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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 147 170
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +4
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 18 6 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.45% 0.27% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 2.08% 0.67% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 22
10th Percentile - £56,500 £42,238
25th Percentile £37,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £85,000 £63,924
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +32.97% +16.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,474 £66,778
90th Percentile £72,950 - £67,968
North West median annual salary £40,000 £56,750 £62,783
% change year-on-year -29.52% -9.61% +14.40%

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 866 902 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 21.73% 40.61% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 604 466 1,193
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,375 £27,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,529 £66,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £84,723
North West median annual salary £45,497 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.01% +5.26% -5.00%

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 14 March 2026.

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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 1 £74,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) JBoss
2 2 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (44.44%) OneDrive
3 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 8 (44.44%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.11%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) SSL
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Junior
2 5 (27.78%) Site Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Information
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Information Security
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Security
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) CSS3
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
1 2 (11.11%) HTML5
1 2 (11.11%) Keycloak
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 2 (11.11%) OpenID
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (50.00%) Observability
2 9 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (44.44%) AI
3 8 (44.44%) BPR
3 8 (44.44%) Change Management
3 8 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (44.44%) Data Loss Prevention
3 8 (44.44%) E-Discovery
3 8 (44.44%) Proactive Monitoring
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) RBAC
3 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (44.44%) User Experience
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
1 10 (55.56%) New Relic
2 5 (27.78%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat