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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 187 240
Rank change year-on-year -31 +53 -81
Contract jobs citing Splunk 576 446 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.50% 0.97%
As % of the Vendors category 2.81% 3.16% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 278 279
10th Percentile £352 £391 £400
25th Percentile £425 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £770 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.23 - £40.00
75th Percentile £71.64 - -
90th Percentile £79.19 - £45.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £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 20,477 14,135 18,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.69% 47.62% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,867 8,698 11,416
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,051 649 1,149
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.30 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% +6.30% -44.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.72 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.13% +2.22% -43.75%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -38 504 £525 -4.55% 258
UK excluding London -22 330 £514 -6.55% 270
London -41 199 £550 +4.76% 79
Work from Home -33 143 £537 -2.36% 69
North of England -11 130 £500 -2.44% 57
Yorkshire -5 81 £500 - 15
South East -53 66 £375 -31.82% 64
Midlands -27 53 £564 +5.03% 18
West Midlands -25 48 £565 +3.57% 13
North West -29 47 £519 -4.38% 26
South West +7 39 £450 -14.29% 43
Scotland -9 30 £564 +28.18% 27
East of England -39 25 £688 +25.00% 38
East Midlands -19 5 £447 +3.23% 5
North East - 5 £413 - 16
Wales -11 1 - - 15

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 23 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.78%) Confluence
3 13 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.04%) TPMS
5 4 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.52%) Apache
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.52%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 176 (30.56%) AWS
2 154 (26.74%) Azure
3 81 (14.06%) GitHub
4 68 (11.81%) GCP
5 60 (10.42%) OpenShift
6 36 (6.25%) Datadog
7 30 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.86%) Entra ID
9 27 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (4.34%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (3.82%) Serverless
13 21 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (3.65%) Power Platform
14 18 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (3.13%) SaaS
15 16 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 82 (14.24%) DNS
2 81 (14.06%) Firewall
3 41 (7.12%) SNMP
4 32 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 31 (5.38%) BGP
5 31 (5.38%) Network Security
5 31 (5.38%) WAN
6 30 (5.21%) OSPF
7 29 (5.03%) Ethernet VPN
8 27 (4.69%) LAN
9 26 (4.51%) BIG-IP
10 25 (4.34%) DHCP
10 25 (4.34%) VXLAN
11 24 (4.17%) Junos
12 20 (3.47%) Cisco ISE
12 20 (3.47%) VPN
13 15 (2.60%) SSL
14 11 (1.91%) Wireless
15 10 (1.74%) MPLS
16 9 (1.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.86%) MongoDB
2 23 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.47%) Power BI
4 19 (3.30%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.95%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.08%) Big Data
8 10 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.39%) MySQL
9 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.22%) Presto
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.87%) Redis
13 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.69%) Tableau
14 3 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 90 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.72%) GitLab
3 43 (7.47%) Git
4 32 (5.56%) Gatling
5 27 (4.69%) JIRA
6 22 (3.82%) JMeter
7 13 (2.26%) REST Assured
7 13 (2.26%) Selenium
8 12 (2.08%) LoadRunner
8 12 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
9 10 (1.74%) Jaeger
10 9 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.22%) Gradle
11 7 (1.22%) JUnit
11 7 (1.22%) Maven
12 6 (1.04%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.04%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.04%) Snyk
13 5 (0.87%) Postman
13 5 (0.87%) Xcode
General
1 160 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.62%) Finance
3 65 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.85%) Banking
5 42 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.43%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.26%) Retail
9 12 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.74%) Front Office
11 9 (1.56%) Military
12 8 (1.39%) Legal
13 6 (1.04%) Law
14 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.52%) Advertising
15 3 (0.52%) Local Government
15 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (12.15%) Analyst
2 63 (10.94%) Architect
2 63 (10.94%) Senior
3 56 (9.72%) Lead
4 36 (6.25%) Consultant
5 35 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (4.86%) Developer
6 28 (4.86%) SOC Analyst
7 26 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 25 (4.34%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.17%) SOC Engineer
10 21 (3.65%) Security Architect
10 21 (3.65%) Security Engineer
10 21 (3.65%) Site Engineer
11 20 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.30%) CyberArk Architect
