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 29 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 159 213
Rank change year-on-year -86 +54 -34
Contract jobs citing Splunk 595 599 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.82% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.85% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 374 277
10th Percentile £350 £360 £413
25th Percentile £413 £420 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £650
90th Percentile £700 £707 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £556
% change year-on-year -2.38% -5.62% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £44.29 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 22,533 15,547 16,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.81% 47.19% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,888 9,521 10,392
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,169 793 745
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -11.75% -33.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.39 £67.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -31.25%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -85 514 £525 - 472
UK excluding London -91 299 £513 -2.38% 361
London -49 240 £550 +4.76% 236
Work from Home -40 165 £520 +4.00% 131
North of England -42 121 £465 +1.64% 87
North West -41 67 £511 +13.50% 55
Midlands -43 50 £578 +10.10% 20
West Midlands -32 47 £578 +8.65% 18
Yorkshire -39 45 £475 +0.15% 21
South West -8 43 £457 -16.24% 54
South East -125 36 £465 -7.00% 86
Scotland -21 33 £438 -3.63% 48
East of England -38 26 £700 +27.27% 35
North East -29 9 £425 - 11
East Midlands -17 2 £563 +56.25% 2

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 28 (4.71%) Confluence
2 17 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.34%) Apache
4 8 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.50%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (37.98%) AWS
2 214 (35.97%) Azure
3 100 (16.81%) GitHub
4 81 (13.61%) GCP
5 54 (9.08%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (8.74%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.55%) Entra ID
9 38 (6.39%) Datadog
10 37 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.71%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.71%) SaaS
13 28 (4.71%) Serverless
14 27 (4.54%) Amazon S3
15 25 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.26%) Firewall
2 53 (8.91%) DNS
3 40 (6.72%) Network Security
3 40 (6.72%) SNMP
4 24 (4.03%) WAN
5 17 (2.86%) VPN
6 15 (2.52%) BGP
6 15 (2.52%) DHCP
6 15 (2.52%) TCP/IP
7 14 (2.35%) LAN
8 13 (2.18%) OSPF
9 11 (1.85%) HTTP
9 11 (1.85%) Wireless
10 10 (1.68%) BIG-IP
10 10 (1.68%) Internet
11 8 (1.34%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (1.34%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (1.34%) Junos
11 8 (1.34%) SSL
11 8 (1.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.54%) Power BI
2 24 (4.03%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.03%) Big Data
5 15 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.18%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.68%) MySQL
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.18%) Presto
10 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.01%) Flink
10 6 (1.01%) Redis
11 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.84%) Looker
12 4 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 95 (15.97%) Jenkins
2 59 (9.92%) Git
2 59 (9.92%) GitLab
3 42 (7.06%) JIRA
4 32 (5.38%) Gatling
4 32 (5.38%) JMeter
5 21 (3.53%) LoadRunner
6 16 (2.69%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.85%) Selenium
8 9 (1.51%) JUnit
9 8 (1.34%) Gradle
9 8 (1.34%) Maven
9 8 (1.34%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.18%) Postman
11 6 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 149 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 117 (19.66%) Finance
3 88 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.24%) Banking
5 34 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.68%) Front Office
8 10 (1.68%) Legal
8 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.51%) Retail
10 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.84%) Law
10 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.67%) Local Government
11 4 (0.67%) Military
12 3 (0.50%) Advertising
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (9.08%) Senior
2 53 (8.91%) Analyst
3 51 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (8.40%) Lead
5 46 (7.73%) Consultant
6 39 (6.55%) Splunk Engineer
7 35 (5.88%) Architect
8 34 (5.71%) Developer
9 28 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 26 (4.37%) Security Engineer
11 25 (4.20%) SOC Engineer
12 23 (3.87%) Performance Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Site Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Test Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.86%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.69%) Applications Support
17 15 (2.52%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (25.21%) Terraform
2 62 (10.42%) Kafka
3 58 (9.75%) REST
4 46 (7.73%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (3.19%) React
6 19 (3.19%) Spring
6 19 (3.19%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.03%) RESTful
8 17 (2.86%) JSON
9 13 (2.18%) CSS
9 13 (2.18%) Middleware
10 12 (2.02%) .NET
10 12 (2.02%) 802.1X
10 12 (2.02%) OAuth
10 12 (2.02%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.02%) Play Framework
11 10 (1.68%) OpenID
12 9 (1.51%) SailPoint
12 9 (1.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (3.19%) PKI
6 17 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.35%) Clustering
9 14 (2.35%) CMDB
10 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (1.68%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.68%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (27.73%) Linux
2 116 (19.50%) Windows
3 46 (7.73%) Unix
4 25 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.03%) AIX
7 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.67%) Android
10 4 (0.67%) zOS
11 3 (0.50%) CentOS
11 3 (0.50%) VMS
11 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (38.15%) Observability
2 217 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 187 (31.43%) DevOps
4 130 (21.85%) SIEM
5 121 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (18.32%) Agile
8 107 (17.98%) Incident Response
9 82 (13.78%) Containerisation
9 82 (13.78%) Cybersecurity
10 80 (13.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 75 (12.61%) Security Operations
12 74 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 72 (12.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 65 (10.92%) Incident Management
15 60 (10.08%) ITSM
15 60 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 54 (9.08%) High Availability
16 54 (9.08%) Test Automation
17 53 (8.91%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 221 (37.14%) Python
2 114 (19.16%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.45%) SQL
4 76 (12.77%) Bash
5 69 (11.60%) Java
6 58 (9.75%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (5.88%) Go
8 26 (4.37%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.36%) Scala
10 18 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
11 17 (2.86%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.68%) Perl
13 8 (1.34%) Bicep
13 8 (1.34%) C#
14 5 (0.84%) Groovy
14 5 (0.84%) Ruby
15 4 (0.67%) JCL
15 4 (0.67%) REXX
16 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 224 (37.65%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 47 (7.90%) CISSP
5 43 (7.23%) Degree
6 27 (4.54%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.70%) CISM
8 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.69%) GIAC
11 14 (2.35%) GCIH
12 12 (2.02%) CEH
13 10 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (1.34%) CCNP
14 8 (1.34%) GCIA
14 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.18%) CCSP
15 7 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.72%) NIST
2 26 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.87%) QA
4 15 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.35%) GDPR
5 14 (2.35%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.68%) NCSC
6 10 (1.68%) SLA
7 9 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.01%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.67%) GxP
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.50%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.34%) COBIT
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 106 (17.82%) Docker
2 25 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.01%) etcd
6 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.01%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 161 (27.06%) Kubernetes
2 148 (24.87%) Grafana
3 104 (17.48%) Prometheus
4 87 (14.62%) Ansible
5 29 (4.87%) QRadar
6 25 (4.20%) ZABBIX
7 23 (3.87%) Nagios
8 18 (3.03%) Argo
8 18 (3.03%) Netcool
9 17 (2.86%) Tivoli
10 16 (2.69%) Kibana
11 15 (2.52%) OpenView
11 15 (2.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.35%) Progress Chef
13 11 (1.85%) FortiGate
14 10 (1.68%) Control-M
15 9 (1.51%) SCOM
16 8 (1.34%) Puppet
16 8 (1.34%) WMI
17 7 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 118 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 101 (16.97%) Dynatrace
3 72 (12.10%) ServiceNow
4 54 (9.08%) SolarWinds
5 46 (7.73%) CrowdStrike
6 45 (7.56%) AppDynamics
7 43 (7.23%) Cisco
8 41 (6.89%) New Relic
9 36 (6.05%) IBM
10 32 (5.38%) Oracle
11 27 (4.54%) Google
12 25 (4.20%) VMware
13 24 (4.03%) BMC
13 24 (4.03%) CyberArk
14 22 (3.70%) Tenable
15 20 (3.36%) F5
16 19 (3.19%) Cribl.io
16 19 (3.19%) Palo Alto
17 16 (2.69%) Fortinet
18 15 (2.52%) Qualys