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 18 November 2025, 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
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 196 223
Rank change year-on-year +46 +27 -9
Contract jobs citing Splunk 693 454 520
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 1.26% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 4.13% 2.80% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 258 375
10th Percentile £358 £424 £400
25th Percentile £425 £485 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £614 £738 £683
90th Percentile £700 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -6.68% -7.27% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £81.63 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £82.19 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.46% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £63.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 -

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 16,798 16,200 21,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 44.94% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,576 9,516 13,634
10th Percentile £288 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 865 509 682
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.59 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.22 £18.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +74.51%
75th Percentile £40.65 £62.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.80 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.30% -37.08% +102.27%

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 18 November 2025.

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
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 18 November 2025. 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 +42 623 £525 -8.70% 170
UK excluding London +81 384 £513 -6.68% 87
London +24 239 £553 -7.92% 81
Work from Home +13 178 £525 -4.55% 96
North of England -4 125 £500 -13.04% 18
South East +70 109 £448 -22.17% 34
Midlands +27 99 £525 +1.79% 12
West Midlands +42 95 £530 -5.10% 10
Yorkshire -9 78 £500 -16.67% 6
North West -22 45 £464 -15.59% 10
Scotland +29 34 £477 +19.13% 2
South West -8 17 £550 +22.22% 7
East of England -21 17 £690 +20.00% 14
East Midlands -28 4 £381 -21.77% 2
North East -10 2 £600 -26.38% 2
Wales - 1 £600 - 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 33 (4.76%) Apache
2 32 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.74%) Skype for Business
4 18 (2.60%) WebLogic
5 17 (2.45%) JBoss
6 14 (2.02%) Confluence
6 14 (2.02%) Mattermost
7 13 (1.88%) SharePoint
7 13 (1.88%) WebSphere
7 13 (1.88%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (1.44%) IIS
8 10 (1.44%) iPlanet
9 8 (1.15%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.72%) TPMS
12 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.29%) Mule
13 2 (0.29%) Mule ESB
13 2 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
3 1 (0.14%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 267 (38.53%) AWS
2 138 (19.91%) Azure
3 131 (18.90%) GCP
4 69 (9.96%) GitHub
5 59 (8.51%) OpenShift
6 48 (6.93%) Serverless
7 47 (6.78%) SaaS
8 46 (6.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 30 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 30 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (3.03%) Akamai
14 20 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.74%) Datadog
16 18 (2.60%) Sauce Labs
17 17 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 113 (16.31%) Firewall
2 47 (6.78%) DNS
3 38 (5.48%) Network Security
4 25 (3.61%) SSL
5 24 (3.46%) Cisco IOS
6 22 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 22 (3.17%) Wireshark
7 21 (3.03%) Wireless
8 20 (2.89%) HTTP
9 19 (2.74%) Skype
10 18 (2.60%) VPN
11 14 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
11 14 (2.02%) iSCSI
12 12 (1.73%) Unified Communications
13 11 (1.59%) Kerberos
14 8 (1.15%) SNMP
15 7 (1.01%) DHCP
15 7 (1.01%) SSH
16 5 (0.72%) Internet
17 4 (0.58%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.64%) NoSQL
2 40 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (4.18%) MongoDB
4 27 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.17%) MySQL
7 19 (2.74%) Redis
8 18 (2.60%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.73%) Power BI
11 10 (1.44%) Apache Hive
12 9 (1.30%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.15%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.72%) Flink
16 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.72%) SQL Server
17 4 (0.58%) DynamoDB
18 3 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 126 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 99 (14.29%) GitLab
3 54 (7.79%) Git
4 30 (4.33%) Liquibase
5 29 (4.18%) JIRA
6 23 (3.32%) Xcode
7 22 (3.17%) Bitbucket
8 21 (3.03%) Postman
9 20 (2.89%) JUnit
10 19 (2.74%) Eclipse
11 18 (2.60%) Android Studio
11 18 (2.60%) Browser DevTools
11 18 (2.60%) SonarQube
11 18 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (2.02%) Bitbucket Server
12 14 (2.02%) CA Release Automation
13 13 (1.88%) Maven
14 12 (1.73%) Cypress.io
15 10 (1.44%) Subversion
16 9 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 273 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.65%) Finance
3 116 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.24%) Banking
5 61 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.19%) Financial Institution
7 24 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.46%) Games
8 14 (2.02%) Military
9 10 (1.44%) Legal
9 10 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.30%) Retail
11 6 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.72%) Local Government
13 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.29%) Law
14 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (15.58%) Analyst
2 73 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (9.52%) Senior
4 64 (9.24%) Architect
5 55 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
6 47 (6.78%) Security Engineer
7 46 (6.64%) SOC Analyst
