Splunk Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Splunk
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 187 161
Rank change year-on-year +23 -26 +48
Contract jobs citing Splunk 143 164 406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 1.07% 1.57%
As % of the Vendors category 3.15% 2.52% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 101 276
10th Percentile £409 £412 £450
25th Percentile £475 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £533 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -9.28% +6.82%
75th Percentile £653 £600 £650
90th Percentile £766 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - £49.68
Median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -25.02% -14.64%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £57.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year +2.50% -33.11% +5.59%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Splunk
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Splunk trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Splunk.

Splunk daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Splunk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Splunk daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Splunk.

Splunk hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (6.29%) nginx
2 6 (4.20%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.50%) Apache
3 5 (3.50%) Traefik
4 3 (2.10%) Confluence
4 3 (2.10%) JBoss
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 41 (28.67%) AWS
2 30 (20.98%) Azure
3 17 (11.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (9.79%) Entra ID
4 14 (9.79%) GCP
5 9 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (6.29%) Datadog
5 9 (6.29%) GitHub
5 9 (6.29%) OpenShift
5 9 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (5.59%) Serverless
7 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.90%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (3.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.10%) Apigee
10 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.49%) Firewall
2 14 (9.79%) TCP/IP
3 13 (9.09%) DNS
4 8 (5.59%) HTTP
5 7 (4.90%) Network Security
6 6 (4.20%) DHCP
6 6 (4.20%) SMTP
7 5 (3.50%) VPN
8 4 (2.80%) NAS
9 3 (2.10%) IMAP
9 3 (2.10%) POP3
9 3 (2.10%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.40%) BGP
10 2 (1.40%) DOCSIS
10 2 (1.40%) LAN
10 2 (1.40%) SAN
10 2 (1.40%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.40%) VLAN
10 2 (1.40%) WAN
10 2 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.20%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.80%) Looker
4 4 (2.80%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.10%) Redis
5 3 (2.10%) SAP HANA
5 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.40%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.70%) Flink
7 1 (0.70%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (25.87%) Jenkins
2 22 (15.38%) GitLab
3 10 (6.99%) Git
4 9 (6.29%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.59%) JIRA
6 7 (4.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.10%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (2.10%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.10%) JUnit
8 3 (2.10%) Postman
8 3 (2.10%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.40%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.40%) Maven
9 2 (1.40%) Subversion
9 2 (1.40%) Xcode
General
1 29 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.79%) Banking
5 11 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.59%) Retail
8 5 (3.50%) Marketing
9 4 (2.80%) Billing
9 4 (2.80%) Electronics
9 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.40%) Legal
10 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (9.79%) Analyst
2 14 (9.79%) Senior
3 13 (9.09%) Architect
3 13 (9.09%) Developer
4 12 (8.39%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (6.29%) Consultant
5 9 (6.29%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (5.59%) Splunk Consultant
7 7 (4.90%) Lead
7 7 (4.90%) Site Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) SOC Analyst
8 6 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.50%) IT Operations Manager
9 5 (3.50%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.09%) Kafka
2 10 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.59%) Keycloak
4 7 (4.90%) cloud-init
4 7 (4.90%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.20%) .NET
5 6 (4.20%) LDAP
6 5 (3.50%) HTML
7 4 (2.80%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.80%) CSS
7 4 (2.80%) SailPoint
7 4 (2.80%) Spring
8 3 (2.10%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.10%) CSS3
8 3 (2.10%) HTML5
8 3 (2.10%) J2EE
8 3 (2.10%) Node.js
8 3 (2.10%) REST
8 3 (2.10%) Web Services
9 2 (1.40%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (6.29%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.90%) PKI
5 6 (4.20%) CSOC
5 6 (4.20%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.10%) Clustering
7 3 (2.10%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.10%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.40%) IoT
8 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 47 (32.87%) Linux
2 22 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 22 (15.38%) Unix
3 20 (13.99%) Windows
4 7 (4.90%) CentOS
5 6 (4.20%) VMS
6 3 (2.10%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.40%) AIX
7 2 (1.40%) Solaris
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 38 (26.57%) SIEM
3 37 (25.87%) DevOps
4 31 (21.68%) Observability
5 21 (14.69%) Agile
6 20 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.29%) Migration
8 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (11.19%) Incident Response
10 15 (10.49%) Cloud Security
10 15 (10.49%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (9.79%) High Availability
12 13 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (9.09%) Event Correlation
13 12 (8.39%) Security Operations
13 12 (8.39%) Use Case
14 11 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
14 11 (7.69%) Incident Management
14 11 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (6.99%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.27%) Python
2 21 (14.69%) Bash
3 15 (10.49%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.39%) Java
4 12 (8.39%) Shell Script
5 11 (7.69%) SQL
6 10 (6.99%) Go
7 8 (5.59%) Groovy
8 7 (4.90%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.50%) C++
10 4 (2.80%) C#
10 4 (2.80%) Perl
10 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.10%) C
11 3 (2.10%) Ruby
12 2 (1.40%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.70%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.70%) COBOL
13 1 (0.70%) Korn
13 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) AWS Certification
3 10 (6.99%) CISSP
4 5 (3.50%) CEH
4 5 (3.50%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.80%) CISM
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) GIAC
6 2 (1.40%) CCNA
6 2 (1.40%) CCNP
6 2 (1.40%) CISA
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.40%) GCIH
6 2 (1.40%) SANS
7 1 (0.70%) GCIA
7 1 (0.70%) GSEC
7 1 (0.70%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) NCSC
1 7 (4.90%) NIST
2 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.50%) QA
3 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (17.48%) Docker
2 8 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.98%) Terraform
3 19 (13.29%) Ansible
3 19 (13.29%) Grafana
4 15 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.29%) Consul
5 9 (6.29%) QRadar
6 8 (5.59%) Packer
7 7 (4.90%) Istio
7 7 (4.90%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (4.90%) linkerd
7 7 (4.90%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.90%) Rancher
7 7 (4.90%) ZABBIX
8 5 (3.50%) HAProxy
8 5 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.80%) Kibana
9 4 (2.80%) PingFederate
10 3 (2.10%) Argo
10 3 (2.10%) SELinux
Vendors
1 18 (12.59%) ServiceNow
2 16 (11.19%) Dynatrace
3 14 (9.79%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.39%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.69%) AppDynamics
6 11 (7.69%) Okta
7 10 (6.99%) Cisco
8 9 (6.29%) F5
8 9 (6.29%) Fortinet
8 9 (6.29%) VMware
9 7 (4.90%) LogRhythm
9 7 (4.90%) SAP
10 6 (4.20%) Google
10 6 (4.20%) IBM
10 6 (4.20%) Oracle
10 6 (4.20%) SolarWinds
11 5 (3.50%) Apple
11 5 (3.50%) CyberArk
11 5 (3.50%) ESET