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 12 March 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
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 352 373
Rank change year-on-year +46 +21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 89 58 180
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.47% 1.05% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 32 46 153
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,563 £42,238
25th Percentile £45,022 £60,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +28.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £98,474 £83,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £61,775
% change year-on-year +7.41% +9.27% -14.79%

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 6,053 5,539 12,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.10% 39.88% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,312 3,648 10,012
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,395 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

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 12 March 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) AWS
2 18 (20.22%) Azure
3 12 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (11.24%) Datadog
5 8 (8.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (7.87%) GitHub
7 5 (5.62%) GCP
7 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.62%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.37%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (44.94%) Broadband
2 7 (7.87%) Firewall
3 5 (5.62%) DNS
3 5 (5.62%) HTTP
3 5 (5.62%) SSL
4 4 (4.49%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.37%) LAN
5 3 (3.37%) Network Security
5 3 (3.37%) Unified Communications
5 3 (3.37%) VLAN
5 3 (3.37%) VPN
5 3 (3.37%) WAN
5 3 (3.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.37%) MySQL
3 2 (2.25%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (59.55%) Jenkins
2 49 (55.06%) GitLab
3 46 (51.69%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.62%) Robot Framework
5 4 (4.49%) JMeter
6 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.37%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.25%) TestRail
8 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
General
1 43 (48.31%) Marketing
2 40 (44.94%) Games
2 40 (44.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (16.85%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.99%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.74%) Finance
7 5 (5.62%) Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.37%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Legal
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (46.07%) Architect
2 38 (42.70%) Salesforce Architect
3 20 (22.47%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 20 (22.47%) Technical Architect
4 13 (14.61%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (13.48%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 8 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Junior
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Site Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Lead
9 4 (4.49%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Threat Hunter
10 3 (3.37%) Security Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (46.07%) REST
1 41 (46.07%) SOAP
2 40 (44.94%) Lightning Web Components
2 40 (44.94%) Visualforce
3 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (3.37%) XMPP
6 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.12%) CSS
6 1 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.12%) HTML
6 1 (1.12%) JSON
6 1 (1.12%) Kafka
6 1 (1.12%) Memcached
6 1 (1.12%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.12%) Spring
6 1 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.12%) Vert.x
6 1 (1.12%) Web Services
6 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (44.94%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.62%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (3.37%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.37%) FlexPod
4 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Replication
4 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.37%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Equities
6 1 (1.12%) Genomics
6 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.83%) Linux
2 29 (32.58%) Windows
3 7 (7.87%) Unix
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.62%) CentOS
5 4 (4.49%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.67%) DevOps
2 53 (59.55%) CI/CD
3 50 (56.18%) Agile
4 44 (49.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (48.31%) Continuous Integration
6 42 (47.19%) Roadmaps
7 40 (44.94%) Community of Practice
7 40 (44.94%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 40 (44.94%) Continuous Delivery
7 40 (44.94%) Design Patterns
7 40 (44.94%) Event-Driven
7 40 (44.94%) OO
7 40 (44.94%) PLM
7 40 (44.94%) Scrum
7 40 (44.94%) Static Code Analysis
7 40 (44.94%) Technical Analysis
7 40 (44.94%) Technology Roadmap
7 40 (44.94%) TOGAF
8 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (19.10%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.94%) Apex Code
1 40 (44.94%) SOQL
1 40 (44.94%) SOSL
2 21 (23.60%) PowerShell
3 14 (15.73%) Python
4 11 (12.36%) Bash
5 7 (7.87%) SQL
6 2 (2.25%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) Bicep
7 1 (1.12%) Go
7 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) DV Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.87%) Degree
4 4 (4.49%) CEH
4 4 (4.49%) GIAC
4 4 (4.49%) GREM
4 4 (4.49%) OSCP
5 3 (3.37%) CCNA
5 3 (3.37%) CCNP
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.37%) CISSP
6 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.12%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.49%) NIST
2 2 (2.25%) GRC
2 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.12%) MiFID
3 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (15.73%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (3.37%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.37%) vSphere
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (21.35%) Grafana
1 19 (21.35%) Terraform
2 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.85%) Prometheus
3 14 (15.73%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 4 (4.49%) QRadar
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (2.25%) Kibana
6 2 (2.25%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.12%) Ganglia
7 1 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (44.94%) Salesforce
2 11 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.74%) Cisco
3 6 (6.74%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.74%) Fortinet
4 5 (5.62%) Oracle
4 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.62%) SolarWinds
4 5 (5.62%) VMware
5 4 (4.49%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.49%) BigPanda
5 4 (4.49%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.37%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.37%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.37%) NetApp
6 3 (3.37%) Okta
6 3 (3.37%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.37%) Sophos
6 3 (3.37%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.25%) Red Hat