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 4 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 174 234
Rank change year-on-year -68 +60 -63
Contract jobs citing Splunk 577 521 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.58% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.36% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 326 264
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £605 £635 £638
90th Percentile £721 £771 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £48.65 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.31 - -
90th Percentile £79.19 - £45.25
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 21,875 15,518 17,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.39% 47.16% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,551 9,508 10,703
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 786 855
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.48 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.25
% change year-on-year +52.32% -18.11% -23.24%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -72 504 £525 -2.23% 338
UK excluding London -67 298 £515 -4.63% 266
London -31 225 £550 +4.76% 146
Work from Home -42 148 £522 +4.40% 140
North of England -23 118 £505 +3.75% 66
Yorkshire -23 58 £500 +5.80% 15
North West -38 57 £513 -2.38% 37
South East -97 53 £470 -7.16% 62
Midlands -36 41 £581 +9.73% 20
South West -15 40 £450 -21.05% 46
West Midlands -38 39 £581 +8.19% 19
Scotland -12 27 £423 -17.06% 25
East of England -31 26 £700 +27.27% 30
North East - 3 £369 - 14
East Midlands -11 2 £563 +56.25% 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 (4.68%) Confluence
2 22 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.39%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.52%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) 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 2 (0.35%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 186 (32.24%) AWS
2 183 (31.72%) Azure
3 90 (15.60%) GitHub
4 72 (12.48%) GCP
5 56 (9.71%) OpenShift
6 42 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (6.24%) Datadog
8 35 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (5.55%) Entra ID
10 29 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
11 27 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (4.33%) Amazon S3
13 24 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.16%) Power Platform
13 24 (4.16%) SaaS
13 24 (4.16%) Serverless
14 21 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 87 (15.08%) Firewall
2 76 (13.17%) DNS
3 39 (6.76%) Network Security
3 39 (6.76%) SNMP
4 38 (6.59%) WAN
5 32 (5.55%) BGP
6 31 (5.37%) DHCP
7 30 (5.20%) LAN
7 30 (5.20%) OSPF
8 29 (5.03%) Ethernet VPN
9 26 (4.51%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.33%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.16%) Junos
12 21 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (3.64%) TCP/IP
12 21 (3.64%) VPN
13 11 (1.91%) SSL
13 11 (1.91%) Wireless
14 10 (1.73%) Internet
15 9 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.99%) Power BI
2 20 (3.47%) MongoDB
3 19 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 19 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.60%) Big Data
5 14 (2.43%) Hadoop
5 14 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.73%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.39%) MySQL
9 7 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.21%) Presto
9 7 (1.21%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.04%) Flink
11 5 (0.87%) Looker
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
13 3 (0.52%) KDB
Development Applications
1 81 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 53 (9.19%) GitLab
3 51 (8.84%) Git
4 38 (6.59%) JIRA
5 29 (5.03%) Gatling
6 25 (4.33%) JMeter
7 14 (2.43%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.91%) Selenium
10 9 (1.56%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.39%) JUnit
11 8 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.21%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.21%) Gradle
12 7 (1.21%) Maven
12 7 (1.21%) Postman
12 7 (1.21%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.04%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.04%) Xcode
General
1 142 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 102 (17.68%) Finance
3 77 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.32%) Banking
5 27 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.43%) Retail
8 11 (1.91%) Front Office
9 9 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.56%) Legal
10 6 (1.04%) Military
10 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.87%) Law
12 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.52%) Advertising
13 3 (0.52%) Local Government
14 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (10.05%) Lead
1 58 (10.05%) Senior
2 54 (9.36%) Analyst
3 49 (8.49%) Consultant
4 44 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (7.45%) Architect
6 31 (5.37%) Developer
7 26 (4.51%) Splunk Engineer
8 25 (4.33%) SOC Engineer
9 24 (4.16%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.12%) Network Engineer
12 18 (3.12%) Performance Engineer
