Splunk Job Trends in the North of England

Splunk
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 18 April 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
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 250 278
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 +10
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 29 13 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.19% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.54% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 17 8 72
10th Percentile - £51,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% -3.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £55,000 £71,493 £67,968
90th Percentile £71,300 £98,474 £76,993
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -14.29%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,220 2,414 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.28% 35.29% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,361 1,596 4,461
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,715
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.11%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the North of England

Splunk
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the North of England

Splunk
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
North West -12 20 £40,000 -29.52% 15
Yorkshire -64 6 £50,000 - 7
North East - 3 £48,445 - 7
Splunk
England

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (27.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) JBoss
2 2 (6.90%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
2 9 (31.03%) SaaS
3 8 (27.59%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (27.59%) Entra ID
3 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (27.59%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.90%) Datadog
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) SSL
3 5 (17.24%) HTTP
3 5 (17.24%) VPN
4 4 (13.79%) Asterisk PBX
4 4 (13.79%) BGP
4 4 (13.79%) DHCP
4 4 (13.79%) LAN
4 4 (13.79%) MPLS
4 4 (13.79%) SD-WAN
4 4 (13.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (13.79%) VoIP
4 4 (13.79%) VPLS
4 4 (13.79%) WAN
5 1 (3.45%) ATM
5 1 (3.45%) Broadband
5 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Metadata
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
1 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Subversion
3 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (31.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Games
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Junior
2 5 (17.24%) Site Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) IT Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) IT Support
3 4 (13.79%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Head of Information Security
6 1 (3.45%) Head of Security
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Security Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (10.34%) OAuth
3 2 (6.90%) CSS
3 2 (6.90%) CSS3
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.90%) HTML5
3 2 (6.90%) Keycloak
3 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.90%) OpenID
3 2 (6.90%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) JWT
4 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) SAML
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
1 12 (41.38%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Proactive Monitoring
2 13 (44.83%) Observability
3 11 (37.93%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (34.48%) Agile
4 10 (34.48%) Change Management
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
4 10 (34.48%) Incident Response
5 9 (31.03%) AI
6 8 (27.59%) BPR
6 8 (27.59%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (27.59%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (27.59%) E-Discovery
6 8 (27.59%) ITIL
6 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (27.59%) RBAC
6 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (27.59%) User Experience
7 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
8 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.45%) SOQL
4 1 (3.45%) SOSL
4 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) CCNA
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISM
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) VMware NSX
2 4 (13.79%) vSphere
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Single Sign-On
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (20.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (20.69%) Ansible
4 5 (17.24%) Grafana
4 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (13.79%) WSUS
6 2 (6.90%) Nagios
7 1 (3.45%) Fluentd
7 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) New Relic
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) SolarWinds
4 4 (13.79%) VMware
5 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.90%) BMC
5 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.45%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (3.45%) Workday