Splunk Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 151 200
Rank change year-on-year -38 +49 +2
Contract jobs citing Splunk 167 400 605
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 1.65% 1.37%
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 3.77% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 288 392
10th Percentile £410 £450 £400
25th Percentile £450 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £810 £706
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £40.24
25th Percentile - £49.68 £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% -19.47% +201.14%
75th Percentile - £57.03 £76.88
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £62.50
% change year-on-year -33.11% -4.32% +37.36%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,190 10,605 17,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.27% 43.75% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,936 7,138 12,016
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £630
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 251 249
10th Percentile £13.31 £16.61 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +22.09% +65.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £57.38
90th Percentile £71.75 £80.00 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

Splunk
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Splunk trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Splunk.

Splunk daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Splunk over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Splunk daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Splunk.

Splunk hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (13.17%) Confluence
2 9 (5.39%) SAS
3 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.40%) Apache
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.80%) JBoss
6 2 (1.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.93%) AWS
2 43 (25.75%) Azure
3 15 (8.98%) GitHub
4 14 (8.38%) SaaS
5 13 (7.78%) GCP
6 12 (7.19%) PaaS
7 11 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (5.39%) Datadog
8 9 (5.39%) Miro
9 8 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.59%) Serverless
12 5 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.99%) IaaS
12 5 (2.99%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.99%) Rubrik
13 4 (2.40%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.17%) Firewall
2 19 (11.38%) TCP/IP
3 16 (9.58%) DNS
4 9 (5.39%) DHCP
4 9 (5.39%) Wireshark
5 8 (4.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (4.79%) Network Security
5 8 (4.79%) WAN
6 7 (4.19%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (3.59%) HTTP
7 6 (3.59%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.59%) SNMP
7 6 (3.59%) VLAN
7 6 (3.59%) VPN
8 5 (2.99%) BGP
8 5 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.99%) Kerberos
8 5 (2.99%) LAN
8 5 (2.99%) OSPF
8 5 (2.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (5.39%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.19%) Hadoop
3 7 (4.19%) MySQL
3 7 (4.19%) Tableau
4 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.99%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.40%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.80%) Big Data
6 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.80%) Power BI
6 3 (1.80%) Presto
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.60%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (16.17%) JIRA
2 21 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.58%) Git
4 11 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (5.99%) GitLab
6 8 (4.79%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.40%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.40%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (2.40%) Travis CI
9 3 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.80%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (1.20%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.20%) JMeter
10 2 (1.20%) Selenium
11 1 (0.60%) Darcs
11 1 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.36%) Finance
3 29 (17.37%) Banking
4 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.40%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Military
7 2 (1.20%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Front Office
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (11.38%) Analyst
3 15 (8.98%) Senior
4 13 (7.78%) Architect
4 13 (7.78%) Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Splunk Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Programmer
9 8 (4.79%) Systems Programmer
9 8 (4.79%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 6 (3.59%) Consultant
10 6 (3.59%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (2.99%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (5.39%) ISPF
3 5 (2.99%) HTML
3 5 (2.99%) LDAP
3 5 (2.99%) REST
3 5 (2.99%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.40%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (2.40%) JSON
4 4 (2.40%) OLE
5 3 (1.80%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.80%) CSS
5 3 (1.80%) Kafka
5 3 (1.80%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.80%) Web Services
5 3 (1.80%) XML
5 3 (1.80%) YAML
6 2 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.20%) OAuth
6 2 (1.20%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Clustering
2 9 (5.39%) Mainframe
2 9 (5.39%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.79%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.99%) Replication
5 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.40%) YARA
7 3 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.20%) Equities
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.96%) Windows
2 33 (19.76%) Linux
3 9 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.39%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.39%) zOS
4 6 (3.59%) Unix
5 5 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (2.99%) Solaris
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.54%) DevOps
2 40 (23.95%) Agile
3 27 (16.17%) CI/CD
4 21 (12.57%) Incident Response
5 20 (11.98%) Change Management
6 19 (11.38%) SIEM
6 19 (11.38%) Use Case
7 17 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (8.98%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (8.98%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (7.78%) Analytics
9 13 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (7.78%) Incident Management
9 13 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (7.78%) Scrum
10 12 (7.19%) Security Hardening
10 12 (7.19%) Security Operations
10 12 (7.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.53%) Python
2 19 (11.38%) SQL
3 18 (10.78%) Bash
4 15 (8.98%) Java
5 14 (8.38%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.78%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.59%) Ruby
8 10 (5.99%) Perl
9 9 (5.39%) Assembly Language
9 9 (5.39%) JCL
9 9 (5.39%) REXX
10 7 (4.19%) Go
11 6 (3.59%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (2.99%) C
12 5 (2.99%) C++
13 3 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.20%) PHP
14 2 (1.20%) Rust
14 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (23.35%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.59%) Degree
4 4 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.80%) CCDP
5 3 (1.80%) CCNP
5 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.80%) SANS
6 2 (1.20%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CCNA
7 1 (0.60%) CCSP
7 1 (0.60%) CEH
7 1 (0.60%) CISM
7 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.60%) ISSEP
7 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) NIST
2 10 (5.99%) GDPR
3 8 (4.79%) QA
4 5 (2.99%) NCSC
4 5 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.60%) COBIT
7 1 (0.60%) COSO
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (14.97%) Docker
2 10 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.39%) ACF2
3 9 (5.39%) RACF
3 9 (5.39%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (2.40%) Snort
5 2 (1.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (21.56%) Kubernetes
2 33 (19.76%) Terraform
3 26 (15.57%) Ansible
4 17 (10.18%) Grafana
4 17 (10.18%) Kibana
5 15 (8.98%) Prometheus
6 12 (7.19%) Progress Chef
7 10 (5.99%) Puppet
8 9 (5.39%) OMEGAMON
9 6 (3.59%) Nessus
10 5 (2.99%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (2.99%) logstash
10 5 (2.99%) Nagios
10 5 (2.99%) Netcool
10 5 (2.99%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.99%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (2.40%) Opsgenie
11 4 (2.40%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (1.80%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 30 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) Cisco
3 14 (8.38%) IBM
4 13 (7.78%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.59%) VMware
6 9 (5.39%) Broadcom
6 9 (5.39%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.39%) Oracle
6 9 (5.39%) Palo Alto
7 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.59%) Google
9 5 (2.99%) Dell
9 5 (2.99%) EMC
9 5 (2.99%) HP
9 5 (2.99%) Isilon
9 5 (2.99%) Qualys
9 5 (2.99%) Serena
9 5 (2.99%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.40%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.40%) Red Hat