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 April 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
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 203 258
Rank change year-on-year +4 +55 -89
Contract jobs citing Splunk 597 394 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.34% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 3.04% 2.83% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 242 242
10th Percentile £350 £382 £406
25th Percentile £416 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £643
90th Percentile £722 £750 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.69 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.22% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £81.77 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.35 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.38% +2.50% -29.30%

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 19,664 13,924 18,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 47.32% 42.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,579 8,773 11,593
10th Percentile £313 £294 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 533 1,074
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.57 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -46.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.43
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.47 £24.66 £21.46
% change year-on-year +7.34% +14.91% -44.26%

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 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +6 527 £525 -4.55% 141
UK excluding London +19 350 £495 -10.00% 110
London -25 188 £583 +11.12% 54
Work from Home -21 167 £525 -8.70% 23
North of England -7 139 £489 -18.58% 29
Yorkshire -2 95 £488 -25.86% 7
South East -5 90 £433 -21.36% 48
Midlands -16 68 £525 -2.51% 12
West Midlands -15 62 £529 -4.02% 6
North West -33 44 £489 -9.82% 15
South West 0 31 £426 -39.14% 9
Scotland -2 20 £610 +41.86% 1
East of England -29 10 £700 +16.67% 12
East Midlands -33 6 £472 +0.37% 6
Wales -4 4 - - 1
North East -13 2 £475 -36.67% 7

