Splunk Job Trends in the South West

Splunk
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 115 225
Rank change year-on-year -38 +110 -30
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 90 48 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.90% 1.38% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 4.32% 3.96% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile - £32,100 £28,375
25th Percentile £47,750 £35,625 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £43,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.70% -16.50% -20.85%
75th Percentile £73,250 £46,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £81,950 £48,100 £70,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,083 1,212 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.81% 34.87% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,183 713 1,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,885
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,208 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,180 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the South West over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Wiltshire -13 28 - - 11
Somerset -26 28 - - 15
Gloucestershire - 23 £60,500 - 9
Bristol -38 11 £62,250 +97.62% 4
Splunk
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 63 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.44%) Confluence
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) JBoss
3 3 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 70 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (74.44%) Azure
3 25 (27.78%) AWS
4 9 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.44%) Serverless
6 3 (3.33%) Datadog
7 2 (2.22%) dbt
7 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.11%) GCP
8 1 (1.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 63 (70.00%) DHCP
1 63 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.78%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (7.78%) Cisco Firepower
2 7 (7.78%) Firewall
2 7 (7.78%) LAN
2 7 (7.78%) Unified Communications
2 7 (7.78%) VLAN
2 7 (7.78%) WAN
2 7 (7.78%) WebEx
3 4 (4.44%) IPv4
3 4 (4.44%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (3.33%) SSL
5 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.89%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Git
1 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.11%) GitLab
3 9 (10.00%) Robot Framework
4 8 (8.89%) TestRail
5 7 (7.78%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.78%) Selenium
6 6 (6.67%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.44%) JIRA
8 2 (2.22%) Subversion
9 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (76.67%) Social Skills
2 64 (71.11%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.78%) Banking
4 7 (7.78%) Marketing
4 7 (7.78%) Retail
4 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Finance
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (70.00%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 6 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 4 (4.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (4.44%) Network Engineer
5 3 (3.33%) Collaboration Engineer
5 3 (3.33%) Voice Engineer
5 3 (3.33%) Voice Network Engineer
6 2 (2.22%) Applications Developer
6 2 (2.22%) Automation Tester
6 2 (2.22%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (2.22%) Data Engineer
6 2 (2.22%) Developer
6 2 (2.22%) Senior
6 2 (2.22%) Telephony Engineer
6 2 (2.22%) Tester
7 1 (1.11%) Administrator
7 1 (1.11%) Analyst
7 1 (1.11%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) Terraform
2 8 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.78%) XMPP
4 6 (6.67%) Playwright
4 6 (6.67%) pytest
5 4 (4.44%) boto
6 3 (3.33%) CSS
6 3 (3.33%) CSS3
6 3 (3.33%) HTML
6 3 (3.33%) HTML5
6 3 (3.33%) Keycloak
6 3 (3.33%) OAuth
6 3 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.33%) OpenID
6 3 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 64 (71.11%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (12.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.78%) FlexPod
4 7 (7.78%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.44%) Replication
7 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) Social Media
8 1 (1.11%) Blog
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 81 (90.00%) Linux
2 79 (87.78%) Windows
3 71 (78.89%) Windows Server
4 63 (70.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (8.89%) CentOS
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (74.44%) Migration
2 65 (72.22%) Customer Experience
2 65 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (70.00%) Customer Service
3 63 (70.00%) Email Filtering
3 63 (70.00%) Kalman Filter
3 63 (70.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 63 (70.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 63 (70.00%) Web Filtering
4 16 (17.78%) Agile
5 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
7 12 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 8 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (8.89%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.89%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) Python
2 13 (14.44%) Bash
3 12 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.44%) Java
6 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 65 (72.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.44%) CCNA
4 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.44%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.44%) OSCP
4 4 (4.44%) RHCE
4 4 (4.44%) RHCSA
5 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 63 (70.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 68 (75.56%) Active Directory
2 63 (70.00%) Hyper-V
2 63 (70.00%) Terminal Server
3 14 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (14.44%) Docker
5 8 (8.89%) vSphere
6 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (4.44%) Squid
7 4 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (20.00%) Ansible
2 15 (16.67%) Grafana
3 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.78%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (6.67%) Kibana
5 6 (6.67%) logstash
5 6 (6.67%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.44%) Packer
6 4 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.44%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.33%) Nagios
8 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (85.56%) VMware
2 75 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 63 (70.00%) Brocade
3 63 (70.00%) Nimble Storage
3 63 (70.00%) SolarWinds
3 63 (70.00%) Tanium
3 63 (70.00%) Veeam
4 15 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 9 (10.00%) Atlassian
6 7 (7.78%) Cisco
6 7 (7.78%) Fortinet
6 7 (7.78%) Palo Alto
7 5 (5.56%) Oracle
8 4 (4.44%) NetApp
9 3 (3.33%) New Relic
10 2 (2.22%) Databricks
11 1 (1.11%) Google
11 1 (1.11%) Tenable