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 27 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
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 189 261
Rank change year-on-year -7 +72 -91
Contract jobs citing Splunk 619 409 398
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.41% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 3.23% 2.98% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 255 239
10th Percentile £350 £383 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £636 £656 £650
90th Percentile £735 £758 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £71.33 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.98% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £88.75 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £93.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.54% +2.50% -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 19,189 13,707 18,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.51% 47.22% 42.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,265 8,682 11,803
10th Percentile £313 £293 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 973 475 1,029
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.51 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.51 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -39.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.91 £27.13 £21.75
% change year-on-year -11.84% +24.71% -37.86%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -16 551 £525 -4.55% 117
UK excluding London +15 364 £500 -9.09% 92
London -43 199 £600 +14.29% 39
Work from Home -26 160 £540 -2.00% 45
North of England +3 153 £500 -12.47% 28
Yorkshire +13 108 £514 -16.42% 9
South East -16 94 £425 -23.60% 26
Midlands -3 85 £525 -2.51% 4
West Midlands +3 80 £525 -4.72% 2
North West -23 44 £489 -11.05% 10
South West -2 22 £373 -50.33% 17
Scotland +4 21 £610 +46.99% 2
Wales -5 5 £600 +31.87% 3
East Midlands -31 5 £447 -4.89% 2
East of England -38 5 £600 - 14
North East -12 3 £538 -8.51% 9

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 20 (3.23%) Confluence
2 12 (1.94%) TPMS
3 10 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) BASE24
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 215 (34.73%) AWS
2 161 (26.01%) Azure
3 120 (19.39%) GCP
4 87 (14.05%) GitHub
5 72 (11.63%) OpenShift
6 50 (8.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.46%) Serverless
8 34 (5.49%) Datadog
8 34 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 29 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.72%) Entra ID
14 22 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (2.91%) SaaS
17 17 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.19%) Firewall
2 83 (13.41%) DNS
3 40 (6.46%) TCP/IP
4 32 (5.17%) Network Security
5 27 (4.36%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (4.36%) WAN
6 26 (4.20%) BGP
6 26 (4.20%) LAN
7 24 (3.88%) OSPF
7 24 (3.88%) SNMP
8 23 (3.72%) VXLAN
9 21 (3.39%) BIG-IP
9 21 (3.39%) DHCP
9 21 (3.39%) Junos
10 17 (2.75%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (2.75%) SSL
10 17 (2.75%) VPN
11 16 (2.58%) Wireless
12 12 (1.94%) HTTP
12 12 (1.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 28 (4.52%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.07%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.10%) MySQL
7 12 (1.94%) Hadoop
8 11 (1.78%) Redis
9 10 (1.62%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.13%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.97%) Tableau
12 4 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.65%) Flink
13 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 120 (19.39%) Jenkins
2 92 (14.86%) GitLab
3 37 (5.98%) Git
4 36 (5.82%) JIRA
5 15 (2.42%) Gatling
6 12 (1.94%) Liquibase
7 11 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.62%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.62%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.62%) Postman
9 9 (1.45%) Android Studio
9 9 (1.45%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (1.45%) Eclipse
9 9 (1.45%) Selenium
9 9 (1.45%) Xcode
10 8 (1.29%) Gradle
10 8 (1.29%) Maven
10 8 (1.29%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.29%) Snyk
General
1 220 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 131 (21.16%) Finance
3 82 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.85%) Banking
5 59 (9.53%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.79%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.01%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.42%) Military
9 13 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.13%) Retail
11 4 (0.65%) Front Office
11 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.65%) Law
11 4 (0.65%) Legal
12 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Advertising
13 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 107 (17.29%) Analyst
2 71 (11.47%) Senior
3 67 (10.82%) Architect
4 54 (8.72%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.92%) Lead
6 43 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (5.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 31 (5.01%) Security Engineer
9 25 (4.04%) Security Analyst
10 24 (3.88%) Splunk Engineer
11 23 (3.72%) Consultant
11 23 (3.72%) Site Engineer
12 22 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.55%) Developer
12 22 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (3.07%) Network Engineer
15 18 (2.91%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.91%) GCP Engineer
15 18 (2.91%) Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.15%) Kafka
2 62 (10.02%) REST
3 50 (8.08%) Elastic Stack
4 48 (7.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (5.98%) Spring Boot
6 31 (5.01%) Spring
7 27 (4.36%) RESTful
8 25 (4.04%) JSON
9 24 (3.88%) SAML
10 23 (3.72%) 802.1X
11 20 (3.23%) LDAP
11 20 (3.23%) Middleware
12 19 (3.07%) OpenID
13 18 (2.91%) React
14 16 (2.58%) OAuth
15 15 (2.42%) Playwright
16 14 (2.26%) AngularJS
17 12 (1.94%) CSS
18 11 (1.78%) OAuth2
18 11 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.40%) Onboarding
3 49 (7.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 42 (6.79%) PKI
5 38 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (4.68%) Data Centre
8 26 (4.20%) Management Information System
9 24 (3.88%) Clustering
9 24 (3.88%) Public Cloud
10 21 (3.39%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (3.39%) Cyberattack
10 21 (3.39%) Security Posture
11 20 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (2.75%) Mobile App
12 17 (2.75%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.62%) CMDB
14 9 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 200 (32.31%) Linux
2 149 (24.07%) Windows
3 55 (8.89%) Unix
4 25 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.62%) AIX
5 10 (1.62%) Android
6 9 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.65%) zOS
8 3 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (36.19%) CI/CD
2 202 (32.63%) DevOps
3 181 (29.24%) Observability
4 164 (26.49%) SIEM
5 160 (25.85%) Cybersecurity
6 141 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (22.46%) Incident Response
8 134 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 115 (18.58%) Containerisation
10 101 (16.32%) Agile
11 80 (12.92%) High Availability
12 78 (12.60%) Security Operations
12 78 (12.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 76 (12.28%) Microservices
14 69 (11.15%) Computer Science
15 67 (10.82%) Migration
16 60 (9.69%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.05%) Mentoring
17 56 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
17 56 (9.05%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 227 (36.67%) Python
2 93 (15.02%) Bash
3 80 (12.92%) PowerShell
4 75 (12.12%) Java
5 74 (11.95%) SQL
6 34 (5.49%) Go
7 30 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.07%) Search Processing Language
9 18 (2.91%) TypeScript
10 16 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.94%) Perl
11 12 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.62%) Bicep
13 9 (1.45%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.45%) Rust
14 4 (0.65%) Groovy
14 4 (0.65%) JCL
14 4 (0.65%) REXX
15 3 (0.48%) C#
15 3 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 246 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 164 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.57%) Degree
4 59 (9.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (9.21%) DV Cleared
6 51 (8.24%) CISSP
7 37 (5.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 33 (5.33%) CISM
9 30 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (3.07%) GIAC
11 18 (2.91%) CompTIA CySA+
11 18 (2.91%) Master's Degree
12 17 (2.75%) CEH
13 12 (1.94%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.94%) FFIEC
14 11 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.62%) GCIA
15 10 (1.62%) GCIH
16 8 (1.29%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.29%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (12.76%) NIST
2 57 (9.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (4.52%) GDPR
4 26 (4.20%) NCSC
4 26 (4.20%) PCI DSS
5 19 (3.07%) QA
6 16 (2.58%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.26%) SLA
8 12 (1.94%) GLBA
9 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.81%) GRC
10 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.65%) COBIT
11 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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
1 123 (19.87%) Docker
2 21 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.07%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.42%) vSphere
5 6 (0.97%) etcd
5 6 (0.97%) Snort
6 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.48%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.32%) Squid
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) GPFS
8 1 (0.16%) Lustre
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 204 (32.96%) Kubernetes
2 146 (23.59%) Grafana
3 137 (22.13%) Terraform
4 115 (18.58%) Ansible
5 113 (18.26%) Prometheus
6 34 (5.49%) Argo
7 23 (3.72%) FortiGate
8 21 (3.39%) QRadar
9 18 (2.91%) Kibana
10 17 (2.75%) Fluentd
10 17 (2.75%) vCenter Server
11 15 (2.42%) Puppet
12 13 (2.10%) Nagios
13 12 (1.94%) Progress Chef
14 11 (1.78%) Nessus
15 10 (1.62%) Istio
15 10 (1.62%) linkerd
15 10 (1.62%) Netcool
15 10 (1.62%) ZABBIX
16 9 (1.45%) Kiali
Vendors
1 105 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.05%) Cisco
3 48 (7.75%) Dynatrace
4 44 (7.11%) ServiceNow
5 42 (6.79%) AppDynamics
6 40 (6.46%) Google
7 37 (5.98%) SolarWinds
8 36 (5.82%) Red Hat
9 30 (4.85%) CyberArk
9 30 (4.85%) VMware
10 28 (4.52%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (4.36%) F5
11 27 (4.36%) Oracle
11 27 (4.36%) Tenable
12 23 (3.72%) Qualys
13 21 (3.39%) Cribl.io
13 21 (3.39%) Juniper
14 19 (3.07%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (3.07%) Palo Alto
15 18 (2.91%) Carbon Black