Hybrid/Remote Splunk Job Trends

Splunk
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 28 September 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
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 170 378
Rank change year-on-year -214 +208 -65
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 71 302 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 1.82% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 0.92% 3.60% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 38 26 74
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -27.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £91,768
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,710 8,394 8,792
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.16% 50.68% 38.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,441 3,749 4,821
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,150 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Splunk and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Splunk job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Splunk
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Splunk over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Splunk salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) AutoCAD
1 4 (5.63%) DaVinci Resolve
1 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.66%) AWS
2 28 (39.44%) Azure
3 16 (22.54%) GCP
4 11 (15.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (14.08%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (12.68%) SaaS
7 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (7.04%) GitHub
8 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.23%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (4.23%) dbt
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (4.23%) Serverless
10 2 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.54%) Firewall
2 12 (16.90%) WAN
3 9 (12.68%) LAN
4 8 (11.27%) TCP/IP
5 7 (9.86%) Network Security
6 5 (7.04%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (7.04%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (7.04%) DNS
6 5 (7.04%) HTTP
6 5 (7.04%) Unified Communications
6 5 (7.04%) VLAN
6 5 (7.04%) VPN
6 5 (7.04%) WebEx
7 4 (5.63%) FTP
7 4 (5.63%) Internet
7 4 (5.63%) SMTP
7 4 (5.63%) SNMP
8 3 (4.23%) BGP
8 3 (4.23%) DHCP
8 3 (4.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.23%) Flink
1 3 (4.23%) Looker
2 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.82%) GIS
2 2 (2.82%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.82%) MySQL
2 2 (2.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (5.63%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.63%) JIRA
3 3 (4.23%) Git
3 3 (4.23%) Postman
3 3 (4.23%) Selenium
4 2 (2.82%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.82%) TestRail
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.58%) Finance
3 20 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (19.72%) Public Sector
5 11 (15.49%) Banking
6 10 (14.08%) Retail
7 8 (11.27%) Telecoms
8 7 (9.86%) Law
9 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (7.04%) Legal
9 5 (7.04%) Marketing
10 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Senior
2 13 (18.31%) Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Security Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Developer
4 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Network Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Security Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Project Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Information Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) Terraform
2 5 (7.04%) Kafka
2 5 (7.04%) RESTful
2 5 (7.04%) XMPP
3 4 (5.63%) .NET
3 4 (5.63%) LDAP
3 4 (5.63%) React
4 3 (4.23%) Apache Beam
4 3 (4.23%) Hibernate
4 3 (4.23%) JPA
4 3 (4.23%) JSON
4 3 (4.23%) OpenAPI
4 3 (4.23%) Spring
4 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.23%) Spring MVC
4 3 (4.23%) Swagger
5 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.82%) Middleware
5 2 (2.82%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (18.31%) Security Posture
3 10 (14.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
5 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
6 5 (7.04%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (7.04%) FlexPod
6 5 (7.04%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (5.63%) PKI
8 3 (4.23%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (2.82%) Blog
9 2 (2.82%) Replication
10 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.41%) Online Gambling
10 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (39.44%) Linux
2 27 (38.03%) Windows
3 11 (15.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.04%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.23%) Unix
6 2 (2.82%) CentOS
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) SIEM
2 28 (39.44%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (33.80%) Incident Response
3 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (25.35%) Security Operations
5 17 (23.94%) AI
5 17 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (22.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 16 (22.54%) SOAR
7 15 (21.13%) Information Security
8 13 (18.31%) Mentoring
8 13 (18.31%) Threat Detection
8 13 (18.31%) Threat Intelligence
9 12 (16.90%) Analytics
9 12 (16.90%) Cloud Security
9 12 (16.90%) Observability
10 11 (15.49%) Agile
10 11 (15.49%) CI/CD
10 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
11 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) PowerShell
3 13 (18.31%) Bash
3 13 (18.31%) Java
4 10 (14.08%) Go
5 9 (12.68%) SQL
6 8 (11.27%) Scala
7 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.23%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.23%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.31%) Degree
3 12 (16.90%) CISSP
4 10 (14.08%) GIAC
5 9 (12.68%) CEH
6 8 (11.27%) CISM
7 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
7 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
8 6 (8.45%) GCFA
9 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
9 5 (7.04%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
10 4 (5.63%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (4.23%) GCIA
11 3 (4.23%) GCIH
12 2 (2.82%) CCSP
12 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) NIST
2 9 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
4 5 (7.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.04%) vSphere
4 3 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (38.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.31%) Grafana
3 12 (16.90%) Ansible
4 8 (11.27%) QRadar
5 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.04%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.23%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.41%) Kibana
10 1 (1.41%) Nagios
10 1 (1.41%) SCCM
10 1 (1.41%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.90%) New Relic
3 9 (12.68%) Qualys
3 9 (12.68%) SolarWinds
4 8 (11.27%) ServiceNow
5 7 (9.86%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (9.86%) Palo Alto
5 7 (9.86%) VMware
6 6 (8.45%) Cisco
6 6 (8.45%) Dynatrace
6 6 (8.45%) Google
7 5 (7.04%) ArcSight
7 5 (7.04%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.63%) Adobe
8 4 (5.63%) Avid
8 4 (5.63%) Zerto
9 3 (4.23%) Forcepoint
9 3 (4.23%) LogRhythm
9 3 (4.23%) Tenable
10 2 (2.82%) Alteryx