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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 196 271
Rank change year-on-year -2 +75 -96
Contract jobs citing Splunk 625 420 380
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.42% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 3.29% 3.02% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 262 224
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +0.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £684 £647
90th Percentile £708 £775 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £48.27 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £90.00 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.69% +41.88% -29.30%

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 18,995 13,894 19,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.01% 47.08% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,130 8,646 11,977
10th Percentile £308 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
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 971 454 1,024
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -30.13%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £84.39 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.55% +19.01% -29.98%

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 14 March 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 March 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 14 March 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 0 552 £525 -4.72% 128
UK excluding London +31 364 £513 -6.82% 103
London -49 198 £600 +9.09% 41
Work from Home -17 158 £540 -6.09% 60
North of England -1 147 £516 -10.84% 39
Yorkshire +9 107 £515 -18.66% 19
Midlands +8 95 £525 -2.23% 6
South East -10 91 £390 -32.17% 24
West Midlands +1 90 £525 -4.55% 6
North West -28 39 £550 - 12
Scotland +18 25 £564 +35.90% 5
South West -12 18 £550 -26.67% 13
East of England -35 6 £600 - 16
Wales -5 5 £600 +31.87% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £447 +3.83%
North East -13 3 £538 -8.51% 8

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 19 (3.04%) Confluence
2 12 (1.92%) TPMS
3 9 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.96%) Apache
5 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.48%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) iPlanet
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.64%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) BASE24
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) RMDS
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 222 (35.52%) AWS
2 154 (24.64%) Azure
3 123 (19.68%) GCP
4 84 (13.44%) GitHub
5 64 (10.24%) OpenShift
6 51 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 38 (6.08%) Serverless
8 32 (5.12%) Datadog
9 31 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (4.48%) Amazon S3
11 26 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (3.20%) Entra ID
14 20 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (2.72%) SaaS
16 16 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.40%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (15.52%) Firewall
2 79 (12.64%) DNS
3 41 (6.56%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.64%) Network Security
5 26 (4.16%) Ethernet VPN
6 25 (4.00%) BGP
6 25 (4.00%) WAN
7 24 (3.84%) LAN
8 23 (3.68%) OSPF
9 22 (3.52%) DHCP
9 22 (3.52%) VXLAN
10 20 (3.20%) BIG-IP
10 20 (3.20%) Junos
11 19 (3.04%) SNMP
12 18 (2.88%) SSL
12 18 (2.88%) VPN
13 15 (2.40%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (2.40%) Wireless
14 12 (1.92%) HTTP
14 12 (1.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 29 (4.64%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (3.36%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.40%) MySQL
6 13 (2.08%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.92%) Redis
8 8 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.96%) Tableau
10 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.64%) Flink
10 4 (0.64%) Power BI
11 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 122 (19.52%) Jenkins
2 100 (16.00%) GitLab
3 38 (6.08%) Git
4 33 (5.28%) JIRA
5 15 (2.40%) Gatling
6 14 (2.24%) Postman
7 13 (2.08%) Liquibase
7 13 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (1.92%) JUnit
8 12 (1.92%) Selenium
8 12 (1.92%) Xcode
9 11 (1.76%) Android Studio
9 11 (1.76%) Browser DevTools
9 11 (1.76%) CircleCI
9 11 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.76%) Eclipse
10 10 (1.60%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.60%) Maven
11 9 (1.44%) Gradle
11 9 (1.44%) Snyk
General
1 239 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 128 (20.48%) Finance
3 97 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 59 (9.44%) Banking
6 43 (6.88%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (5.28%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.72%) Military
9 13 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.12%) Retail
12 4 (0.64%) Front Office
12 4 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.64%) Law
12 4 (0.64%) Legal
12 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Advertising
13 2 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.16%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (17.12%) Analyst
2 72 (11.52%) Senior
3 65 (10.40%) Architect
4 55 (8.80%) SOC Analyst
5 47 (7.52%) Lead
6 44 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 37 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 33 (5.28%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.32%) Splunk Engineer
10 25 (4.00%) Developer
10 25 (4.00%) Security Analyst
10 25 (4.00%) Site Engineer
11 24 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.20%) Security Architect
