Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Splunk Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £377 - -
25th Percentile £404 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
England median daily rate £575 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -1.08% +5.68% -7.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,635 1,788 1,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 93.42% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,152 1,335
10th Percentile £235 £231 £229
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £582 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 63 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.62 £14.42
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £17.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.07 £33.74 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Splunk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in the West Midlands

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in the West Midlands

Splunk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Birmingham - 6 £360 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £534 -
Splunk Engineer
England

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Kibana
2 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (85.71%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (85.71%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Unix
3 5 (71.43%) Docker
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
4 4 (57.14%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (57.14%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (57.14%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 4 (57.14%) Change Management
4 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 4 (57.14%) Degree

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
4 4 (57.14%) Change Management
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 4 (57.14%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (57.14%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (14.29%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kibana
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 4 (57.14%) Puppet
4 1 (14.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle