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 23 July 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
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 185 239
Rank change year-on-year -44 +54 -67
Contract jobs citing Splunk 588 509 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.56% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 3.28% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 316 270
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.25%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £80.48 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.23 - £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 21,778 15,500 17,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.30% 47.45% 43.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,534 9,482 11,204
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.72% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 764 967
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -3.38% -36.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.07% -10.00% -22.24%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -54 515 £525 -2.78% 253
UK excluding London -59 308 £515 -6.36% 230
London -34 225 £550 +4.76% 95
Work from Home -44 158 £525 +5.00% 46
North of England -22 126 £500 +2.82% 54
Yorkshire -14 70 £500 +12.04% 13
North West -29 55 £511 -9.20% 28
South East -104 51 £465 -14.44% 47
Midlands -20 49 £581 +19.79% 20
West Midlands -25 46 £581 +19.79% 18
South West -9 40 £450 -21.05% 40
East of England -40 26 £688 +25.00% 27
Scotland -6 25 £514 +19.53% 23
North East - 4 £369 - 13
East Midlands -12 3 £500 +5.26% 2
Wales -16 1 - - 11

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 26 (4.42%) Confluence
2 23 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.85%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.68%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 187 (31.80%) AWS
2 181 (30.78%) Azure
3 96 (16.33%) GitHub
4 75 (12.76%) GCP
5 64 (10.88%) OpenShift
6 37 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (5.78%) Entra ID
8 32 (5.44%) Datadog
9 29 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
10 25 (4.25%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.08%) Power Platform
12 22 (3.74%) Serverless
13 21 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (3.57%) SaaS
14 20 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.78%) Firewall
2 74 (12.59%) DNS
3 38 (6.46%) Network Security
3 38 (6.46%) SNMP
4 35 (5.95%) WAN
5 32 (5.44%) BGP
6 30 (5.10%) OSPF
7 29 (4.93%) Ethernet VPN
8 28 (4.76%) DHCP
8 28 (4.76%) LAN
9 26 (4.42%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.25%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.08%) Junos
12 22 (3.74%) VPN
13 21 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
14 20 (3.40%) TCP/IP
15 10 (1.70%) SSL
15 10 (1.70%) Wireless
16 9 (1.53%) Internet
17 8 (1.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.25%) MongoDB
2 23 (3.91%) Power BI
3 21 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.55%) Big Data
6 15 (2.55%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.36%) MySQL
9 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.19%) Presto
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.51%) KDB
Development Applications
1 92 (15.65%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.52%) GitLab
3 50 (8.50%) Git
4 37 (6.29%) JIRA
5 34 (5.78%) Gatling
6 24 (4.08%) JMeter
7 15 (2.55%) Selenium
8 14 (2.38%) LoadRunner
9 13 (2.21%) REST Assured
10 12 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.36%) Gradle
12 8 (1.36%) JUnit
12 8 (1.36%) Maven
13 7 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
13 7 (1.19%) Postman
13 7 (1.19%) Snyk
14 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 155 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.05%) Finance
3 73 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.18%) Banking
5 36 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.38%) Retail
8 11 (1.87%) Front Office
9 10 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.70%) Legal
10 8 (1.36%) Military
11 5 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.85%) Law
11 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (10.54%) Analyst
1 62 (10.54%) Lead
2 60 (10.20%) Senior
3 55 (9.35%) Architect
4 46 (7.82%) Consultant
5 42 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (5.44%) Developer
7 25 (4.25%) Data Engineer
7 25 (4.25%) SOC Engineer
8 24 (4.08%) Splunk Engineer
9 23 (3.91%) Security Architect
9 23 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 20 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (3.40%) Security Engineer
11 18 (3.06%) Site Engineer
11 18 (3.06%) Test Engineer
12 17 (2.89%) Network Engineer
12 17 (2.89%) Performance Engineer
12 17 (2.89%) SOC Analyst
13 15 (2.55%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.90%) REST
2 60 (10.20%) Kafka
3 55 (9.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 33 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (5.61%) Spring
4 33 (5.61%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.59%) 802.1X
6 26 (4.42%) JSON
7 16 (2.72%) RESTful
8 13 (2.21%) Playwright
9 12 (2.04%) LDAP
9 12 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (1.87%) .NET
10 11 (1.87%) Middleware
10 11 (1.87%) SailPoint
11 10 (1.70%) CSS
11 10 (1.70%) Protocol Buffers
11 10 (1.70%) React
12 9 (1.53%) Apache Avro
12 9 (1.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.86%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.12%) PKI
4 34 (5.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 33 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (5.27%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (4.59%) Clustering
9 19 (3.23%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.89%) CMDB
11 13 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 12 (2.04%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.70%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.36%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.02%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 153 (26.02%) Linux
2 134 (22.79%) Windows
3 44 (7.48%) Unix
4 18 (3.06%) AIX
4 18 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.68%) Android
8 4 (0.68%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) 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
1 215 (36.56%) CI/CD
2 211 (35.88%) Observability
3 185 (31.46%) DevOps
4 132 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (21.43%) SIEM
6 109 (18.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (16.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 94 (15.99%) Agile
9 92 (15.65%) Incident Response
10 88 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
11 78 (13.27%) Containerisation
12 75 (12.76%) Security Operations
13 74 (12.59%) High Availability
14 62 (10.54%) ITSM
15 61 (10.37%) ITIL
16 59 (10.03%) Test Automation
17 58 (9.86%) Analytics
18 53 (9.01%) Cloud Security
18 53 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 52 (8.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (35.71%) Python
2 90 (15.31%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.80%) SQL
4 74 (12.59%) Java
5 66 (11.22%) Bash
6 44 (7.48%) Search Processing Language
7 26 (4.42%) Go
8 22 (3.74%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (2.04%) Scala
10 11 (1.87%) Bicep
10 11 (1.87%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.36%) C#
12 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.36%) Perl
13 6 (1.02%) Ruby
14 4 (0.68%) JCL
14 4 (0.68%) REXX
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 218 (37.07%) Security Cleared
2 133 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.37%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.33%) CISSP
5 41 (6.97%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (5.61%) Degree
7 26 (4.42%) CISM
8 25 (4.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.89%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.55%) GIAC
12 11 (1.87%) CCNP
12 11 (1.87%) CEH
13 10 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.70%) CompTIA CySA+
13 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.53%) CCSP
14 9 (1.53%) GCIA
14 9 (1.53%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.63%) NIST
2 30 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.38%) QA
6 12 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.70%) GDPR
8 9 (1.53%) NCSC
8 9 (1.53%) SLA
9 6 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.85%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.68%) GRC
12 3 (0.51%) COBIT
12 3 (0.51%) GxP
12 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 94 (15.99%) Docker
2 25 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.21%) vSphere
6 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.02%) etcd
8 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 148 (25.17%) Grafana
1 148 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 143 (24.32%) Terraform
3 114 (19.39%) Prometheus
4 90 (15.31%) Ansible
5 27 (4.59%) QRadar
6 26 (4.42%) FortiGate
7 23 (3.91%) ZABBIX
8 21 (3.57%) Argo
9 20 (3.40%) Nagios
10 18 (3.06%) Netcool
11 17 (2.89%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.55%) OpenView
12 15 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.38%) Kibana
14 13 (2.21%) vCenter Server
15 10 (1.70%) Control-M
15 10 (1.70%) Progress Chef
16 8 (1.36%) Puppet
16 8 (1.36%) WMI
Vendors
1 95 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.44%) ServiceNow
3 75 (12.76%) Dynatrace
4 61 (10.37%) SolarWinds
5 58 (9.86%) Cisco
6 45 (7.65%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.80%) F5
8 38 (6.46%) AppDynamics
9 31 (5.27%) CyberArk
10 30 (5.10%) New Relic
11 29 (4.93%) IBM
12 28 (4.76%) Google
12 28 (4.76%) Tenable
13 25 (4.25%) Juniper
13 25 (4.25%) VMware
14 23 (3.91%) BMC
15 22 (3.74%) Extreme Networks
15 22 (3.74%) Fortinet
15 22 (3.74%) Oracle
15 22 (3.74%) Palo Alto