Splunk Contracts

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 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 224 168
Rank change year-on-year +38 -56 +57
Contract jobs citing Splunk 414 437 880
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 1.02% 1.57%
As % of the Vendors category 2.97% 2.41% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 275 658
10th Percentile £391 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £694
90th Percentile £762 £685 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year - -33.11% -4.32%
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year - -33.11% -4.32%

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 13,948 18,154 24,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.83% 42.32% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,628 11,325 16,214
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £405 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £625 £644
90th Percentile £715 £738 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 1,135 650
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.80
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -47.88% +97.67%
75th Percentile £55.75 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +95.64%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 Contract 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 31 May 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 +54 351 £550 - 272
UK excluding London +36 196 £550 - 168
London +52 163 £525 +5.00% 130
Work from Home -6 114 £550 +2.80% 165
North of England +10 65 £543 -1.36% 35
South East +59 47 £544 +1.97% 49
North West +31 38 £543 -1.36% 23
East of England +35 33 £550 -15.38% 19
Yorkshire -13 27 £545 -0.91% 10
Scotland +4 25 £435 -18.69% 17
Midlands +18 21 £537 +28.24% 13
West Midlands +21 16 £551 -15.23% 11
East Midlands +6 5 £391 +8.84% 2
South West +15 4 £613 +11.36% 22
Wales -2 1 £455 -29.40% 2

