Splunk Engineer Job Trends

Splunk Engineer
UK

The median Splunk Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 751 669 853
Rank change year-on-year -82 +184 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 10 2 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.004% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.005% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £88,000 £57,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Splunk Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Splunk Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Splunk Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 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
England -53 10 £80,000 +45.45% 5
East of England - 10 £80,000 - 2
UK excluding London - 10 £80,000 - 2

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 July 2026, Splunk Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 10 (100.00%) Splunk
2 9 (90.00%) Data Ingestion
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Ansible
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) High Availability
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) SIEM
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
4 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (40.00%) SOAR
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

General
1 4 (40.00%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
2 9 (90.00%) Data Ingestion
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) High Availability
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) SIEM
4 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Splunk