Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 377 415 461
Rank change year-on-year +38 +46 -90
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 401 936 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.77% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.83% 1.86% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 279 545 472
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,033 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £88,750 £89,852 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.44% +4.35% +9.52%

All Vendors
UK

Splunk is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,950 50,228 49,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.99% 41.09% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,048 29,606 33,465
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,742 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +40 325 £67,500 -3.57% 117
UK excluding London +113 231 £65,066 +8.44% 83
Work from Home +124 193 £68,750 -11.29% 80
London +33 144 £82,500 +3.13% 50
North of England +97 86 £65,066 +18.56% 41
Yorkshire +130 53 £65,066 +36.98% 34
Wales +50 33 £47,000 +17.50%
Scotland -29 32 £70,576 +15.36% 12
North West +34 31 £65,066 +18.56% 4
South East +116 28 £65,066 +8.44% 13
South West +74 25 £65,066 -13.25% 5
East of England +122 22 £65,000 +4.00% 8
Midlands +102 5 £60,000 -7.69% 4
East Midlands +51 4 £60,000 - 3
North East +41 2 £56,250 -6.25% 3
West Midlands +98 1 £55,000 -15.38% 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 27 (6.73%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) MS Exchange
3 8 (2.00%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.25%) IIS
4 5 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (1.00%) Apache
6 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.25%) Salerio
Cloud Services
1 156 (38.90%) AWS
2 112 (27.93%) Azure
3 48 (11.97%) GitHub
4 40 (9.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 38 (9.48%) GCP
6 30 (7.48%) Datadog
7 28 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (5.49%) OpenShift
10 18 (4.49%) Serverless
11 15 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.99%) AWS CodeBuild
13 12 (2.99%) Route 53
13 12 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (2.74%) SaaS
15 9 (2.24%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 9 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 58 (14.46%) Firewall
2 55 (13.72%) Network Security
3 50 (12.47%) WAN
4 47 (11.72%) TCP/IP
5 46 (11.47%) VPN
6 35 (8.73%) LAN
7 32 (7.98%) HTTP
8 31 (7.73%) Internet
8 31 (7.73%) Sourcefire
9 30 (7.48%) FTP
9 30 (7.48%) SMTP
10 23 (5.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 11 (2.74%) Cisco Firepower
12 10 (2.49%) DNS
13 8 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (1.50%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.50%) VLAN
14 6 (1.50%) Wireshark
15 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.24%) DynamoDB
2 14 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (3.24%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.49%) Big Data
4 10 (2.49%) Hadoop
4 10 (2.49%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (2.24%) Metadata
5 9 (2.24%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.75%) Power BI
6 7 (1.75%) Tableau
7 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.50%) MySQL
8 5 (1.25%) Apache Hive
8 5 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.25%) Power Query
8 5 (1.25%) QlikView
9 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.00%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.98%) Artifactory
3 31 (7.73%) Git
4 30 (7.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 27 (6.73%) GitLab
5 27 (6.73%) JIRA
5 27 (6.73%) Maven
6 26 (6.48%) Cucumber
7 24 (5.99%) Bitbucket
8 22 (5.49%) Selenium
9 19 (4.74%) Liquibase
10 17 (4.24%) CircleCI
11 16 (3.99%) SonarQube
11 16 (3.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (3.74%) Gradle
13 13 (3.24%) Mocha
13 13 (3.24%) Zephyr
14 12 (2.99%) IBM UrbanCode
15 10 (2.49%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (2.49%) TeamCity
General
1 159 (39.65%) Finance
2 115 (28.68%) Social Skills
3 76 (18.95%) Banking
4 69 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.48%) Games
6 21 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (4.24%) Financial Institution
9 15 (3.74%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.49%) Law
11 13 (3.24%) Front Office
12 10 (2.49%) Aerospace
13 9 (2.24%) Marketing
13 9 (2.24%) Retail
14 7 (1.75%) Private Banking
15 5 (1.25%) Aviation
16 3 (0.75%) Legal
16 3 (0.75%) Publishing
16 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (21.45%) Senior
2 81 (20.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (18.70%) Analyst
4 47 (11.72%) Support Engineer
5 45 (11.22%) Splunk Engineer
6 38 (9.48%) SOC Analyst
7 35 (8.73%) Security Engineer
8 32 (7.98%) Splunk Support
9 29 (7.23%) Senior DevOps
9 29 (7.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 24 (5.99%) Lead
11 23 (5.74%) Security Analyst
12 22 (5.49%) Architect
13 19 (4.74%) Senior Security Engineer
14 15 (3.74%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (3.49%) SIEM Engineer
16 13 (3.24%) Developer
16 13 (3.24%) Network Engineer
17 12 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.22%) Kafka
