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 21 September 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
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 150 218
Rank change year-on-year -88 +68 -28
Contract jobs citing Splunk 607 630 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.93% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.68% 4.06% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 389 264
10th Percentile £350 £360 £425
25th Percentile £423 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £688
90th Percentile £721 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £44.57 - £48.75
25th Percentile £46.40 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £60.00
75th Percentile £72.96 - £67.50
90th Percentile £79.19 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.23 - £60.00

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 22,669 15,501 17,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.46% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,851 9,502 10,192
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,287 795 671
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.13 £25.15 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -17.30% -30.63%
75th Percentile £60.78 £43.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.62% -30.00% -29.12%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -92 524 £525 - 586
UK excluding London -107 298 £525 - 425
London -51 254 £525 - 285
Work from Home -43 170 £525 +5.00% 186
North of England -44 122 £464 -1.70% 104
North West -27 69 £525 +14.75% 56
Midlands -63 47 £575 +9.52% 34
West Midlands -60 45 £575 +8.08% 31
South East -114 42 £485 -3.00% 96
Yorkshire -49 38 £475 -2.66% 32
Scotland -29 33 £425 -15.51% 53
South West -23 31 £650 +18.18% 58
East of England -40 27 £675 +22.73% 37
North East -26 15 £425 - 17
Wales - 4 - - 22
East Midlands -18 1 £500 +38.89% 3

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 29 (4.78%) Confluence
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.15%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.66%) IIS
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.49%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) MTS
9 1 (0.16%) Mule
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.16%) Traefik
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) SAP MDG
1 8 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (38.06%) AWS
1 231 (38.06%) Azure
2 96 (15.82%) GitHub
3 87 (14.33%) GCP
4 55 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
5 47 (7.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 44 (7.25%) OpenShift
7 43 (7.08%) Datadog
8 41 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (6.59%) Entra ID
10 36 (5.93%) Power Platform
11 35 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (4.78%) SaaS
14 25 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (3.95%) Serverless
16 23 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (3.62%) Amazon S3
18 20 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (10.71%) Firewall
2 44 (7.25%) DNS
3 40 (6.59%) Network Security
4 34 (5.60%) SNMP
5 24 (3.95%) WAN
6 18 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 17 (2.80%) VPN
8 12 (1.98%) BGP
8 12 (1.98%) DHCP
8 12 (1.98%) HTTP
8 12 (1.98%) LAN
8 12 (1.98%) Wireless
9 10 (1.65%) Internet
9 10 (1.65%) OSPF
9 10 (1.65%) SSL
10 7 (1.15%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.15%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.99%) BIG-IP
11 6 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (0.99%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.77%) Power BI
2 29 (4.78%) MongoDB
3 24 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.80%) Big Data
4 17 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.47%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.81%) MySQL
8 9 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.32%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.32%) Tableau
10 7 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.15%) Looker
10 7 (1.15%) Presto
11 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.82%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.82%) Flink
Development Applications
1 91 (14.99%) Jenkins
2 63 (10.38%) Git
3 59 (9.72%) GitLab
4 47 (7.74%) JIRA
5 27 (4.45%) Gatling
5 27 (4.45%) JMeter
6 18 (2.97%) Bitbucket
7 16 (2.64%) LoadRunner
8 14 (2.31%) Selenium
9 10 (1.65%) Postman
10 9 (1.48%) Maven
11 8 (1.32%) Gradle
11 8 (1.32%) JUnit
11 8 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.15%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.15%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 164 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.44%) Finance
3 106 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.56%) Banking
5 37 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.98%) Retail
9 11 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.65%) Front Office
10 10 (1.65%) Legal
11 7 (1.15%) Military
12 5 (0.82%) Law
12 5 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
15 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (10.38%) Analyst
2 56 (9.23%) Senior
3 52 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (7.74%) Lead
5 42 (6.92%) Architect
5 42 (6.92%) Splunk Engineer
6 40 (6.59%) Developer
7 39 (6.43%) Consultant
8 35 (5.77%) Security Engineer
9 27 (4.45%) SOC Engineer
10 26 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 23 (3.79%) Test Engineer
12 20 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.29%) Security Analyst
13 19 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (2.97%) Performance Engineer
14 18 (2.97%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.80%) Site Engineer
15 17 (2.80%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.64%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (24.38%) Terraform
2 61 (10.05%) Kafka
3 57 (9.39%) REST
4 48 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
5 35 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.46%) RESTful
6 21 (3.46%) Spring
6 21 (3.46%) Spring Boot
7 20 (3.29%) JSON
8 19 (3.13%) Middleware
9 18 (2.97%) OAuth
9 18 (2.97%) OAuth2
9 18 (2.97%) React
10 15 (2.47%) Play Framework
11 13 (2.14%) CSS
12 12 (1.98%) .NET
12 12 (1.98%) OpenID
13 10 (1.65%) OpenAPI
13 10 (1.65%) SAML
13 10 (1.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.37%) Onboarding
2 61 (10.05%) Cloud Native
3 42 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.46%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (3.13%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.97%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.98%) CMDB
11 12 (1.98%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.81%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.65%) Clustering
13 10 (1.65%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.48%) PKI
15 8 (1.32%) Blog
15 8 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 171 (28.17%) Linux
2 107 (17.63%) Windows
3 51 (8.40%) Unix
4 30 (4.94%) Windows Server
5 25 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.65%) AIX
7 9 (1.48%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.66%) Android
9 4 (0.66%) CentOS
9 4 (0.66%) VMS
9 4 (0.66%) zOS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) MVS
11 1 (0.16%) Rocky
11 1 (0.16%) SUSE
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (39.87%) Observability
2 222 (36.57%) CI/CD
3 188 (30.97%) DevOps
4 139 (22.90%) SIEM
5 125 (20.59%) Agile
5 125 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 116 (19.11%) Incident Response
7 115 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
9 85 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (13.67%) Security Operations
11 79 (13.01%) Containerisation
12 78 (12.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 78 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 72 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (10.38%) Incident Management
15 60 (9.88%) Analytics
16 57 (9.39%) Test Automation
17 56 (9.23%) ITSM
17 56 (9.23%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 205 (33.77%) Python
2 110 (18.12%) PowerShell
3 87 (14.33%) SQL
4 76 (12.52%) Java
5 71 (11.70%) Bash
6 51 (8.40%) Search Processing Language
7 38 (6.26%) Go
8 22 (3.62%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.62%) Scala
8 22 (3.62%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 15 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.65%) C#
11 10 (1.65%) Perl
12 7 (1.15%) Bicep
13 6 (0.99%) Groovy
14 5 (0.82%) Ruby
15 4 (0.66%) JCL
15 4 (0.66%) REXX
16 3 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 224 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 156 (25.70%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.56%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.57%) CISSP
5 46 (7.58%) Degree
6 26 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.79%) CISM
8 21 (3.46%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.80%) GIAC
12 16 (2.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (2.47%) GCIH
14 14 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (1.98%) CEH
16 11 (1.81%) CCSP
17 9 (1.48%) Azure Certification
17 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (1.32%) GCIA
19 7 (1.15%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.26%) NIST
2 29 (4.78%) QA
3 25 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.80%) GDPR
6 15 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.48%) NCSC
7 9 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.82%) GRC
9 5 (0.82%) SLA
10 4 (0.66%) GxP
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (16.64%) Docker
2 26 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.66%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Firmware
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (25.04%) Kubernetes
2 151 (24.88%) Grafana
3 97 (15.98%) Prometheus
4 84 (13.84%) Ansible
5 33 (5.44%) QRadar
6 18 (2.97%) ZABBIX
7 17 (2.80%) Kibana
8 15 (2.47%) Nagios
9 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.81%) Argo
11 10 (1.65%) Control-M
11 10 (1.65%) Netcool
11 10 (1.65%) Tivoli
12 9 (1.48%) CASB
12 9 (1.48%) SCOM
13 8 (1.32%) OpenView
13 8 (1.32%) Puppet
13 8 (1.32%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 8 (1.32%) WMI
14 7 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 130 (21.42%) Microsoft
2 106 (17.46%) Dynatrace
3 78 (12.85%) ServiceNow
4 51 (8.40%) CrowdStrike
5 45 (7.41%) SolarWinds
6 44 (7.25%) AppDynamics
7 41 (6.75%) Cisco
8 38 (6.26%) Google
8 38 (6.26%) New Relic
9 34 (5.60%) Oracle
10 31 (5.11%) IBM
11 23 (3.79%) CyberArk
12 21 (3.46%) F5
12 21 (3.46%) VMware
13 19 (3.13%) Cribl.io
13 19 (3.13%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.97%) Qualys
14 18 (2.97%) Tenable
15 17 (2.80%) BMC
16 13 (2.14%) Fortinet