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 29 July 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
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 180 238
Rank change year-on-year -59 +58 -72
Contract jobs citing Splunk 571 512 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.56% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% 3.30% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 318 266
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -7.29%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.77% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £56.22 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - £40.00
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £80.48 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.11%

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 21,715 15,498 17,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.32% 47.23% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,497 9,498 10,855
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +4.99% -4.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 774 891
10th Percentile £15.85 £14.66 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.02 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.30
% change year-on-year +52.32% -11.80% -27.19%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -51 502 £525 -2.51% 260
UK excluding London -60 299 £514 -4.77% 229
London -29 222 £550 +4.76% 99
Work from Home -53 149 £522 +4.40% 51
North of England -38 116 £505 +0.90% 57
Yorkshire -22 60 £500 +5.80% 15
South East -97 55 £465 -8.15% 51
North West -36 54 £513 -8.89% 27
Midlands -36 44 £581 +9.73% 19
West Midlands -35 42 £581 +8.80% 18
South West -10 40 £450 -21.05% 40
East of England -33 27 £688 +25.00% 26
Scotland -15 26 £399 -19.56% 19
North East - 3 £369 - 15
East Midlands -13 2 £563 +18.42% 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 25 (4.38%) Confluence
2 22 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.05%) Apache
5 5 (0.88%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.53%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.18%) MTS
8 1 (0.18%) Mule
8 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.70%) SAP MDG
2 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 187 (32.75%) AWS
2 183 (32.05%) Azure
3 93 (16.29%) GitHub
4 74 (12.96%) GCP
5 61 (10.68%) OpenShift
6 42 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (6.30%) Datadog
8 34 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (5.78%) Entra ID
10 31 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (4.38%) Amazon S3
14 24 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.20%) Power Platform
14 24 (4.20%) Serverless
15 22 (3.85%) SaaS
16 20 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 84 (14.71%) Firewall
2 74 (12.96%) DNS
3 38 (6.65%) SNMP
4 37 (6.48%) Network Security
5 35 (6.13%) WAN
6 31 (5.43%) BGP
7 29 (5.08%) Ethernet VPN
7 29 (5.08%) OSPF
8 28 (4.90%) DHCP
8 28 (4.90%) LAN
9 26 (4.55%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.38%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.20%) Junos
12 21 (3.68%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (3.68%) VPN
13 18 (3.15%) TCP/IP
14 11 (1.93%) SSL
15 10 (1.75%) Wireless
16 9 (1.58%) Internet
17 8 (1.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.03%) Power BI
2 21 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.50%) MongoDB
3 20 (3.50%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.63%) Big Data
4 15 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.45%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.40%) MySQL
9 7 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.23%) Presto
9 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.70%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.70%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.70%) Flink
12 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.53%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.46%) GitLab
3 51 (8.93%) Git
4 36 (6.30%) JIRA
5 29 (5.08%) Gatling
6 25 (4.38%) JMeter
7 14 (2.45%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.10%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.93%) Selenium
10 9 (1.58%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.40%) Gradle
11 8 (1.40%) JUnit
11 8 (1.40%) Maven
12 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.23%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.23%) Postman
12 7 (1.23%) Serenity BDD
12 7 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.05%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.05%) Snyk
General
1 140 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.21%) Finance
3 74 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.41%) Banking
5 31 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.45%) Retail
8 11 (1.93%) Front Office
9 10 (1.75%) Legal
10 9 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.05%) Military
12 5 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.88%) Law
12 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Advertising
14 3 (0.53%) Local Government
14 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (10.33%) Lead
1 59 (10.33%) Senior
2 54 (9.46%) Analyst
3 48 (8.41%) Consultant
4 45 (7.88%) Architect
5 42 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (5.78%) Developer
7 25 (4.38%) SOC Engineer
7 25 (4.38%) Splunk Engineer
8 24 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 23 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (3.15%) Performance Engineer
11 18 (3.15%) Security Engineer
11 18 (3.15%) Site Engineer
12 17 (2.98%) Network Engineer
13 16 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (2.80%) Security Architect
