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 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
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 192 254
Rank change year-on-year -9 +62 -80
Contract jobs citing Splunk 610 392 393
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.34% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 3.09% 2.84% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 245 236
10th Percentile £350 £373 £403
25th Percentile £416 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £635 £656 £645
90th Percentile £738 £751 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -9.73% -3.30% +3.41%
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 £86.25 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 19,740 13,819 18,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.03% 47.30% 42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,650 8,733 11,718
10th Percentile £313 £293 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -0.39% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 513 1,061
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.41
Median hourly rate £27.94 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +24.44% -46.17%
75th Percentile £59.75 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.70 £80.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +1.52% +16.28% -43.42%

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 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 10 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 10 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 +7 542 £525 -4.55% 117
UK excluding London +17 354 £497 -9.73% 92
London -31 201 £600 +14.29% 39
Work from Home -20 167 £525 -7.08% 45
North of England -8 142 £493 -18.93% 28
Yorkshire +3 95 £488 -30.36% 9
South East -11 94 £433 -21.36% 26
Midlands -13 69 £525 -2.23% 4
West Midlands -13 63 £532 -3.46% 2
North West -15 46 £495 -8.76% 10
South West -4 28 £426 -39.14% 17
Scotland +7 20 £610 +46.99% 2
East of England -35 8 £688 +14.58% 14
East Midlands -32 6 £472 +0.37% 2
Wales -8 5 £600 +31.87% 3
North East -16 3 £538 -28.33% 9

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 20 (3.28%) Confluence
2 13 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.64%) TPMS
4 6 (0.98%) Apache
5 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.66%) SAS
6 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.66%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) BASE24
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 204 (33.44%) AWS
2 165 (27.05%) Azure
3 102 (16.72%) GCP
4 82 (13.44%) GitHub
5 70 (11.48%) OpenShift
6 49 (8.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.74%) Datadog
8 32 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 28 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (4.26%) Serverless
13 24 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (3.93%) Entra ID
14 23 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (2.95%) SaaS
18 15 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 91 (14.92%) Firewall
2 82 (13.44%) DNS
3 40 (6.56%) TCP/IP
4 31 (5.08%) Network Security
5 28 (4.59%) WAN
6 27 (4.43%) Ethernet VPN
6 27 (4.43%) LAN
7 26 (4.26%) BGP
8 25 (4.10%) OSPF
8 25 (4.10%) SNMP
9 23 (3.77%) VXLAN
10 22 (3.61%) BIG-IP
10 22 (3.61%) DHCP
10 22 (3.61%) Junos
11 18 (2.95%) Cisco ISE
12 17 (2.79%) VPN
13 15 (2.46%) SSL
14 14 (2.30%) Wireless
15 12 (1.97%) HTTP
16 10 (1.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.10%) MongoDB
3 17 (2.79%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.46%) Hadoop
5 13 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.97%) MySQL
7 11 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.80%) Redis
8 9 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.48%) Power BI
9 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.98%) Tableau
10 5 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.66%) Flink
12 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.49%) Big Data
12 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 99 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 73 (11.97%) GitLab
3 37 (6.07%) Git
4 36 (5.90%) JIRA
5 17 (2.79%) Gatling
6 11 (1.80%) Jaeger
6 11 (1.80%) JMeter
7 10 (1.64%) LoadRunner
7 10 (1.64%) Postman
8 9 (1.48%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.48%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.48%) Selenium
8 9 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.31%) JUnit
10 7 (1.15%) Android Studio
10 7 (1.15%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.15%) Gradle
10 7 (1.15%) Maven
10 7 (1.15%) Snyk
10 7 (1.15%) Xcode
General
1 195 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.34%) Finance
3 76 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 49 (8.03%) Banking
6 40 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.44%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.30%) Military
9 13 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.31%) Retail
11 4 (0.66%) Front Office
11 4 (0.66%) Law
11 4 (0.66%) Legal
11 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Advertising
14 1 (0.16%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 109 (17.87%) Analyst
2 66 (10.82%) Architect
3 63 (10.33%) Senior
4 52 (8.52%) SOC Analyst
5 46 (7.54%) Lead
6 41 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (5.25%) Security Engineer
8 29 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (4.26%) Consultant
10 24 (3.93%) Developer
10 24 (3.93%) Security Analyst
11 22 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (3.44%) Site Engineer
