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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 788 - 779
Rank change year-on-year - - -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 16 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% - 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile - - £57,250
25th Percentile £72,000 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.19%
75th Percentile £88,000 - £80,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - £76,250
% change year-on-year - - +17.19%

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 107,455 44,314 74,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 89.66% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 73,770 26,055 44,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 6 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 18 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
UK excluding London - 16 £80,000 - 9
England - 15 £80,000 - 8
East of England - 14 £80,000 -
North West - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 16 (100.00%) Splunk
2 14 (87.50%) Data Ingestion
2 14 (87.50%) Security Monitoring
3 13 (81.25%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (81.25%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (50.00%) SIEM
6 7 (43.75%) Ansible
6 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
6 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
6 7 (43.75%) High Availability
6 7 (43.75%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (43.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 7 (43.75%) Search Processing Language
6 7 (43.75%) Security Operations
6 7 (43.75%) Terraform
7 6 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (37.50%) SOAR
7 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (37.50%) 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) SNMP
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 6 (37.50%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Onboarding
2 6 (37.50%) Clustering
2 6 (37.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Data Ingestion
1 14 (87.50%) Security Monitoring
2 13 (81.25%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (81.25%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (50.00%) SIEM
5 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (43.75%) High Availability
5 7 (43.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 7 (43.75%) Security Operations
6 6 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (37.50%) SOAR
6 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Kusto Query Language
1 7 (43.75%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Splunk