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 14 June 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
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 276 456
Rank change year-on-year -133 +180 -40
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 372 513 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.15% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.56% 2.67% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 183 126 276
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,000 £42,238
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,362 £86,460
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% +1.36% -18.52%

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 23,873 19,241 36,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.69% 43.26% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,887 10,443 25,118
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in the UK

Splunk
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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 -142 314 £66,250 +1.92% 212
UK excluding London -148 246 £60,000 +7.62% 227
London -8 119 £71,500 +0.70% 60
Work from Home -146 95 £65,000 +18.18% 32
South West +30 92 £60,500 +26.04% 36
South East -26 50 £58,750 +6.82% 64
North of England -200 36 £61,250 +11.36% 44
Scotland +19 32 - - 21
North West -144 31 £62,500 +13.64% 19
Wales - 16 £65,000 - 10
East of England -28 15 £50,000 -18.70% 32
Yorkshire -47 4 £50,000 - 13
West Midlands -29 3 £66,250 +14.22% 12
Midlands -39 3 £66,250 +12.29% 14
Northern Ireland -30 2 £40,750 -25.91% 10
North East - 1 £80,000 - 12

Splunk
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:

Application Platforms
1 75 (20.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.65%) Confluence
3 8 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.81%) IIS
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
5 2 (0.54%) JBoss
5 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (5.65%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.34%) AutoCAD
2 5 (1.34%) DaVinci Resolve
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 166 (44.62%) Azure
2 109 (29.30%) AWS
3 97 (26.08%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (8.60%) GCP
5 31 (8.33%) Datadog
6 18 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 16 (4.30%) Serverless
9 14 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (3.76%) OpenShift
10 13 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.15%) AWS CloudTrail
13 8 (2.15%) SaaS
14 7 (1.88%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 114 (30.65%) DNS
2 81 (21.77%) DHCP
3 69 (18.55%) Firewall
4 50 (13.44%) VPN
5 46 (12.37%) WAN
6 34 (9.14%) Broadband
6 34 (9.14%) Network Security
7 27 (7.26%) LAN
7 27 (7.26%) TCP/IP
8 25 (6.72%) HTTP
9 24 (6.45%) SSL
10 23 (6.18%) Cisco ISE
11 19 (5.11%) SD-WAN
12 16 (4.30%) VLAN
13 15 (4.03%) Cisco Wireless
13 15 (4.03%) Wireless
14 13 (3.49%) BGP
14 13 (3.49%) FTP
14 13 (3.49%) SMTP
15 12 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (4.03%) MySQL
3 13 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.88%) InfluxDB
6 7 (1.88%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.34%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.81%) Power BI
11 2 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.54%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.54%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.27%) KDB
12 1 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 88 (23.66%) GitLab
2 74 (19.89%) Jenkins
3 44 (11.83%) Git
4 40 (10.75%) SonarQube
5 34 (9.14%) JIRA
6 17 (4.57%) JUnit
7 16 (4.30%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.49%) JMeter
9 9 (2.42%) Mockito
9 9 (2.42%) Selenium
10 8 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 8 (2.15%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.88%) TestRail
12 6 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.61%) Spock
13 5 (1.34%) Maven
14 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.54%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.54%) Gradle
15 2 (0.54%) LoadRunner
General
1 140 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 127 (34.14%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (15.59%) Finance
4 44 (11.83%) Marketing
5 38 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (9.41%) Games
7 31 (8.33%) Banking
8 28 (7.53%) Public Sector
9 17 (4.57%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.42%) Retail
10 9 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Law
14 4 (1.08%) Advertising
14 4 (1.08%) Automotive
14 4 (1.08%) Electronics
14 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (19.62%) Systems Engineer
2 49 (13.17%) Senior
3 42 (11.29%) Architect
4 39 (10.48%) Analyst
5 34 (9.14%) Salesforce Architect
6 26 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (6.72%) Lead
8 23 (6.18%) Developer
9 21 (5.65%) Technical Architect
10 20 (5.38%) SOC Analyst
11 19 (5.11%) Network Engineer
11 19 (5.11%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 18 (4.84%) Security Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) Site Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.96%) Java Developer
16 10 (2.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