12 21 (3.44%) Splunk Engineer
13 19 (3.11%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.11%) Network Engineer
14 18 (2.95%) CyberArk Architect
15 16 (2.62%) Monitoring Analyst
15 16 (2.62%) Security Architect
16 15 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.64%) Kafka
2 51 (8.36%) REST
3 47 (7.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 37 (6.07%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
5 31 (5.08%) Spring
6 25 (4.10%) JSON
7 24 (3.93%) 802.1X
7 24 (3.93%) SAML
8 20 (3.28%) LDAP
8 20 (3.28%) Middleware
9 19 (3.11%) OpenID
10 16 (2.62%) OAuth
11 15 (2.46%) React
12 12 (1.97%) Playwright
12 12 (1.97%) RESTful
13 11 (1.80%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.80%) Keycloak
13 11 (1.80%) OAuth2
13 11 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 55 (9.02%) Onboarding
3 45 (7.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 39 (6.39%) PKI
5 31 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.75%) Data Centre
7 26 (4.26%) Clustering
8 24 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (3.93%) Management Information System
9 21 (3.44%) Cyberattack
10 20 (3.28%) Cyber Defence
10 20 (3.28%) Security Posture
11 19 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (2.95%) Product Ownership
13 15 (2.46%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.64%) CMDB
15 9 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.31%) Mainframe
16 8 (1.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (29.51%) Linux
2 151 (24.75%) Windows
3 50 (8.20%) Unix
4 23 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.13%) AIX
6 9 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.31%) Android
7 8 (1.31%) zOS
8 3 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) MVS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (34.26%) CI/CD
2 194 (31.80%) DevOps
3 180 (29.51%) Observability
4 163 (26.72%) SIEM
5 150 (24.59%) Cybersecurity
6 137 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
7 132 (21.64%) Incident Response
8 116 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (15.74%) Containerisation
10 88 (14.43%) Agile
11 77 (12.62%) Security Operations
12 75 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 72 (11.80%) High Availability
14 65 (10.66%) Migration
15 61 (10.00%) Microservices
16 60 (9.84%) Analytics
17 55 (9.02%) ITIL
18 54 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 52 (8.52%) Computer Science
19 52 (8.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 215 (35.25%) Python
2 89 (14.59%) Bash
3 85 (13.93%) PowerShell
4 82 (13.44%) SQL
5 69 (11.31%) Java
6 26 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 23 (3.77%) Search Processing Language
8 18 (2.95%) Go
9 15 (2.46%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.64%) Bicep
12 10 (1.64%) Perl
13 9 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.48%) Rust
14 8 (1.31%) JCL
14 8 (1.31%) REXX
15 4 (0.66%) Scala
16 3 (0.49%) Groovy
16 3 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 249 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 168 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 68 (11.15%) Degree
4 59 (9.67%) DV Cleared
5 51 (8.36%) CISSP
6 42 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (6.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 32 (5.25%) CISM
9 30 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (3.11%) GIAC
11 18 (2.95%) CompTIA CySA+
12 17 (2.79%) CEH
13 14 (2.30%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.64%) FFIEC
15 10 (1.64%) GCIA
15 10 (1.64%) GCIH
16 8 (1.31%) JNCIA
16 8 (1.31%) JNCIS
17 7 (1.15%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.46%) NIST
2 56 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.26%) GDPR
4 24 (3.93%) NCSC
5 23 (3.77%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.46%) QA
6 15 (2.46%) SLA
7 12 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.64%) GLBA
9 7 (1.15%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.82%) GRC
11 5 (0.82%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.66%) COBIT
12 4 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.33%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 112 (18.36%) Docker
2 21 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.79%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.30%) vSphere
6 6 (0.98%) etcd
7 5 (0.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 5 (0.82%) Snort
8 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) GPFS
10 1 (0.16%) HDFS
10 1 (0.16%) Lustre
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Squid
10 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 187 (30.66%) Kubernetes
2 126 (20.66%) Grafana
3 121 (19.84%) Terraform
4 98 (16.07%) Prometheus
5 94 (15.41%) Ansible
6 34 (5.57%) Argo
7 23 (3.77%) FortiGate
8 19 (3.11%) QRadar
9 17 (2.79%) Fluentd
10 16 (2.62%) Nagios
10 16 (2.62%) vCenter Server
11 14 (2.30%) Kibana
12 13 (2.13%) Netcool
12 13 (2.13%) ZABBIX
13 12 (1.97%) OpenView
13 12 (1.97%) Tivoli
13 12 (1.97%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 11 (1.80%) Puppet
15 10 (1.64%) Istio
15 10 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.02%) Cisco
3 49 (8.03%) Dynatrace
3 49 (8.03%) ServiceNow
4 44 (7.21%) AppDynamics
5 41 (6.72%) SolarWinds
6 35 (5.74%) Red Hat
7 34 (5.57%) CyberArk
8 29 (4.75%) Google
9 28 (4.59%) F5
9 28 (4.59%) Tenable
9 28 (4.59%) VMware
10 27 (4.43%) CrowdStrike
11 23 (3.77%) Oracle
12 22 (3.61%) Juniper
13 21 (3.44%) Cribl.io
13 21 (3.44%) Qualys
14 20 (3.28%) Extreme Networks
15 19 (3.11%) BMC
15 19 (3.11%) IBM