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 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 442 426
Rank change year-on-year +122 -16 +17
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 485 560 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.18% 1.53% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 116 286 444
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,238 £42,725
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,188 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £99,237 £88,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £55,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.93% -14.23% +8.33%

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 22,290 36,673 39,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.92% 35.37% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,073 24,880 23,381
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,246 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,773 £45,543 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% -8.91% +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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +208 458 £65,000 +8.33% 263
UK excluding London +129 394 £58,500 +4.93% 157
Work from Home +245 303 £58,000 -3.33% 161
North of England +161 275 £55,000 -2.65% 31
North West +160 269 £55,000 - 21
London +77 97 £80,000 +10.34% 130
South East +54 46 £55,000 - 47
East of England +45 22 £61,500 +2.50% 19
Scotland -21 22 £52,500 -34.38% 17
Midlands +64 18 £64,500 +29.00% 13
West Midlands +60 9 £59,000 +18.00% 11
East Midlands +38 9 £72,500 +45.00% 2
South West +100 8 £48,000 -4.00% 19
Yorkshire +17 6 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £55,000 - 11
Isle of Man +14 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 6 (1.24%) Confluence
1 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.82%) Camunda
2 4 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.62%) nginx
3 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.41%) GemFire
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CICS
5 1 (0.21%) JBoss
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.21%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 97 (20.00%) AWS
2 52 (10.72%) Azure
3 30 (6.19%) GCP
4 27 (5.57%) Serverless
5 24 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 14 (2.89%) GitHub
10 13 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (2.68%) Datadog
10 13 (2.68%) SaaS
11 10 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.44%) BlazeMeter
14 6 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.03%) Azure App Service
15 5 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 289 (59.59%) VPN
2 262 (54.02%) Cisco IOS
3 48 (9.90%) Firewall
4 26 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 25 (5.15%) Network Security
6 15 (3.09%) HTTP
7 12 (2.47%) FTP
7 12 (2.47%) LAN
7 12 (2.47%) SMTP
7 12 (2.47%) WAN
8 11 (2.27%) Internet
9 10 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (1.44%) DNS
11 5 (1.03%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.03%) SAN
12 4 (0.82%) DHCP
12 4 (0.82%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.62%) NAS
13 3 (0.62%) SSL
14 2 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.36%) Relational Database
2 25 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.89%) RDBMS
4 14 (2.89%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.86%) MySQL
7 8 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.03%) Redis
10 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.62%) Big Data
10 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.62%) DB2
10 3 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.62%) Power BI
11 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 47 (9.69%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.15%) JUnit
3 23 (4.74%) Git
4 21 (4.33%) JIRA
5 16 (3.30%) Mockito
6 15 (3.09%) GitLab
7 14 (2.89%) JMeter
8 6 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.24%) Maven
8 6 (1.24%) Postman
9 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.03%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.82%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.62%) Subversion
11 3 (0.62%) Xcode
11 3 (0.62%) XCTest
12 2 (0.41%) Gradle
12 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 304 (62.68%) Analytical Skills
2 290 (59.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (14.43%) Social Skills
4 54 (11.13%) Finance
5 25 (5.15%) Law
6 20 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.30%) Banking
8 15 (3.09%) Marketing
9 7 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.24%) Aviation
10 6 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.82%) Military
11 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Automotive
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Games
Job Titles
1 267 (55.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (8.66%) Senior
3 38 (7.84%) Analyst
4 34 (7.01%) Lead
5 31 (6.39%) Developer
6 21 (4.33%) SOC Analyst
7 18 (3.71%) Java Developer
7 18 (3.71%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.51%) Security Engineer
9 16 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (2.27%) Security Analyst
10 11 (2.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (2.06%) Java Engineer
12 9 (1.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 9 (1.86%) Site Engineer
13 8 (1.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (1.44%) Applications Support
14 7 (1.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (1.44%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (57.53%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (7.01%) Spring
3 31 (6.39%) REST
4 30 (6.19%) Spring Boot
5 21 (4.33%) Web Services
6 18 (3.71%) HTML
6 18 (3.71%) LDAP
7 17 (3.51%) Hibernate
7 17 (3.51%) Kafka
8 13 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (2.68%) Apache Camel
8 13 (2.68%) jQuery
8 13 (2.68%) WireMock
9 11 (2.27%) JSON
10 10 (2.06%) OAuth
11 9 (1.86%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.86%) SOAP
12 8 (1.65%) CSS
12 8 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 263 (54.23%) Cyberattack
2 30 (6.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.47%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.06%) PKI
10 8 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.24%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.24%) Robotics
13 4 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.62%) Equities
14 3 (0.62%) MISP
14 3 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 302 (62.27%) Windows
2 301 (62.06%) Linux
3 269 (55.46%) Android
4 20 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.89%) Unix
6 6 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.03%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.82%) CentOS
9 3 (0.62%) Debian
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (67.42%) Problem-Solving
2 317 (65.36%) DevOps
3 278 (57.32%) Line Management
4 272 (56.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 270 (55.67%) Risk Management
5 270 (55.67%) Task Automation
6 265 (54.64%) Mathematics
7 264 (54.43%) Platform Engineering
8 263 (54.23%) Storage Management
9 97 (20.00%) SIEM
10 71 (14.64%) CI/CD
11 62 (12.78%) Incident Response
12 60 (12.37%) Agile
13 54 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
14 42 (8.66%) Security Operations
15 34 (7.01%) Software Engineering
16 33 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence
17 32 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (6.39%) Mentoring
19 30 (6.19%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 348 (71.75%) Python
2 305 (62.89%) PowerShell
3 298 (61.44%) Bash
4 52 (10.72%) Java
5 35 (7.22%) SQL
6 27 (5.57%) Shell Script
7 26 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (2.06%) Go
10 9 (1.86%) Perl
11 8 (1.65%) C++
12 6 (1.24%) C#
12 6 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.24%) Ruby
12 6 (1.24%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.82%) Groovy
13 4 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.62%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.41%) C
15 2 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 78 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.42%) DV Cleared
4 32 (6.60%) Degree
5 17 (3.51%) CISSP
6 13 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.06%) CISM
9 9 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (1.86%) OSCP
10 8 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.65%) CEH
11 5 (1.03%) CCNA
11 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.03%) GCIH
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.82%) CCNP
12 4 (0.82%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (0.82%) GCFA
12 4 (0.82%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (3.51%) NIST
3 14 (2.89%) SLA
4 13 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (2.06%) GDPR
6 8 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.82%) NCSC
8 4 (0.82%) QA
9 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 316 (65.15%) Docker
2 266 (54.85%) Hyper-V
3 264 (54.43%) vSphere
4 262 (54.02%) VMware NSX
5 14 (2.89%) Active Directory
6 10 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.21%) RACF
9 1 (0.21%) Snort
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 300 (61.86%) Terraform
2 290 (59.79%) Ansible
3 57 (11.75%) Kubernetes
4 55 (11.34%) Grafana
5 32 (6.60%) QRadar
6 31 (6.39%) Prometheus
7 20 (4.12%) Kibana
8 10 (2.06%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.44%) Nagios
11 6 (1.24%) ArcSight ESM
12 4 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.82%) Graylog
12 4 (0.82%) Nessus
12 4 (0.82%) VxRail
13 3 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.62%) Argo
13 3 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.41%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 273 (56.29%) Cisco
2 264 (54.43%) Juniper
3 262 (54.02%) 3PAR
4 62 (12.78%) Microsoft
5 40 (8.25%) Dynatrace
6 24 (4.95%) Oracle
7 14 (2.89%) Google
7 14 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.68%) VMware
9 11 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.86%) IBM
10 9 (1.86%) McAfee
11 8 (1.65%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.65%) ArcSight
12 7 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.44%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.24%) LogLogic
14 4 (0.82%) AlienVault
14 4 (0.82%) Zscaler