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 3 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 175 247
Rank change year-on-year -45 +72 -85
Contract jobs citing Splunk 579 491 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.57% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 3.31% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 301 279
10th Percentile £363 £385 £399
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £624
90th Percentile £750 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £44.16 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £40.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.84 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 21,123 14,842 18,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.00% 47.46% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,162 9,096 11,591
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,094 703 1,150
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.33 £14.90
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.08 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year +43.61% -5.71% -25.70%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -49 510 £525 -4.55% 315
UK excluding London -53 312 £520 -5.55% 257
London -41 217 £550 +4.76% 130
Work from Home -33 153 £550 +2.42% 67
North of England -25 127 £500 - 60
Yorkshire -9 74 £500 - 17
South East -79 55 £470 -14.55% 70
North West -33 51 £501 +2.82% 31
Midlands -31 47 £581 +16.55% 14
West Midlands -33 42 £581 +10.84% 13
South West +5 39 £450 -16.67% 43
East of England -34 27 £675 +22.73% 32
Scotland -10 26 £557 +26.59% 19
East Midlands -13 5 £447 +3.23% 1
North East - 5 £413 - 12
Wales -18 1 - - 12

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 23 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.11%) Confluence
3 13 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.86%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
5 3 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.52%) TPMS
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 175 (30.22%) AWS
2 158 (27.29%) Azure
3 87 (15.03%) GitHub
4 68 (11.74%) GCP
5 65 (11.23%) OpenShift
6 32 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (5.35%) Entra ID
8 27 (4.66%) Datadog
9 26 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (4.32%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 24 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.15%) Power Platform
12 23 (3.97%) Serverless
13 22 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.99%) Firewall
2 78 (13.47%) DNS
3 41 (7.08%) SNMP
4 36 (6.22%) Network Security
4 36 (6.22%) WAN
5 31 (5.35%) BGP
6 29 (5.01%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (5.01%) LAN
6 29 (5.01%) OSPF
7 28 (4.84%) DHCP
8 26 (4.49%) BIG-IP
9 25 (4.32%) VXLAN
10 24 (4.15%) Junos
10 24 (4.15%) TCP/IP
11 23 (3.97%) VPN
12 20 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (2.07%) SSL
14 11 (1.90%) Wireless
15 10 (1.73%) MPLS
16 9 (1.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.66%) MongoDB
2 23 (3.97%) Power BI
3 20 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 20 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.94%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.07%) Big Data
8 10 (1.73%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.55%) MySQL
10 8 (1.38%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.21%) Presto
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.69%) Redis
13 4 (0.69%) Tableau
14 3 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.52%) KDB
Development Applications
1 94 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 53 (9.15%) GitLab
3 49 (8.46%) Git
4 33 (5.70%) Gatling
5 29 (5.01%) JIRA
6 23 (3.97%) JMeter
7 13 (2.25%) LoadRunner
7 13 (2.25%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.25%) Selenium
8 12 (2.07%) Serenity BDD
9 9 (1.55%) Gradle
9 9 (1.55%) JUnit
9 9 (1.55%) Maven
9 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.21%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.21%) Jaeger
11 6 (1.04%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.04%) Postman
11 6 (1.04%) Snyk
11 6 (1.04%) Xcode
General
1 161 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 115 (19.86%) Finance
3 67 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.98%) Banking
5 38 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.87%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.42%) Retail
8 13 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.90%) Front Office
11 9 (1.55%) Legal
12 8 (1.38%) Military
13 5 (0.86%) Law
14 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.52%) Advertising
15 3 (0.52%) Local Government
16 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 1 (0.17%) Automotive
17 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (11.57%) Analyst
2 65 (11.23%) Architect
3 60 (10.36%) Senior
4 53 (9.15%) Lead
5 39 (6.74%) Consultant
6 37 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (5.35%) Developer
8 27 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 25 (4.32%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.15%) SOC Engineer
11 23 (3.97%) SOC Analyst
12 22 (3.80%) Security Architect
13 21 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (3.63%) Security Engineer
13 21 (3.63%) Site Engineer
14 20 (3.45%) Network Engineer
15 19 (3.28%) CyberArk Architect
16 18 (3.11%) Test Engineer
17 17 (2.94%) Performance Engineer
18 16 (2.76%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (10.71%) Kafka
