 167 (28.40%) Azure
3 91 (15.48%) GitHub
4 71 (12.07%) GCP
5 70 (11.90%) OpenShift
6 35 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (5.27%) Entra ID
8 30 (5.10%) Datadog
9 27 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
11 25 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (4.25%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.25%) Power Platform
12 24 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.91%) Serverless
14 21 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.95%) Firewall
2 79 (13.44%) DNS
3 40 (6.80%) SNMP
4 37 (6.29%) Network Security
5 36 (6.12%) WAN
6 31 (5.27%) BGP
7 29 (4.93%) Ethernet VPN
7 29 (4.93%) LAN
7 29 (4.93%) OSPF
8 28 (4.76%) DHCP
9 26 (4.42%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.25%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.08%) Junos
11 24 (4.08%) TCP/IP
11 24 (4.08%) VPN
12 20 (3.40%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.87%) SSL
13 11 (1.87%) Wireless
14 10 (1.70%) MPLS
15 9 (1.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.59%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.08%) Power BI
3 20 (3.40%) NoSQL
3 20 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.89%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.04%) Big Data
8 10 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.53%) MySQL
10 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.19%) Presto
12 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) Redis
13 4 (0.68%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.51%) KDB
Development Applications
1 97 (16.50%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.18%) GitLab
3 49 (8.33%) Git
4 33 (5.61%) Gatling
5 30 (5.10%) JIRA
6 23 (3.91%) JMeter
7 13 (2.21%) LoadRunner
7 13 (2.21%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.21%) Selenium
8 12 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
9 9 (1.53%) Gradle
9 9 (1.53%) JUnit
9 9 (1.53%) Maven
9 9 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.19%) Jaeger
11 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.02%) Postman
11 6 (1.02%) Snyk
11 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 162 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 118 (20.07%) Finance
3 69 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.01%) Banking
5 38 (6.46%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.38%) Retail
8 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.87%) Front Office
10 11 (1.87%) Legal
11 8 (1.36%) Military
12 5 (0.85%) Law
12 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (11.56%) Analyst
2 65 (11.05%) Architect
3 62 (10.54%) Senior
4 55 (9.35%) Lead
5 39 (6.63%) Consultant
5 39 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (5.27%) Developer
7 29 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 25 (4.25%) Data Engineer
8 25 (4.25%) SOC Engineer
9 23 (3.91%) Site Engineer
9 23 (3.91%) SOC Analyst
10 22 (3.74%) Security Architect
11 21 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (3.57%) Security Engineer
12 20 (3.40%) Network Engineer
13 19 (3.23%) CyberArk Architect
13 19 (3.23%) Splunk Engineer
14 18 (3.06%) Test Engineer
15 17 (2.89%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (10.37%) Kafka
2 60 (10.20%) REST
3 56 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 37 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
5 34 (5.78%) Spring
6 33 (5.61%) Spring Boot
7 27 (4.59%) 802.1X
8 24 (4.08%) JSON
9 21 (3.57%) LDAP
10 19 (3.23%) OpenID
10 19 (3.23%) SAML
11 16 (2.72%) RESTful
12 13 (2.21%) Playwright
13 12 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (1.87%) Middleware
14 11 (1.87%) OAuth
14 11 (1.87%) OAuth2
14 11 (1.87%) SailPoint
15 10 (1.70%) Protocol Buffers
15 10 (1.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.37%) Onboarding
3 38 (6.46%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.12%) PKI
5 30 (5.10%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.76%) Clustering
7 27 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (3.40%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.89%) CMDB
10 16 (2.72%) Management Information System
11 15 (2.55%) Product Ownership
12 14 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (2.04%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.70%) Cyberattack
15 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
16 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
16 8 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 163 (27.72%) Linux
2 138 (23.47%) Windows
3 45 (7.65%) Unix
4 18 (3.06%) AIX
5 17 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.55%) Windows Server
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 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (38.27%) CI/CD
2 204 (34.69%) Observability
3 190 (32.31%) DevOps
4 138 (23.47%) SIEM
5 132 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 105 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
8 98 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 95 (16.16%) Incident Response
10 82 (13.95%) Containerisation
11 81 (13.78%) Agile
12 80 (13.61%) Security Operations
13 75 (12.76%) High Availability
14 66 (11.22%) ITSM
15 61 (10.37%) ITIL
16 58 (9.86%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.52%) Analytics
18 52 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (8.67%) Migration
20 50 (8.50%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 217 (36.90%) Python
2 90 (15.31%) SQL
3 88 (14.97%) PowerShell
4 73 (12.41%) Bash
5 71 (12.07%) Java
6 46 (7.82%) Search Processing Language
7 26 (4.42%) Go
8 22 (3.74%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.38%) Bicep
10 11 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.70%) Scala
11 10 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.36%) C#
12 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.02%) Perl
13 6 (1.02%) Ruby
14 4 (0.68%) JCL
14 4 (0.68%) REXX
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 227 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 140 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.37%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.33%) CISSP
5 42 (7.14%) Degree
6 39 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 25 (4.25%) CISM
9 24 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.72%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.55%) GIAC
13 13 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
14 12 (2.04%) CEH
15 11 (1.87%) GCIA
15 11 (1.87%) GCIH
16 10 (1.70%) CCNP
16 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (1.53%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.84%) NIST
2 41 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.89%) NCSC
4 15 (2.55%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.21%) GDPR
5 13 (2.21%) QA
6 9 (1.53%) SLA
7 8 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.85%) GRC
9 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.51%) COBIT
11 2 (0.34%) GLBA
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 94 (15.99%) Docker
2 22 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.72%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.21%) vSphere
6 8 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 159 (27.04%) Kubernetes
2 147 (25.00%) Grafana
3 139 (23.64%) Terraform
4 116 (19.73%) Prometheus
5 97 (16.50%) Ansible
6 26 (4.42%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.08%) QRadar
8 23 (3.91%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.57%) Argo
10 20 (3.40%) Nagios
11 18 (3.06%) Netcool
12 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
13 16 (2.72%) Kibana
14 15 (2.55%) OpenView
14 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 12 (2.04%) vCenter Server
16 11 (1.87%) Progress Chef
17 9 (1.53%) Puppet
18 8 (1.36%) Fluentd
18 8 (1.36%) WMI
Vendors
1 95 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 75 (12.76%) ServiceNow
3 69 (11.73%) Dynatrace
4 60 (10.20%) Cisco
5 59 (10.03%) SolarWinds
6 43 (7.31%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.80%) CyberArk
7 40 (6.80%) F5
8 37 (6.29%) AppDynamics
9 29 (4.93%) IBM
10 28 (4.76%) New Relic
10 28 (4.76%) Tenable
11 25 (4.25%) Juniper
12 24 (4.08%) VMware
13 22 (3.74%) BMC
13 22 (3.74%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (3.74%) Google
14 21 (3.57%) Fortinet
15 20 (3.40%) Palo Alto
16 19 (3.23%) Oracle