Splunk Engineer Contracts

Splunk Engineer
UK

The median Splunk Engineer daily rate in the UK is £581 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 624 787
Rank change year-on-year +89 +163 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Splunk Engineer 36 63 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.11% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.12% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 40 32
10th Percentile £478 £505 £406
25th Percentile £511 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -5.62% +12.66%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £664
90th Percentile £634 £704 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +11.90% +10.53% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Splunk Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Splunk Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk Engineer in the UK

Splunk Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +89 26 £588 +11.90% 4
London +94 17 £569 +2.48% 2
Work from Home +81 13 £550 +4.76% 5
UK excluding London +46 6 £588 +11.90% 3
North of England +33 5 £588 +17.50% 2
North West +24 5 £588 +42.42% 2
Midlands +22 1 £625 -10.71%
East Midlands - 1 £625 -

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Splunk Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Splunk Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Splunk
2 12 (33.33%) SIEM
2 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 11 (30.56%) Banking
4 10 (27.78%) Change Management
4 10 (27.78%) Onboarding
5 9 (25.00%) Python
6 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 8 (22.22%) DevOps
7 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
7 7 (19.44%) Data Analytics
7 7 (19.44%) Analytics
7 7 (19.44%) Tableau
7 7 (19.44%) Data Mapping
7 7 (19.44%) SQL
7 7 (19.44%) ETL
7 7 (19.44%) CISSP
7 7 (19.44%) Shell Script
7 7 (19.44%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
10 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
11 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
11 3 (8.33%) Insider Threat
11 3 (8.33%) AWS
11 3 (8.33%) Use Case
11 3 (8.33%) ITSM
12 2 (5.56%) Migration

Splunk Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Gatling
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.33%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) SIEM
2 10 (27.78%) Change Management
3 8 (22.22%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Analytics
4 7 (19.44%) Data Analytics
4 7 (19.44%) Data Mapping
4 7 (19.44%) ETL
4 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (8.33%) ITSM
5 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.33%) Use Case
6 2 (5.56%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis
6 2 (5.56%) Data Migration
6 2 (5.56%) Migration
7 1 (2.78%) Computer Science
7 1 (2.78%) Knowledge Management
7 1 (2.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Search Processing Language
2 7 (19.44%) Shell Script
2 7 (19.44%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) CISSP
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle