Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 July 2025, 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 460 400
Rank change year-on-year +148 -60 +22
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 532 483 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.49% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 2.06% 1.44% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 144 240 390
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,238 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,938 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £72,813 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,025
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -14.81% +12.50%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,878 33,499 33,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.69% 34.05% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14,073 21,835 22,228
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.60% -7.00% +5.26%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Salary trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 2025. 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 +240 494 £65,000 +8.33% 188
UK excluding London +140 426 £57,500 - 131
Work from Home +211 301 £52,500 -12.50% 110
North of England +184 282 £55,000 -8.33% 32
North West +170 276 £55,000 -8.33% 16
London +86 116 £70,000 -9.68% 86
South East +56 61 £70,000 +27.27% 39
Scotland -21 33 £52,500 -34.38% 30
Midlands +66 23 £59,000 +18.00% 16
East of England +12 20 £61,500 +2.50% 7
West Midlands +67 14 £59,000 +18.00% 12
East Midlands +31 9 £72,500 +45.00% 1
South West +82 6 £43,000 -14.00% 11
Yorkshire +20 6 £57,500 -11.54% 11
Northern Ireland +37 2 £55,000 +9.33% 1
Isle of Man +12 1 £34,500 - 1

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.50%) Camunda
2 8 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (1.32%) Confluence
4 4 (0.75%) Apache
4 4 (0.75%) nginx
5 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) GemFire
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) CICS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 122 (22.93%) AWS
2 58 (10.90%) Azure
3 45 (8.46%) Serverless
4 32 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
5 31 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (4.89%) GCP
7 24 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
8 22 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (3.57%) SaaS
10 18 (3.38%) Datadog
11 16 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.82%) GitHub
13 13 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.26%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.07%) Azure App Service
15 11 (2.07%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.69%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 294 (55.26%) VPN
2 262 (49.25%) Cisco IOS
3 60 (11.28%) Firewall
4 29 (5.45%) Network Security
4 29 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 17 (3.20%) HTTP
6 14 (2.63%) SAN
7 13 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
7 13 (2.44%) WAN
8 12 (2.26%) FTP
8 12 (2.26%) LAN
8 12 (2.26%) SMTP
9 10 (1.88%) DNS
9 10 (1.88%) iSCSI
10 9 (1.69%) Internet
11 8 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.13%) NAS
13 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (6.20%) Relational Database
3 23 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.95%) RDBMS
5 19 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.07%) MySQL
7 10 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.32%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.13%) Redis
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.75%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.75%) Big Data
13 4 (0.75%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.75%) Power BI
14 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 62 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.77%) JUnit
3 25 (4.70%) Git
4 24 (4.51%) JIRA
5 23 (4.32%) Mockito
6 21 (3.95%) JMeter
7 16 (3.01%) GitLab
8 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.13%) Postman
9 5 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.94%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.94%) Maven
9 5 (0.94%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.75%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.56%) Subversion
11 3 (0.56%) Xcode
11 3 (0.56%) XCTest
12 2 (0.38%) Cucumber
General
1 312 (58.65%) Analytical Skills
2 305 (57.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 86 (16.17%) Social Skills
4 68 (12.78%) Finance
5 40 (7.52%) Law
6 29 (5.45%) Marketing
7 28 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.44%) Banking
9 9 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.13%) Aviation
11 5 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.75%) Military
12 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.56%) Games
14 1 (0.19%) Advertising
14 1 (0.19%) Automotive
14 1 (0.19%) Legal
14 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 270 (50.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 48 (9.02%) Senior
3 46 (8.65%) Analyst
4 42 (7.89%) Developer
5 36 (6.77%) Lead
6 27 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.51%) Java Developer
8 22 (4.14%) Security Engineer
8 22 (4.14%) SOC Analyst
