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 14 February 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
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 194 266
Rank change year-on-year +21 +72 -70
Contract jobs citing Splunk 661 424 391
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.37% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 3.67% 2.96% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 249 249
10th Percentile £350 £404 £405
25th Percentile £417 £465 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £650
90th Percentile £700 £803 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £53.00 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £41.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% +2.50% -29.30%
75th Percentile £91.88 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £60.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.97% +41.88% -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 18,002 14,337 19,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.86% 46.30% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,543 8,571 12,289
10th Percentile £300 £275 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.41%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 415 925
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +5.45% -14.73%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £58.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £26.81 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.67% +3.13% -5.80%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +20 581 £525 -8.70% 110
UK excluding London +58 372 £500 -9.09% 90
London -27 226 £575 -8.00% 35
Work from Home -1 177 £537 -10.50% 37
North of England +12 143 £500 -9.09% 19
Midlands +24 109 £525 -2.33% 8
Yorkshire +10 109 £515 -4.94% 12
West Midlands +27 105 £525 -4.72% 7
South East +20 89 £375 -34.78% 31
Scotland +26 35 £550 +32.53% 6
North West -32 33 £471 -14.36% 7
South West -11 11 £625 -21.88% 10
East of England -30 6 £600 - 17
Wales - 5 £600 -
East Midlands -28 4 £442 +13.11% 1
North East -13 3 £538 -8.51%

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 18 (2.72%) Apache
1 18 (2.72%) Skype for Business
2 15 (2.27%) Confluence
3 13 (1.97%) Mattermost
3 13 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.97%) TPMS
4 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.21%) Apache Pig
6 7 (1.06%) IIS
6 7 (1.06%) iPlanet
6 7 (1.06%) JBoss
6 7 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.45%) SAS
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) BASE24
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 244 (36.91%) AWS
2 158 (23.90%) Azure
3 141 (21.33%) GCP
4 75 (11.35%) GitHub
5 69 (10.44%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 40 (6.05%) Serverless
8 33 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.69%) Datadog
10 26 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.18%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (2.87%) SaaS
13 19 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.72%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.42%) Akamai
17 15 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.92%) Firewall
2 72 (10.89%) DNS
3 48 (7.26%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.93%) Network Security
5 25 (3.78%) SSL
6 24 (3.63%) VPN
7 20 (3.03%) HTTP
8 19 (2.87%) Wireless
9 18 (2.72%) Skype
10 16 (2.42%) Wireshark
11 15 (2.27%) SNMP
12 14 (2.12%) SSH
13 11 (1.66%) Unified Communications
14 9 (1.36%) BGP
15 8 (1.21%) Kerberos
15 8 (1.21%) OSPF
16 7 (1.06%) DHCP
16 7 (1.06%) WAN
17 6 (0.91%) LAN
17 6 (0.91%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.14%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (4.54%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.03%) MySQL
6 14 (2.12%) Redis
7 12 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 12 (1.82%) Power BI
8 11 (1.66%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.51%) Apache Hive
9 10 (1.51%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.21%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.61%) Flink
12 4 (0.61%) Tableau
13 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 129 (19.52%) Jenkins
2 104 (15.73%) GitLab
3 47 (7.11%) Git
4 28 (4.24%) JIRA
5 21 (3.18%) Liquibase
6 18 (2.72%) Postman
7 17 (2.57%) Xcode
8 16 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (2.27%) Android Studio
9 15 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
9 15 (2.27%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.97%) JUnit
10 13 (1.97%) Maven
11 12 (1.82%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.66%) Gradle
12 11 (1.66%) Selenium
13 10 (1.51%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.51%) Gatling
13 10 (1.51%) Jaeger
14 8 (1.21%) REST Assured
General
1 292 (44.18%) Social Skills
2 160 (24.21%) Finance
3 109 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.38%) Banking
6 45 (6.81%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (5.75%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.27%) Military
9 13 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.36%) Retail
11 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.76%) Legal
11 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.61%) Law
13 3 (0.45%) Front Office
13 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Local Government
15 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (19.67%) Analyst
2 72 (10.89%) Senior
3 62 (9.38%) Architect
4 61 (9.23%) SOC Analyst
5 49 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.35%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 36 (5.45%) Lead