12 19 (3.30%) Network Engineer
13 18 (3.13%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.95%) Performance Engineer
15 15 (2.60%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.63%) Kafka
2 57 (9.90%) OpenTelemetry
3 54 (9.38%) REST
4 34 (5.90%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.38%) Spring
6 30 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
7 28 (4.86%) 802.1X
8 21 (3.65%) JSON
8 21 (3.65%) LDAP
9 19 (3.30%) OpenID
9 19 (3.30%) SAML
10 17 (2.95%) Middleware
11 14 (2.43%) RESTful
12 13 (2.26%) Playwright
13 12 (2.08%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (1.91%) SailPoint
15 10 (1.74%) OAuth
15 10 (1.74%) OAuth2
15 10 (1.74%) Protocol Buffers
15 10 (1.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.59%) Onboarding
3 42 (7.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (6.25%) PKI
5 30 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.86%) Clustering
6 28 (4.86%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (3.65%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.95%) CMDB
9 17 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (2.95%) Cyberattack
9 17 (2.95%) Security Posture
10 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.91%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.22%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 168 (29.17%) Linux
2 148 (25.69%) Windows
3 47 (8.16%) Unix
4 18 (3.13%) AIX
5 16 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.26%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.22%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.69%) Android
9 4 (0.69%) zOS
10 2 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (37.15%) CI/CD
2 200 (34.72%) Observability
3 184 (31.94%) DevOps
4 133 (23.09%) SIEM
5 125 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (20.31%) Cybersecurity
7 103 (17.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 99 (17.19%) Incident Response
9 94 (16.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (13.54%) Containerisation
11 77 (13.37%) Security Operations
12 70 (12.15%) Agile
13 67 (11.63%) High Availability
14 62 (10.76%) ITIL
15 56 (9.72%) Test Automation
16 54 (9.38%) Analytics
16 54 (9.38%) Migration
17 53 (9.20%) ITSM
17 53 (9.20%) Microservices
18 50 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (36.63%) Python
2 92 (15.97%) SQL
3 83 (14.41%) PowerShell
4 70 (12.15%) Java
5 69 (11.98%) Bash
6 44 (7.64%) Search Processing Language
7 22 (3.82%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.65%) Go
9 13 (2.26%) Bicep
10 10 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.74%) Scala
10 10 (1.74%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.39%) C#
11 8 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.04%) Perl
13 6 (1.04%) Rust
14 5 (0.87%) Ruby
15 4 (0.69%) JCL
15 4 (0.69%) REXX
Qualifications
1 228 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 140 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.76%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.51%) Degree
5 47 (8.16%) CISSP
6 38 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (5.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 30 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (4.17%) CISM
10 19 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (3.13%) CompTIA CySA+
12 16 (2.78%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.43%) GIAC
14 12 (2.08%) CEH
15 11 (1.91%) GCIA
15 11 (1.91%) GCIH
16 9 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (1.56%) CCNP
16 9 (1.56%) CCSP
16 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.90%) NIST
2 41 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.13%) NCSC
3 18 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.95%) GDPR
5 16 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.08%) SLA
7 11 (1.91%) QA
8 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.39%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.04%) GLBA
11 5 (0.87%) GRC
12 4 (0.69%) COBIT
12 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 99 (17.19%) Docker
2 19 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.78%) VMware NSX
4 15 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.08%) vSphere
6 8 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.04%) etcd
8 4 (0.69%) Snort
9 2 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 157 (27.26%) Kubernetes
2 144 (25.00%) Grafana
3 126 (21.88%) Terraform
4 114 (19.79%) Prometheus
5 96 (16.67%) Ansible
6 26 (4.51%) FortiGate
7 23 (3.99%) ZABBIX
8 22 (3.82%) Argo
9 20 (3.47%) Nagios
9 20 (3.47%) QRadar
10 18 (3.13%) Kibana
10 18 (3.13%) Netcool
11 17 (2.95%) Tivoli
12 15 (2.60%) OpenView
12 15 (2.60%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 12 (2.08%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.39%) Fluentd
14 8 (1.39%) WMI
15 7 (1.22%) Istio
15 7 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 89 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 70 (12.15%) ServiceNow
4 57 (9.90%) Cisco
5 55 (9.55%) SolarWinds
6 49 (8.51%) AppDynamics
7 40 (6.94%) CrowdStrike
7 40 (6.94%) F5
8 37 (6.42%) CyberArk
9 27 (4.69%) IBM
9 27 (4.69%) Tenable
10 25 (4.34%) Juniper
11 23 (3.99%) New Relic
12 22 (3.82%) BMC
12 22 (3.82%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (3.65%) VMware
14 20 (3.47%) Fortinet
14 20 (3.47%) Google
14 20 (3.47%) Oracle
15 19 (3.30%) Palo Alto