Splunk Job Trends in England

Splunk
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Splunk products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Splunk over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 499 405
Rank change year-on-year +116 -94 +28
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 228 176 308
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.36% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.42% 0.97% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 90 125 238
10th Percentile £43,500 £46,713 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year - +15.27% -7.05%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £88,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.58% -7.05%

All Vendors
England

Splunk falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,077 18,102 19,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.76% 37.49% 39.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,534 9,273 15,079
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Splunk job vacancy trend in England

Splunk
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Splunk in England

Splunk
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +88 103 £75,000 +13.21% 7
London +28 72 £78,750 -7.35% 26
South East +31 28 £77,500 +24.00% 30
North of England +25 25 £48,445 -3.71% 23
North West +31 21 £40,000 -20.49% 12
West Midlands +33 4 £83,250 +65.48% 8
Midlands +19 4 £83,250 +65.48% 10
East of England -1 4 £57,500 -7.26% 16
North East +5 2 £48,445 -3.71% 1
Yorkshire -15 2 - - 10
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 88 (38.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 131 (57.46%) Azure
2 98 (42.98%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (27.19%) AWS
4 17 (7.46%) Serverless
5 16 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (6.58%) Datadog
6 15 (6.58%) GCP
6 15 (6.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.26%) GitHub
10 9 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (3.95%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.95%) SaaS
11 8 (3.51%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.51%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 96 (42.11%) DNS
2 85 (37.28%) DHCP
3 24 (10.53%) Firewall
4 13 (5.70%) Network Security
5 11 (4.82%) VPN
6 9 (3.95%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (3.51%) SSL
7 8 (3.51%) Wireshark
8 7 (3.07%) HTTP
9 5 (2.19%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.32%) VLAN
10 3 (1.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.88%) DMZ
11 2 (0.88%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.88%) Internet
12 1 (0.44%) DMARC
12 1 (0.44%) Miracast
12 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (37.28%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.58%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.82%) RDBMS
4 7 (3.07%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.19%) MySQL
7 4 (1.75%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.88%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.09%) GitLab
3 17 (7.46%) JMeter
3 17 (7.46%) JUnit
4 15 (6.58%) Mockito
5 8 (3.51%) JIRA
6 6 (2.63%) Git
7 5 (2.19%) LoadRunner
7 5 (2.19%) Selenium
8 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.75%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.75%) TestNG
9 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.32%) Postman
10 2 (0.88%) Checkstyle
10 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.88%) Maven
General
1 124 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 111 (48.68%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.84%) Finance
4 21 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.75%) Banking
8 3 (1.32%) Law
8 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Advertising
9 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (37.28%) Systems Engineer
2 19 (8.33%) Analyst
2 19 (8.33%) Developer
2 19 (8.33%) Senior
3 18 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (7.46%) Security Engineer
5 13 (5.70%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 11 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 11 (4.82%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 10 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Security Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.07%) Information Analyst
11 7 (3.07%) Information Security Analyst
11 7 (3.07%) Splunk Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) Architect
12 6 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.33%) Spring
1 19 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 17 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (7.02%) REST
4 14 (6.14%) HTML
4 14 (6.14%) JSON
5 13 (5.70%) ActiveMQ
5 13 (5.70%) Apache Camel
5 13 (5.70%) Hibernate
5 13 (5.70%) jQuery
5 13 (5.70%) Web Services
5 13 (5.70%) WireMock
5 13 (5.70%) XML
6 8 (3.51%) Kafka
7 5 (2.19%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.75%) OAuth
9 3 (1.32%) JWT
9 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (37.72%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (3.07%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.75%) ARM Cortex
7 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.32%) Insider Threat
7 3 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.32%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.88%) Equities
8 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.88%) PKI
8 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 137 (60.09%) Linux
2 126 (55.26%) Windows
3 93 (40.79%) Windows Server
4 85 (37.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (4.82%) Unix
6 3 (1.32%) CentOS
6 3 (1.32%) Debian
6 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.88%) Android
7 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) Solaris
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (56.14%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (39.04%) Kalman Filter
3 87 (38.16%) Migration
3 87 (38.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 86 (37.72%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 85 (37.28%) Customer Service
5 85 (37.28%) Web Filtering
6 84 (36.84%) Customer Experience
6 84 (36.84%) Email Filtering
7 51 (22.37%) CI/CD
8 44 (19.30%) DevOps
9 40 (17.54%) Agile
10 39 (17.11%) Incident Response
10 39 (17.11%) SIEM
11 33 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (12.72%) Observability
13 26 (11.40%) Containerisation
13 26 (11.40%) Data Loss Prevention
13 26 (11.40%) Security Operations
14 23 (10.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.19%) Python
2 30 (13.16%) Bash
3 28 (12.28%) PowerShell
4 27 (11.84%) Java
5 18 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.02%) SQL
7 15 (6.58%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.51%) Bicep
9 6 (2.63%) Go
10 5 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.75%) Perl
12 2 (0.88%) C#
13 1 (0.44%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.44%) C-shell
13 1 (0.44%) Korn
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) PromQL
13 1 (0.44%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 122 (53.51%) Security Cleared
2 101 (44.30%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.65%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.89%) Degree
5 13 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.82%) GIAC
7 8 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.07%) GCIH
9 6 (2.63%) CISSP
10 5 (2.19%) CCNA
10 5 (2.19%) CCNP
11 4 (1.75%) GCFA
11 4 (1.75%) GCIA
11 4 (1.75%) OSCP
12 3 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.32%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.88%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (39.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 86 (37.72%) PCI DSS
3 18 (7.89%) NIST
4 11 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (4.39%) QA
6 5 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.19%) GDPR
7 4 (1.75%) NCSC
8 3 (1.32%) ITGC
9 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.88%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.88%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.88%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.44%) GRC
10 1 (0.44%) MiFID
10 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (42.98%) Active Directory
2 88 (38.60%) Hyper-V
3 84 (36.84%) Terminal Server
4 40 (17.54%) Docker
5 6 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.88%) GPFS
7 2 (0.88%) Lustre
7 2 (0.88%) pfSense
7 2 (0.88%) Squid
8 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 42 (18.42%) Terraform
3 35 (15.35%) Grafana
4 30 (13.16%) Ansible
5 28 (12.28%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.02%) Kibana
7 13 (5.70%) QRadar
8 11 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.63%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.75%) Nagios
12 3 (1.32%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (1.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (1.32%) CSIRT
12 3 (1.32%) VxRail
13 2 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.88%) Nessus
13 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.88%) SELinux
14 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 124 (54.39%) Microsoft
2 96 (42.11%) VMware
3 95 (41.67%) SolarWinds
4 86 (37.72%) Veeam
5 84 (36.84%) Brocade
5 84 (36.84%) Nimble Storage
5 84 (36.84%) Tanium
6 23 (10.09%) Dynatrace
7 12 (5.26%) New Relic
8 11 (4.82%) Cisco
8 11 (4.82%) Oracle
9 10 (4.39%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (4.39%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.95%) AppDynamics
10 9 (3.95%) Qualys
11 7 (3.07%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.63%) Google
13 5 (2.19%) ArcSight
13 5 (2.19%) BigPanda
14 4 (1.75%) Tenable