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 25 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 173 381
Rank change year-on-year -216 +208 -69
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 74 302 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 1.83% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 3.66% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 26 73
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £48,875 £43,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £91,842
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% -

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 7,754 8,245 8,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.38% 50.01% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,477 3,793 4,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -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 25 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 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.05%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) AutoCAD
1 5 (6.76%) DaVinci Resolve
1 5 (6.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.30%) AWS
2 31 (41.89%) Azure
3 17 (22.97%) GCP
4 11 (14.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (13.51%) SaaS
6 7 (9.46%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (6.76%) GitHub
7 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.05%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (4.05%) dbt
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.05%) Serverless
9 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.97%) Firewall
2 13 (17.57%) WAN
3 10 (13.51%) LAN
4 8 (10.81%) TCP/IP
5 7 (9.46%) Network Security
6 6 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (8.11%) Unified Communications
6 6 (8.11%) VLAN
6 6 (8.11%) WebEx
7 5 (6.76%) DNS
7 5 (6.76%) HTTP
7 5 (6.76%) SNMP
7 5 (6.76%) VPN
8 4 (5.41%) FTP
8 4 (5.41%) Internet
8 4 (5.41%) SMTP
9 3 (4.05%) BGP
9 3 (4.05%) DHCP
9 3 (4.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.05%) Flink
1 3 (4.05%) Looker
2 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.70%) GIS
2 2 (2.70%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.70%) MySQL
2 2 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.76%) JIRA
3 4 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.05%) Git
4 3 (4.05%) Postman
4 3 (4.05%) Selenium
5 2 (2.70%) GitLab
5 2 (2.70%) Robot Framework
5 2 (2.70%) TestRail
6 1 (1.35%) Jaeger
General
1 26 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.38%) Finance
3 20 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (20.27%) Public Sector
5 12 (16.22%) Banking
6 10 (13.51%) Retail
7 9 (12.16%) Telecoms
8 8 (10.81%) Law
9 6 (8.11%) Marketing
10 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (6.76%) Legal
11 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Senior
2 13 (17.57%) Analyst
3 7 (9.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Security Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (6.76%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Developer
4 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Network Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Project Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Security Analyst
4 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
4 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Security Consultant
6 3 (4.05%) Data Scientist
6 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Voice Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) Terraform
2 6 (8.11%) XMPP
3 5 (6.76%) Kafka
3 5 (6.76%) RESTful
4 4 (5.41%) .NET
4 4 (5.41%) JSON
4 4 (5.41%) LDAP
4 4 (5.41%) React
5 3 (4.05%) Apache Beam
5 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
5 3 (4.05%) JPA
5 3 (4.05%) OpenAPI
5 3 (4.05%) Spring
5 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.05%) Spring MVC
5 3 (4.05%) Swagger
6 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.70%) Middleware
6 2 (2.70%) Play Framework
6 2 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.92%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (17.57%) Security Posture
3 10 (13.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (10.81%) Onboarding
5 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
6 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
6 6 (8.11%) FlexPod
6 6 (8.11%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (6.76%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (5.41%) PKI
9 3 (4.05%) Replication
9 3 (4.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (2.70%) Blog
10 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (1.35%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (1.35%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 30 (40.54%) Linux
1 30 (40.54%) Windows
2 13 (17.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.76%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.05%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.05%) Unix
5 2 (2.70%) CentOS
5 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) Cybersecurity
1 29 (39.19%) SIEM
2 24 (32.43%) Incident Response
3 23 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (24.32%) Security Operations
5 17 (22.97%) AI
5 17 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (21.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 16 (21.62%) SOAR
7 15 (20.27%) Information Security
8 13 (17.57%) Threat Detection
8 13 (17.57%) Threat Intelligence
9 12 (16.22%) Analytics
9 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
9 12 (16.22%) Cloud Security
9 12 (16.22%) Mentoring
9 12 (16.22%) Observability
10 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (13.51%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) Python
2 18 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 14 (18.92%) Bash
4 12 (16.22%) Java
5 10 (13.51%) Go
6 8 (10.81%) Scala
6 8 (10.81%) SQL
7 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.05%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) Degree
3 12 (16.22%) CISSP
4 10 (13.51%) GIAC
5 9 (12.16%) CEH
6 8 (10.81%) CISM
6 8 (10.81%) DV Cleared
6 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
7 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (8.11%) GCFA
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Certification
8 5 (6.76%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
9 4 (5.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (4.05%) GCIA
10 3 (4.05%) GCIH
11 2 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.70%) CASP
11 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) NIST
2 9 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
4 5 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.05%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.35%) SLA
7 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Docker
2 7 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.11%) vSphere
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (36.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.92%) Grafana
3 13 (17.57%) Ansible
4 8 (10.81%) QRadar
5 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.05%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.70%) Kibana
9 2 (2.70%) Nagios
9 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.35%) SCCM
10 1 (1.35%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) New Relic
3 10 (13.51%) SolarWinds
4 9 (12.16%) Qualys
4 9 (12.16%) VMware
5 8 (10.81%) Palo Alto
5 8 (10.81%) ServiceNow
6 7 (9.46%) Cisco
6 7 (9.46%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (8.11%) Dynatrace
7 6 (8.11%) Fortinet
7 6 (8.11%) Google
8 5 (6.76%) Adobe
8 5 (6.76%) ArcSight
8 5 (6.76%) Avid
9 4 (5.41%) Zerto
10 3 (4.05%) Forcepoint
10 3 (4.05%) LogRhythm
10 3 (4.05%) NetApp
10 3 (4.05%) Tenable