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 10 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
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 167 237
Rank change year-on-year -66 +70 -60
Contract jobs citing Splunk 585 541 406
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.63% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 3.45% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 341 261
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £424 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £603 £630 £638
90th Percentile £720 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.98% -1.82% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £48.65 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.31 - £42.19
90th Percentile £79.19 - £46.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00

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 22,146 15,674 16,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.52% 47.28% 43.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,674 9,588 10,606
10th Percentile £313 £280 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.28% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,158 798 841
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.50 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £21.39 £28.00
% change year-on-year +49.60% -23.61% -18.84%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -67 509 £525 -1.96% 473
UK excluding London -73 304 £519 -3.98% 327
London -48 225 £538 +2.38% 253
Work from Home -35 149 £522 +4.40% 112
North of England -30 122 £505 +10.27% 75
North West -29 61 £525 +14.75% 44
Yorkshire -22 57 £495 +4.75% 15
South East -106 53 £470 -8.29% 85
Midlands -34 41 £581 +9.73% 19
South West -14 40 £450 -21.05% 48
West Midlands -33 39 £581 +8.19% 18
Scotland -10 28 £423 -15.90% 44
East of England -31 26 £700 +27.27% 31
North East - 4 £413 - 16
East Midlands -11 2 £563 +56.25% 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 27 (4.62%) Confluence
2 22 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.37%) Apache
5 6 (1.03%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.68%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 194 (33.16%) AWS
2 191 (32.65%) Azure
3 92 (15.73%) GitHub
4 69 (11.79%) GCP
5 54 (9.23%) OpenShift
6 45 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (6.15%) Datadog
9 34 (5.81%) Entra ID
10 32 (5.47%) Azure Sentinel
11 31 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.79%) SaaS
14 26 (4.44%) Amazon S3
14 26 (4.44%) Serverless
15 24 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (4.10%) Power Platform
16 22 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 91 (15.56%) Firewall
2 77 (13.16%) DNS
3 42 (7.18%) Network Security
4 39 (6.67%) SNMP
5 38 (6.50%) WAN
6 32 (5.47%) BGP
7 31 (5.30%) DHCP
8 30 (5.13%) LAN
8 30 (5.13%) OSPF
9 29 (4.96%) Ethernet VPN
10 26 (4.44%) BIG-IP
11 25 (4.27%) VXLAN
12 24 (4.10%) Junos
13 22 (3.76%) TCP/IP
14 21 (3.59%) Cisco ISE
14 21 (3.59%) VPN
15 13 (2.22%) SSL
16 11 (1.88%) HTTP
16 11 (1.88%) Wireless
17 10 (1.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.93%) Power BI
2 20 (3.42%) MongoDB
2 20 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.25%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.56%) Big Data
5 14 (2.39%) Hadoop
5 14 (2.39%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.37%) MySQL
8 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.20%) Presto
10 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.03%) Flink
11 5 (0.85%) Looker
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (14.53%) Jenkins
2 58 (9.91%) GitLab
3 51 (8.72%) Git
4 38 (6.50%) JIRA
5 31 (5.30%) Gatling
6 27 (4.62%) JMeter
7 16 (2.74%) LoadRunner
8 13 (2.22%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.88%) Selenium
10 9 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.37%) JUnit
12 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.20%) Gradle
12 7 (1.20%) Maven
12 7 (1.20%) Postman
12 7 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 145 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.78%) Finance
3 80 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.38%) Banking
5 28 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.71%) Front Office
7 10 (1.71%) Legal
7 10 (1.71%) Retail
8 9 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.03%) Military
11 5 (0.85%) Law
12 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.51%) Advertising
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (10.09%) Lead
2 57 (9.74%) Senior
3 53 (9.06%) Analyst
4 49 (8.38%) Consultant
5 45 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (7.18%) Architect
7 31 (5.30%) Developer
7 31 (5.30%) Splunk Engineer
8 25 (4.27%) SOC Engineer
9 24 (4.10%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 20 (3.42%) Performance Engineer
11 20 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (3.08%) Network Engineer
12 18 (3.08%) Security Engineer
13 17 (2.91%) Site Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) Security Architect
