Splunk Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Splunk
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 208 475
Rank change year-on-year -217 +267 -94
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 272 464 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 1.34% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 3.11% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 119 67 86
10th Percentile £43,388 £39,000 -
25th Percentile £47,750 £46,625 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% +9.26% -17.01%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,938
90th Percentile £84,600 £73,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,050 14,896 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.98% 42.93% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,955 7,178 7,604
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,375 £28,745
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -3.51%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
South West -35 86 £60,500 -10.70% 53
South East -40 57 £67,500 -3.57% 79
North of England -205 55 £60,000 +9.09% 84
North West -150 50 £61,250 +11.36% 39
Wales -45 31 £62,000 +49.40% 21
East of England -12 26 £54,500 +73.02% 36
Midlands -71 7 £66,250 +6.85% 28
Scotland -37 6 £65,000 +13.04% 40
West Midlands -42 6 £65,000 +10.17% 25
North East - 4 £54,500 - 17
Northern Ireland - 4 £42,500 - 20
Yorkshire -36 1 £46,600 -18.96% 28
East Midlands -38 1 £67,500 -6.90% 3
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 77 (28.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.78%) Confluence
3 5 (1.84%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.47%) JBoss
4 4 (1.47%) nginx
5 3 (1.10%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 132 (48.53%) Azure
2 91 (33.46%) AWS
3 89 (32.72%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (13.24%) GCP
5 21 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.35%) Serverless
7 16 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (5.51%) GitHub
9 14 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.68%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.31%) AWS Fargate
12 9 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.31%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.57%) Datadog
14 6 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.84%) dbt
15 5 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 87 (31.99%) DNS
2 74 (27.21%) DHCP
3 40 (14.71%) Firewall
4 33 (12.13%) TCP/IP
5 29 (10.66%) WAN
6 27 (9.93%) HTTP
7 24 (8.82%) VPN
8 20 (7.35%) LAN
9 15 (5.51%) FTP
9 15 (5.51%) SMTP
10 6 (2.21%) Internet
10 6 (2.21%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.21%) VLAN
11 5 (1.84%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (1.84%) Network Security
11 5 (1.84%) Wireless
12 4 (1.47%) BGP
12 4 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (1.47%) IPv4
12 4 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.99%) MySQL
3 19 (6.99%) NoSQL
4 17 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 13 (4.78%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.57%) InfluxDB
7 6 (2.21%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.84%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.74%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.74%) GIS
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.37%) Big Data
12 1 (0.37%) Db2
12 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (16.91%) Git
2 34 (12.50%) GitLab
3 29 (10.66%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.46%) JUnit
5 20 (7.35%) JIRA
6 13 (4.78%) Bitbucket
6 13 (4.78%) Spock
7 10 (3.68%) JMeter
8 9 (3.31%) Selenium
9 8 (2.94%) Mockito
9 8 (2.94%) Robot Framework
10 7 (2.57%) TestRail
11 6 (2.21%) Maven
12 5 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.84%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.47%) Postman
14 3 (1.10%) Subversion
15 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
16 1 (0.37%) Fiddler
General
1 127 (46.69%) Analytical Skills
2 109 (40.07%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.34%) Finance
4 35 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.09%) Aerospace
5 22 (8.09%) Banking
6 9 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.94%) Marketing
8 7 (2.57%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Law
10 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.10%) Legal
11 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (26.84%) Systems Engineer
2 46 (16.91%) Senior
3 43 (15.81%) Analyst
4 36 (13.24%) Developer
5 28 (10.29%) Java Developer
6 22 (8.09%) SOC Analyst
7 16 (5.88%) Splunk Engineer
8 14 (5.15%) Security Analyst
9 13 (4.78%) Lead
10 12 (4.41%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.41%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.31%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.94%) SOC Engineer
13 7 (2.57%) Cyber Threat Analyst
13 7 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.22%) Terraform
2 49 (18.01%) Spring
3 36 (13.24%) Spring Boot
4 26 (9.56%) Hibernate
5 24 (8.82%) Kafka
