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 21 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 159 222
Rank change year-on-year -89 +63 -43
Contract jobs citing Splunk 568 579 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.77% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.54% 3.73% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 367 273
10th Percentile £350 £359 £403
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £646
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -4.56% -2.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £47.50
75th Percentile £74.95 - £48.75
90th Percentile £80.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.50

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 22,372 15,511 17,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.32% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,838 9,480 10,542
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £612 £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 1,143 812 808
10th Percentile £14.51 £14.69 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -9.73% -31.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.00 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.24 £26.56
% change year-on-year +41.24% -20.04% -24.11%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -91 494 £525 - 233
UK excluding London -89 292 £513 -4.56% 232
London -54 222 £550 +4.76% 70
Work from Home -51 154 £518 +3.50% 49
North of England -46 121 £475 +2.14% 60
North West -28 66 £520 +13.66% 36
Yorkshire -32 47 £469 -6.25% 12
South West -18 42 £453 -20.48% 38
Midlands -48 42 £578 +12.23% 16
South East -122 41 £465 -7.00% 58
West Midlands -47 39 £578 +10.10% 16
Scotland -19 28 £423 -6.83% 15
East of England -29 26 £700 +27.27% 23
North East -29 8 £425 - 12
East Midlands -22 2 £563 +47.49%

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 (4.75%) Confluence
2 19 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.41%) Apache
5 6 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.53%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
7 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.18%) Mendix
8 1 (0.18%) MTS
8 1 (0.18%) Mule
8 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.70%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 207 (36.44%) AWS
2 202 (35.56%) Azure
3 98 (17.25%) GitHub
4 76 (13.38%) GCP
5 53 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (8.80%) OpenShift
7 40 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (6.51%) Entra ID
9 35 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (6.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 35 (6.16%) Datadog
10 28 (4.93%) SaaS
11 27 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (4.75%) Power Platform
12 24 (4.23%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (4.23%) Serverless
13 23 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 73 (12.85%) Firewall
2 56 (9.86%) DNS
3 42 (7.39%) Network Security
4 37 (6.51%) SNMP
5 24 (4.23%) WAN
6 19 (3.35%) BGP
7 18 (3.17%) DHCP
8 17 (2.99%) LAN
8 17 (2.99%) VPN
9 16 (2.82%) OSPF
9 16 (2.82%) TCP/IP
10 13 (2.29%) BIG-IP
11 12 (2.11%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (2.11%) VXLAN
12 11 (1.94%) Junos
13 10 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (1.76%) Internet
14 8 (1.41%) HTTP
14 8 (1.41%) SSL
14 8 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.58%) Power BI
2 25 (4.40%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.35%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.99%) Big Data
6 13 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.94%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.94%) Hadoop
7 11 (1.94%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.58%) MySQL
9 7 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.23%) Presto
10 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.06%) Flink
10 6 (1.06%) Redis
11 5 (0.88%) Looker
12 4 (0.70%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.70%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 93 (16.37%) Jenkins
2 58 (10.21%) GitLab
3 56 (9.86%) Git
4 41 (7.22%) JIRA
5 32 (5.63%) Gatling
6 31 (5.46%) JMeter
7 20 (3.52%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.94%) Selenium
10 9 (1.58%) JUnit
10 9 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.41%) Gradle
11 8 (1.41%) Maven
11 8 (1.41%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.23%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.23%) Postman
13 6 (1.06%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 138 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 108 (19.01%) Finance
3 84 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.33%) Banking
5 28 (4.93%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.76%) Front Office
7 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.76%) Legal
8 9 (1.58%) Retail
9 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.88%) Law
12 3 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Local Government
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (9.51%) Lead
2 52 (9.15%) Senior
3 49 (8.63%) Analyst
3 49 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (8.10%) Consultant
5 36 (6.34%) Architect
6 33 (5.81%) Splunk Engineer
7 32 (5.63%) Developer
8 25 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 24 (4.23%) SOC Engineer
10 23 (4.05%) Performance Engineer
11 22 (3.87%) Security Engineer
12 19 (3.35%) Test Engineer
13 18 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (3.17%) Site Engineer
14 17 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (2.82%) Data Engineer
16 15 (2.64%) Applications Support
16 15 (2.64%) SOC Analyst
16 15 (2.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (25.88%) Terraform
2 57 (10.04%) Kafka
2 57 (10.04%) REST
3 42 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
4 41 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 18 (3.17%) React
5 18 (3.17%) Spring
6 17 (2.99%) Spring Boot
7 16 (2.82%) JSON
7 16 (2.82%) RESTful
8 15 (2.64%) 802.1X
9 13 (2.29%) CSS
9 13 (2.29%) Middleware
10 12 (2.11%) .NET
11 11 (1.94%) OAuth
11 11 (1.94%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.94%) Play Framework
12 9 (1.58%) HTML
12 9 (1.58%) OpenID
12 9 (1.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.39%) Onboarding
2 57 (10.04%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (4.05%) PKI
6 20 (3.52%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.82%) Clustering
8 15 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.46%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.29%) CMDB
11 11 (1.94%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
14 6 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (26.94%) Linux
2 118 (20.77%) Windows
3 42 (7.39%) Unix
4 25 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.17%) AIX
7 9 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.23%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.06%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.70%) Android
10 4 (0.70%) zOS
11 3 (0.53%) CentOS
11 3 (0.53%) VMS
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.18%) MVS
13 1 (0.18%) Rocky
13 1 (0.18%) SUSE
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (38.03%) CI/CD
2 210 (36.97%) Observability
3 177 (31.16%) DevOps
4 125 (22.01%) SIEM
5 119 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 107 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (18.13%) Agile
8 99 (17.43%) Incident Response
9 86 (15.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 81 (14.26%) Containerisation
11 73 (12.85%) Cybersecurity
12 72 (12.68%) Security Operations
13 64 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
15 59 (10.39%) Incident Management
15 59 (10.39%) ITSM
16 58 (10.21%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.86%) High Availability
18 54 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 51 (8.98%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 212 (37.32%) Python
2 110 (19.37%) PowerShell
3 87 (15.32%) SQL
4 69 (12.15%) Bash
5 65 (11.44%) Java
6 50 (8.80%) Search Processing Language
7 31 (5.46%) Go
8 26 (4.58%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.35%) Scala
10 17 (2.99%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.76%) Bicep
12 10 (1.76%) Perl
13 8 (1.41%) C#
14 5 (0.88%) Groovy
15 4 (0.70%) JCL
15 4 (0.70%) REXX
16 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 209 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 136 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.21%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.75%) CISSP
4 44 (7.75%) Degree
5 30 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (3.87%) CISM
7 20 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.17%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.46%) GIAC
12 13 (2.29%) GCIH
13 11 (1.94%) CEH
14 10 (1.76%) CCNP
15 9 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
16 8 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (1.41%) GCIA
17 7 (1.23%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.34%) NIST
2 24 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 20 (3.52%) QA
5 14 (2.46%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.29%) GDPR
6 13 (2.29%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.58%) NCSC
7 9 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.58%) SLA
8 5 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.70%) GxP
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 102 (17.96%) Docker
2 25 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.06%) etcd
7 6 (1.06%) vSphere
8 2 (0.35%) HDFS
8 2 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) Varnish
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 151 (26.58%) Kubernetes
2 140 (24.65%) Grafana
3 101 (17.78%) Prometheus
4 86 (15.14%) Ansible
5 29 (5.11%) QRadar
6 24 (4.23%) ZABBIX
7 21 (3.70%) Nagios
8 19 (3.35%) Argo
9 18 (3.17%) Netcool
10 17 (2.99%) Tivoli
11 15 (2.64%) Kibana
11 15 (2.64%) OpenView
11 15 (2.64%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.46%) FortiGate
12 14 (2.46%) Progress Chef
13 10 (1.76%) Control-M
14 8 (1.41%) Puppet
14 8 (1.41%) SCOM
14 8 (1.41%) WMI
15 7 (1.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 112 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 96 (16.90%) Dynatrace
3 73 (12.85%) ServiceNow
4 52 (9.15%) SolarWinds
5 48 (8.45%) Cisco
6 42 (7.39%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.22%) AppDynamics
8 39 (6.87%) New Relic
9 34 (5.99%) IBM
10 28 (4.93%) Oracle
11 26 (4.58%) Google
12 24 (4.23%) BMC
12 24 (4.23%) CyberArk
12 24 (4.23%) VMware
13 23 (4.05%) F5
14 22 (3.87%) Fortinet
15 20 (3.52%) Tenable
16 19 (3.35%) Palo Alto
17 18 (3.17%) Cribl.io
17 18 (3.17%) Zscaler