14 15 (2.63%) Management Consultant
14 15 (2.63%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.26%) REST
2 57 (9.98%) Kafka
2 57 (9.98%) OpenTelemetry
3 33 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (4.90%) Spring
4 28 (4.90%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.73%) 802.1X
6 25 (4.38%) JSON
7 15 (2.63%) RESTful
8 14 (2.45%) React
9 12 (2.10%) OAuth
9 12 (2.10%) OAuth2
10 11 (1.93%) .NET
10 11 (1.93%) Middleware
10 11 (1.93%) SailPoint
11 10 (1.75%) CSS
12 9 (1.58%) LDAP
12 9 (1.58%) Protocol Buffers
13 8 (1.40%) Apache Avro
13 8 (1.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.81%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.30%) PKI
4 35 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (5.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 30 (5.25%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.90%) Clustering
8 26 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.98%) CMDB
10 16 (2.80%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.10%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.93%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.75%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.58%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.40%) AI Agents
16 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
17 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
17 6 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 150 (26.27%) Linux
2 130 (22.77%) Windows
3 44 (7.71%) Unix
4 19 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.15%) AIX
6 17 (2.98%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.23%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.70%) Android
10 4 (0.70%) zOS
11 2 (0.35%) CentOS
12 1 (0.18%) MVS
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) SUSE
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (37.83%) Observability
2 210 (36.78%) CI/CD
3 178 (31.17%) DevOps
4 125 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (20.84%) SIEM
6 110 (19.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 98 (17.16%) Agile
7 98 (17.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 86 (15.06%) Incident Response
9 81 (14.19%) Containerisation
10 73 (12.78%) High Availability
11 72 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
12 68 (11.91%) Security Operations
13 61 (10.68%) ITSM
14 60 (10.51%) ITIL
15 56 (9.81%) Analytics
15 56 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (9.63%) Test Automation
17 53 (9.28%) Root Cause Analysis
18 52 (9.11%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 205 (35.90%) Python
2 91 (15.94%) PowerShell
3 85 (14.89%) SQL
4 70 (12.26%) Java
5 66 (11.56%) Bash
6 44 (7.71%) Search Processing Language
7 29 (5.08%) Go
8 22 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.28%) Scala
9 13 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.93%) Bicep
12 9 (1.58%) Perl
13 8 (1.40%) C#
13 8 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.70%) Groovy
14 4 (0.70%) JCL
14 4 (0.70%) REXX
14 4 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 205 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 119 (20.84%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.51%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.71%) CISSP
5 41 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (5.43%) Degree
7 23 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 21 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (3.68%) CISM
9 18 (3.15%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.93%) CCNP
11 11 (1.93%) CEH
12 10 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.75%) GIAC
12 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.58%) CCSP
14 8 (1.40%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (1.40%) GCIA
14 8 (1.40%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.95%) NIST
2 24 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.33%) QA
4 17 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.40%) GDPR
7 8 (1.40%) SLA
8 6 (1.05%) NCSC
9 5 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.88%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.53%) GRC
10 3 (0.53%) GxP
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) COBIT
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 94 (16.46%) Docker
2 24 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.28%) VMware NSX
5 12 (2.10%) vSphere
6 7 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.05%) etcd
8 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.53%) Snort
10 2 (0.35%) HDFS
10 2 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.18%) NFS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 147 (25.74%) Grafana
1 147 (25.74%) Kubernetes
2 146 (25.57%) Terraform
3 108 (18.91%) Prometheus
4 85 (14.89%) Ansible
5 27 (4.73%) QRadar
6 26 (4.55%) FortiGate
7 24 (4.20%) Argo
8 23 (4.03%) ZABBIX
9 20 (3.50%) Nagios
10 18 (3.15%) Netcool
11 17 (2.98%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.63%) OpenView
12 15 (2.63%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 14 (2.45%) Kibana
14 12 (2.10%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.93%) Control-M
16 9 (1.58%) Progress Chef
17 8 (1.40%) Puppet
17 8 (1.40%) WMI
Vendors
1 96 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 84 (14.71%) Dynatrace
3 78 (13.66%) ServiceNow
4 61 (10.68%) SolarWinds
5 58 (10.16%) Cisco
6 44 (7.71%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (7.18%) AppDynamics
8 40 (7.01%) F5
9 32 (5.60%) New Relic
10 31 (5.43%) Google
11 28 (4.90%) IBM
12 27 (4.73%) CyberArk
12 27 (4.73%) Tenable
13 25 (4.38%) Juniper
14 24 (4.20%) VMware
15 23 (4.03%) BMC
16 22 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
16 22 (3.85%) Fortinet
16 22 (3.85%) Oracle
16 22 (3.85%) Palo Alto