6 20 (7.35%) JPA
6 20 (7.35%) RESTful
7 16 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 15 (5.51%) HTML
8 15 (5.51%) LDAP
8 15 (5.51%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (5.15%) React
10 10 (3.68%) JSON
10 10 (3.68%) REST
11 8 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (2.94%) Apache Camel
11 8 (2.94%) jQuery
11 8 (2.94%) WireMock
12 7 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.57%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 80 (29.41%) Legacy Systems
2 35 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.56%) Cloud Native
4 24 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (7.35%) Product Ownership
5 20 (7.35%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (6.62%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
7 17 (6.25%) Private Cloud
7 17 (6.25%) Security Posture
8 16 (5.88%) Onboarding
9 15 (5.51%) Virtual Team
10 9 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (3.31%) Client/Server
11 8 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 8 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (2.57%) Clustering
13 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
13 6 (2.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 126 (46.32%) Linux
2 119 (43.75%) Windows
3 92 (33.82%) Windows Server
4 72 (26.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (4.04%) CentOS
6 5 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.47%) Unix
7 4 (1.47%) VMS
7 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.10%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.74%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (45.22%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (30.15%) CI/CD
3 79 (29.04%) Migration
4 77 (28.31%) Customer Experience
4 77 (28.31%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 76 (27.94%) Cybersecurity
5 76 (27.94%) Kalman Filter
5 76 (27.94%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 74 (27.21%) Customer Service
7 73 (26.84%) SIEM
8 72 (26.47%) Email Filtering
8 72 (26.47%) Web Filtering
9 68 (25.00%) Agile
10 53 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (18.01%) Security Operations
12 47 (17.28%) Observability
13 46 (16.91%) DevOps
13 46 (16.91%) Incident Response
14 40 (14.71%) Microservices
15 38 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 84 (30.88%) Python
2 54 (19.85%) Java
3 50 (18.38%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.13%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.76%) Bash
6 18 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
8 15 (5.51%) SQL
9 10 (3.68%) C++
9 10 (3.68%) Perl
9 10 (3.68%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (2.94%) Groovy
12 6 (2.21%) Go
12 6 (2.21%) Ruby
13 5 (1.84%) Scala
14 4 (1.47%) PHP
15 3 (1.10%) C#
15 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 134 (49.26%) Security Cleared
2 101 (37.13%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.35%) CEH
3 20 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.99%) Degree
5 17 (6.25%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 16 (5.88%) CREST Certified
6 16 (5.88%) GIAC
7 13 (4.78%) GCIH
8 12 (4.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (4.04%) GCIA
10 10 (3.68%) CompTIA CySA+
10 10 (3.68%) OSCP
10 10 (3.68%) SANS
11 8 (2.94%) CISM
11 8 (2.94%) CISSP
12 7 (2.57%) GCED
13 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (29.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 73 (26.84%) PCI DSS
3 19 (6.99%) QA
4 11 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.31%) NIST
6 7 (2.57%) GDPR
7 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (31.99%) Active Directory
2 75 (27.57%) Hyper-V
3 72 (26.47%) Terminal Server
4 68 (25.00%) Docker
5 16 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (3.31%) vSphere
7 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.47%) Squid
9 4 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.74%) Snort
11 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 54 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.97%) Ansible
3 37 (13.60%) Grafana
4 25 (9.19%) Kibana
5 23 (8.46%) QRadar
6 19 (6.99%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.94%) Nagios
8 7 (2.57%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.84%) logstash
9 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.47%) Packer
10 4 (1.47%) Podman
10 4 (1.47%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.10%) Argo
11 3 (1.10%) Nessus
12 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 132 (48.53%) Microsoft
2 92 (33.82%) VMware
3 78 (28.68%) SolarWinds
4 74 (27.21%) Veeam
5 72 (26.47%) Brocade
5 72 (26.47%) Nimble Storage
5 72 (26.47%) Tanium
6 18 (6.62%) Dynatrace
7 16 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (5.51%) AppDynamics
8 15 (5.51%) Red Hat
9 14 (5.15%) Cisco
10 13 (4.78%) New Relic
11 9 (3.31%) Atlassian
11 9 (3.31%) Carbon Black
12 8 (2.94%) Oracle
12 8 (2.94%) Palo Alto
13 7 (2.57%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.57%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.21%) Qualys