Splunk Contracts in the UK excluding London

Splunk
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 164 243
Rank change year-on-year -56 +79 -4
Contract jobs citing Splunk 185 355 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.54% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 2.14% 3.46% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 262 206
10th Percentile £372 £376 £358
25th Percentile £438 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +3.70%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £666
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £51.70 £41.75
25th Percentile - £54.74 £48.90
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.11% -4.32% +37.36%
75th Percentile - £60.25 £72.03
90th Percentile - £60.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £62.50
% change year-on-year -33.11% -4.32% +37.36%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Splunk is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,644 10,255 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.60% 44.58% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 7,046 8,257
10th Percentile £208 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 457 645
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £58.59 £62.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.11
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £41.98 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +95.24% -2.27%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK excluding London

Splunk
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -43 62 £550 - 15
Yorkshire -1 45 £558 +1.36% 8
South West -16 30 £563 +18.42% 6
South East -32 29 £533 -9.28% 17
Scotland +33 22 £555 -5.53% 9
East of England -1 20 £625 +4.17% 8
North West -33 17 £550 - 7
Midlands +14 16 £419 -35.58% 5
East Midlands +15 8 £359 -48.68% 1
West Midlands +7 8 £650 -1.89% 4
Wales +23 6 £645 -0.85%
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UK

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.73%) SAS
2 17 (9.19%) CMS
3 14 (7.57%) Confluence
4 6 (3.24%) JBoss
5 5 (2.70%) nginx
6 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.08%) Traefik
8 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.38%) AWS
2 41 (22.16%) Azure
3 23 (12.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (10.27%) GCP
4 19 (10.27%) GitHub
5 16 (8.65%) Amazon S3
6 15 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.41%) Serverless
8 9 (4.86%) Kong
9 6 (3.24%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (3.24%) Apigee
9 6 (3.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (3.24%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.70%) Datadog
10 5 (2.70%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.16%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (16.76%) Firewall
2 19 (10.27%) TCP/IP
3 16 (8.65%) DNS
4 15 (8.11%) VPN
5 12 (6.49%) HTTP
6 7 (3.78%) Network Security
7 6 (3.24%) SSL
8 5 (2.70%) LAN
8 5 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.70%) WAN
9 4 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.62%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.62%) FTP
10 3 (1.62%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.62%) SMTP
10 3 (1.62%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.08%) BGP
11 2 (1.08%) Broadband
11 2 (1.08%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.57%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (7.57%) MySQL
2 13 (7.03%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.86%) RDBMS
4 9 (4.86%) Tableau
5 7 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.24%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.62%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.08%) Big Data
9 2 (1.08%) Presto
10 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 35 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.22%) JIRA
3 26 (14.05%) Git
4 20 (10.81%) GitLab
5 17 (9.19%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.86%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (4.86%) Travis CI
7 6 (3.24%) Burp Suite
8 5 (2.70%) AppScan
8 5 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (2.70%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.62%) JMeter
10 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.08%) JUnit
11 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.54%) Mockito
General
1 69 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.11%) Banking
4 13 (7.03%) Finance
5 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.78%) Legal
7 5 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.62%) Games
9 3 (1.62%) Retail
10 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (25.41%) Analyst
2 28 (15.14%) SOC Analyst
3 24 (12.97%) Senior
4 20 (10.81%) Security Engineer
5 18 (9.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (9.19%) Programmer
6 17 (9.19%) Systems Programmer
6 17 (9.19%) z/OS Systems Programmer
7 14 (7.57%) Senior Analyst
7 14 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.95%) Architect
9 11 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) Lead
10 10 (5.41%) Developer
10 10 (5.41%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Compliance Analyst
11 8 (4.32%) Data Compliance Analyst
12 7 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (10.27%) ISPF
3 10 (5.41%) JSON
3 10 (5.41%) Spring Boot
3 10 (5.41%) YAML
4 9 (4.86%) Kafka
4 9 (4.86%) XML
5 6 (3.24%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (2.16%) Spring
7 3 (1.62%) LDAP
7 3 (1.62%) REST
8 2 (1.08%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.08%) OLE
8 2 (1.08%) Web Services
9 1 (0.54%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.54%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.54%) HTML
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 1 (0.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 19 (10.27%) Mainframe
2 19 (10.27%) Security Operations Centre
3 17 (9.19%) Cyberattack
4 12 (6.49%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (5.95%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.41%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.16%) PKI
8 4 (2.16%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.08%) Clustering
10 2 (1.08%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 63 (34.05%) Linux
2 57 (30.81%) Windows
3 22 (11.89%) zOS
4 10 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.32%) Unix
5 8 (4.32%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.16%) CentOS
8 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.27%) DevOps
2 49 (26.49%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (25.95%) Incident Response
4 38 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 31 (16.76%) Security Operations
7 29 (15.68%) Agile
8 28 (15.14%) SIEM
9 24 (12.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (12.97%) Use Case
10 23 (12.43%) Containerisation
10 23 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
13 20 (10.81%) Risk Management
14 19 (10.27%) Project Management
15 16 (8.65%) Analytics
15 16 (8.65%) Workflow
16 15 (8.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 65 (35.14%) Python
2 30 (16.22%) Bash
3 25 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 22 (11.89%) SQL
5 19 (10.27%) JCL
5 19 (10.27%) REXX
6 15 (8.11%) Assembly Language
7 12 (6.49%) Search Processing Language
8 10 (5.41%) Shell Script
9 9 (4.86%) Go
9 9 (4.86%) Java
10 8 (4.32%) Perl
11 5 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.70%) Ruby
12 3 (1.62%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.62%) C
12 3 (1.62%) C++
13 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.62%) SANS
5 2 (1.08%) CCNA
5 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.08%) CISSP
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) Degree
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CCNP
6 1 (0.54%) CCSP
6 1 (0.54%) CEH
6 1 (0.54%) CISM
6 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.54%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.54%) ISSEP
6 1 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.35%) QA
2 11 (5.95%) NIST
3 10 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.78%) NCSC
5 4 (2.16%) GDPR
6 3 (1.62%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.08%) SLA
8 1 (0.54%) COBIT
8 1 (0.54%) COSO
8 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 41 (22.16%) Docker
2 19 (10.27%) Time Sharing Option
3 15 (8.11%) ACF2
3 15 (8.11%) RACF
4 12 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.41%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.08%) XenApp
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.54%) Snort
7 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 38 (20.54%) Terraform
3 37 (20.00%) Ansible
4 27 (14.59%) Prometheus
5 25 (13.51%) Grafana
6 22 (11.89%) Progress Chef
7 20 (10.81%) Puppet
8 19 (10.27%) OMEGAMON
9 17 (9.19%) Kibana
10 11 (5.95%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (5.95%) HP Fortify
10 11 (5.95%) Nagios
11 10 (5.41%) Graylog
12 9 (4.86%) logstash
13 8 (4.32%) Nessus
14 7 (3.78%) SCCM
15 5 (2.70%) WebInspect
16 4 (2.16%) Istio
16 4 (2.16%) Trend Micro Deep Security
17 3 (1.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.27%) Broadcom
2 19 (10.27%) IBM
2 19 (10.27%) LogRhythm
3 17 (9.19%) Darktrace
3 17 (9.19%) FireEye
4 14 (7.57%) VMware
5 12 (6.49%) Cisco
6 8 (4.32%) F5
7 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.24%) Checkmarx
8 6 (3.24%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.70%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (2.70%) Veracode
10 4 (2.16%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.16%) Qualys
11 3 (1.62%) IronPort
11 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.62%) Symantec