12 18 (3.12%) Security Engineer
13 17 (2.95%) Site Engineer
14 16 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (2.77%) Security Architect
14 16 (2.77%) SOC Analyst
15 15 (2.60%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.96%) REST
2 54 (9.36%) Kafka
3 50 (8.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 35 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (4.68%) 802.1X
6 26 (4.51%) Spring
6 26 (4.51%) Spring Boot
7 23 (3.99%) JSON
8 14 (2.43%) React
8 14 (2.43%) RESTful
9 11 (1.91%) .NET
9 11 (1.91%) Middleware
10 10 (1.73%) CSS
10 10 (1.73%) OAuth
10 10 (1.73%) OAuth2
10 10 (1.73%) SailPoint
11 9 (1.56%) LDAP
12 8 (1.39%) Playwright
12 8 (1.39%) Protocol Buffers
13 7 (1.21%) Fluent Bit
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.71%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.24%) PKI
4 32 (5.55%) Data Centre
4 32 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 28 (4.85%) Clustering
6 22 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.95%) CMDB
8 16 (2.77%) Security Posture
9 12 (2.08%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.73%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.73%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.56%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 155 (26.86%) Linux
2 134 (23.22%) Windows
3 45 (7.80%) Unix
4 21 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.12%) AIX
6 9 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.69%) Android
9 4 (0.69%) zOS
10 2 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (37.95%) Observability
2 206 (35.70%) CI/CD
3 176 (30.50%) DevOps
4 123 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (21.14%) SIEM
6 110 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 96 (16.64%) Agile
8 94 (16.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 89 (15.42%) Incident Response
10 77 (13.34%) Containerisation
11 75 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
12 69 (11.96%) High Availability
13 68 (11.79%) Security Operations
14 63 (10.92%) ITSM
15 61 (10.57%) ITIL
16 57 (9.88%) Analytics
17 56 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (9.71%) Test Automation
18 55 (9.53%) Root Cause Analysis
19 51 (8.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 206 (35.70%) Python
2 98 (16.98%) PowerShell
3 84 (14.56%) SQL
4 70 (12.13%) Java
5 66 (11.44%) Bash
6 46 (7.97%) Search Processing Language
7 28 (4.85%) Go
8 21 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.60%) Scala
10 13 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.08%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.73%) Bicep
13 9 (1.56%) Perl
14 8 (1.39%) C#
14 8 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.69%) Groovy
15 4 (0.69%) JCL
15 4 (0.69%) REXX
16 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 208 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 125 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.40%) DV Cleared
4 46 (7.97%) CISSP
5 41 (7.11%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (5.72%) Degree
7 24 (4.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (3.81%) CISM
9 19 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (2.77%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.08%) CEH
13 11 (1.91%) CCNP
13 11 (1.91%) GCIH
13 11 (1.91%) GIAC
14 10 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.73%) GCIA
14 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.56%) CCSP
16 8 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.24%) NIST
2 25 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.47%) QA
4 11 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.56%) SLA
6 7 (1.21%) GDPR
7 6 (1.04%) NCSC
8 5 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.69%) GxP
9 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.35%) COBIT
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 94 (16.29%) Docker
2 28 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.56%) vSphere
6 7 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.04%) etcd
8 3 (0.52%) Snort
9 2 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 141 (24.44%) Grafana
1 141 (24.44%) Kubernetes
1 141 (24.44%) Terraform
2 105 (18.20%) Prometheus
3 84 (14.56%) Ansible
4 28 (4.85%) QRadar
5 27 (4.68%) FortiGate
6 23 (3.99%) ZABBIX
7 21 (3.64%) Argo
8 20 (3.47%) Nagios
9 18 (3.12%) Netcool
10 17 (2.95%) Tivoli
11 15 (2.60%) OpenView
11 15 (2.60%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.43%) Kibana
13 10 (1.73%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.56%) Control-M
14 9 (1.56%) vCenter Server
15 8 (1.39%) Puppet
15 8 (1.39%) WMI
Vendors
1 100 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 84 (14.56%) Dynatrace
3 80 (13.86%) ServiceNow
4 65 (11.27%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.40%) Cisco
6 45 (7.80%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.11%) AppDynamics
8 40 (6.93%) F5
9 34 (5.89%) New Relic
10 33 (5.72%) Google
11 30 (5.20%) IBM
12 29 (5.03%) CyberArk
13 27 (4.68%) Tenable
14 25 (4.33%) Juniper
15 24 (4.16%) Palo Alto
15 24 (4.16%) VMware
16 23 (3.99%) BMC
17 22 (3.81%) Extreme Networks
17 22 (3.81%) Fortinet
17 22 (3.81%) Oracle