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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 184 231
Rank change year-on-year -35 +47 -65
Contract jobs citing Splunk 585 438 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.49% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 2.91% 3.13% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 278 288
10th Percentile £350 £390 £400
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £757 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
75th Percentile £71.64 - -
90th Percentile £79.19 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £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 20,080 13,989 18,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.58% 47.63% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,626 8,611 11,465
10th Percentile £313 £280 £269
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.72% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 624 1,139
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +8.51% -45.35%
75th Percentile £59.56 £55.00 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.94 £22.00
% change year-on-year +30.79% +4.26% -45.00%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -34 513 £525 -4.55% 219
UK excluding London -14 339 £514 -6.55% 235
London -48 199 £550 +4.76% 61
Work from Home -13 149 £530 -1.85% 41
North of England -17 129 £493 -3.90% 47
Yorkshire -4 83 £485 -3.00% 13
South East -49 74 £429 -22.05% 61
Midlands -31 56 £550 +2.42% 14
West Midlands -21 51 £564 +3.39% 13
North West -31 45 £519 -4.38% 20
South West +11 38 £450 -14.29% 38
Scotland -9 30 £596 +35.40% 23
East of England -34 25 £688 +25.00% 33
East Midlands -27 5 £447 +14.32% 1
North East - 4 £444 - 14
Wales -13 1 - - 11

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 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.74%) Confluence
3 13 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.03%) TPMS
5 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 176 (30.09%) AWS
2 155 (26.50%) Azure
3 85 (14.53%) GitHub
4 70 (11.97%) GCP
5 62 (10.60%) OpenShift
6 40 (6.84%) Datadog
7 35 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (4.62%) Entra ID
9 26 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 26 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
10 23 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.59%) Power Platform
11 21 (3.59%) Serverless
12 18 (3.08%) SaaS
13 17 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (14.70%) DNS
2 80 (13.68%) Firewall
3 40 (6.84%) SNMP
4 39 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 30 (5.13%) BGP
5 30 (5.13%) WAN
6 29 (4.96%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (4.96%) Network Security
6 29 (4.96%) OSPF
7 27 (4.62%) LAN
8 25 (4.27%) BIG-IP
8 25 (4.27%) DHCP
8 25 (4.27%) VXLAN
9 24 (4.10%) Junos
10 20 (3.42%) Cisco ISE
10 20 (3.42%) VPN
11 14 (2.39%) SSL
12 11 (1.88%) Wireless
13 9 (1.54%) MPLS
14 8 (1.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.42%) Power BI
4 19 (3.25%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.91%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.05%) Big Data
8 10 (1.71%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.37%) MySQL
9 8 (1.37%) Redis
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.20%) Presto
10 7 (1.20%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.68%) Tableau
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 90 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 61 (10.43%) GitLab
3 42 (7.18%) Git
4 31 (5.30%) Gatling
5 29 (4.96%) JIRA
6 20 (3.42%) JMeter
7 13 (2.22%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.22%) Selenium
8 12 (2.05%) Jaeger
8 12 (2.05%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.05%) Serenity BDD
9 9 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.03%) Gradle
11 6 (1.03%) JUnit
11 6 (1.03%) Maven
11 6 (1.03%) Snyk
11 6 (1.03%) Xcode
12 5 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 167 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.49%) Finance
3 66 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.89%) Banking
5 45 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.05%) Retail
10 10 (1.71%) Front Office
11 9 (1.54%) Military
12 8 (1.37%) Law
12 8 (1.37%) Legal
13 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.17%) Back Office
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (13.33%) Analyst
2 66 (11.28%) Architect
3 62 (10.60%) Senior
4 61 (10.43%) Lead
5 38 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (6.15%) Consultant
6 36 (6.15%) SOC Analyst
7 28 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (4.44%) Developer
9 25 (4.27%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.10%) SOC Engineer
11 22 (3.76%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.76%) Site Engineer
12 20 (3.42%) CyberArk Architect
13 19 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (3.25%) Network Engineer
13 19 (3.25%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) Performance Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) Test Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.48%) Kafka
2 58 (9.91%) OpenTelemetry
3 52 (8.89%) REST
4 35 (5.98%) Spring Boot
5 30 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
