Splunk Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Splunk
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 4 February 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 45 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +34
Contract jobs citing Splunk 24 15 15
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.59% 2.61% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 6.12% 6.10% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 13
10th Percentile £385 £527 £383
25th Percentile £400 £663 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.79% +20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £744 £675
90th Percentile £570 £750 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £599 £525
% change year-on-year -13.57% +14.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £41.00 -

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 392 246 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 42.24% 42.86% 47.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 147 361
10th Percentile £290 £255 £275
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £559 £588
90th Percentile £650 £648 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 13
10th Percentile - £15.63 £11.39
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.50 £12.53
Median hourly rate £17.12 £36.91 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -53.61% +152.34% -33.52%
75th Percentile £21.30 £82.86 £15.19
90th Percentile £60.25 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year - +88.03% -24.52%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in West Yorkshire

Splunk
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Splunk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Splunk

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Leeds -16 21 £480 -33.79% 3
Halifax - 3 - -
Splunk
Yorkshire

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) GitHub
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Storage
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.67%) GCP
5 4 (16.67%) Serverless
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (12.50%) Route 53
6 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) BrowserStack
7 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) DNS
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (37.50%) GitLab
3 6 (25.00%) JIRA
4 5 (20.83%) Cucumber
5 4 (16.67%) Cypress.io
6 2 (8.33%) Gatling
6 2 (8.33%) Git
6 2 (8.33%) MSI
6 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 2 (8.33%) Selenium
6 2 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
7 1 (4.17%) PVCS
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Test Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Test Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Tester
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Security Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Performance Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Playwright
2 5 (20.83%) JWT
2 5 (20.83%) OAuth
2 5 (20.83%) SAML
3 4 (16.67%) Node.js
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (8.33%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Spring
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) NHS
1 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Test Strategy
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (37.50%) Manual Testing
4 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 7 (29.17%) Agile
5 7 (29.17%) BDD
5 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (25.00%) Microservices
6 6 (25.00%) Observability
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Validation
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Scrum
8 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
6 4 (16.67%) Bash
7 3 (12.50%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (4.17%) C
8 1 (4.17%) Go
8 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) Accessibility
2 5 (20.83%) QA
3 3 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 3 (12.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.17%) NIST
4 1 (4.17%) SLA
4 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Grafana
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Packer
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Cribl.io
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow