Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Splunk products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Splunk over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 424 459
Rank change year-on-year -12 +35 -14
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 556 764 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 1.76% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 288 477 598
10th Percentile £42,238 £44,033 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £72,813 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £58,905 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.08% +2.44% +4.55%

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,672 43,426 60,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 41.84% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25,141 24,776 33,270
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Salary trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +54 421 £56,500 -4.08% 67
England -86 342 £60,000 -14.29% 110
Scotland +49 192 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Work from Home -98 143 £60,000 -17.24% 57
London -69 114 £72,500 -3.33% 49
North of England +22 95 £57,000 -1.40% 19
South East 0 63 £55,000 +4.76% 21
Yorkshire +78 49 £65,000 -6.40% 8
East of England +45 34 £65,000 +145.28% 10
North West -32 31 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Midlands +7 17 £50,000 -23.08% 6
North East +7 17 £52,500 -38.24% 1
South West -65 15 £55,000 -4.86% 6
East Midlands +3 12 £53,750 +13.16% 1
West Midlands +2 5 £50,000 -23.08% 5
Wales +1 3 - -
Isle of Man -16 1 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (3.78%) GemFire
2 7 (1.26%) Confluence
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.08%) Apache
4 5 (0.90%) IIS
4 5 (0.90%) Tomcat
4 5 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.72%) JBoss
5 4 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.54%) SAS
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 186 (33.45%) AWS
2 138 (24.82%) Datadog
3 127 (22.84%) Azure
4 78 (14.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 37 (6.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 33 (5.94%) IaaS
7 28 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (4.50%) GCP
10 23 (4.14%) GitHub
11 21 (3.78%) BlazeMeter
11 21 (3.78%) PaaS
12 15 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (2.52%) SaaS
13 14 (2.52%) Serverless
14 12 (2.16%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.62%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 58 (10.43%) Firewall
2 56 (10.07%) TCP/IP
3 45 (8.09%) Network Security
4 27 (4.86%) WAN
5 25 (4.50%) VPN
6 20 (3.60%) LAN
7 17 (3.06%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.70%) DNS
8 15 (2.70%) SNMP
9 13 (2.34%) SSH
10 10 (1.80%) Internet
11 9 (1.62%) SAN
12 8 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (1.44%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.26%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (0.72%) FTP
14 4 (0.72%) SMTP
14 4 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.99%) Relational Database
2 46 (8.27%) NoSQL
3 41 (7.37%) Apache Cassandra
4 29 (5.22%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.78%) Hazelcast
6 20 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.06%) MySQL
9 16 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (2.70%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.16%) Power BI
13 9 (1.62%) Redis
14 7 (1.26%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.08%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.90%) Pentaho
16 5 (0.90%) Tableau
17 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
17 4 (0.72%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 51 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 38 (6.83%) JUnit
3 32 (5.76%) GitLab
4 29 (5.22%) Jaeger
5 27 (4.86%) JIRA
6 26 (4.68%) Git
7 18 (3.24%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.52%) Eclipse
9 11 (1.98%) Maven
10 10 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.44%) JMeter
11 8 (1.44%) Selenium
12 7 (1.26%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.08%) Postman
13 6 (1.08%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.90%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.72%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.72%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.72%) Jasmine
15 4 (0.72%) Mockito
General
1 284 (51.08%) Finance
2 211 (37.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 201 (36.15%) Law
4 174 (31.29%) Social Skills
5 95 (17.09%) Marketing
6 80 (14.39%) Banking
7 55 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (6.47%) Investment Banking
9 34 (6.12%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.78%) Private Banking
11 19 (3.42%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.98%) Legal
14 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.54%) Retail
16 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.36%) Games
17 2 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 165 (29.68%) Software Engineer
2 116 (20.86%) Lead
3 85 (15.29%) Senior
4 77 (13.85%) Analyst
5 73 (13.13%) Lead Software Engineer
6 60 (10.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (9.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 47 (8.45%) Java Engineer
8 47 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
9 43 (7.73%) Security Engineer
10 41 (7.37%) SOC Analyst
11 31 (5.58%) Splunk Engineer
12 27 (4.86%) Architect
13 26 (4.68%) Support Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) Lead Java Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) SIEM Engineer
15 23 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.60%) Developer
17 19 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 83 (14.93%) Spring
3 80 (14.39%) Kafka
4 68 (12.23%) Spring Boot
5 59 (10.61%) REST
6 33 (5.94%) HTML
7 32 (5.76%) JPA
8 28 (5.04%) .NET
9 22 (3.96%) Web Services
10 20 (3.60%) CSS
11 18 (3.24%) RESTful
12 17 (3.06%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.34%) Ajax
13 13 (2.34%) Fluent Bit
13 13 (2.34%) JDBC
13 13 (2.34%) ODBC
13 13 (2.34%) SOAP
13 13 (2.34%) XHTML
13 13 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 98 (17.63%) Public Cloud
3 71 (12.77%) Management Information System
4 45 (8.09%) Algorithms
5 39 (7.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 33 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (4.14%) Data Centre
8 22 (3.96%) Onboarding
9 21 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (3.78%) Replication
10 16 (2.88%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (2.34%) CMDB
12 13 (2.34%) PKI
13 11 (1.98%) Client/Server
14 10 (1.80%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.80%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.80%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (21.58%) Windows
2 90 (16.19%) Linux
3 55 (9.89%) Unix
4 23 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.52%) Android
5 14 (2.52%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.62%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.44%) zOS
9 7 (1.26%) CentOS
10 6 (1.08%) Mac OS X
10 6 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.08%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.72%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.72%) Solaris
12 2 (0.36%) AIX
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (43.17%) Agile
2 230 (41.37%) CI/CD
3 208 (37.41%) Software Engineering
4 167 (30.04%) Community of Practice
5 156 (28.06%) Operational Stability
6 152 (27.34%) SDLC
7 142 (25.54%) Cybersecurity
8 135 (24.28%) Observability
8 135 (24.28%) SIEM
9 126 (22.66%) Continuous Delivery
10 120 (21.58%) Artificial Intelligence
11 104 (18.71%) Architectural Design
11 104 (18.71%) Machine Learning
12 102 (18.35%) DevOps
13 96 (17.27%) Information Architecture
14 94 (16.91%) Identity Access Management
15 92 (16.55%) Microservices
16 86 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
17 84 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 81 (14.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.53%) Java
2 138 (24.82%) Python
3 91 (16.37%) SQL
4 85 (15.29%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.76%) Bash
6 31 (5.58%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.86%) C#
8 21 (3.78%) Groovy
9 17 (3.06%) Perl
10 12 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.80%) Go
12 7 (1.26%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.90%) R
15 4 (0.72%) C++
15 4 (0.72%) JCL
15 4 (0.72%) REXX
16 3 (0.54%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.54%) C
17 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.19%) CISSP
3 40 (7.19%) Degree
4 21 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (2.88%) CEH
6 16 (2.88%) SSCP
7 15 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (2.52%) CCSP
8 14 (2.52%) SANS
9 8 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.26%) GIAC
10 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.90%) CISA
11 5 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.90%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.83%) NIST
2 37 (6.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.78%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.80%) NCSC
5 8 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 8 (1.44%) QA
6 5 (0.90%) JSP 440
6 5 (0.90%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.54%) RMADS
8 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.18%) IASME
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 73 (13.13%) Docker
2 29 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.80%) vSphere
6 7 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.72%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.54%) ACF2
8 3 (0.54%) RACF
8 3 (0.54%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.54%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 214 (38.49%) Grafana
2 117 (21.04%) Terraform
3 106 (19.06%) Prometheus
4 67 (12.05%) Kubernetes
5 44 (7.91%) Kibana
6 32 (5.76%) Ansible
7 26 (4.68%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (3.78%) HAProxy
8 21 (3.78%) QRadar
8 21 (3.78%) Zipkin
9 19 (3.42%) logstash
9 19 (3.42%) Nagios
10 17 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (2.52%) Nmap
12 13 (2.34%) Fluentd
12 13 (2.34%) Puppet
12 13 (2.34%) WMI
13 9 (1.62%) Graphite
13 9 (1.62%) Kiali
13 9 (1.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 197 (35.43%) Dynatrace
2 68 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.40%) Cisco
4 29 (5.22%) Google
4 29 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 28 (5.04%) Oracle
6 27 (4.86%) VMware
7 26 (4.68%) IBM
8 22 (3.96%) Rapid7
9 20 (3.60%) Qualys
10 18 (3.24%) New Relic
11 17 (3.06%) AppDynamics
12 14 (2.52%) Juniper
12 14 (2.52%) Thycotic
13 13 (2.34%) Red Hat
14 12 (2.16%) Palo Alto
15 11 (1.98%) LogicMonitor
16 8 (1.44%) Ivanti
17 7 (1.26%) McAfee
18 6 (1.08%) ArcSight