16 10 (2.69%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (13.98%) REST
2 41 (11.02%) SOAP
3 35 (9.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 35 (9.41%) Visualforce
4 23 (6.18%) Spring
5 17 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (4.57%) Spring Boot
6 16 (4.30%) LDAP
7 15 (4.03%) JSON
8 14 (3.76%) HTML
9 11 (2.96%) Kafka
9 11 (2.96%) OAuth
10 10 (2.69%) XMPP
11 9 (2.42%) Hibernate
11 9 (2.42%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.42%) XML
12 8 (2.15%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.88%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (1.88%) Apache Camel
13 7 (1.88%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.77%) Legacy Systems
2 46 (12.37%) Product Ownership
3 30 (8.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 29 (7.80%) Security Posture
5 28 (7.53%) Onboarding
6 27 (7.26%) Cyber Defence
7 23 (6.18%) Data Centre
7 23 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (6.18%) PKI
8 16 (4.30%) Cloud Native
9 15 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (2.69%) FlexPod
11 10 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
12 8 (2.15%) Client/Server
12 8 (2.15%) Private Cloud
12 8 (2.15%) Replication
13 7 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 177 (47.58%) Linux
2 167 (44.89%) Windows
3 115 (30.91%) Windows Server
4 75 (20.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (6.45%) CentOS
6 13 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.96%) Ubuntu
8 10 (2.69%) Unix
9 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (31.99%) CI/CD
3 102 (27.42%) DevOps
4 98 (26.34%) Agile
5 90 (24.19%) Migration
6 87 (23.39%) Cybersecurity
6 87 (23.39%) SIEM
7 80 (21.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 77 (20.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 75 (20.16%) Kalman Filter
10 72 (19.35%) Customer Experience
10 72 (19.35%) Customer Service
10 72 (19.35%) Email Filtering
10 72 (19.35%) Web Filtering
11 68 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (18.28%) Incident Response
12 61 (16.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (15.32%) Security Operations
14 56 (15.05%) Scrum
15 47 (12.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 129 (34.68%) Python
2 83 (22.31%) PowerShell
3 69 (18.55%) Bash
4 47 (12.63%) Java
5 35 (9.41%) Apex Code
5 35 (9.41%) SOQL
5 35 (9.41%) SOSL
6 27 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.38%) SQL
8 11 (2.96%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (2.42%) C#
9 9 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.15%) C++
10 8 (2.15%) Perl
11 7 (1.88%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.61%) Go
12 6 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (1.34%) PHP
14 4 (1.08%) Ruby
14 4 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 155 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 109 (29.30%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.02%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 28 (7.53%) Degree
6 22 (5.91%) CCNP
7 20 (5.38%) CEH
7 20 (5.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (5.11%) CCNA
8 19 (5.11%) GIAC
9 17 (4.57%) AWS Certification
10 16 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (4.30%) CREST Certified
11 15 (4.03%) OSCP
12 13 (3.49%) CISSP
13 12 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (2.96%) Azure Certification
14 11 (2.96%) GCIA
14 11 (2.96%) GCIH
14 11 (2.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 76 (20.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 40 (10.75%) NIST
4 24 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (4.57%) QA
6 9 (2.42%) GDPR
7 6 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.61%) PMO
8 5 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.34%) SLA
9 3 (0.81%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.54%) GRC
10 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.27%) RMADS
11 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (28.49%) Active Directory
2 75 (20.16%) Hyper-V
3 72 (19.35%) Terminal Server
4 71 (19.09%) Docker
5 36 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (6.18%) vSphere
7 16 (4.30%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (2.15%) Squid
10 7 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (25.00%) Ansible
2 76 (20.43%) Terraform
3 69 (18.55%) Kubernetes
4 51 (13.71%) Grafana
5 27 (7.26%) Kibana
5 27 (7.26%) Prometheus
6 24 (6.45%) Nagios
6 24 (6.45%) QRadar
7 10 (2.69%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (2.42%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.15%) Packer
9 8 (2.15%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.61%) Rundeck
12 5 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.34%) logstash
12 5 (1.34%) Podman
13 4 (1.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (48.12%) Microsoft
2 116 (31.18%) VMware
3 100 (26.88%) SolarWinds
4 76 (20.43%) Veeam
5 72 (19.35%) Brocade
5 72 (19.35%) Nimble Storage
5 72 (19.35%) Tanium
6 46 (12.37%) Cisco
7 36 (9.68%) Salesforce
8 35 (9.41%) Palo Alto
9 28 (7.53%) Red Hat
10 26 (6.99%) CrowdStrike
11 23 (6.18%) ServiceNow
12 22 (5.91%) Dynatrace
13 19 (5.11%) Oracle
14 18 (4.84%) CheckPoint
15 16 (4.30%) Arista
16 15 (4.03%) ForeScout
16 15 (4.03%) Infoblox
16 15 (4.03%) SevOne