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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 196 233
Rank change year-on-year +44 +37 -8
Contract jobs citing Splunk 690 467 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 1.28% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 4.03% 2.83% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 265 347
10th Percentile £358 £423 £400
25th Percentile £420 £475 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £613 £738 £677
90th Percentile £692 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -6.82% -7.29% +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £76.25 £38.25 -
25th Percentile £78.13 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% - -
75th Percentile £94.38 £46.94 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £61.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +68.42% - -

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 17,140 16,485 20,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.48% 45.03% 45.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,833 9,701 13,240
10th Percentile £288 £295 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 867 524 675
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.49 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.63 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% -38.20% +96.97%

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 November 2025.

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
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 28 November 2025. 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 +49 620 £525 -8.70% 91
UK excluding London +74 380 £513 -6.82% 85
London +14 241 £575 -4.17% 32
Work from Home +8 178 £525 -4.55% 52
North of England -3 129 £486 -17.80% 9
South East +58 105 £438 -23.08% 34
Midlands +37 100 £528 +2.28% 11
West Midlands +42 96 £532 -4.74% 9
Yorkshire -4 80 £500 -18.70% 4
North West -19 47 £453 -17.64% 4
Scotland +24 33 £454 +29.71% 5
South West -5 17 £550 +22.22% 9
East of England -24 12 £575 +4.55% 12
East Midlands -23 4 £381 -21.77% 2
North East -10 2 £600 -26.38% 1
Wales - 2 £600 - 8

