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 10 February 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 190 266
Rank change year-on-year +26 +76 -71
Contract jobs citing Splunk 657 436 397
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.42% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 3.70% 3.07% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 254 258
10th Percentile £350 £408 £404
25th Percentile £417 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £654
90th Percentile £700 £807 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £533
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.38% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £53.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% +2.50% -25.02%
75th Percentile £91.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.97% +41.88% -25.02%

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 17,748 14,202 19,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.09% 46.27% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,436 8,435 12,351
10th Percentile £300 £275 £255
25th Percentile £412 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -1.87%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 410 924
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +7.52% -13.41%
75th Percentile £56.13 £63.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.81 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% +3.13% -4.59%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +18 582 £525 -8.70% 114
UK excluding London +58 374 £500 -9.26% 90
London -28 225 £575 -8.00% 39
Work from Home -8 173 £537 -10.50% 38
North of England +2 139 £500 -12.66% 19
Midlands +26 116 £525 -2.33% 9
West Midlands +31 111 £525 -4.72% 8
Yorkshire +10 104 £518 -13.57% 12
South East +21 88 £375 -34.78% 30
Scotland +30 35 £550 +32.53% 6
North West -30 33 £453 -17.64% 7
South West -13 11 £625 -21.88% 8
East of England -24 6 £600 - 19
East Midlands -32 5 £438 +11.89% 1
Wales - 5 £600 -
North East -10 4 £538 -8.51%

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 18 (2.74%) Apache
1 18 (2.74%) Skype for Business
2 16 (2.44%) Confluence
3 13 (1.98%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.98%) TPMS
4 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.22%) Apache Pig
6 7 (1.07%) IIS
6 7 (1.07%) iPlanet
6 7 (1.07%) JBoss
6 7 (1.07%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.46%) SAS
8 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 23 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (2.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Finacle
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 249 (37.90%) AWS
2 155 (23.59%) Azure
3 144 (21.92%) GCP
4 75 (11.42%) GitHub
5 66 (10.05%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.09%) Serverless
8 33 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.72%) Datadog
10 27 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (3.35%) Akamai
12 22 (3.35%) Amazon S3
13 20 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (2.89%) SaaS
14 19 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.74%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.28%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 90 (13.70%) Firewall
2 62 (9.44%) DNS
3 42 (6.39%) TCP/IP
4 24 (3.65%) Network Security
5 22 (3.35%) SSL
5 22 (3.35%) Wireshark
6 20 (3.04%) VPN
7 19 (2.89%) HTTP
8 18 (2.74%) Skype
9 16 (2.44%) Wireless
10 15 (2.28%) SNMP
10 15 (2.28%) SSH
11 11 (1.67%) Unified Communications
12 8 (1.22%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.91%) BGP
14 5 (0.76%) DHCP
14 5 (0.76%) OSPF
14 5 (0.76%) VSAN
15 4 (0.61%) LAN
15 4 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.65%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.04%) MySQL
6 15 (2.28%) Redis
7 12 (1.83%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.83%) Power BI
8 11 (1.67%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.52%) Apache Hive
9 10 (1.52%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.22%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.61%) Flink
12 4 (0.61%) Tableau
13 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 129 (19.63%) Jenkins
2 105 (15.98%) GitLab
3 45 (6.85%) Git
4 29 (4.41%) JIRA
5 21 (3.20%) Liquibase
6 19 (2.89%) Postman
7 17 (2.59%) Xcode
8 16 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (2.28%) Android Studio
9 15 (2.28%) Browser DevTools
9 15 (2.28%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.98%) JUnit
10 13 (1.98%) Maven
11 12 (1.83%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.67%) Gradle
12 11 (1.67%) Selenium
13 10 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.52%) Gatling
13 10 (1.52%) Jaeger
14 8 (1.22%) REST Assured
General
1 295 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 159 (24.20%) Finance
3 117 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.59%) Banking
6 40 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (6.09%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (1.98%) Military
8 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.07%) Retail
10 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.76%) Legal
11 4 (0.61%) Law
11 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Front Office
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Local Government
13 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Billing
Job Titles
1 130 (19.79%) Analyst
2 71 (10.81%) Senior
3 62 (9.44%) Architect
4 60 (9.13%) SOC Analyst
5 50 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (6.54%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 36 (5.48%) Lead
9 31 (4.72%) Security Analyst
