Splunk Contract Job Trends in Wales

Splunk
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 25 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
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Splunk 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.42% - 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% - 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile - - £658
90th Percentile - - £670
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £41.00 -
% change year-on-year +113.41% - -

All Vendors
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 182 177 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 38.08% 39.25% 47.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 116 158
10th Percentile £170 £161 £180
25th Percentile £258 £210 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £611 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 7
10th Percentile £15.07 £22.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £24.63 £19.03
Median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +25.44% +40.68%
75th Percentile £21.50 £50.00 £26.62
90th Percentile £32.63 £53.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +73.08%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Splunk job vacancy trend in Wales

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Splunk

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
South Wales - 1 - - 10
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware