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 28 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 158 220
Rank change year-on-year -82 +62 -45
Contract jobs citing Splunk 587 585 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.79% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 3.79% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 366 275
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £650
90th Percentile £700 £711 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £44.29 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.45 - £47.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £79.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £47.50

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 22,439 15,440 16,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.20% 43.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,832 9,435 10,465
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,162 795 772
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.66 £13.02
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -9.73% -35.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.14 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.95 £67.80 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £21.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +32.42% -18.31% -34.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -82 508 £525 - 465
UK excluding London -100 294 £514 -2.10% 355
London -58 237 £550 +4.76% 233
Work from Home -40 164 £523 +4.50% 134
North of England -40 119 £474 +5.33% 87
North West -28 66 £513 +13.89% 57
Midlands -42 49 £578 +12.23% 19
West Midlands -46 46 £578 +9.16% 17
Yorkshire -38 44 £475 +2.97% 19
South West +2 43 £457 -15.46% 56
South East -119 36 £465 -7.00% 85
Scotland -12 31 £425 -6.39% 47
East of England -34 26 £700 +27.27% 32
North East -31 9 £425 - 11
East Midlands -20 2 £563 +56.25% 2

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 28 (4.77%) Confluence
2 17 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.36%) Apache
4 8 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.19%) 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%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 222 (37.82%) AWS
2 212 (36.12%) Azure
3 98 (16.70%) GitHub
4 81 (13.80%) GCP
5 53 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (8.86%) OpenShift
7 40 (6.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 39 (6.64%) Entra ID
9 38 (6.47%) Datadog
10 37 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.77%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.77%) SaaS
14 27 (4.60%) Serverless
15 26 (4.43%) Amazon S3
16 25 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
18 23 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 23 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.24%) Firewall
2 53 (9.03%) DNS
3 40 (6.81%) Network Security
3 40 (6.81%) SNMP
4 24 (4.09%) WAN
5 17 (2.90%) VPN
6 15 (2.56%) BGP
6 15 (2.56%) DHCP
6 15 (2.56%) TCP/IP
7 14 (2.39%) LAN
8 13 (2.21%) OSPF
9 11 (1.87%) HTTP
9 11 (1.87%) Wireless
10 10 (1.70%) BIG-IP
10 10 (1.70%) Internet
11 8 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (1.36%) Junos
11 8 (1.36%) SSL
11 8 (1.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.60%) Power BI
2 24 (4.09%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.90%) Big Data
5 15 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.21%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.53%) MySQL
9 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.19%) Presto
10 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.02%) Flink
10 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.02%) Redis
11 5 (0.85%) Looker
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 94 (16.01%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.05%) Git
3 58 (9.88%) GitLab
4 42 (7.16%) JIRA
5 32 (5.45%) Gatling
6 31 (5.28%) JMeter
7 20 (3.41%) LoadRunner
8 16 (2.73%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.87%) Selenium
10 9 (1.53%) JUnit
11 8 (1.36%) Gradle
11 8 (1.36%) Maven
11 8 (1.36%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.19%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.19%) Postman
13 6 (1.02%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 146 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 115 (19.59%) Finance
3 87 (14.82%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.20%) Banking
5 34 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.70%) Front Office
8 10 (1.70%) Legal
9 9 (1.53%) Retail
9 9 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.85%) Law
11 4 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Local Government
11 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Advertising
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (9.03%) Senior
2 51 (8.69%) Analyst
3 50 (8.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (8.35%) Lead
5 46 (7.84%) Consultant
6 38 (6.47%) Splunk Engineer
7 35 (5.96%) Architect
8 34 (5.79%) Developer
9 28 (4.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 26 (4.43%) Security Engineer
11 25 (4.26%) SOC Engineer
12 23 (3.92%) Performance Engineer
13 20 (3.41%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.24%) Test Engineer
15 17 (2.90%) SOC Analyst
15 17 (2.90%) Support Engineer
16 16 (2.73%) Applications Support
17 15 (2.56%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (25.38%) Terraform
2 62 (10.56%) Kafka
3 58 (9.88%) REST
4 46 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (3.24%) React
6 19 (3.24%) Spring
6 19 (3.24%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.07%) RESTful
8 17 (2.90%) JSON
9 13 (2.21%) CSS
9 13 (2.21%) Middleware
10 12 (2.04%) .NET
10 12 (2.04%) 802.1X
10 12 (2.04%) OAuth
10 12 (2.04%) OAuth2
10 12 (2.04%) Play Framework
11 10 (1.70%) OpenID
12 9 (1.53%) SailPoint
12 9 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.75%) Onboarding
2 62 (10.56%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (3.24%) PKI
6 18 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (2.90%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.56%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.39%) CMDB
11 13 (2.21%) Clustering
11 13 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.70%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.70%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.53%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 162 (27.60%) Linux
2 116 (19.76%) Windows
3 46 (7.84%) Unix
4 25 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (3.07%) AIX
7 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.68%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) zOS
11 3 (0.51%) CentOS
11 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) MVS
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (38.50%) Observability
2 216 (36.80%) CI/CD
3 185 (31.52%) DevOps
4 128 (21.81%) SIEM
5 120 (20.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 110 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (18.40%) Agile
8 107 (18.23%) Incident Response
9 81 (13.80%) Containerisation
10 80 (13.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 78 (13.29%) Cybersecurity
12 75 (12.78%) Security Operations
13 73 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (12.10%) Root Cause Analysis
15 65 (11.07%) Incident Management
16 60 (10.22%) ITSM
16 60 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (9.20%) High Availability
18 53 (9.03%) Test Automation
19 52 (8.86%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 217 (36.97%) Python
2 113 (19.25%) PowerShell
3 86 (14.65%) SQL
4 76 (12.95%) Bash
5 69 (11.75%) Java
6 57 (9.71%) Search Processing Language
7 35 (5.96%) Go
8 26 (4.43%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.41%) Scala
10 18 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.90%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.70%) Perl
14 8 (1.36%) Bicep
14 8 (1.36%) C#
15 5 (0.85%) Groovy
15 5 (0.85%) Ruby
16 4 (0.68%) JCL
16 4 (0.68%) REXX
17 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 220 (37.48%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.04%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.05%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.01%) CISSP
5 42 (7.16%) Degree
6 26 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.75%) CISM
8 19 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.07%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.73%) GIAC
11 14 (2.39%) GCIH
12 12 (2.04%) CEH
13 10 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (1.36%) CCNP
14 8 (1.36%) GCIA
14 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.19%) CCSP
15 7 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.64%) NIST
2 26 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.92%) QA
4 15 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.39%) GDPR
5 14 (2.39%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.70%) NCSC
7 9 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.53%) SLA
8 6 (1.02%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.68%) GxP
10 4 (0.68%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.34%) COBIT
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 105 (17.89%) Docker
2 25 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.02%) etcd
6 6 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.02%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Varnish
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 159 (27.09%) Kubernetes
2 146 (24.87%) Grafana
3 103 (17.55%) Prometheus
4 87 (14.82%) Ansible
5 29 (4.94%) QRadar
6 25 (4.26%) ZABBIX
7 23 (3.92%) Nagios
8 18 (3.07%) Argo
8 18 (3.07%) Netcool
9 17 (2.90%) Tivoli
10 16 (2.73%) Kibana
11 15 (2.56%) OpenView
11 15 (2.56%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 14 (2.39%) Progress Chef
13 11 (1.87%) FortiGate
14 10 (1.70%) Control-M
15 9 (1.53%) SCOM
16 8 (1.36%) Puppet
16 8 (1.36%) WMI
17 7 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 117 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 100 (17.04%) Dynatrace
3 72 (12.27%) ServiceNow
4 53 (9.03%) SolarWinds
5 45 (7.67%) AppDynamics
5 45 (7.67%) CrowdStrike
6 42 (7.16%) Cisco
7 40 (6.81%) New Relic
8 36 (6.13%) IBM
9 32 (5.45%) Oracle
10 27 (4.60%) Google
11 25 (4.26%) VMware
12 24 (4.09%) BMC
12 24 (4.09%) CyberArk
13 20 (3.41%) F5
13 20 (3.41%) Tenable
14 19 (3.24%) Cribl.io
14 19 (3.24%) Palo Alto
15 16 (2.73%) Fortinet
16 15 (2.56%) HP