10 30 (4.57%) Splunk Engineer
11 26 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (3.96%) Site Engineer
12 24 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (3.65%) Support Analyst
13 22 (3.35%) Developer
13 22 (3.35%) Monitoring Analyst
14 21 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.04%) Security Architect
15 20 (3.04%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.74%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.05%) Elastic Stack
1 66 (10.05%) REST
2 61 (9.28%) Kafka
3 37 (5.63%) RESTful
4 34 (5.18%) SAML
4 34 (5.18%) Spring Boot
5 32 (4.87%) OpenTelemetry
6 29 (4.41%) Spring
7 26 (3.96%) OpenID
8 23 (3.50%) LDAP
8 23 (3.50%) OAuth
9 22 (3.35%) AngularJS
9 22 (3.35%) Middleware
10 20 (3.04%) CSS
10 20 (3.04%) React
11 17 (2.59%) JSON
12 16 (2.44%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.28%) Ajax
13 15 (2.28%) Keycloak
14 14 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 49 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (7.46%) Security Operations Centre
4 35 (5.33%) Security Posture
5 32 (4.87%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.57%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.65%) Mobile App
8 23 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
9 22 (3.35%) Cyber Threat
10 21 (3.20%) PKI
11 19 (2.89%) Cyberattack
12 17 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (2.44%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.37%) Clustering
16 9 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
17 8 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 238 (36.23%) Linux
2 132 (20.09%) Windows
3 86 (13.09%) Unix
4 34 (5.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.04%) Android
6 19 (2.89%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.07%) CentOS
7 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.61%) zOS
10 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.30%) Solaris
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (35.01%) CI/CD
2 219 (33.33%) DevOps
3 186 (28.31%) Cybersecurity
4 168 (25.57%) Incident Response
5 167 (25.42%) SIEM
6 158 (24.05%) Observability
7 151 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (19.18%) Containerisation
10 110 (16.74%) Agile
11 93 (14.16%) Computer Science
12 90 (13.70%) Microservices
13 87 (13.24%) Security Operations
14 69 (10.50%) Migration
15 68 (10.35%) Root Cause Analysis
16 67 (10.20%) Test Automation
17 66 (10.05%) Threat Detection
18 64 (9.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 59 (8.98%) High Availability
20 55 (8.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 244 (37.14%) Python
2 106 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 105 (15.98%) Bash
4 98 (14.92%) SQL
5 91 (13.85%) Java
6 45 (6.85%) Go
7 42 (6.39%) Shell Script
8 32 (4.87%) JavaScript
9 27 (4.11%) Perl
10 21 (3.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.13%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.83%) Groovy
12 12 (1.83%) Scala
12 12 (1.83%) Search Processing Language
13 10 (1.52%) Bicep
14 9 (1.37%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.37%) Rust
15 5 (0.76%) Swift
16 4 (0.61%) JCL
16 4 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 218 (33.18%) Security Cleared
2 152 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 105 (15.98%) Degree
4 71 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (7.61%) DV Cleared
6 49 (7.46%) CISSP
7 36 (5.48%) Master's Degree
8 32 (4.87%) CISM
9 28 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 22 (3.35%) GIAC
11 21 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (3.04%) AWS Certification
13 17 (2.59%) CEH
14 16 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
15 13 (1.98%) FFIEC
16 11 (1.67%) GCIA
16 11 (1.67%) GCIH
17 8 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (1.22%) MCSE
17 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.96%) NIST
2 56 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (5.33%) GDPR
4 26 (3.96%) NCSC
4 26 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 21 (3.20%) QA
6 19 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.98%) GLBA
8 10 (1.52%) HIPAA
8 10 (1.52%) SLA
8 10 (1.52%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.76%) GRC
11 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.30%) COBIT
12 2 (0.30%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 138 (21.00%) Docker
2 51 (7.76%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.98%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.52%) vSphere
6 6 (0.91%) Snort
6 6 (0.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.61%) NFS
8 4 (0.61%) Squid
9 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 202 (30.75%) Kubernetes
2 134 (20.40%) Terraform
3 131 (19.94%) Grafana
4 129 (19.63%) Ansible
5 104 (15.83%) Prometheus
6 29 (4.41%) Kibana
7 25 (3.81%) SCOM
8 24 (3.65%) Argo
9 22 (3.35%) QRadar
10 21 (3.20%) HP SiteScope
10 21 (3.20%) Puppet
11 20 (3.04%) Progress Chef
12 19 (2.89%) CSIRT
13 16 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (1.98%) Fluentd
15 11 (1.67%) logstash
15 11 (1.67%) SCCM
16 10 (1.52%) vCenter Server
17 9 (1.37%) Kiali
17 9 (1.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 152 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.31%) Oracle
3 46 (7.00%) AppDynamics
3 46 (7.00%) Dynatrace
4 44 (6.70%) Google
5 41 (6.24%) Cisco
6 38 (5.78%) ServiceNow
7 35 (5.33%) CrowdStrike
8 32 (4.87%) Red Hat
9 31 (4.72%) VMware
10 27 (4.11%) Qualys
11 26 (3.96%) CyberArk
12 25 (3.81%) Cribl.io
13 22 (3.35%) Carbon Black
14 21 (3.20%) F5
15 19 (2.89%) Palo Alto
15 19 (2.89%) Remedy
16 16 (2.44%) Tenable
17 14 (2.13%) Thales
18 12 (1.83%) ArcSight