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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 420 435
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 561 720 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 1.77% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 287 448 628
10th Percentile £42,238 £43,025 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% -

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 36,727 40,716 64,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.79% 41.82% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 24,890 23,574 33,282
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 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 28 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 28 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 +52 424 £56,500 -13.08% 70
England -87 350 £60,000 -14.29% 101
Scotland +61 194 £80,000 +6.67% 10
Work from Home -121 141 £60,000 -14.29% 64
London -37 123 £72,500 -3.33% 41
North of England +21 93 £57,000 -1.40% 14
South East 0 68 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Yorkshire +75 47 £65,000 -6.40% 7
North West -26 31 £60,000 +4.35% 7
East of England +15 27 £60,000 +7.62% 11
South West -64 20 £50,000 -13.51% 6
Midlands -6 19 £50,000 -23.08% 8
North East +5 17 £52,500 -38.24%
East Midlands -6 14 £50,000 +5.26% 6
West Midlands 0 5 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Wales -6 1 - -
Isle of Man -14 1 - - 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 (3.74%) GemFire
2 11 (1.96%) Apache
3 8 (1.43%) JBoss
4 7 (1.25%) Confluence
4 7 (1.25%) nginx
5 5 (0.89%) IIS
5 5 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.89%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 197 (35.12%) AWS
2 142 (25.31%) Azure
2 142 (25.31%) Datadog
3 77 (13.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 39 (6.95%) Azure Sentinel
5 33 (5.88%) IaaS
6 30 (5.35%) Cloud Computing
7 28 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.10%) GCP
11 22 (3.92%) GitHub
11 22 (3.92%) PaaS
12 20 (3.57%) BlazeMeter
13 15 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (2.67%) SaaS
14 14 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (2.50%) Serverless
15 13 (2.32%) OpenShift
16 10 (1.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.05%) Firewall
2 54 (9.63%) TCP/IP
3 46 (8.20%) Network Security
4 22 (3.92%) VPN
4 22 (3.92%) WAN
5 19 (3.39%) DNS
6 18 (3.21%) LAN
6 18 (3.21%) Wireshark
7 15 (2.67%) SNMP
8 13 (2.32%) SSH
9 12 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.14%) SAN
10 9 (1.60%) Internet
11 7 (1.25%) SSL
12 5 (0.89%) DHCP
12 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.71%) BGP
13 4 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.73%) Relational Database
2 47 (8.38%) NoSQL
3 42 (7.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 29 (5.17%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.74%) Hazelcast
5 21 (3.74%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.21%) MySQL
7 17 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.85%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.78%) Power BI
10 10 (1.78%) Redis
11 6 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.07%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.89%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.71%) Big Data
13 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (10.52%) Jenkins
2 38 (6.77%) JUnit
3 32 (5.70%) GitLab
4 30 (5.35%) Git
5 29 (5.17%) Jaeger
6 27 (4.81%) JIRA
7 21 (3.74%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.85%) Eclipse
9 11 (1.96%) JMeter
9 11 (1.96%) Maven
10 10 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.60%) Selenium
11 9 (1.60%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.60%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.07%) Postman
13 5 (0.89%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.71%) Mockito
14 4 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.71%) Robot Framework
15 3 (0.53%) Travis CI
General
1 276 (49.20%) Finance
2 214 (38.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 201 (35.83%) Law
4 178 (31.73%) Social Skills
5 96 (17.11%) Marketing
6 74 (13.19%) Banking
7 47 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (6.24%) Investment Banking
9 32 (5.70%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.57%) Aerospace
10 20 (3.57%) Private Banking
11 13 (2.32%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.14%) Legal
13 10 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.53%) Retail
15 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
17 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 169 (30.12%) Software Engineer
2 117 (20.86%) Lead
3 80 (14.26%) Senior
4 73 (13.01%) Lead Software Engineer
5 72 (12.83%) Analyst
6 64 (11.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (9.27%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 48 (8.56%) Java Engineer
8 48 (8.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 44 (7.84%) Security Engineer
10 40 (7.13%) SOC Analyst
11 30 (5.35%) Splunk Engineer
12 27 (4.81%) Architect
13 26 (4.63%) Support Engineer
14 25 (4.46%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 24 (4.28%) Lead Java Engineer
16 23 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
18 20 (3.57%) Developer
19 19 (3.39%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.54%) OpenTelemetry
2 82 (14.62%) Spring
3 81 (14.44%) Kafka
4 67 (11.94%) Spring Boot
5 58 (10.34%) REST
6 34 (6.06%) HTML
7 32 (5.70%) JPA
8 29 (5.17%) .NET
9 24 (4.28%) CSS
10 22 (3.92%) Web Services
11 18 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (2.67%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.67%) RESTful
13 13 (2.32%) Ajax
13 13 (2.32%) JDBC
13 13 (2.32%) ODBC
13 13 (2.32%) SOAP
13 13 (2.32%) XHTML
13 13 (2.32%) XML
14 12 (2.14%) Fluent Bit
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 99 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 76 (13.55%) Management Information System
4 45 (8.02%) Algorithms
5 36 (6.42%) Security Operations Centre
6 34 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (4.46%) Data Centre
8 21 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.74%) Replication
9 19 (3.39%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.67%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (2.32%) CMDB
11 13 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (2.14%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.78%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.60%) PKI
14 9 (1.60%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 119 (21.21%) Windows
2 100 (17.83%) Linux
3 57 (10.16%) Unix
4 22 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.50%) Android
6 14 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.78%) CentOS
8 9 (1.60%) zOS
9 8 (1.43%) Windows 10
9 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.25%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.07%) Mac OS X
11 6 (1.07%) Solaris
11 6 (1.07%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.89%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.71%) AIX
14 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (42.60%) Agile
2 233 (41.53%) CI/CD
3 211 (37.61%) Software Engineering
4 167 (29.77%) Community of Practice
5 157 (27.99%) Operational Stability
6 149 (26.56%) SDLC
7 141 (25.13%) Cybersecurity
8 139 (24.78%) Observability
9 130 (23.17%) SIEM
10 126 (22.46%) Continuous Delivery
11 119 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
12 105 (18.72%) DevOps
13 103 (18.36%) Architectural Design
13 103 (18.36%) Machine Learning
14 98 (17.47%) Identity Access Management
15 96 (17.11%) Information Architecture
16 91 (16.22%) Microservices
17 88 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
18 84 (14.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 84 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.22%) Java
2 144 (25.67%) Python
3 87 (15.51%) SQL
4 85 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 37 (6.60%) Bash
5 37 (6.60%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.46%) C#
7 21 (3.74%) Groovy
8 19 (3.39%) Perl
9 17 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.96%) Go
11 6 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.89%) JCL
12 5 (0.89%) REXX
12 5 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.71%) C++
14 3 (0.53%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.53%) C
14 3 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 49 (8.73%) Degree
3 47 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 46 (8.20%) CISSP
5 28 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.85%) CEH
7 16 (2.85%) SSCP
8 14 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (2.50%) CCSP
8 14 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.50%) SANS
9 9 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.43%) GIAC
11 7 (1.25%) CISM
11 7 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.07%) CISA
12 6 (1.07%) JNCIA
13 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (6.95%) NIST
3 21 (3.74%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.78%) NCSC
5 9 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (1.43%) QA
7 7 (1.25%) SLA
8 5 (0.89%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.53%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.53%) RMADS
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.18%) IASME
System Software
1 81 (14.44%) Docker
2 28 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.96%) vSphere
5 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.07%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.89%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.71%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.53%) ACF2
9 3 (0.53%) KVM
9 3 (0.53%) RACF
9 3 (0.53%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.36%) Firmware
10 2 (0.36%) LXC
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.36%) Squid
11 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 218 (38.86%) Grafana
2 125 (22.28%) Terraform
3 113 (20.14%) Prometheus
4 78 (13.90%) Kubernetes
5 45 (8.02%) Kibana
6 41 (7.31%) Ansible
7 26 (4.63%) ITRS Geneos
8 25 (4.46%) Nagios
9 23 (4.10%) QRadar
10 21 (3.74%) HAProxy
10 21 (3.74%) Zipkin
11 18 (3.21%) logstash
11 18 (3.21%) Puppet
12 17 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (2.67%) Progress Chef
14 14 (2.50%) Nmap
15 13 (2.32%) WMI
16 12 (2.14%) Fluentd
17 10 (1.78%) Graphite
17 10 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (34.76%) Dynatrace
2 70 (12.48%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.70%) ServiceNow
4 31 (5.53%) Oracle
4 31 (5.53%) VMware
5 29 (5.17%) IBM
6 26 (4.63%) Google
7 25 (4.46%) Cisco
8 23 (4.10%) New Relic
9 22 (3.92%) Rapid7
10 20 (3.57%) Qualys
10 20 (3.57%) Red Hat
11 18 (3.21%) AppDynamics
12 14 (2.50%) Juniper
12 14 (2.50%) Thycotic
13 13 (2.32%) Palo Alto
14 11 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
15 10 (1.78%) Atlassian
16 8 (1.43%) Ivanti
17 7 (1.25%) McAfee