9 31 (4.69%) Security Analyst
10 30 (4.54%) Splunk Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) Site Engineer
12 24 (3.63%) Support Analyst
13 23 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.33%) Developer
14 22 (3.33%) Monitoring Analyst
14 22 (3.33%) Software Engineer
15 21 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (3.03%) Data Engineer
17 19 (2.87%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (10.44%) REST
2 66 (9.98%) Elastic Stack
2 66 (9.98%) Kafka
3 38 (5.75%) OpenTelemetry
4 37 (5.60%) Spring Boot
5 36 (5.45%) RESTful
6 34 (5.14%) SAML
7 32 (4.84%) Spring
8 26 (3.93%) LDAP
8 26 (3.93%) OpenID
9 23 (3.48%) OAuth
10 22 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 22 (3.33%) JSON
10 22 (3.33%) Middleware
11 20 (3.03%) CSS
11 20 (3.03%) React
12 16 (2.42%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.27%) Ajax
13 15 (2.27%) Keycloak
14 14 (2.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.87%) Security Operations Centre
3 48 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.99%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.84%) Public Cloud
7 30 (4.54%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.78%) Mobile App
9 24 (3.63%) PKI
10 23 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
11 22 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
12 19 (2.87%) Cyberattack
13 15 (2.27%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.97%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.82%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.66%) Clustering
17 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
18 9 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
19 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 245 (37.07%) Linux
2 139 (21.03%) Windows
3 90 (13.62%) Unix
4 32 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.87%) Android
5 19 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.06%) CentOS
6 7 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.61%) zOS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (34.19%) CI/CD
2 218 (32.98%) DevOps
3 184 (27.84%) Cybersecurity
4 173 (26.17%) Observability
5 167 (25.26%) Incident Response
5 167 (25.26%) SIEM
6 151 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (19.06%) Containerisation
9 107 (16.19%) Agile
10 90 (13.62%) Computer Science
11 89 (13.46%) Microservices
12 87 (13.16%) Security Operations
13 72 (10.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 71 (10.74%) Migration
14 71 (10.74%) Root Cause Analysis
15 64 (9.68%) High Availability
16 62 (9.38%) Threat Detection
17 59 (8.93%) Test Automation
18 58 (8.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (37.37%) Python
2 106 (16.04%) PowerShell
3 104 (15.73%) Bash
4 95 (14.37%) SQL
5 94 (14.22%) Java
6 45 (6.81%) Go
7 40 (6.05%) Shell Script
8 33 (4.99%) JavaScript
9 27 (4.08%) Perl
10 21 (3.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.12%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.82%) Groovy
12 12 (1.82%) Scala
13 11 (1.66%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.51%) Bicep
14 10 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
15 9 (1.36%) Rust
16 4 (0.61%) JCL
16 4 (0.61%) R
16 4 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 225 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 101 (15.28%) Degree
4 71 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (7.87%) CISSP
5 52 (7.87%) DV Cleared
6 35 (5.30%) Master's Degree
7 33 (4.99%) CompTIA Security+
8 31 (4.69%) CISM
9 21 (3.18%) GIAC
9 21 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (3.03%) AWS Certification
11 18 (2.72%) CEH
12 16 (2.42%) CompTIA CySA+
13 13 (1.97%) FFIEC
13 13 (1.97%) GCIA
13 13 (1.97%) GCIH
14 11 (1.66%) MCSE
14 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.20%) NIST
2 58 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.14%) GDPR
4 26 (3.93%) NCSC
5 25 (3.78%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.33%) QA
7 18 (2.72%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.97%) GLBA
9 10 (1.51%) SLA
10 9 (1.36%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.76%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 138 (20.88%) Docker
2 53 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.12%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.66%) vSphere
6 7 (1.06%) Snort
7 6 (0.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.15%) GPFS
12 1 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (31.01%) Kubernetes
2 136 (20.57%) Grafana
3 134 (20.27%) Terraform
4 133 (20.12%) Ansible
5 110 (16.64%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.24%) Kibana
7 25 (3.78%) SCOM
8 23 (3.48%) Argo
9 22 (3.33%) QRadar
10 21 (3.18%) HP SiteScope
10 21 (3.18%) Puppet
11 20 (3.03%) Progress Chef
12 16 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (1.97%) CSIRT
13 13 (1.97%) Fluentd
14 12 (1.82%) Nessus
15 11 (1.66%) logstash
15 11 (1.66%) SCCM
15 11 (1.66%) vCenter Server
16 9 (1.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 151 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.11%) Oracle
3 46 (6.96%) Cisco
3 46 (6.96%) Google
4 45 (6.81%) Dynatrace
5 44 (6.66%) AppDynamics
6 43 (6.51%) ServiceNow
7 39 (5.90%) CrowdStrike
8 32 (4.84%) VMware
9 31 (4.69%) Red Hat
10 28 (4.24%) CyberArk
11 27 (4.08%) Qualys
12 25 (3.78%) Carbon Black
12 25 (3.78%) Cribl.io
13 22 (3.33%) Palo Alto
13 22 (3.33%) Remedy
14 20 (3.03%) F5
15 19 (2.87%) Tenable
16 13 (1.97%) SolarWinds
16 13 (1.97%) Thales