2 40 (9.98%) LDAP
3 30 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (4.74%) Node.js
5 18 (4.49%) .NET
5 18 (4.49%) HTML
5 18 (4.49%) Spring
6 17 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 15 (3.74%) REST
8 14 (3.49%) .NET Framework
9 12 (2.99%) Regular Expression
10 11 (2.74%) Middleware
11 10 (2.49%) RESTful
12 9 (2.24%) JSON
13 8 (2.00%) Fluent Bit
13 8 (2.00%) SOAP
14 7 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.75%) React
14 7 (1.75%) SailPoint
14 7 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.47%) Security Operations Centre
2 38 (9.48%) PKI
3 36 (8.98%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (8.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (5.74%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.74%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.99%) Virtual Team
8 13 (3.24%) Security Posture
9 12 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.99%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.74%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.74%) Insider Threat
11 10 (2.49%) Private Cloud
12 9 (2.24%) Data Centre
13 8 (2.00%) Credit Risk
14 7 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.75%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 105 (26.18%) Linux
2 70 (17.46%) Windows
3 36 (8.98%) Unix
4 32 (7.98%) Ubuntu
5 24 (5.99%) Windows Server
6 20 (4.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (3.99%) Mac OS
8 14 (3.49%) Debian
9 11 (2.74%) AIX
9 11 (2.74%) Fedora
9 11 (2.74%) HPUX
9 11 (2.74%) Solaris
10 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.00%) Android
11 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.00%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.75%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.25%) CentOS
13 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (35.91%) DevOps
2 135 (33.67%) CI/CD
3 134 (33.42%) Agile
4 116 (28.93%) Cybersecurity
5 115 (28.68%) SIEM
6 90 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (17.46%) Security Operations
8 67 (16.71%) Containerisation
9 56 (13.97%) Coaching
10 53 (13.22%) Software Engineering
11 52 (12.97%) Analytics
11 52 (12.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (12.72%) Configuration Management
12 51 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (12.22%) Disaster Recovery
14 48 (11.97%) Data Loss Prevention
15 47 (11.72%) Actionable Insight
16 43 (10.72%) Incident Response
16 43 (10.72%) Microservices
17 41 (10.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.90%) Python
2 104 (25.94%) Java
3 98 (24.44%) PowerShell
4 93 (23.19%) Bash
5 65 (16.21%) SQL
6 28 (6.98%) Ruby
7 22 (5.49%) Go
8 21 (5.24%) C#
9 19 (4.74%) JavaScript
10 17 (4.24%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.99%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.49%) Perl
12 10 (2.49%) Search Processing Language
13 8 (2.00%) Korn
14 7 (1.75%) Bicep
14 7 (1.75%) C
14 7 (1.75%) R
15 6 (1.50%) C++
16 5 (1.25%) SOQL
17 4 (1.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 77 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 52 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.98%) Degree
4 29 (7.23%) CISSP
5 24 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (5.99%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (3.24%) CCSP
8 12 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.24%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.24%) GIAC
10 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 7 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.50%) ISACA
13 5 (1.25%) CCNP
13 5 (1.25%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.72%) QA
2 16 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.24%) NIST
3 13 (3.24%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.00%) NCSC
4 8 (2.00%) SLA
5 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 83 (20.70%) Docker
2 25 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.25%) HDFS
4 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.00%) Ceph
5 4 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.75%) NFS
6 3 (0.75%) Squid
6 3 (0.75%) vSphere
7 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.25%) Snort
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 94 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 92 (22.94%) Ansible
2 92 (22.94%) Terraform
3 78 (19.45%) Grafana
4 57 (14.21%) Prometheus
5 41 (10.22%) Puppet
6 30 (7.48%) FortiGate
7 26 (6.48%) Nagios
8 15 (3.74%) Progress Chef
9 14 (3.49%) Kibana
10 12 (2.99%) Packer
11 9 (2.24%) logstash
12 8 (2.00%) Fluentd
13 7 (1.75%) Argo
14 6 (1.50%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (1.50%) Stealthwatch
15 5 (1.25%) Oozie
16 4 (1.00%) Demisto
16 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
17 3 (0.75%) Icinga
Vendors
1 64 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.97%) Dynatrace
3 47 (11.72%) Cisco
4 43 (10.72%) ArcSight
5 40 (9.98%) New Relic
6 38 (9.48%) CheckPoint
6 38 (9.48%) IBM
7 32 (7.98%) Juniper
8 31 (7.73%) F5
9 30 (7.48%) TippingPoint
9 30 (7.48%) Trend Micro
10 28 (6.98%) CyberArk
10 28 (6.98%) Red Hat
11 27 (6.73%) VMware
12 26 (6.48%) Google
13 19 (4.74%) TOWER Software
14 18 (4.49%) ServiceNow
15 13 (3.24%) Veracode
16 12 (2.99%) AppDynamics
17 11 (2.74%) Qualys