8 37 (5.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 34 (4.91%) Security Analyst
10 33 (4.76%) Developer
11 28 (4.04%) Site Engineer
12 27 (3.90%) Security Architect
13 26 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (3.75%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Splunk Engineer
15 23 (3.32%) Lead
16 22 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.17%) Consultant
16 22 (3.17%) Support Analyst
16 22 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.40%) Elastic Stack
2 74 (10.68%) REST
3 51 (7.36%) Kafka
4 44 (6.35%) RESTful
5 28 (4.04%) AngularJS
5 28 (4.04%) React
6 27 (3.90%) CSS
7 26 (3.75%) OAuth
8 24 (3.46%) SAML
9 22 (3.17%) GraphQL
9 22 (3.17%) Spring
9 22 (3.17%) Spring Boot
10 21 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (2.89%) LDAP
12 18 (2.60%) Ajax
13 17 (2.45%) Keycloak
13 17 (2.45%) Web Services
14 16 (2.31%) YAML
15 15 (2.16%) JSON
15 15 (2.16%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 51 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 50 (7.22%) Security Posture
4 45 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
5 44 (6.35%) Onboarding
6 37 (5.34%) Public Cloud
7 26 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (3.75%) PKI
8 23 (3.32%) Mobile App
9 22 (3.17%) CSOC
9 22 (3.17%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (2.60%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.30%) Clustering
15 8 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.01%) Private Cloud
17 6 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
17 6 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 225 (32.47%) Linux
2 150 (21.65%) Windows
3 100 (14.43%) Unix
4 47 (6.78%) Android
5 35 (5.05%) Windows Server
6 33 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (4.47%) Mac OS
8 17 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.44%) CentOS
10 6 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.58%) Solaris
11 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.43%) zOS
13 2 (0.29%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.29%) VMS
14 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (31.02%) CI/CD
2 203 (29.29%) DevOps
3 187 (26.98%) Cybersecurity
4 174 (25.11%) Incident Response
5 171 (24.68%) SIEM
6 148 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (20.63%) Observability
8 123 (17.75%) Agile
9 122 (17.60%) Containerisation
10 120 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 101 (14.57%) Security Operations
12 83 (11.98%) Microservices
13 75 (10.82%) Threat Detection
14 72 (10.39%) Computer Science
15 66 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
15 66 (9.52%) SOAR
16 63 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (8.95%) Test Automation
18 58 (8.37%) Analytics
18 58 (8.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 254 (36.65%) Python
2 124 (17.89%) PowerShell
3 113 (16.31%) SQL
4 94 (13.56%) Bash
5 80 (11.54%) Java
6 70 (10.10%) Go
7 45 (6.49%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.49%) Shell Script
8 38 (5.48%) Perl
9 21 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 18 (2.60%) Groovy
10 18 (2.60%) PromQL
11 12 (1.73%) Scala
11 12 (1.73%) Search Processing Language
11 12 (1.73%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.01%) C++
13 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.72%) Swift
14 4 (0.58%) Bicep
14 4 (0.58%) JCL
Qualifications
1 186 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 118 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 90 (12.99%) Degree
4 77 (11.11%) CISSP
5 56 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (6.93%) DV Cleared
7 46 (6.64%) Master's Degree
8 39 (5.63%) CISM
9 31 (4.47%) CEH
10 28 (4.04%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.04%) GIAC
11 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (3.75%) MCSE
13 23 (3.32%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (3.17%) GCIA
15 21 (3.03%) GCIH
16 19 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (1.88%) GCFA
19 10 (1.44%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.96%) NIST
2 57 (8.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (5.34%) GDPR
4 17 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.45%) QA
5 14 (2.02%) HIPAA
5 14 (2.02%) NCSC
6 11 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.44%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.01%) SLA
9 5 (0.72%) GLBA
10 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.43%) GRC
12 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.29%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (17.32%) Docker
2 91 (13.13%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.60%) NFS
4 18 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (2.45%) vSphere
6 8 (1.15%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.87%) Snort
8 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.58%) Squid
9 4 (0.58%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.14%) GPFS
11 1 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 193 (27.85%) Kubernetes
2 130 (18.76%) Terraform
3 128 (18.47%) Grafana
4 118 (17.03%) Ansible
5 103 (14.86%) Prometheus
6 43 (6.20%) QRadar
7 35 (5.05%) SCCM
8 28 (4.04%) Kibana
9 26 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (3.61%) SCOM
11 21 (3.03%) CSIRT
11 21 (3.03%) HP SiteScope
12 20 (2.89%) Progress Chef
13 17 (2.45%) Puppet
14 16 (2.31%) Packer
14 16 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
15 14 (2.02%) Argo
15 14 (2.02%) Nessus
16 12 (1.73%) Fluentd
17 10 (1.44%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 210 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 83 (11.98%) Cisco
3 68 (9.81%) Oracle
4 66 (9.52%) Dynatrace
5 58 (8.37%) Google
6 55 (7.94%) CrowdStrike
7 47 (6.78%) AppDynamics
8 44 (6.35%) ServiceNow
9 38 (5.48%) Qualys
10 36 (5.19%) VMware
11 33 (4.76%) Red Hat
12 25 (3.61%) ArcSight
13 24 (3.46%) CyberArk
13 24 (3.46%) Meraki
14 23 (3.32%) Carbon Black
14 23 (3.32%) Remedy
15 22 (3.17%) F5
16 21 (3.03%) IBM
17 20 (2.89%) Veeam
18 17 (2.45%) Palo Alto