Splunk Contracts in the West Midlands

Splunk
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 August 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 100 112
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 +45
Contract jobs citing Splunk 31 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.81% 0.48% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 3.76% 1.04% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 7
10th Percentile £435 £773 £525
25th Percentile £483 £808 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £815 £600
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +35.83% +25.00%
75th Percentile £559 £823 £738
90th Percentile £599 £827 £793
England median daily rate £537 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.36% -8.33% +4.35%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 824 867 1,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.10% 46.29% 50.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 602 681
10th Percentile £224 £263 £220
25th Percentile £350 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 24
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.95 £16.46
25th Percentile £22.10 £14.44 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.06 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +11.39% +36.36%
75th Percentile £41.81 £47.94 £45.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £88.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.39 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.41% -16.04% +55.56%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the West Midlands

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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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Shropshire - 13 £539 - 5
Birmingham +6 10 £488 -40.18% 8
Warwickshire - 4 £537 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £581 - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £485 -
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England

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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 10 (32.26%) Apache
1 10 (32.26%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 21 (67.74%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Azure
3 10 (32.26%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (22.58%) GCP
5 5 (16.13%) Akamai
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) Datadog
7 1 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.23%) npm
7 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
1 5 (16.13%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.23%) DSL
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) Gradle
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Maven
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) Snyk
3 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Monitoring Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) SIEM Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Incident Responder
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.45%) CSOC
3 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
2 14 (45.16%) Windows
3 12 (38.71%) Unix
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Observability
2 12 (38.71%) Analytics
3 11 (35.48%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (35.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (35.48%) Service Management
4 10 (32.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (32.26%) Incident Management
4 10 (32.26%) Incident Response
4 10 (32.26%) Log Analytics
4 10 (32.26%) Performance Monitoring
4 10 (32.26%) Proactive Management
4 10 (32.26%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 10 (32.26%) Test Strategy
4 10 (32.26%) Visualisation
5 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.81%) SIEM
6 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
7 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
7 7 (22.58%) Ethical Hacking
7 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) Go
4 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.23%) Perl
4 1 (3.23%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) CSIRT
2 4 (12.90%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) QRadar
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Kibana
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Consul
5 1 (3.23%) logstash
5 1 (3.23%) Podman
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) AppDynamics
1 11 (35.48%) Cisco
1 11 (35.48%) Dynatrace
2 10 (32.26%) Oracle
3 7 (22.58%) F5
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.45%) FireEye
6 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.45%) IBM
6 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.45%) Tanium
7 1 (3.23%) Google
7 1 (3.23%) KANA
7 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
7 1 (3.23%) VMware