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 14 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 161 219
Rank change year-on-year -78 +58 -44
Contract jobs citing Splunk 582 560 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.70% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 2.61% 3.60% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 355 264
10th Percentile £351 £360 £400
25th Percentile £424 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £556
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -3.46% -7.29%
75th Percentile £603 £630 £645
90th Percentile £720 £750 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £540 £556
% change year-on-year -4.81% -2.92% -4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £44.51 - £40.63
25th Percentile £48.65 - £41.56
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £43.75
75th Percentile £73.31 - £46.56
90th Percentile £79.19 - £47.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £43.75

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 22,262 15,561 17,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.70% 47.27% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,777 9,523 10,618
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.21% -0.57%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £702 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,140 803 837
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.56 £13.67
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.88 £67.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £21.35 £28.00
% change year-on-year +50.97% -23.77% -17.57%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -76 509 £525 -2.23% 325
UK excluding London -74 306 £514 -4.81% 248
London -47 223 £550 +4.76% 149
Work from Home -40 151 £525 +5.00% 64
North of England -34 124 £495 +4.75% 60
North West -28 63 £515 +12.57% 34
Yorkshire -22 55 £485 -3.00% 11
South East -107 52 £468 -8.78% 60
Midlands -39 44 £581 +11.73% 16
South West -18 41 £450 -21.05% 44
West Midlands -41 41 £581 +8.50% 15
Scotland -7 28 £423 -15.90% 23
East of England -34 26 £700 +27.27% 27
North East -38 6 £425 - 15
East Midlands -24 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%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
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
1 204 (35.05%) AWS
2 198 (34.02%) Azure
3 98 (16.84%) GitHub
4 74 (12.71%) GCP
5 51 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (8.42%) OpenShift
7 39 (6.70%) Entra ID
8 37 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (6.36%) Datadog
9 36 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 33 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.81%) SaaS
13 27 (4.64%) Power Platform
14 26 (4.47%) Amazon S3
14 26 (4.47%) Serverless
15 24 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 84 (14.43%) Firewall
2 68 (11.68%) DNS
3 43 (7.39%) Network Security
4 38 (6.53%) SNMP
5 35 (6.01%) WAN
6 30 (5.15%) BGP
7 29 (4.98%) DHCP
8 28 (4.81%) LAN
9 27 (4.64%) OSPF
10 24 (4.12%) BIG-IP
10 24 (4.12%) Ethernet VPN
11 23 (3.95%) VXLAN
12 22 (3.78%) Junos
13 19 (3.26%) Cisco ISE
14 18 (3.09%) VPN
15 16 (2.75%) TCP/IP
16 10 (1.72%) Internet
17 9 (1.55%) SSL
17 9 (1.55%) Wireless
18 8 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.47%) Power BI
2 22 (3.78%) MongoDB
3 20 (3.44%) NoSQL
3 20 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
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
7 10 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.37%) MySQL
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 54 (9.28%) Git
4 39 (6.70%) JIRA
5 32 (5.50%) Gatling
6 31 (5.33%) JMeter
7 20 (3.44%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.41%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.89%) Selenium
10 9 (1.55%) JUnit
10 9 (1.55%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.37%) Gradle
11 8 (1.37%) Maven
12 7 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.20%) Postman
12 7 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 143 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 108 (18.56%) Finance
3 83 (14.26%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.11%) Banking
5 28 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.72%) Front Office
7 10 (1.72%) Legal
8 9 (1.55%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.55%) Retail
9 8 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.86%) Law
11 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.69%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Local Government
12 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Advertising
13 2 (0.34%) Billing
13 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (10.31%) Lead
2 58 (9.97%) Senior
3 53 (9.11%) Analyst
4 46 (7.90%) Consultant
4 46 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (6.87%) Architect
6 32 (5.50%) Developer
7 31 (5.33%) Splunk Engineer
8 24 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 24 (4.12%) SOC Engineer
9 23 (3.95%) Performance Engineer
