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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 172 371
Rank change year-on-year -216 +199 -66
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 72 302 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 1.80% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.93% 3.49% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 37 26 72
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -25.93% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £91,475
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 7,772 8,661 8,666
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.15% 51.48% 38.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,479 3,728 4,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
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 £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 1 October 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.17%) Apache
2 3 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) AutoCAD
1 4 (5.56%) DaVinci Resolve
1 4 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) AWS
2 28 (38.89%) Azure
3 16 (22.22%) GCP
4 11 (15.28%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (12.50%) SaaS
7 7 (9.72%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (6.94%) GitHub
8 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.17%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (4.17%) dbt
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (4.17%) Serverless
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.22%) Firewall
2 11 (15.28%) WAN
3 9 (12.50%) LAN
4 8 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 7 (9.72%) Network Security
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (6.94%) HTTP
6 5 (6.94%) Unified Communications
6 5 (6.94%) VLAN
6 5 (6.94%) WebEx
7 4 (5.56%) DNS
7 4 (5.56%) FTP
7 4 (5.56%) Internet
7 4 (5.56%) SMTP
7 4 (5.56%) SNMP
7 4 (5.56%) VPN
8 2 (2.78%) BGP
8 2 (2.78%) DHCP
8 2 (2.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.17%) Flink
1 3 (4.17%) Looker
2 2 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.78%) GIS
2 2 (2.78%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.78%) MySQL
2 2 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.56%) JIRA
3 3 (4.17%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) Postman
3 3 (4.17%) Selenium
4 2 (2.78%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.78%) TestRail
5 1 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (1.39%) Jaeger
General
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.56%) Finance
3 20 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
5 12 (16.67%) Retail
6 11 (15.28%) Banking
7 8 (11.11%) Telecoms
8 7 (9.72%) Law
9 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (6.94%) Legal
9 5 (6.94%) Marketing
10 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 23 (31.94%) Senior
2 13 (18.06%) Analyst
3 8 (11.11%) Developer
3 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Security Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Security Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Project Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Security Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.17%) Security Incident Consultant
7 3 (4.17%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Terraform
2 5 (6.94%) Kafka
2 5 (6.94%) RESTful
2 5 (6.94%) XMPP
3 4 (5.56%) .NET
3 4 (5.56%) LDAP
3 4 (5.56%) React
4 3 (4.17%) Apache Beam
4 3 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 3 (4.17%) JPA
4 3 (4.17%) JSON
4 3 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 3 (4.17%) Spring
4 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.17%) Spring MVC
4 3 (4.17%) Swagger
5 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.78%) Middleware
5 2 (2.78%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (18.06%) Security Posture
3 10 (13.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 9 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 7 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (9.72%) Management Information System
6 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
7 5 (6.94%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (6.94%) FlexPod
7 5 (6.94%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (4.17%) PKI
9 3 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (2.78%) Blog
10 2 (2.78%) Replication
11 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (1.39%) Online Gambling
11 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (37.50%) Linux
2 26 (36.11%) Windows
3 10 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.94%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.78%) CentOS
6 2 (2.78%) Unix
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
1 28 (38.89%) SIEM
2 26 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 18 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 17 (23.61%) AI
5 17 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 16 (22.22%) SOAR
7 15 (20.83%) Information Security
7 15 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 13 (18.06%) Agile
8 13 (18.06%) Containerisation
8 13 (18.06%) Threat Detection
8 13 (18.06%) Threat Intelligence
9 12 (16.67%) Analytics
9 12 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 12 (16.67%) Observability
10 11 (15.28%) CI/CD
11 10 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) Python
2 17 (23.61%) PowerShell
3 15 (20.83%) Java
4 13 (18.06%) Bash
5 12 (16.67%) Go
6 11 (15.28%) SQL
7 8 (11.11%) Scala
8 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.17%) Kotlin
9 3 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.67%) CISSP
2 12 (16.67%) Degree
3 10 (13.89%) GIAC
4 9 (12.50%) CEH
5 8 (11.11%) CISM
6 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (8.33%) GCFA
6 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
7 5 (6.94%) Azure Certification
7 5 (6.94%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 4 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (4.17%) GCIA
9 3 (4.17%) GCIH
10 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (2.78%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) NIST
2 9 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (6.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (40.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.06%) Grafana
3 11 (15.28%) Ansible
4 8 (11.11%) QRadar
5 6 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.78%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.39%) Kibana
9 1 (1.39%) Nagios
9 1 (1.39%) SCCM
9 1 (1.39%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 26 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.67%) New Relic
3 9 (12.50%) Qualys
3 9 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 8 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 7 (9.72%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (9.72%) Palo Alto
6 6 (8.33%) Cisco
6 6 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 6 (8.33%) Google
6 6 (8.33%) VMware
7 5 (6.94%) ArcSight
7 5 (6.94%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.56%) Adobe
8 4 (5.56%) Avid
8 4 (5.56%) Zerto
9 3 (4.17%) Forcepoint
9 3 (4.17%) LogRhythm
9 3 (4.17%) Tenable
10 2 (2.78%) Alteryx