Splunk Contracts

Splunk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 166 228
Rank change year-on-year -64 +62 +5
Contract jobs citing Splunk 436 884 1,125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.58% 1.28%
As % of the Vendors category 2.39% 3.63% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 660 723
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £699 £650
90th Percentile £685 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile - £51.70 £40.00
25th Percentile - £54.74 £47.96
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.11% -4.32% +37.36%
75th Percentile - £60.25 £76.88
90th Percentile - £60.52 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £62.50
% change year-on-year -33.11% -4.32% +37.36%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Splunk.

Hourly rate trend for Splunk in the UK

Splunk
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -86 348 £550 -8.33% 126
UK excluding London -42 211 £550 - 78
Work from Home -32 167 £535 -10.83% 72
London -77 154 £500 -22.48% 50
North of England -37 73 £550 - 14
Yorkshire +12 56 £550 - 4
South West -10 35 £550 +10.00% 9
South East -34 33 £533 -9.28% 17
Scotland +43 26 £535 -8.94% 10
East of England -3 22 £650 +18.18% 10
North West -38 17 £550 - 10
Midlands +13 16 £419 -31.63% 16
East Midlands +16 8 £359 -48.68% 12
West Midlands -2 8 £650 - 4
Wales +23 6 £645 -0.85%

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 30 (6.88%) Confluence
2 22 (5.05%) CMS
3 18 (4.13%) SAS
4 9 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.38%) JBoss
6 5 (1.15%) Apache
6 5 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.15%) IBM Notes
6 5 (1.15%) nginx
7 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.69%) IIS
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.46%) Traefik
10 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Trello
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 144 (33.03%) AWS
2 117 (26.83%) Azure
3 40 (9.17%) GCP
4 36 (8.26%) GitHub
5 28 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (5.50%) Amazon S3
6 24 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.13%) PaaS
9 16 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.67%) Datadog
9 16 (3.67%) SaaS
10 15 (3.44%) Serverless
11 14 (3.21%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.52%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (2.06%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.47%) Firewall
2 36 (8.26%) TCP/IP
3 32 (7.34%) DNS
4 21 (4.82%) HTTP
5 20 (4.59%) VPN
6 13 (2.98%) Network Security
7 12 (2.75%) DHCP
8 11 (2.52%) WAN
9 9 (2.06%) Wireshark
10 8 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (1.61%) FTP
11 7 (1.61%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.61%) LAN
11 7 (1.61%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.61%) SMTP
11 7 (1.61%) SSL
11 7 (1.61%) VLAN
12 6 (1.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
2 25 (5.73%) MySQL
3 22 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 21 (4.82%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.44%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.44%) Tableau
6 12 (2.75%) RDBMS
7 9 (2.06%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.83%) Power BI
9 7 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.92%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.92%) Metadata
12 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 74 (16.97%) Jenkins
2 54 (12.39%) JIRA
3 48 (11.01%) Git
4 36 (8.26%) GitLab
5 21 (4.82%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (2.52%) Burp Suite
9 10 (2.29%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.29%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.29%) Travis CI
10 8 (1.83%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.83%) Selenium
11 6 (1.38%) AppScan
11 6 (1.38%) Gatling
11 6 (1.38%) JMeter
11 6 (1.38%) Maven
12 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.15%) CA Release Automation
13 4 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
General
1 96 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.60%) Finance
3 54 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.70%) Banking
5 27 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.61%) Legal
7 7 (1.61%) Retail
8 6 (1.38%) Front Office
9 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.69%) Aviation
11 3 (0.69%) Games
11 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.46%) Military
12 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (14.91%) Analyst
2 44 (10.09%) Developer
2 44 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (9.86%) Senior
4 40 (9.17%) Security Engineer
5 37 (8.49%) SOC Analyst
6 34 (7.80%) Splunk Engineer
7 29 (6.65%) Lead
8 28 (6.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.50%) Architect
11 22 (5.05%) Site Engineer
12 17 (3.90%) Programmer
12 17 (3.90%) Python Developer
12 17 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (3.90%) Systems Programmer
12 17 (3.90%) z/OS Systems Programmer
13 15 (3.44%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (3.21%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.63%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (4.82%) Kafka
3 19 (4.36%) ISPF
3 19 (4.36%) JSON
4 18 (4.13%) REST
5 13 (2.98%) HTML
6 11 (2.52%) LDAP
6 11 (2.52%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.29%) YAML
8 9 (2.06%) Lambda Expressions
8 9 (2.06%) XML
9 7 (1.61%) CSS
10 6 (1.38%) Web Services
11 5 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.15%) Drools
11 5 (1.15%) OLE
11 5 (1.15%) Spring
11 5 (1.15%) Swagger
12 4 (0.92%) LangChain
12 4 (0.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.19%) Security Operations Centre
2 26 (5.96%) Public Cloud
3 20 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.36%) Mainframe
5 18 (4.13%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.90%) Cyberattack
7 16 (3.67%) Clustering
8 14 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.98%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (2.29%) Data Centre
12 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (25.00%) Linux
2 97 (22.25%) Windows
3 23 (5.28%) zOS
4 22 (5.05%) Unix
5 17 (3.90%) Windows Server
6 16 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.61%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (1.15%) Solaris
9 4 (0.92%) CentOS
10 2 (0.46%) Android
10 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (30.73%) DevOps
2 93 (21.33%) Agile
3 76 (17.43%) CI/CD
4 72 (16.51%) Cybersecurity
5 66 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (14.68%) Incident Response
7 62 (14.22%) SIEM
8 46 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 45 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (10.32%) Security Operations
10 40 (9.17%) Use Case
11 35 (8.03%) Continuous Integration
12 33 (7.57%) Containerisation
12 33 (7.57%) Project Management
12 33 (7.57%) Scrum
13 30 (6.88%) Analytics
13 30 (6.88%) Microservices
14 29 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (6.65%) Vulnerability Management
15 28 (6.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 166 (38.07%) Python
2 60 (13.76%) SQL
3 51 (11.70%) Bash
4 50 (11.47%) PowerShell
5 49 (11.24%) Java
6 34 (7.80%) Go
7 27 (6.19%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.36%) JCL
8 19 (4.36%) REXX
9 18 (4.13%) Search Processing Language
10 17 (3.90%) Ruby
11 15 (3.44%) Assembly Language
11 15 (3.44%) Shell Script
12 14 (3.21%) Perl
13 8 (1.83%) C
13 8 (1.83%) C++
13 8 (1.83%) Groovy
13 8 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.15%) C#
15 4 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.73%) Degree
4 13 (2.98%) CISSP
5 9 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.15%) SANS
8 4 (0.92%) CCNP
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.69%) CCDP
9 3 (0.69%) CCNA
9 3 (0.69%) CISM
10 2 (0.46%) CCSP
10 2 (0.46%) CEH
10 2 (0.46%) ISSEP
10 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.72%) QA
2 20 (4.59%) NIST
3 14 (3.21%) GDPR
4 12 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.61%) NCSC
6 6 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.92%) SLA
9 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.69%) GRC
9 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.23%) COBIT
11 1 (0.23%) COSO
11 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (17.66%) Docker
2 21 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.36%) Time Sharing Option
4 15 (3.44%) ACF2
4 15 (3.44%) RACF
5 4 (0.92%) Snort
5 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.46%) vSphere
6 2 (0.46%) XenApp
7 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (21.33%) Kubernetes
2 81 (18.58%) Terraform
3 70 (16.06%) Ansible
4 52 (11.93%) Grafana
5 50 (11.47%) Prometheus
6 34 (7.80%) Kibana
7 33 (7.57%) Puppet
8 29 (6.65%) Progress Chef
9 19 (4.36%) Nagios
9 19 (4.36%) OMEGAMON
10 17 (3.90%) logstash
11 15 (3.44%) Graylog
12 12 (2.75%) HP Fortify
12 12 (2.75%) Nessus
13 11 (2.52%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (2.52%) Opsgenie
14 8 (1.83%) Netcool
14 8 (1.83%) Podman
14 8 (1.83%) QRadar
14 8 (1.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.19%) Dynatrace
3 25 (5.73%) Cisco
3 25 (5.73%) IBM
4 24 (5.50%) VMware
5 21 (4.82%) LogRhythm
6 19 (4.36%) Broadcom
6 19 (4.36%) Darktrace
6 19 (4.36%) FireEye
7 17 (3.90%) New Relic
8 16 (3.67%) AppDynamics
8 16 (3.67%) Oracle
9 13 (2.98%) Adobe
10 12 (2.75%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.75%) Qualys
11 11 (2.52%) F5
11 11 (2.52%) PagerDuty
11 11 (2.52%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.83%) ServiceNow