10 21 (3.61%) Security Engineer
11 19 (3.26%) Data Engineer
11 19 (3.26%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (2.92%) Network Engineer
13 17 (2.92%) Site Engineer
14 16 (2.75%) Security Architect
15 15 (2.58%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (10.48%) REST
2 55 (9.45%) Kafka
3 43 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 40 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.47%) 802.1X
6 20 (3.44%) Spring
6 20 (3.44%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.09%) JSON
8 15 (2.58%) React
9 14 (2.41%) RESTful
10 13 (2.23%) Middleware
11 12 (2.06%) .NET
12 11 (1.89%) OAuth
12 11 (1.89%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.72%) CSS
13 10 (1.72%) SailPoint
14 9 (1.55%) OpenID
14 9 (1.55%) Play Framework
14 9 (1.55%) SAML
15 8 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.14%) Onboarding
3 35 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.67%) PKI
5 32 (5.50%) Security Operations Centre
6 29 (4.98%) Data Centre
7 26 (4.47%) Clustering
8 15 (2.58%) CMDB
8 15 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.41%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.89%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.72%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.03%) Mainframe
15 6 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 151 (25.95%) Linux
2 130 (22.34%) Windows
3 42 (7.22%) Unix
4 23 (3.95%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.09%) AIX
7 9 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.03%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.69%) Android
10 4 (0.69%) zOS
11 3 (0.52%) CentOS
12 2 (0.34%) VMS
13 1 (0.17%) MVS
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (37.11%) Observability
2 215 (36.94%) CI/CD
3 175 (30.07%) DevOps
4 127 (21.82%) SIEM
5 119 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 102 (17.53%) Agile
8 97 (16.67%) Incident Response
9 87 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 83 (14.26%) Containerisation
11 76 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
12 72 (12.37%) Security Operations
13 66 (11.34%) High Availability
14 64 (11.00%) ITSM
15 61 (10.48%) Test Automation
16 60 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (10.14%) ITIL
18 55 (9.45%) Analytics
18 55 (9.45%) Root Cause Analysis
19 54 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (36.25%) Python
2 105 (18.04%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.95%) SQL
4 66 (11.34%) Bash
4 66 (11.34%) Java
5 51 (8.76%) Search Processing Language
6 30 (5.15%) Go
7 25 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.92%) Scala
9 15 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (2.58%) 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 41 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (7.04%) Degree
6 25 (4.30%) CISM
7 19 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (2.92%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.41%) GIAC
12 12 (2.06%) GCIH
13 11 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.89%) CEH
14 10 (1.72%) CCNP
15 9 (1.55%) CCSP
16 8 (1.37%) Azure Certification
16 8 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (1.37%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.19%) NIST
2 25 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.09%) QA
5 13 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.06%) GDPR
6 12 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.55%) NCSC
7 9 (1.55%) SLA
8 8 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.69%) GxP
10 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.52%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.34%) COBIT
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 101 (17.35%) Docker
2 26 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.20%) vSphere
6 6 (1.03%) etcd
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.34%) Snort
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 146 (25.09%) Terraform
3 139 (23.88%) Grafana
4 99 (17.01%) Prometheus
5 85 (14.60%) Ansible
6 28 (4.81%) QRadar
7 25 (4.30%) FortiGate
8 24 (4.12%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.44%) Argo
9 20 (3.44%) Nagios
10 18 (3.09%) Netcool
11 17 (2.92%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.58%) OpenView
12 15 (2.58%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.41%) Kibana
14 13 (2.23%) Progress Chef
15 9 (1.55%) Control-M
16 8 (1.37%) Puppet
16 8 (1.37%) WMI
17 7 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 94 (16.15%) Dynatrace
3 77 (13.23%) ServiceNow
4 64 (11.00%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.31%) Cisco
6 42 (7.22%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.04%) AppDynamics
7 41 (7.04%) New Relic
8 35 (6.01%) F5
8 35 (6.01%) IBM
9 28 (4.81%) Google
10 26 (4.47%) CyberArk
11 25 (4.30%) Oracle
12 24 (4.12%) Juniper
12 24 (4.12%) Tenable
13 23 (3.95%) BMC
13 23 (3.95%) VMware
14 22 (3.78%) Fortinet
15 20 (3.44%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (3.44%) Palo Alto