14 16 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
14 16 (2.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (10.77%) REST
2 55 (9.40%) Kafka
3 49 (8.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 37 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (4.62%) 802.1X
6 22 (3.76%) JSON
6 22 (3.76%) Spring
6 22 (3.76%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.56%) React
8 14 (2.39%) RESTful
9 11 (1.88%) .NET
9 11 (1.88%) Middleware
9 11 (1.88%) OAuth
9 11 (1.88%) OAuth2
10 10 (1.71%) CSS
10 10 (1.71%) SailPoint
11 9 (1.54%) LDAP
11 9 (1.54%) OpenID
11 9 (1.54%) SAML
12 8 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.91%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.15%) PKI
4 34 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (5.64%) Security Operations Centre
6 32 (5.47%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.79%) Clustering
8 20 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.91%) CMDB
10 16 (2.74%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.71%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.54%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.37%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 156 (26.67%) Linux
2 135 (23.08%) Windows
3 48 (8.21%) Unix
4 21 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.08%) AIX
6 9 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Android
9 4 (0.68%) zOS
10 2 (0.34%) CentOS
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (38.12%) Observability
2 210 (35.90%) CI/CD
3 175 (29.91%) DevOps
4 126 (21.54%) SIEM
5 122 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 99 (16.92%) Agile
8 94 (16.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 92 (15.73%) Incident Response
10 82 (14.02%) Containerisation
11 76 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
12 70 (11.97%) Security Operations
13 69 (11.79%) High Availability
14 63 (10.77%) ITSM
15 62 (10.60%) ITIL
16 59 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (9.91%) Analytics
17 58 (9.91%) Test Automation
18 57 (9.74%) Root Cause Analysis
19 54 (9.23%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (36.07%) Python
2 103 (17.61%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.70%) SQL
4 66 (11.28%) Bash
4 66 (11.28%) Java
5 50 (8.55%) Search Processing Language
6 28 (4.79%) Go
7 23 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (2.56%) Scala
10 14 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.22%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.71%) Bicep
12 10 (1.71%) Perl
13 8 (1.37%) C#
14 5 (0.85%) Groovy
15 4 (0.68%) JCL
15 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.68%) REXX
16 3 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 213 (36.41%) Security Cleared
2 128 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.38%) CISSP
5 41 (7.01%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (6.32%) Degree
7 24 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (3.76%) CISM
9 18 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.74%) AWS Certification
11 14 (2.39%) GCIH
12 12 (2.05%) CEH
13 11 (1.88%) CCNP
13 11 (1.88%) GIAC
14 10 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.71%) GCIA
14 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.54%) CCSP
16 8 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.32%) NIST
2 25 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.25%) QA
5 12 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.71%) GDPR
8 9 (1.54%) SLA
9 8 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.03%) NCSC
11 4 (0.68%) GxP
11 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.51%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 96 (16.41%) Docker
2 28 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.37%) vSphere
6 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.03%) etcd
8 3 (0.51%) Snort
9 2 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 146 (24.96%) Kubernetes
2 142 (24.27%) Terraform
3 138 (23.59%) Grafana
4 105 (17.95%) Prometheus
5 87 (14.87%) Ansible
6 28 (4.79%) QRadar
7 27 (4.62%) FortiGate
8 24 (4.10%) ZABBIX
9 21 (3.59%) Argo
10 20 (3.42%) Nagios
11 18 (3.08%) Netcool
12 17 (2.91%) Tivoli
13 15 (2.56%) OpenView
13 15 (2.56%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 14 (2.39%) Kibana
15 13 (2.22%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.54%) CASB
16 9 (1.54%) Control-M
17 8 (1.37%) vCenter Server
17 8 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 105 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 90 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 80 (13.68%) ServiceNow
4 66 (11.28%) SolarWinds
5 60 (10.26%) Cisco
6 45 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.01%) AppDynamics
8 40 (6.84%) F5
9 37 (6.32%) New Relic
10 32 (5.47%) IBM
11 29 (4.96%) CyberArk
12 28 (4.79%) Google
13 27 (4.62%) Tenable
14 25 (4.27%) Juniper
15 24 (4.10%) Palo Alto
16 23 (3.93%) BMC
16 23 (3.93%) Oracle
16 23 (3.93%) VMware
17 22 (3.76%) Extreme Networks
17 22 (3.76%) Fortinet