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.86%) Confluence
2 13 (3.14%) JBoss
3 9 (2.17%) Mattermost
3 9 (2.17%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.97%) Apache
5 4 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.72%) CMS
6 3 (0.72%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.72%) nginx
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.48%) Traefik
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (31.40%) AWS
2 65 (15.70%) Azure
3 41 (9.90%) GCP
4 39 (9.42%) GitHub
5 32 (7.73%) OpenShift
6 27 (6.52%) SaaS
7 26 (6.28%) Amazon S3
8 24 (5.80%) Datadog
9 21 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (5.07%) Serverless
10 20 (4.83%) Cohesity
11 12 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (2.66%) Apigee
13 9 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.93%) Nutanix
14 8 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.39%) Firewall
2 42 (10.14%) DNS
3 30 (7.25%) SAN
4 21 (5.07%) Network Security
5 18 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 15 (3.62%) SSL
6 15 (3.62%) VPN
7 12 (2.90%) NAS
8 9 (2.17%) Skype
8 9 (2.17%) Softphone
8 9 (2.17%) Unified Communications
8 9 (2.17%) WebEx
9 7 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (1.69%) iSCSI
9 7 (1.69%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.45%) BGP
10 6 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.45%) HTTP
10 6 (1.45%) WAN
11 5 (1.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (5.07%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.62%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.62%) NoSQL
3 15 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.62%) RDBMS
4 8 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (1.93%) Big Data
4 8 (1.93%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.21%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.21%) Redis
7 4 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.97%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.97%) Tableau
8 3 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.72%) DB2
9 2 (0.48%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 71 (17.15%) Jenkins
2 51 (12.32%) Git
3 34 (8.21%) GitLab
3 34 (8.21%) JIRA
4 27 (6.52%) TeamCity
5 20 (4.83%) SonarQube
6 19 (4.59%) JUnit
7 16 (3.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 15 (3.62%) Bitbucket
9 14 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (2.90%) Subversion
11 11 (2.66%) CA Release Automation
11 11 (2.66%) Maven
12 9 (2.17%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.69%) Gradle
13 7 (1.69%) IntelliJ
14 6 (1.45%) Mockito
15 5 (1.21%) JMeter
15 5 (1.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 88 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.84%) Finance
3 50 (12.08%) Banking
4 39 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (7.00%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.66%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.17%) Marketing
10 8 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.69%) Military
12 5 (1.21%) Electronics
12 5 (1.21%) Front Office
12 5 (1.21%) Retail
13 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Games
14 3 (0.72%) Legal
14 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 59 (14.25%) Architect
2 45 (10.87%) Developer
3 40 (9.66%) Analyst
4 35 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (7.49%) Splunk Engineer
6 29 (7.00%) Consultant
7 26 (6.28%) Senior
8 20 (4.83%) Security Architect
9 19 (4.59%) Security Engineer
10 17 (4.11%) Java Developer
10 17 (4.11%) SOC Analyst
11 15 (3.62%) Applications Support
12 13 (3.14%) Administrator
12 13 (3.14%) Site Engineer
12 13 (3.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (2.90%) Network Engineer
13 12 (2.90%) Operations Engineer
13 12 (2.90%) Splunk Consultant
14 11 (2.66%) Security Analyst
14 11 (2.66%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.73%) Kafka
2 29 (7.00%) Spring
3 25 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
4 24 (5.80%) Spring Boot
5 20 (4.83%) REST
6 17 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (3.86%) LDAP
8 12 (2.90%) Web Services
9 11 (2.66%) HTML
9 11 (2.66%) React
10 10 (2.42%) .NET
11 9 (2.17%) CSS
11 9 (2.17%) Loki
11 9 (2.17%) Middleware
11 9 (2.17%) XMPP
12 8 (1.93%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.93%) JPA
12 8 (1.93%) JSON
12 8 (1.93%) Node.js
12 8 (1.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.84%) Onboarding
2 40 (9.66%) Security Operations Centre
3 29 (7.00%) CSOC
4 20 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.83%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (4.59%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.38%) Clustering
7 14 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.14%) Replication
9 9 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.69%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.97%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (27.29%) Linux
2 97 (23.43%) Windows
3 38 (9.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (9.18%) Unix
4 31 (7.49%) Windows Server
5 28 (6.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (5.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (2.66%) Solaris
8 10 (2.42%) VMS
9 7 (1.69%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.45%) Android
11 4 (0.97%) AIX
12 2 (0.48%) CentOS
13 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (30.19%) SIEM
2 115 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 109 (26.33%) DevOps
4 77 (18.60%) Observability
5 76 (18.36%) Cybersecurity
6 74 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (16.18%) Agile
8 57 (13.77%) Security Operations
9 56 (13.53%) Microservices
10 51 (12.32%) Incident Response
11 46 (11.11%) Migration
12 44 (10.63%) Deployment Automation
13 42 (10.14%) Use Case
14 40 (9.66%) SOAR
15 37 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (8.70%) Containerisation
17 33 (7.97%) High Availability
18 32 (7.73%) Build Automation
18 32 (7.73%) ITIL
19 30 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (28.74%) Python
2 78 (18.84%) PowerShell
3 55 (13.29%) SQL
4 46 (11.11%) Java
5 41 (9.90%) Bash
6 24 (5.80%) Perl
7 20 (4.83%) Shell Script
8 19 (4.59%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.62%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.17%) Groovy
11 8 (1.93%) Ruby
12 6 (1.45%) C#
13 5 (1.21%) C
13 5 (1.21%) C++
13 5 (1.21%) Go
13 5 (1.21%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.48%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.48%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.24%) JCL
15 1 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 122 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 84 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.42%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.31%) Degree
5 14 (3.38%) CISSP
6 11 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.93%) CEH
8 8 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.93%) MCSE
8 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.69%) GIAC
9 7 (1.69%) VCP5
9 7 (1.69%) VCP6
9 7 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.45%) CCNP
10 6 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.45%) GCIH
11 5 (1.21%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.35%) NIST
2 17 (4.11%) GDPR
3 16 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.69%) SLA
6 6 (1.45%) QA
7 4 (0.97%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.48%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.48%) NCSC
9 2 (0.48%) PSD2
9 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 66 (15.94%) Docker
2 55 (13.29%) Active Directory
3 47 (11.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (4.83%) Virtual Servers
5 18 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (2.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 11 (2.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 11 (2.66%) NFS
8 7 (1.69%) vSphere
9 4 (0.97%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.72%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.72%) iptables
10 3 (0.72%) Lustre
10 3 (0.72%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 100 (24.15%) Kubernetes
2 79 (19.08%) Ansible
3 66 (15.94%) Grafana
4 60 (14.49%) Terraform
5 44 (10.63%) Prometheus
6 26 (6.28%) QRadar
7 24 (5.80%) SCCM
8 21 (5.07%) WSUS
9 18 (4.35%) Kibana
10 17 (4.11%) Progress Chef
11 16 (3.86%) Puppet
12 9 (2.17%) Control-M
12 9 (2.17%) SCOM
13 8 (1.93%) Istio
13 8 (1.93%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (1.93%) Tivoli
14 6 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (1.45%) Netcool
14 6 (1.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (1.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 66 (15.94%) VMware
3 55 (13.29%) Red Hat
4 39 (9.42%) Cisco
4 39 (9.42%) Dynatrace
5 38 (9.18%) ServiceNow
6 32 (7.73%) NetApp
7 29 (7.00%) AppDynamics
8 27 (6.52%) Palo Alto
9 26 (6.28%) Oracle
10 23 (5.56%) IBM
11 18 (4.35%) Fortinet
12 16 (3.86%) CyberArk
13 14 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
13 14 (3.38%) F5
13 14 (3.38%) Google
14 13 (3.14%) SAP
15 12 (2.90%) Qualys
15 12 (2.90%) SolarWinds
15 12 (2.90%) Veritas