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 2 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
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 191 230
Rank change year-on-year -17 +39 -64
Contract jobs citing Splunk 590 412 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.42% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 2.96% 2.98% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 266 275
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £629 £647 £625
90th Percentile £750 £764 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £75.27 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
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 19,908 13,817 18,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.82% 47.75% 42.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,510 8,565 11,346
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.78% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 597 1,121
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.03% -47.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.49 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.29 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +30.16% +4.65% -45.98%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -24 517 £525 -4.55% 253
UK excluding London -3 348 £513 -6.68% 256
London -41 191 £550 +4.76% 71
Work from Home -1 152 £525 -4.55% 45
North of England -16 132 £493 -9.22% 52
Yorkshire -8 83 £475 -12.84% 13
South East -30 76 £425 -21.80% 67
Midlands -18 60 £550 +2.42% 16
West Midlands -22 55 £564 +2.36% 16
North West -30 48 £538 -0.92% 23
South West +6 39 £450 -26.53% 40
Scotland +1 28 £592 +35.98% 25
East of England -42 25 £688 +25.00% 41
East Midlands -28 5 £447 +14.32%
North East - 4 £444 - 16
Wales -11 2 - - 10

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 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.88%) Confluence
3 13 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.02%) TPMS
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.02%) 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 (1.02%) 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
1 185 (31.36%) AWS
2 164 (27.80%) Azure
3 83 (14.07%) GitHub
4 76 (12.88%) GCP
5 63 (10.68%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.95%) Datadog
7 33 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (5.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 28 (4.75%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (4.41%) Entra ID
12 24 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (3.90%) Serverless
14 22 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.39%) Power Platform
16 19 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (3.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (14.58%) DNS
2 79 (13.39%) Firewall
3 40 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 39 (6.61%) SNMP
5 31 (5.25%) WAN
6 30 (5.08%) BGP
7 29 (4.92%) Ethernet VPN
7 29 (4.92%) OSPF
8 28 (4.75%) LAN
9 27 (4.58%) Network Security
10 25 (4.24%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.24%) DHCP
10 25 (4.24%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.07%) Junos
12 20 (3.39%) Cisco ISE
13 19 (3.22%) VPN
14 14 (2.37%) SSL
15 11 (1.86%) Wireless
16 9 (1.53%) MPLS
17 8 (1.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.92%) MongoDB
2 27 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.22%) Power BI
3 19 (3.22%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.05%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.88%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.03%) Big Data
7 12 (2.03%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.53%) MySQL
9 8 (1.36%) Redis
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.02%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
13 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (15.59%) Jenkins
2 64 (10.85%) GitLab
3 41 (6.95%) Git
4 32 (5.42%) JIRA
5 29 (4.92%) Gatling
6 18 (3.05%) JMeter
7 14 (2.37%) REST Assured
7 14 (2.37%) Selenium
8 13 (2.20%) Jaeger
9 12 (2.03%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.03%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.36%) JUnit
12 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.19%) Gradle
12 7 (1.19%) Maven
12 7 (1.19%) Postman
12 7 (1.19%) Snyk
13 6 (1.02%) CircleCI
General
1 168 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.15%) Finance
3 66 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.47%) Banking
5 48 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.71%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.86%) Retail
10 10 (1.69%) Front Office
11 9 (1.53%) Military
12 8 (1.36%) Law
12 8 (1.36%) 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
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (13.05%) Analyst
2 69 (11.69%) Architect
3 60 (10.17%) Lead
4 59 (10.00%) Senior
5 38 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (6.27%) SOC Analyst
7 36 (6.10%) Consultant
8 27 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (4.41%) Developer
10 25 (4.24%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.07%) SOC Engineer
12 23 (3.90%) Site Engineer
13 22 (3.73%) Security Architect
14 20 (3.39%) CyberArk Architect
15 18 (3.05%) Network Engineer
15 18 (3.05%) Security Engineer
16 17 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
17 15 (2.54%) Management Consultant
18 14 (2.37%) Performance Engineer
18 14 (2.37%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.54%) Kafka
2 57 (9.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 50 (8.47%) REST
4 37 (6.27%) Spring Boot
5 35 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
6 31 (5.25%) Spring
7 27 (4.58%) 802.1X
8 22 (3.73%) JSON
8 22 (3.73%) LDAP
8 22 (3.73%) Middleware
9 18 (3.05%) OpenID
9 18 (3.05%) SAML
10 15 (2.54%) Playwright
11 14 (2.37%) CSS
12 13 (2.20%) RESTful
13 12 (2.03%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (1.86%) React
15 10 (1.69%) Protocol Buffers
15 10 (1.69%) SailPoint
16 9 (1.53%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.05%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.68%) Onboarding
3 48 (8.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 41 (6.95%) PKI
5 30 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.75%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.58%) Clustering
7 27 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (4.24%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.73%) Cyberattack
10 17 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.88%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.88%) Security Posture
11 16 (2.71%) CMDB
12 13 (2.20%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.02%) Mainframe
15 6 (1.02%) Public Cloud
16 5 (0.85%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 184 (31.19%) Linux
2 158 (26.78%) Windows
3 51 (8.64%) Unix
4 22 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.05%) AIX
6 12 (2.03%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.02%) Android
8 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.68%) zOS
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) SUSE
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (36.27%) CI/CD
2 200 (33.90%) Observability
3 192 (32.54%) DevOps
4 146 (24.75%) SIEM
5 127 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (21.19%) Cybersecurity
7 107 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 101 (17.12%) Incident Response
9 91 (15.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 85 (14.41%) Containerisation
11 77 (13.05%) Security Operations
12 71 (12.03%) Agile
13 66 (11.19%) High Availability
14 61 (10.34%) ITIL
15 60 (10.17%) Microservices
16 59 (10.00%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.49%) Analytics
18 55 (9.32%) Migration
19 51 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
19 51 (8.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 218 (36.95%) Python
2 93 (15.76%) SQL
3 90 (15.25%) PowerShell
4 80 (13.56%) Bash
5 75 (12.71%) Java
6 41 (6.95%) Search Processing Language
7 25 (4.24%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.73%) Go
9 13 (2.20%) Bicep
10 12 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (1.86%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.69%) Scala
13 9 (1.53%) Rust
14 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.19%) Perl
15 7 (1.19%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.02%) C#
17 4 (0.68%) JCL
17 4 (0.68%) REXX
17 4 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 244 (41.36%) Security Cleared
2 150 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 68 (11.53%) DV Cleared
4 58 (9.83%) Degree
5 42 (7.12%) CISSP
6 38 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (5.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.56%) CISM
10 20 (3.39%) CompTIA CySA+
11 19 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.37%) AWS Certification
13 13 (2.20%) GIAC
14 11 (1.86%) CEH
15 10 (1.69%) GCIA
15 10 (1.69%) GCIH
16 8 (1.36%) CCNP
16 8 (1.36%) CCSP
16 8 (1.36%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.36%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.66%) NIST
2 41 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.56%) NCSC
4 16 (2.71%) GDPR
4 16 (2.71%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.37%) SLA
7 12 (2.03%) QA
8 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.19%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.02%) GLBA
10 5 (0.85%) GRC
11 4 (0.68%) COBIT
11 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 109 (18.47%) Docker
2 18 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.54%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.03%) vSphere
6 6 (1.02%) etcd
6 6 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.68%) Snort
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 170 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 147 (24.92%) Grafana
3 127 (21.53%) Terraform
4 120 (20.34%) Prometheus
5 102 (17.29%) Ansible
6 25 (4.24%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.07%) Argo
8 22 (3.73%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.39%) Nagios
10 19 (3.22%) QRadar
11 18 (3.05%) Netcool
12 17 (2.88%) Kibana
12 17 (2.88%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.54%) OpenView
13 15 (2.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 13 (2.20%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.86%) Puppet
16 10 (1.69%) Kiali
17 9 (1.53%) Istio
17 9 (1.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 95 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.85%) Dynatrace
3 60 (10.17%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.15%) Cisco
5 53 (8.98%) SolarWinds
6 47 (7.97%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (6.44%) F5
9 36 (6.10%) CyberArk
10 27 (4.58%) Tenable
11 26 (4.41%) IBM
12 25 (4.24%) Juniper
13 24 (4.07%) VMware
14 22 (3.73%) BMC
14 22 (3.73%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.73%) Red Hat
15 21 (3.56%) New Relic
15 21 (3.56%) Oracle
16 19 (3.22%) Google
17 18 (3.05%) Fortinet