9 17 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 15 (2.82%) Java Engineer
12 13 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (2.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 12 (2.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (2.26%) Security Analyst
13 12 (2.26%) Site Engineer
14 11 (2.07%) Data Analyst
14 11 (2.07%) Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (53.57%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (8.65%) REST
3 45 (8.46%) Spring
4 41 (7.71%) Spring Boot
5 28 (5.26%) Web Services
6 27 (5.08%) HTML
7 24 (4.51%) Hibernate
8 20 (3.76%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (3.76%) Apache Camel
8 20 (3.76%) jQuery
8 20 (3.76%) WireMock
9 19 (3.57%) JSON
9 19 (3.57%) Kafka
9 19 (3.57%) LDAP
10 15 (2.82%) XML
11 12 (2.26%) .NET
12 11 (2.07%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.07%) CSS
12 11 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 11 (2.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 263 (49.44%) Cyberattack
2 27 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 21 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 21 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.26%) Client/Server
9 9 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.50%) PKI
11 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.13%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.13%) Robotics
13 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.75%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.56%) Clustering
14 3 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 316 (59.40%) Linux
2 313 (58.83%) Windows
3 271 (50.94%) Android
4 22 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.82%) Unix
6 14 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.94%) Debian
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (61.65%) DevOps
3 278 (52.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 277 (52.07%) Line Management
5 271 (50.94%) Task Automation
6 269 (50.56%) Risk Management
7 266 (50.00%) Mathematics
8 265 (49.81%) Platform Engineering
9 263 (49.44%) Storage Management
10 108 (20.30%) SIEM
11 95 (17.86%) CI/CD
12 82 (15.41%) Agile
13 69 (12.97%) Incident Response
14 65 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
15 51 (9.59%) Software Engineering
16 45 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
17 40 (7.52%) Security Operations
18 39 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (7.33%) SDLC
19 36 (6.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 379 (71.24%) Python
2 321 (60.34%) PowerShell
3 308 (57.89%) Bash
4 70 (13.16%) Java
5 47 (8.83%) SQL
6 36 (6.77%) JavaScript
6 36 (6.77%) Shell Script
7 20 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (2.26%) Perl
9 9 (1.69%) C#
9 9 (1.69%) Go
10 8 (1.50%) Korn
11 7 (1.32%) C++
11 7 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.94%) Ruby
12 5 (0.94%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.75%) Groovy
14 3 (0.56%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.19%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 89 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.02%) Degree
4 35 (6.58%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.95%) CISSP
6 19 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.44%) CISM
9 13 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (2.26%) CEH
10 12 (2.26%) OSCP
11 8 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.32%) CCNA
13 6 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.13%) CCNP
13 6 (1.13%) CompTIA CySA+
14 5 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.94%) GCIH
15 4 (0.75%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.76%) NIST
3 17 (3.20%) SLA
4 13 (2.44%) GDPR
5 12 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.32%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 333 (62.59%) Docker
2 267 (50.19%) Hyper-V
3 265 (49.81%) vSphere
4 263 (49.44%) VMware NSX
5 22 (4.14%) Active Directory
6 16 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (1.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 6 (1.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.19%) Firmware
10 1 (0.19%) pfSense
10 1 (0.19%) RACF
10 1 (0.19%) Squid
10 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 313 (58.83%) Terraform
2 288 (54.14%) Ansible
3 81 (15.23%) Kubernetes
4 70 (13.16%) Grafana
5 46 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 33 (6.20%) QRadar
7 30 (5.64%) Kibana
8 10 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.32%) VxRail
11 6 (1.13%) ArcSight ESM
12 5 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (0.75%) Graylog
13 4 (0.75%) Nagios
13 4 (0.75%) Netcool
13 4 (0.75%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 4 (0.75%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 279 (52.44%) Cisco
2 264 (49.62%) Juniper
3 262 (49.25%) 3PAR
4 76 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 60 (11.28%) Dynatrace
6 30 (5.64%) Oracle
7 20 (3.76%) VMware
8 18 (3.38%) ServiceNow
9 17 (3.20%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.26%) Google
11 11 (2.07%) IBM
12 9 (1.69%) Dell
12 9 (1.69%) McAfee
12 9 (1.69%) SolarWinds
13 8 (1.50%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.50%) ArcSight
13 8 (1.50%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.13%) LogLogic
15 6 (1.13%) Zscaler