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 26 January 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
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 357 322
Rank change year-on-year +46 -35 +63
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 59 85 204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.52% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 0.96% 1.35% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 33 64 172
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,713 £42,238
25th Percentile £46,446 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +22.95% -7.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,750 £92,200 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year - +15.27% -7.05%

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 6,142 6,318 10,532
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.37% 38.72% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 3,650 8,663
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £73,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% +9.52% -8.70%

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 26 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) AWS
2 16 (27.12%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (15.25%) Datadog
5 8 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (11.86%) GitHub
7 5 (8.47%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.42%) Broadband
2 8 (13.56%) Wireshark
3 6 (10.17%) DNS
3 6 (10.17%) HTTP
3 6 (10.17%) SSL
4 4 (6.78%) VPN
5 1 (1.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.08%) MySQL
3 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.69%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (45.76%) Jenkins
2 23 (38.98%) GitLab
3 21 (35.59%) SonarQube
4 5 (8.47%) Robot Framework
5 4 (6.78%) JMeter
6 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.39%) TestRail
8 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (25.42%) Games
1 15 (25.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (25.42%) Marketing
2 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Architect
2 14 (23.73%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Technical Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Security Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Junior
5 6 (10.17%) Site Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Information Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Information Security Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Threat Hunter
8 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) Lightning Web Components
1 15 (25.42%) REST
1 15 (25.42%) SOAP
1 15 (25.42%) Visualforce
2 10 (16.95%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.69%) JSON
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Memcached
4 1 (1.69%) Spring
4 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.69%) Vert.x
4 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 5 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.47%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Equities
6 1 (1.69%) Genomics
6 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (52.54%) Linux
2 29 (49.15%) Windows
3 7 (11.86%) Unix
4 5 (8.47%) CentOS
5 4 (6.78%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) DevOps
2 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
3 25 (42.37%) Agile
4 19 (32.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (30.51%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (28.81%) ITIL
6 17 (28.81%) Roadmaps
7 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (25.42%) Community of Practice
8 15 (25.42%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 15 (25.42%) Continuous Delivery
8 15 (25.42%) Design Patterns
8 15 (25.42%) Event-Driven
8 15 (25.42%) OO
8 15 (25.42%) PLM
8 15 (25.42%) Scrum
8 15 (25.42%) Static Code Analysis
8 15 (25.42%) Technical Analysis
8 15 (25.42%) Technology Roadmap
8 15 (25.42%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) PowerShell
2 15 (25.42%) Apex Code
2 15 (25.42%) SOQL
2 15 (25.42%) SOSL
3 10 (16.95%) Bash
3 10 (16.95%) Python
4 6 (10.17%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Bicep
5 1 (1.69%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) GIAC
3 7 (11.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) CEH
4 4 (6.78%) GCFA
4 4 (6.78%) GCIA
4 4 (6.78%) GCIH
4 4 (6.78%) GREM
4 4 (6.78%) OSCP
5 3 (5.08%) CISSP
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.69%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) GRC
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.69%) MiFID
3 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Grafana
2 16 (27.12%) Terraform
3 15 (25.42%) Prometheus
4 14 (23.73%) Kubernetes
5 11 (18.64%) Ansible
6 8 (13.56%) QRadar
7 4 (6.78%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (3.39%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.69%) Ganglia
9 1 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Salesforce
2 6 (10.17%) SolarWinds
3 5 (8.47%) Dynatrace
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (6.78%) Oracle
5 3 (5.08%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.08%) BigPanda
5 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.39%) BMC
6 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.69%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) IBM
7 1 (1.69%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.69%) VMware