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 33 (4.78%) Apache
2 29 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.61%) Skype for Business
3 18 (2.61%) WebLogic
4 17 (2.46%) JBoss
5 13 (1.88%) Confluence
5 13 (1.88%) Mattermost
5 13 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.88%) WebSphere
5 13 (1.88%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (1.45%) IIS
6 10 (1.45%) iPlanet
7 8 (1.16%) Apache Pig
8 7 (1.01%) TPMS
9 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.43%) SAS
12 2 (0.29%) Mule
12 2 (0.29%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 23 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (2.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
3 1 (0.14%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 262 (37.97%) AWS
2 143 (20.72%) Azure
3 133 (19.28%) GCP
4 69 (10.00%) GitHub
5 59 (8.55%) OpenShift
6 50 (7.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 50 (7.25%) Serverless
7 40 (5.80%) SaaS
8 27 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (3.19%) Akamai
12 21 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (2.61%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (2.46%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 110 (15.94%) Firewall
2 44 (6.38%) DNS
3 34 (4.93%) Network Security
4 26 (3.77%) SSL
5 22 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.19%) Wireshark
6 21 (3.04%) Cisco IOS
6 21 (3.04%) HTTP
6 21 (3.04%) Wireless
7 18 (2.61%) Skype
8 16 (2.32%) VPN
9 13 (1.88%) Fibre Channel
9 13 (1.88%) iSCSI
10 11 (1.59%) Kerberos
10 11 (1.59%) Unified Communications
11 10 (1.45%) SNMP
12 9 (1.30%) SSH
13 7 (1.01%) DHCP
14 4 (0.58%) BGP
14 4 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 40 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 26 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 22 (3.19%) MySQL
6 18 (2.61%) Oracle Database
6 18 (2.61%) Redis
7 12 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.74%) Power BI
8 10 (1.45%) Apache Hive
9 9 (1.30%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.16%) Data Mining
11 7 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.87%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.72%) Flink
13 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.58%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 130 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 102 (14.78%) GitLab
3 55 (7.97%) Git
4 30 (4.35%) JIRA
4 30 (4.35%) Liquibase
5 23 (3.33%) Xcode
6 22 (3.19%) Postman
7 20 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 19 (2.75%) Eclipse
8 19 (2.75%) JUnit
9 18 (2.61%) Android Studio
9 18 (2.61%) Browser DevTools
9 18 (2.61%) SonarQube
9 18 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
10 14 (2.03%) CA Release Automation
11 13 (1.88%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.88%) Maven
12 10 (1.45%) Subversion
13 9 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 277 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 158 (22.90%) Finance
3 121 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.86%) Banking
5 59 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.80%) Financial Institution
7 22 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.19%) Games
8 15 (2.17%) Military
9 9 (1.30%) Legal
9 9 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.30%) Retail
10 8 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.72%) Local Government
13 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.29%) Law
14 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (16.52%) Analyst
2 73 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (10.00%) Senior
4 54 (7.83%) Architect
4 54 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
5 49 (7.10%) Security Engineer
6 48 (6.96%) SOC Analyst
7 37 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 36 (5.22%) Security Analyst
9 31 (4.49%) Developer
10 27 (3.91%) Site Engineer
11 26 (3.77%) Software Engineer
11 26 (3.77%) Splunk Engineer
12 25 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.33%) Lead
13 23 (3.33%) Support Analyst
14 22 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.19%) Monitoring Analyst
15 21 (3.04%) Security Architect
15 21 (3.04%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (11.59%) Elastic Stack
2 77 (11.16%) REST
3 51 (7.39%) Kafka
4 46 (6.67%) RESTful
5 29 (4.20%) AngularJS
6 28 (4.06%) CSS
7 27 (3.91%) OAuth
7 27 (3.91%) React
8 24 (3.48%) SAML
9 22 (3.19%) GraphQL
9 22 (3.19%) Spring
9 22 (3.19%) Spring Boot
10 21 (3.04%) LDAP
11 20 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
12 18 (2.61%) Ajax
13 17 (2.46%) Keycloak
14 16 (2.32%) Web Services
14 16 (2.32%) YAML
15 15 (2.17%) JSON
15 15 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.25%) Security Posture
3 46 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 45 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.36%) Public Cloud
6 25 (3.62%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.62%) PKI
7 23 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
7 23 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 22 (3.19%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.88%) CSOC
11 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.30%) Clustering
14 8 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
15 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 229 (33.19%) Linux
2 151 (21.88%) Windows
3 98 (14.20%) Unix
4 44 (6.38%) Android
5 36 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (4.93%) Windows Server
7 28 (4.06%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.45%) CentOS
10 6 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.58%) Solaris
11 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.58%) zOS
12 3 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.29%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.29%) VMS
14 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (31.59%) CI/CD
2 207 (30.00%) DevOps
3 179 (25.94%) Cybersecurity
4 175 (25.36%) Incident Response
5 164 (23.77%) SIEM
6 148 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (20.29%) Observability
8 129 (18.70%) Agile
9 125 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 122 (17.68%) Containerisation
11 91 (13.19%) Security Operations
12 87 (12.61%) Microservices
13 77 (11.16%) Threat Detection
14 73 (10.58%) Computer Science
15 67 (9.71%) Root Cause Analysis
16 65 (9.42%) Test Automation
17 64 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (8.41%) Migration
19 57 (8.26%) Analytics
19 57 (8.26%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 258 (37.39%) Python
2 121 (17.54%) PowerShell
3 116 (16.81%) SQL
4 98 (14.20%) Bash
5 83 (12.03%) Java
6 71 (10.29%) Go
7 45 (6.52%) JavaScript
8 43 (6.23%) Shell Script
9 40 (5.80%) Perl
10 23 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (2.61%) Groovy
12 16 (2.32%) PromQL
13 14 (2.03%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.74%) Scala
14 12 (1.74%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.87%) C++
16 5 (0.72%) JCL
16 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.72%) Swift
17 4 (0.58%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 185 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 114 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 90 (13.04%) Degree
4 76 (11.01%) CISSP
5 57 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (7.25%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.52%) Master's Degree
8 39 (5.65%) CISM
9 30 (4.35%) CEH
10 28 (4.06%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.06%) GIAC
11 26 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (3.62%) MCSE
13 22 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (3.04%) GCIA
15 20 (2.90%) GCIH
16 19 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (1.74%) GCFA
19 10 (1.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (10.29%) NIST
2 57 (8.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (5.65%) GDPR
4 21 (3.04%) PCI DSS
5 19 (2.75%) QA
6 15 (2.17%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.03%) NCSC
8 12 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.01%) GLBA
11 7 (1.01%) SLA
12 5 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.43%) GRC
14 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.29%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (17.39%) Docker
2 87 (12.61%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (2.46%) NFS
6 16 (2.32%) vSphere
7 8 (1.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 7 (1.01%) Snort
9 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.72%) Squid
10 5 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.58%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.43%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.14%) GPFS
13 1 (0.14%) Lustre
13 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 197 (28.55%) Kubernetes
2 133 (19.28%) Terraform
3 125 (18.12%) Grafana
4 121 (17.54%) Ansible
5 101 (14.64%) Prometheus
6 42 (6.09%) QRadar
7 30 (4.35%) SCCM
8 29 (4.20%) Kibana
9 24 (3.48%) SCOM
10 23 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (3.04%) CSIRT
11 21 (3.04%) HP SiteScope
11 21 (3.04%) Progress Chef
12 18 (2.61%) Puppet
13 16 (2.32%) Nessus
13 16 (2.32%) Packer
13 16 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (2.03%) Argo
15 12 (1.74%) Fluentd
16 10 (1.45%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 202 (29.28%) Microsoft
2 79 (11.45%) Cisco
3 67 (9.71%) Dynatrace
3 67 (9.71%) Oracle
4 59 (8.55%) Google
5 55 (7.97%) CrowdStrike
6 50 (7.25%) AppDynamics
7 46 (6.67%) ServiceNow
8 40 (5.80%) Qualys
9 34 (4.93%) Red Hat
10 33 (4.78%) VMware
11 25 (3.62%) ArcSight
11 25 (3.62%) Carbon Black
12 23 (3.33%) Remedy
13 22 (3.19%) CyberArk
13 22 (3.19%) F5
14 21 (3.04%) Meraki
15 20 (2.90%) Tenable
16 19 (2.75%) Palo Alto
16 19 (2.75%) Veeam