14 19 (3.04%) Monitoring Analyst
14 19 (3.04%) Network Engineer
15 18 (2.88%) Consultant
15 18 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.72%) Kafka
2 62 (9.92%) REST
3 52 (8.32%) Elastic Stack
4 43 (6.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (6.08%) Spring Boot
6 32 (5.12%) Spring
7 28 (4.48%) RESTful
8 26 (4.16%) JSON
9 25 (4.00%) SAML
10 22 (3.52%) 802.1X
11 21 (3.36%) LDAP
12 20 (3.20%) Middleware
12 20 (3.20%) OpenID
13 18 (2.88%) React
14 17 (2.72%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.72%) OAuth
15 15 (2.40%) CSS
15 15 (2.40%) Playwright
16 12 (1.92%) Keycloak
17 11 (1.76%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 51 (8.16%) Onboarding
3 48 (7.68%) Security Operations Centre
4 43 (6.88%) PKI
5 39 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.48%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (4.32%) Security Posture
8 26 (4.16%) Management Information System
9 25 (4.00%) Clustering
9 25 (4.00%) Public Cloud
10 21 (3.36%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (3.36%) Cyberattack
11 20 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
12 19 (3.04%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.72%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.44%) CMDB
14 9 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 202 (32.32%) Linux
2 152 (24.32%) Windows
3 63 (10.08%) Unix
4 27 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.92%) Android
6 11 (1.76%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.80%) AIX
7 5 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.64%) zOS
9 3 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.48%) CentOS
9 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (35.68%) CI/CD
2 201 (32.16%) DevOps
3 182 (29.12%) Observability
4 165 (26.40%) Cybersecurity
5 163 (26.08%) SIEM
6 152 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (22.72%) Incident Response
8 132 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 113 (18.08%) Containerisation
10 103 (16.48%) Agile
11 83 (13.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 79 (12.64%) Microservices
12 79 (12.64%) Security Operations
13 75 (12.00%) High Availability
14 72 (11.52%) Computer Science
15 67 (10.72%) Migration
16 65 (10.40%) Test Automation
17 58 (9.28%) Analytics
17 58 (9.28%) Root Cause Analysis
18 55 (8.80%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 229 (36.64%) Python
2 91 (14.56%) Bash
3 83 (13.28%) Java
4 79 (12.64%) PowerShell
5 74 (11.84%) SQL
6 36 (5.76%) Go
7 31 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.72%) Perl
10 16 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (2.56%) TypeScript
11 15 (2.40%) Search Processing Language
12 11 (1.76%) Bicep
13 9 (1.44%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.44%) Rust
14 6 (0.96%) Groovy
15 5 (0.80%) Scala
16 4 (0.64%) JCL
16 4 (0.64%) REXX
17 3 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 244 (39.04%) Security Cleared
2 159 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 85 (13.60%) Degree
4 60 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (9.28%) DV Cleared
6 49 (7.84%) CISSP
7 36 (5.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 31 (4.96%) CISM
9 28 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (3.36%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.88%) CompTIA CySA+
11 18 (2.88%) GIAC
12 15 (2.40%) CEH
13 13 (2.08%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.92%) FFIEC
15 11 (1.76%) GCIA
15 11 (1.76%) GCIH
16 10 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (1.28%) JNCIA
17 8 (1.28%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (12.00%) NIST
2 54 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.32%) GDPR
4 26 (4.16%) NCSC
4 26 (4.16%) PCI DSS
5 21 (3.36%) QA
6 16 (2.56%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.24%) SLA
8 12 (1.92%) GLBA
9 6 (0.96%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.80%) GRC
10 5 (0.80%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.48%) COBIT
12 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.48%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.32%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 128 (20.48%) Docker
2 23 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.40%) VMware NSX
4 13 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.76%) vSphere
6 6 (0.96%) Snort
7 5 (0.80%) etcd
8 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.48%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.32%) Squid
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) GPFS
10 1 (0.16%) Lustre
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 197 (31.52%) Kubernetes
2 140 (22.40%) Grafana
3 131 (20.96%) Terraform
4 115 (18.40%) Ansible
5 111 (17.76%) Prometheus
6 30 (4.80%) Argo
7 22 (3.52%) Kibana
8 21 (3.36%) FortiGate
9 17 (2.72%) Puppet
9 17 (2.72%) QRadar
10 15 (2.40%) Fluentd
11 14 (2.24%) Progress Chef
12 13 (2.08%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.76%) Nessus
14 10 (1.60%) CSIRT
14 10 (1.60%) Istio
14 10 (1.60%) linkerd
15 9 (1.44%) Kiali
15 9 (1.44%) logstash
16 8 (1.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 106 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.64%) Cisco
3 47 (7.52%) Dynatrace
4 43 (6.88%) ServiceNow
5 42 (6.72%) AppDynamics
5 42 (6.72%) Google
6 33 (5.28%) F5
6 33 (5.28%) SolarWinds
7 31 (4.96%) CrowdStrike
7 31 (4.96%) Red Hat
8 30 (4.80%) Oracle
9 28 (4.48%) VMware
10 26 (4.16%) CyberArk
10 26 (4.16%) Tenable
11 24 (3.84%) Qualys
12 22 (3.52%) Cribl.io
13 20 (3.20%) Juniper
13 20 (3.20%) Palo Alto
14 19 (3.04%) Carbon Black
15 18 (2.88%) Extreme Networks