Splunk Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Splunk Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -14.58% -2.44% +11.82%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,998 841 1,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 92.42% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 532 1,015
10th Percentile £304 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £342 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £569
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 28 52
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.94 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.57 £16.93 £12.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.14 £13.98
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% +58.37% -36.45%
75th Percentile £56.63 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.04 £53.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.89 £33.78
% change year-on-year -2.48% +6.26% -19.20%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in Yorkshire

Splunk Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 March 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
South Yorkshire - 2 £559 - 2
West Yorkshire - 1 £463 -
Splunk Engineer
England

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 6 March 2026, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Active Listening
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Business Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Cribl.io
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Business Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Cribl.io
3 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (33.33%) New Relic