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 22 (3.69%) Apache Spark
1 22 (3.69%) Confluence
2 11 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.68%) TPMS
4 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 4 (0.67%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.67%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 199 (33.33%) AWS
2 158 (26.47%) Azure
3 95 (15.91%) GCP
4 82 (13.74%) GitHub
5 67 (11.22%) OpenShift
6 43 (7.20%) Azure Sentinel
7 39 (6.53%) Amazon S3
8 37 (6.20%) Datadog
9 32 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (5.19%) Serverless
11 27 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.02%) Entra ID
14 23 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (15.08%) Firewall
2 80 (13.40%) DNS
3 40 (6.70%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.86%) WAN
5 28 (4.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 28 (4.69%) LAN
6 27 (4.52%) BGP
6 27 (4.52%) Network Security
7 26 (4.36%) OSPF
7 26 (4.36%) SNMP
8 24 (4.02%) VXLAN
9 23 (3.85%) BIG-IP
9 23 (3.85%) DHCP
9 23 (3.85%) Junos
10 19 (3.18%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (2.85%) VPN
12 15 (2.51%) SSL
13 13 (2.18%) Wireless
14 10 (1.68%) HTTP
14 10 (1.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.19%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.02%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.85%) Hadoop
5 16 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.51%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.18%) MySQL
8 12 (2.01%) Big Data
9 11 (1.84%) Redis
10 10 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.51%) Power BI
12 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.17%) Presto
13 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Tableau
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.67%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 103 (17.25%) Jenkins
2 70 (11.73%) GitLab
3 38 (6.37%) Git
4 37 (6.20%) JIRA
5 19 (3.18%) Gatling
6 13 (2.18%) JMeter
7 12 (2.01%) Jaeger
7 12 (2.01%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.51%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.51%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.51%) Selenium
8 9 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.34%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.34%) JUnit
9 8 (1.34%) Postman
10 7 (1.17%) Gradle
10 7 (1.17%) Maven
10 7 (1.17%) Snyk
11 6 (1.01%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 179 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 112 (18.76%) Finance
3 73 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.04%) Banking
6 39 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.52%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.01%) Military
10 8 (1.34%) Retail
11 4 (0.67%) Front Office
11 4 (0.67%) Law
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Legal
12 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Advertising
13 2 (0.34%) Local Government
14 1 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (15.75%) Analyst
2 65 (10.89%) Architect
3 57 (9.55%) Senior
4 48 (8.04%) Lead
5 47 (7.87%) SOC Analyst
6 39 (6.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (4.36%) Consultant
8 26 (4.36%) Data Engineer
8 26 (4.36%) Security Engineer
9 25 (4.19%) Developer
10 21 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (3.52%) Site Engineer
10 21 (3.52%) Splunk Engineer
11 19 (3.18%) Network Engineer
12 18 (3.02%) CyberArk Architect
13 17 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.51%) Security Architect
15 13 (2.18%) Firewall Specialist
15 13 (2.18%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.06%) Kafka
2 50 (8.38%) REST
3 47 (7.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 37 (6.20%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
5 31 (5.19%) Spring
6 25 (4.19%) 802.1X
7 24 (4.02%) JSON
7 24 (4.02%) SAML
8 20 (3.35%) LDAP
8 20 (3.35%) Middleware
9 19 (3.18%) OpenID
10 16 (2.68%) CSS
10 16 (2.68%) OAuth
10 16 (2.68%) React
11 15 (2.51%) RESTful
12 12 (2.01%) Playwright
13 11 (1.84%) Keycloak
13 11 (1.84%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.05%) Onboarding
3 44 (7.37%) Security Operations Centre
4 40 (6.70%) PKI
5 30 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 30 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (4.52%) Clustering
7 23 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.85%) Product Ownership
8 22 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (3.52%) Cyberattack
10 18 (3.02%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (2.18%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.68%) CMDB
13 10 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
14 9 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.34%) Mainframe
16 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (30.65%) Linux
2 151 (25.29%) Windows
3 54 (9.05%) Unix
4 22 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.35%) AIX
6 9 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.34%) zOS
8 6 (1.01%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.34%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (35.85%) CI/CD
2 189 (31.66%) DevOps
3 179 (29.98%) Observability
4 147 (24.62%) SIEM
5 133 (22.28%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (19.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (18.93%) Incident Response
9 95 (15.91%) Containerisation
10 87 (14.57%) Agile
11 75 (12.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 71 (11.89%) High Availability
13 70 (11.73%) Security Operations
14 65 (10.89%) Migration
15 60 (10.05%) Analytics
15 60 (10.05%) Microservices
16 57 (9.55%) Test Automation
17 55 (9.21%) ITIL
18 50 (8.38%) Computer Science
19 49 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 220 (36.85%) Python
2 90 (15.08%) SQL
3 85 (14.24%) Bash
4 81 (13.57%) PowerShell
5 76 (12.73%) Java
6 34 (5.70%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.02%) Search Processing Language
8 18 (3.02%) Go
9 17 (2.85%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (1.84%) Scala
11 11 (1.84%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.68%) Bicep
13 9 (1.51%) Perl
13 9 (1.51%) Rust
14 8 (1.34%) JCL
14 8 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.34%) REXX
15 3 (0.50%) C#
15 3 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 241 (40.37%) Security Cleared
2 158 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.89%) Degree
4 61 (10.22%) DV Cleared
5 48 (8.04%) CISSP
6 41 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (6.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 31 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (5.19%) CISM
9 18 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (3.02%) CompTIA CySA+
10 17 (2.85%) CEH
10 17 (2.85%) GIAC
11 14 (2.35%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.68%) FFIEC
13 8 (1.34%) GCIA
13 8 (1.34%) GCIH
13 8 (1.34%) JNCIA
13 8 (1.34%) JNCIS
14 7 (1.17%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (11.89%) NIST
2 52 (8.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.02%) NCSC
4 22 (3.69%) GDPR
4 22 (3.69%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.51%) SLA
6 14 (2.35%) QA
7 11 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.68%) GLBA
9 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.84%) GRC
10 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.67%) COBIT
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 117 (19.60%) Docker
2 21 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.85%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.35%) vSphere
6 6 (1.01%) etcd
7 5 (0.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 5 (0.84%) Snort
7 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) GPFS
10 1 (0.17%) Lustre
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Squid
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 187 (31.32%) Kubernetes
2 131 (21.94%) Grafana
3 128 (21.44%) Terraform
4 98 (16.42%) Prometheus
5 92 (15.41%) Ansible
6 31 (5.19%) Argo
7 24 (4.02%) FortiGate
8 19 (3.18%) Kibana
9 18 (3.02%) QRadar
10 17 (2.85%) Fluentd
10 17 (2.85%) Nagios
11 16 (2.68%) vCenter Server
12 14 (2.35%) ZABBIX
13 13 (2.18%) Netcool
14 12 (2.01%) OpenView
14 12 (2.01%) Tivoli
14 12 (2.01%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 11 (1.84%) Puppet
16 10 (1.68%) Kiali
16 10 (1.68%) linkerd
Vendors
1 92 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.05%) Cisco
3 51 (8.54%) Dynatrace
4 47 (7.87%) ServiceNow
5 45 (7.54%) AppDynamics
6 43 (7.20%) SolarWinds
7 34 (5.70%) CyberArk
7 34 (5.70%) Red Hat
8 29 (4.86%) F5
9 28 (4.69%) Tenable
9 28 (4.69%) VMware
10 25 (4.19%) CrowdStrike
11 24 (4.02%) Google
12 23 (3.85%) Juniper
13 22 (3.69%) Oracle
14 21 (3.52%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (3.35%) BMC
16 19 (3.18%) Cribl.io
16 19 (3.18%) IBM
17 18 (3.02%) Qualys