5 30 (5.13%) Spring
6 27 (4.62%) 802.1X
7 22 (3.76%) Middleware
8 21 (3.59%) LDAP
9 20 (3.42%) JSON
10 18 (3.08%) OpenID
10 18 (3.08%) SAML
11 13 (2.22%) Playwright
11 13 (2.22%) RESTful
12 12 (2.05%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (1.88%) CSS
14 10 (1.71%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (1.71%) React
14 10 (1.71%) SailPoint
15 9 (1.54%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.43%) Onboarding
3 48 (8.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.15%) PKI
5 30 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.79%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.62%) Clustering
8 26 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (4.27%) Management Information System
10 22 (3.76%) Cyberattack
11 17 (2.91%) CMDB
11 17 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.91%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.56%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.05%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
16 6 (1.03%) Mainframe
16 6 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (30.09%) Linux
2 154 (26.32%) Windows
3 49 (8.38%) Unix
4 18 (3.08%) AIX
5 16 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.03%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.85%) Android
11 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.68%) zOS
12 1 (0.17%) 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
1 217 (37.09%) CI/CD
2 208 (35.56%) Observability
3 188 (32.14%) DevOps
4 140 (23.93%) SIEM
5 124 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (21.03%) Cybersecurity
7 108 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 103 (17.61%) Incident Response
9 96 (16.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 82 (14.02%) Containerisation
11 78 (13.33%) Security Operations
12 70 (11.97%) Agile
13 65 (11.11%) High Availability
13 65 (11.11%) ITIL
14 57 (9.74%) Microservices
15 55 (9.40%) Analytics
15 55 (9.40%) Migration
15 55 (9.40%) Test Automation
16 52 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
16 52 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (36.41%) Python
2 92 (15.73%) SQL
3 84 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 76 (12.99%) Bash
5 72 (12.31%) Java
6 41 (7.01%) Search Processing Language
7 23 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.76%) Go
9 13 (2.22%) Bicep
10 11 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.71%) Scala
12 9 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.37%) Rust
13 8 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.20%) C#
15 6 (1.03%) Perl
16 5 (0.85%) Ruby
17 4 (0.68%) JCL
17 4 (0.68%) REXX
Qualifications
1 240 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 148 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.45%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.06%) Degree
5 44 (7.52%) CISSP
6 36 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (5.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 34 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (3.93%) CISM
10 21 (3.59%) CompTIA CySA+
11 19 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (2.56%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.39%) GIAC
14 12 (2.05%) CEH
15 10 (1.71%) GCIA
15 10 (1.71%) GCIH
16 8 (1.37%) CCNP
16 8 (1.37%) CCSP
16 8 (1.37%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.37%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.91%) NIST
2 41 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.59%) NCSC
4 16 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.74%) GDPR
4 16 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.39%) SLA
6 10 (1.71%) QA
7 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.03%) GLBA
9 5 (0.85%) GRC
10 4 (0.68%) COBIT
10 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 105 (17.95%) Docker
2 17 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.74%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.05%) vSphere
6 8 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.03%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 166 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 151 (25.81%) Grafana
3 127 (21.71%) Terraform
4 120 (20.51%) Prometheus
5 99 (16.92%) Ansible
6 26 (4.44%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.10%) Argo
8 22 (3.76%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.42%) Nagios
9 20 (3.42%) QRadar
10 18 (3.08%) Netcool
11 17 (2.91%) Kibana
11 17 (2.91%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.56%) OpenView
12 15 (2.56%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 12 (2.05%) vCenter Server
14 9 (1.54%) Istio
14 9 (1.54%) Kiali
14 9 (1.54%) linkerd
15 8 (1.37%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 88 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 70 (11.97%) Dynatrace
3 68 (11.62%) ServiceNow
4 55 (9.40%) Cisco
5 54 (9.23%) SolarWinds
6 52 (8.89%) AppDynamics
7 39 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
7 39 (6.67%) F5
8 37 (6.32%) CyberArk
9 27 (4.62%) IBM
9 27 (4.62%) Tenable
10 25 (4.27%) Juniper
11 24 (4.10%) VMware
12 23 (3.93%) New Relic
13 22 (3.76%) BMC
13 22 (3.76%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (3.59%) Oracle
14 21 (3.59%) Red Hat
15 19 (3.25%) Google
16 18 (3.08%) Fortinet