Splunk Job Trends in the South East

Splunk
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 June 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
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 224 328
Rank change year-on-year -27 +104 +2
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 48 48 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.33% 0.61% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 1.49% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 33 19 57
10th Percentile £43,750 - £34,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,734 3,230 6,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.74% 41.16% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,262 1,756 4,464
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% +10.00% -13.04%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Splunk

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the South East over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the South East

Splunk
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Thames Valley +16 20 £56,250 +2.27% 18
Hampshire -39 18 £60,000 +36.36% 11
Berkshire +16 17 £67,500 - 6
Surrey - 8 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire -17 3 £47,500 -13.64% 11
West Sussex -13 2 £67,500 -10.00% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (14.58%) Azure Stack
3 7 (14.58%) Serverless
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) Firewall
2 13 (27.08%) TCP/IP
3 11 (22.92%) HTTP
4 9 (18.75%) DNS
4 9 (18.75%) VPN
5 4 (8.33%) FTP
5 4 (8.33%) Internet
5 4 (8.33%) LAN
5 4 (8.33%) SMTP
5 4 (8.33%) WAN
6 3 (6.25%) Network Security
7 1 (2.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.42%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.17%) Couchbase
3 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Git
2 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 9 (18.75%) JMeter
3 9 (18.75%) JUnit
4 8 (16.67%) GitLab
4 8 (16.67%) JIRA
5 7 (14.58%) Mockito
6 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (35.42%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Advertising
4 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Site Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Security Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Firewall Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) SIEM Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Security Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Senior
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Security Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.17%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) Spring
1 9 (18.75%) Spring Boot
2 7 (14.58%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (14.58%) Apache Camel
2 7 (14.58%) ARM Templates
2 7 (14.58%) Hibernate
2 7 (14.58%) HTML
2 7 (14.58%) jQuery
2 7 (14.58%) WireMock
3 6 (12.50%) REST
4 5 (10.42%) JSON
4 5 (10.42%) Web Services
4 5 (10.42%) XML
5 4 (8.33%) LDAP
6 2 (4.17%) JPA
6 2 (4.17%) Kafka
6 2 (4.17%) Mustache
6 2 (4.17%) RESTful
6 2 (4.17%) Vert.x
7 1 (2.08%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (18.75%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (6.25%) MISP
7 2 (4.17%) Client/Server
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.17%) CSOC
8 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Linux
1 20 (41.67%) Windows
2 11 (22.92%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.83%) Ubuntu
4 7 (14.58%) CentOS
4 7 (14.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) SIEM
2 22 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 20 (41.67%) Agile
4 19 (39.58%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (35.42%) DevOps
5 17 (35.42%) Incident Response
6 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (27.08%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 13 (27.08%) Threat Detection
8 12 (25.00%) Use Case
9 11 (22.92%) SOAR
10 10 (20.83%) Blue Team
10 10 (20.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 10 (20.83%) Observability
10 10 (20.83%) Security Operations
10 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (20.83%) Threat Intelligence
11 9 (18.75%) BDD
11 9 (18.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Python
2 18 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 13 (27.08%) Bash
4 9 (18.75%) Java
5 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
6 6 (12.50%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (10.42%) PHP
8 2 (4.17%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) Go
8 2 (4.17%) Perl
8 2 (4.17%) SQL
9 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.08%) SOQL
9 1 (2.08%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 29 (60.42%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) CREST Certified
3 9 (18.75%) GIAC
4 7 (14.58%) GCIA
4 7 (14.58%) GCIH
4 7 (14.58%) SANS
5 6 (12.50%) GCED
5 6 (12.50%) OSCP
6 4 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (8.33%) Degree
7 3 (6.25%) CEH
8 2 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
9 1 (2.08%) CISM
9 1 (2.08%) CISSP
9 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (35.42%) Kibana
3 10 (20.83%) Ansible
3 10 (20.83%) Nagios
3 10 (20.83%) Terraform
4 8 (16.67%) QRadar
5 5 (10.42%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (10.42%) Podman
6 2 (4.17%) Grafana
7 1 (2.08%) Graylog
7 1 (2.08%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (14.58%) Carbon Black
3 7 (14.58%) CheckPoint
3 7 (14.58%) Cisco
3 7 (14.58%) Dynatrace
3 7 (14.58%) LogRhythm
3 7 (14.58%) Palo Alto
3 7 (14.58%) Tenable
4 2 (4.17%) ArcSight
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) New Relic
5 1 (2.08%) Qualys
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.08%) Zerto