2 60 (10.36%) REST
3 56 (9.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 34 (5.87%) Spring
5 33 (5.70%) Spring Boot
6 32 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
7 27 (4.66%) 802.1X
8 23 (3.97%) JSON
9 21 (3.63%) LDAP
10 19 (3.28%) OpenID
10 19 (3.28%) SAML
11 16 (2.76%) RESTful
12 13 (2.25%) Playwright
13 12 (2.07%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (1.90%) Middleware
14 11 (1.90%) OAuth
14 11 (1.90%) OAuth2
14 11 (1.90%) SailPoint
15 10 (1.73%) Protocol Buffers
15 10 (1.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.19%) Onboarding
3 37 (6.39%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.22%) PKI
5 33 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (5.18%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.84%) Clustering
8 27 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.45%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.94%) CMDB
11 16 (2.76%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.59%) Product Ownership
13 14 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
14 12 (2.07%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.73%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (1.38%) AI Agents
17 8 (1.38%) Public Cloud
17 8 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
18 6 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 159 (27.46%) Linux
2 138 (23.83%) Windows
3 45 (7.77%) Unix
4 18 (3.11%) AIX
5 16 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.59%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.04%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.69%) Android
10 4 (0.69%) zOS
11 2 (0.35%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (37.82%) CI/CD
2 198 (34.20%) Observability
3 184 (31.78%) DevOps
4 135 (23.32%) SIEM
5 130 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 105 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
8 94 (16.23%) Incident Response
8 94 (16.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 79 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 78 (13.47%) Agile
11 77 (13.30%) Security Operations
12 73 (12.61%) High Availability
13 65 (11.23%) ITSM
14 60 (10.36%) ITIL
15 59 (10.19%) Test Automation
16 56 (9.67%) Analytics
17 51 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (8.81%) Migration
18 49 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (36.79%) Python
2 89 (15.37%) SQL
3 84 (14.51%) PowerShell
4 71 (12.26%) Bash
4 71 (12.26%) Java
5 44 (7.60%) Search Processing Language
6 24 (4.15%) Go
7 22 (3.80%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.42%) Bicep
9 10 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.73%) Scala
9 10 (1.73%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.38%) C#
10 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.04%) Perl
11 6 (1.04%) Ruby
12 4 (0.69%) JCL
12 4 (0.69%) REXX
13 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 220 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 134 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.19%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.46%) CISSP
5 42 (7.25%) Degree
6 39 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (5.01%) CompTIA Security+
8 25 (4.32%) CISM
9 24 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.76%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.59%) GIAC
13 13 (2.25%) CompTIA CySA+
14 12 (2.07%) CEH
15 11 (1.90%) GCIA
15 11 (1.90%) GCIH
16 10 (1.73%) CCNP
16 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (1.55%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.15%) NIST
2 41 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.76%) NCSC
4 16 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.42%) GDPR
6 13 (2.25%) QA
7 11 (1.90%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.55%) SLA
9 8 (1.38%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.86%) GRC
11 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.52%) COBIT
12 3 (0.52%) GLBA
13 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 93 (16.06%) Docker
2 22 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.76%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.25%) vSphere
6 8 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.04%) etcd
8 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.69%) Snort
9 2 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) 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
1 154 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 142 (24.53%) Grafana
3 135 (23.32%) Terraform
4 111 (19.17%) Prometheus
5 95 (16.41%) Ansible
6 26 (4.49%) FortiGate
7 23 (3.97%) QRadar
7 23 (3.97%) ZABBIX
8 21 (3.63%) Argo
9 20 (3.45%) Nagios
10 18 (3.11%) Netcool
11 17 (2.94%) Tivoli
12 16 (2.76%) Kibana
13 15 (2.59%) OpenView
13 15 (2.59%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 12 (2.07%) vCenter Server
15 9 (1.55%) Progress Chef
16 8 (1.38%) Fluentd
16 8 (1.38%) WMI
17 7 (1.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 94 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 75 (12.95%) ServiceNow
3 69 (11.92%) Dynatrace
4 60 (10.36%) Cisco
5 59 (10.19%) SolarWinds
6 43 (7.43%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.91%) CyberArk
7 40 (6.91%) F5
8 36 (6.22%) AppDynamics
9 29 (5.01%) IBM
10 28 (4.84%) New Relic
10 28 (4.84%) Tenable
11 25 (4.32%) Juniper
12 24 (4.15%) VMware
13 22 (3.80%) BMC
13 22 (3.80%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (3.80%) Google
14 21 (3.63%) Fortinet
15 20 (3.45%) Palo Alto
16 19 (3.28%) Oracle