Splunk Job Trends in Manchester

Splunk
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 17 October 2025, 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 168 137
Rank change year-on-year +86 -31 +35
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 69 11 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.03% 0.29% 1.04%
As % of the Vendors category 7.15% 0.87% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 22 11 22
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,713 £52,750
25th Percentile £40,938 £47,106 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% -7.79% +36.98%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £66,778
90th Percentile £63,625 £77,500 £68,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.79% +30.13%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 965 1,259 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.32% 33.14% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 509 569 830
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +16.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,758 £84,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +14.29%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Manchester

Splunk
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Splunk in Manchester

Splunk
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bury - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Stockport +7 2 - - 1
Altrincham - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Bolton - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Splunk
North West

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) AWS
2 8 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (10.14%) AWS CodeBuild
3 7 (10.14%) Route 53
3 7 (10.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Azure
5 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 43 (62.32%) Cisco IOS
1 43 (62.32%) VPN
2 4 (5.80%) DNS
2 4 (5.80%) HTTP
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) CircleCI
1 7 (10.14%) GitLab
1 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.80%) Git
General
1 47 (68.12%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (62.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Finance
5 3 (4.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (62.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Developer
3 6 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 4 (5.80%) Backend Developer
4 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) Security Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) Senior
4 4 (5.80%) Senior Backend Developer
4 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (2.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Threat Hunter
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.45%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (72.46%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.70%) .NET
2 6 (8.70%) Kafka
2 6 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (5.80%) RESTful
3 4 (5.80%) Spring
3 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.80%) Web Services
4 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.45%) JSON
4 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (62.32%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
2 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (78.26%) Linux
2 47 (68.12%) Windows
3 43 (62.32%) Android
4 7 (10.14%) Debian
4 7 (10.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) DevOps
2 48 (69.57%) Platform Engineering
3 44 (63.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (63.77%) Task Automation
4 43 (62.32%) Line Management
4 43 (62.32%) Mathematics
4 43 (62.32%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (62.32%) Risk Management
4 43 (62.32%) Storage Management
5 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.14%) Agile
7 7 (10.14%) Auto-Scaling
7 7 (10.14%) Configuration Management
7 7 (10.14%) Containerisation
7 7 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (8.70%) Design Patterns
8 6 (8.70%) Kanban
8 6 (8.70%) OOP
8 6 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (75.36%) Python
2 50 (72.46%) Bash
3 46 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.70%) C#
5 4 (5.80%) Java
5 4 (5.80%) SQL
6 1 (1.45%) Bicep
6 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Degree
2 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.45%) CEH
5 1 (1.45%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.45%) GCIA
5 1 (1.45%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) NIST
2 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (72.46%) Docker
2 43 (62.32%) Hyper-V
2 43 (62.32%) VMware NSX
2 43 (62.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (73.91%) Terraform
2 50 (72.46%) Ansible
3 11 (15.94%) Grafana
3 11 (15.94%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 43 (62.32%) 3PAR
1 43 (62.32%) Cisco
1 43 (62.32%) Juniper
2 4 (5.80%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.80%) IBM
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.80%) Moogsoft
2 4 (5.80%) SolarWinds
3 3 (4.35%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.90%) AlienVault
5 1 (1.45%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.45%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.45%) Tenable