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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 429 427
Rank change year-on-year -83 -2 +33
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 174 554 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.56% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 1.52% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 105 289 477
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,238 £44,033
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.24% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £61,375
% change year-on-year +6.96% -6.31% +6.74%

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 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +32 163 £67,500 +12.50% 177
UK excluding London -64 97 £61,500 +6.96% 112
London +84 89 £85,000 +17.24% 76
Work from Home +80 42 £80,000 +33.33% 148
South East +92 41 £62,500 +13.64% 26
East of England +39 17 £61,500 -5.38% 19
North of England 0 14 £56,750 -1.30% 34
South West +109 9 £55,250 +0.45% 10
North West +11 9 £56,750 +13.50% 17
Midlands +52 8 £54,250 +8.50% 13
West Midlands +53 7 £36,000 -28.00% 9
Yorkshire +23 5 - - 13
Scotland -28 5 £62,500 -30.56% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £55,000 - 7
East Midlands +38 1 £72,500 +34.88% 4
Isle of Man +15 1 £34,500 -

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 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (1.15%) GemFire
3 2 (1.15%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 91 (52.30%) AWS
2 56 (32.18%) Azure
3 28 (16.09%) GCP
4 26 (14.94%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (14.37%) Serverless
6 21 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (10.92%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (6.90%) Datadog
9 12 (6.90%) GitHub
10 11 (6.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.45%) SaaS
13 5 (2.87%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.30%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (17.82%) Firewall
2 20 (11.49%) Network Security
3 19 (10.92%) TCP/IP
4 14 (8.05%) VPN
5 11 (6.32%) DNS
6 10 (5.75%) DHCP
7 9 (5.17%) HTTP
8 8 (4.60%) Internet
9 7 (4.02%) FTP
9 7 (4.02%) LAN
9 7 (4.02%) SMTP
9 7 (4.02%) WAN
10 5 (2.87%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.72%) FIX Connectivity
11 3 (1.72%) SSL
12 2 (1.15%) Ethernet
12 2 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.15%) IPv4
12 2 (1.15%) IPv6
12 2 (1.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.94%) Relational Database
2 25 (14.37%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.34%) RDBMS
4 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.32%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (4.02%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.45%) MySQL
9 5 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.72%) Power BI
11 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.15%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (1.15%) DB2
11 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.15%) Redis
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.57%) Big Data
12 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 39 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 25 (14.37%) JUnit
3 20 (11.49%) Mockito
4 19 (10.92%) JIRA
4 19 (10.92%) JMeter
5 12 (6.90%) Git
6 11 (6.32%) GitLab
7 5 (2.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.87%) Maven
7 5 (2.87%) Postman
8 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.30%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.72%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.15%) Gradle
10 2 (1.15%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.15%) Subversion
10 2 (1.15%) Xcode
10 2 (1.15%) XCTest
11 1 (0.57%) Metasploit
General
1 48 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.56%) Finance
3 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.62%) Banking
6 10 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.17%) Law
8 7 (4.02%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.87%) Aviation
11 4 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.15%) Marketing
12 2 (1.15%) Military
13 1 (0.57%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (20.11%) Senior
2 28 (16.09%) Analyst
2 28 (16.09%) Developer
3 23 (13.22%) Java Developer
3 23 (13.22%) Lead
4 15 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.62%) Security Engineer
5 12 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
5 12 (6.90%) SOC Analyst
6 9 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (4.60%) Senior Security Engineer
7 8 (4.60%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.02%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 7 (4.02%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (4.02%) Security Analyst
9 6 (3.45%) Applications Support
9 6 (3.45%) Junior
9 6 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Architect
10 5 (2.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.24%) Spring
2 27 (15.52%) REST
3 26 (14.94%) Spring Boot
4 22 (12.64%) Web Services
5 21 (12.07%) Hibernate
6 20 (11.49%) HTML
7 18 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (10.34%) Apache Camel
7 18 (10.34%) jQuery
7 18 (10.34%) WireMock
8 15 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (8.05%) LDAP
10 12 (6.90%) JSON
10 12 (6.90%) Kafka
11 10 (5.75%) OAuth
12 8 (4.60%) SOAP
12 8 (4.60%) XML
13 7 (4.02%) OpenID
13 7 (4.02%) SAML
14 6 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.07%) Cyber Threat
3 19 (10.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 18 (10.34%) Security Posture
5 17 (9.77%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.75%) PKI
7 7 (4.02%) Client/Server
7 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.45%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.87%) Robotics
10 4 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.72%) Eurex
11 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.15%) CMDB
12 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (1.15%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.11%) Windows
2 31 (17.82%) Linux
3 19 (10.92%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.90%) Unix
5 7 (4.02%) CentOS
6 5 (2.87%) Android
6 5 (2.87%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.57%) Debian
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (43.68%) SIEM
2 55 (31.61%) CI/CD
3 51 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (28.16%) Agile
5 45 (25.86%) Cybersecurity
5 45 (25.86%) DevOps
6 41 (23.56%) Incident Response
7 32 (18.39%) Microservices
7 32 (18.39%) Security Operations
8 27 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (14.94%) Scrum
10 23 (13.22%) Workflow
11 22 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (12.64%) TDD
12 21 (12.07%) Cloud Security
13 19 (10.92%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (10.34%) BDD
14 18 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (10.34%) ITIL
14 18 (10.34%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.53%) Python
2 36 (20.69%) Java
2 36 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 29 (16.67%) Bash
4 28 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 26 (14.94%) Shell Script
6 22 (12.64%) SQL
7 9 (5.17%) Go
8 8 (4.60%) Perl
9 7 (4.02%) C++
9 7 (4.02%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (3.45%) Ruby
11 5 (2.87%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.72%) C#
13 3 (1.72%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.72%) Groovy
14 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.57%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.37%) DV Cleared
4 23 (13.22%) Degree
5 15 (8.62%) CISSP
6 11 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.17%) CISM
9 7 (4.02%) CEH
9 7 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.87%) OSCP
11 4 (2.30%) GCFA
11 4 (2.30%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.72%) GCIH
12 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.72%) PMP
12 3 (1.72%) SANS
13 2 (1.15%) GCFE
13 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (8.05%) NIST
3 13 (7.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (6.32%) GDPR
5 10 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (5.17%) SLA
7 5 (2.87%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.30%) NCSC
8 4 (2.30%) QA
9 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
10 2 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (27.59%) Docker
2 13 (7.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.72%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.57%) Snort
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 38 (21.84%) Grafana
3 30 (17.24%) Ansible
4 26 (14.94%) QRadar
5 24 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 22 (12.64%) Kibana
6 22 (12.64%) Terraform
7 8 (4.60%) Nagios
7 8 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.45%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.87%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (2.87%) Puppet
10 4 (2.30%) Graylog
10 4 (2.30%) Nessus
11 3 (1.72%) Argo
12 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.15%) Control-M
12 2 (1.15%) RSA Security Analytics
12 2 (1.15%) SCCM
12 2 (1.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.24%) Dynatrace
3 15 (8.62%) Google
3 15 (8.62%) Oracle
4 10 (5.75%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.17%) SolarWinds
6 8 (4.60%) ArcSight
6 8 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.45%) McAfee
7 6 (3.45%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.45%) VMware
8 5 (2.87%) Bloomberg
8 5 (2.87%) Cisco
8 5 (2.87%) LogLogic
9 4 (2.30%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.30%) FireEye
9 4 (2.30%) Qualys
9 4 (2.30%) Rapid7
9 4 (2.30%) Zscaler