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 9 January 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
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 466 353
Rank change year-on-year +149 -113 +53
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 207 107 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.30% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 0.84% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 52 75 137
10th Percentile £37,825 £43,500 £44,900
25th Percentile £55,313 £46,713 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £60,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -7.79% +12.55%
75th Percentile £79,188 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

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 12,567 12,790 13,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.69% 35.36% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,931 6,125 10,127
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £61,145 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +90 103 £75,000 +15.38% 24
South East +31 30 £75,500 +20.80% 60
North of England +17 25 £48,445 -3.71% 46
Scotland +18 23 £77,000 +53.06% 12
North West +28 21 £40,000 -20.49% 19
Wales +17 17 £41,500 -17.51% 11
Midlands +25 5 £74,125 +47.34% 34
West Midlands +24 5 £74,125 +47.34% 14
East of England +2 4 £57,500 -6.50% 42
North East +7 2 £48,445 -3.71% 5
Yorkshire -6 2 - - 22
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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 98 (47.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) CICS
4 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 125 (60.39%) Azure
2 111 (53.62%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (21.26%) AWS
4 15 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (5.80%) Serverless
6 11 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (4.35%) SaaS
9 8 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.86%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.86%) GCP
9 8 (3.86%) OneDrive
9 8 (3.86%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (2.42%) GitHub
12 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.93%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 104 (50.24%) DNS
2 97 (46.86%) DHCP
3 20 (9.66%) Firewall
4 15 (7.25%) Broadband
5 12 (5.80%) Network Security
6 8 (3.86%) SSL
6 8 (3.86%) Wireshark
7 7 (3.38%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.38%) VLAN
8 6 (2.90%) HTTP
8 6 (2.90%) WAN
9 5 (2.42%) LAN
9 5 (2.42%) MPLS
9 5 (2.42%) VPN
9 5 (2.42%) Wireless
10 4 (1.93%) BGP
10 4 (1.93%) Bluetooth
10 4 (1.93%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.93%) Modbus
10 4 (1.93%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (46.86%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.28%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.31%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.93%) CockroachDB
6 3 (1.45%) MySQL
6 3 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.97%) DB2
7 2 (0.97%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (18.36%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.59%) GitLab
3 17 (8.21%) SonarQube
4 15 (7.25%) JUnit
5 13 (6.28%) Mockito
6 12 (5.80%) JMeter
7 10 (4.83%) JIRA
8 4 (1.93%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.93%) Git
8 4 (1.93%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.93%) TestNG
9 3 (1.45%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.97%) Checkstyle
10 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.97%) Maven
10 2 (0.97%) Postman
10 2 (0.97%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.97%) Selenium
10 2 (0.97%) TestRail
General
1 124 (59.90%) Social Skills
2 111 (53.62%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.25%) Games
5 15 (7.25%) Marketing
6 10 (4.83%) Finance
7 5 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.42%) Law
7 5 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (46.38%) Systems Engineer
2 20 (9.66%) Architect
3 14 (6.76%) Developer
3 14 (6.76%) Salesforce Architect
4 12 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (5.80%) Security Engineer
4 12 (5.80%) Senior
5 11 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (5.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (5.31%) Java Developer
5 11 (5.31%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 11 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (3.86%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 8 (3.86%) Senior Security Engineer
6 8 (3.86%) Technical Architect
7 7 (3.38%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.38%) Splunk Engineer
8 5 (2.42%) Junior
8 5 (2.42%) Site Engineer
8 5 (2.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.53%) REST
2 17 (8.21%) Spring
2 17 (8.21%) Spring Boot
3 15 (7.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (7.25%) SOAP
3 15 (7.25%) Visualforce
4 12 (5.80%) HTML
4 12 (5.80%) JSON
4 12 (5.80%) Web Services
5 11 (5.31%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (5.31%) Apache Camel
5 11 (5.31%) Hibernate
5 11 (5.31%) jQuery
5 11 (5.31%) WireMock
5 11 (5.31%) XML
6 9 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.42%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.93%) OAuth
9 3 (1.45%) JWT
9 3 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (46.86%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.38%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.93%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (1.93%) CAN bus
8 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.93%) IoT
8 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.93%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.93%) SCADA
9 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.45%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 126 (60.87%) Linux
2 120 (57.97%) Windows
3 102 (49.28%) Windows Server
4 96 (46.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.38%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.42%) Android
7 4 (1.93%) Kali Linux
7 4 (1.93%) Unix
8 3 (1.45%) Debian
8 3 (1.45%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.97%) CentOS
9 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (56.04%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (49.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 99 (47.83%) Migration
4 98 (47.34%) Kalman Filter
5 97 (46.86%) Customer Service
5 97 (46.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 97 (46.86%) Web Filtering
6 96 (46.38%) Customer Experience
6 96 (46.38%) Email Filtering
7 49 (23.67%) Agile
8 48 (23.19%) CI/CD
9 43 (20.77%) DevOps
10 25 (12.08%) Roadmaps
11 24 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.63%) Scrum
13 20 (9.66%) Observability
14 18 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (8.21%) Event-Driven
15 17 (8.21%) SIEM
15 17 (8.21%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.29%) Python
2 25 (12.08%) Java
3 17 (8.21%) PowerShell
4 16 (7.73%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.25%) Apex Code
5 15 (7.25%) SOQL
5 15 (7.25%) SOSL
6 11 (5.31%) Bash
6 11 (5.31%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.35%) SQL
8 5 (2.42%) Bicep
8 5 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.93%) C++
9 4 (1.93%) R
9 4 (1.93%) Rust
10 2 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 133 (64.25%) Security Cleared
2 113 (54.59%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.83%) Degree
5 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.45%) CEH
7 3 (1.45%) GIAC
7 3 (1.45%) GREM
7 3 (1.45%) OSCP
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.97%) CISSP
9 1 (0.48%) CCNA
9 1 (0.48%) CCNP
9 1 (0.48%) CISM
9 1 (0.48%) MCSE
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (48.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 96 (46.38%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.90%) NIST
4 4 (1.93%) QA
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 109 (52.66%) Active Directory
2 99 (47.83%) Hyper-V
3 96 (46.38%) Terminal Server
4 22 (10.63%) Docker
5 4 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.97%) RACF
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (12.56%) Terraform
2 24 (11.59%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.11%) Grafana
4 15 (7.25%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.80%) Ansible
5 12 (5.80%) Kibana
6 10 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.42%) ZABBIX
9 4 (1.93%) Nessus
9 4 (1.93%) Nmap
9 4 (1.93%) QRadar
10 3 (1.45%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.97%) Nagios
12 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.48%) Podman
12 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (59.90%) Microsoft
2 108 (52.17%) SolarWinds
3 100 (48.31%) VMware
4 97 (46.86%) Nimble Storage
5 96 (46.38%) Brocade
5 96 (46.38%) Tanium
5 96 (46.38%) Veeam
6 15 (7.25%) Dynatrace
6 15 (7.25%) Salesforce
7 10 (4.83%) Google
7 10 (4.83%) New Relic
7 10 (4.83%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.83%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.86%) Cisco
9 7 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (3.38%) F5
9 7 (3.38%) Oracle
10 4 (1.93%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.93%) Qualtrics
10 4 (1.93%) Qualys