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 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 172 237
Rank change year-on-year -70 +65 -11
Contract jobs citing Splunk 420 881 1,108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.53% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 2.31% 3.56% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 648 698
10th Percentile £401 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £651
90th Percentile £681 £798 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £51.70 £41.75
25th Percentile - £54.74 £48.90
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.11% -4.32% +37.36%
75th Percentile - £60.25 £72.03
90th Percentile - £60.52 £77.50
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 18,149 24,781 35,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,244 16,575 23,424
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £642 £637
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 681 898
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

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 14 May 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 14 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 -82 336 £550 -8.33% 93
UK excluding London -45 186 £550 - 59
Work from Home -27 163 £535 -9.89% 50
London -63 162 £519 -17.00% 43
North of England -44 62 £550 - 15
Yorkshire +3 45 £558 +1.36% 8
South East -22 30 £533 -9.28% 19
South West -17 29 £575 +21.05% 5
Scotland +35 23 £555 -5.53% 7
East of England +5 20 £625 +4.17% 7
North West -27 17 £550 - 7
Midlands +12 16 £419 -35.58% 6
East Midlands +20 8 £359 -48.68% 2
West Midlands +3 8 £650 -1.89% 4
Wales +25 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 20 (4.76%) CMS
3 18 (4.29%) SAS
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.43%) JBoss
6 5 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.19%) IBM Notes
6 5 (1.19%) nginx
7 4 (0.95%) Apache
8 3 (0.71%) IIS
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.48%) Traefik
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Trello
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 146 (34.76%) AWS
2 119 (28.33%) Azure
3 40 (9.52%) GCP
4 36 (8.57%) GitHub
5 31 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (5.71%) Amazon S3
8 23 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (4.52%) PaaS
10 17 (4.05%) SaaS
11 16 (3.81%) Serverless
12 15 (3.57%) Datadog
13 14 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.33%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (2.38%) Snowflake
17 9 (2.14%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.14%) Firewall
2 38 (9.05%) TCP/IP
3 30 (7.14%) DNS
4 21 (5.00%) HTTP
4 21 (5.00%) VPN
5 13 (3.10%) DHCP
5 13 (3.10%) Network Security
6 11 (2.62%) WAN
7 9 (2.14%) Wireshark
8 8 (1.90%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 8 (1.90%) VLAN
9 7 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (1.67%) FTP
9 7 (1.67%) LAN
9 7 (1.67%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.67%) SMTP
10 6 (1.43%) NAS
10 6 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (6.43%) MySQL
3 22 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 22 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.33%) Tableau
6 13 (3.10%) RDBMS
7 12 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.14%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.14%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.14%) Power BI
9 8 (1.90%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.19%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.95%) Big Data
12 4 (0.95%) Metadata
13 3 (0.71%) Presto
Development Applications
1 80 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 55 (13.10%) JIRA
3 51 (12.14%) Git
4 36 (8.57%) GitLab
5 21 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.62%) Burp Suite
7 11 (2.62%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.38%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.38%) Travis CI
9 8 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.90%) Selenium
10 6 (1.43%) AppScan
10 6 (1.43%) Gatling
10 6 (1.43%) JMeter
10 6 (1.43%) Maven
11 5 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.19%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.19%) CA Release Automation
General
1 94 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.76%) Finance
3 51 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.71%) Banking
5 31 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.90%) Legal
7 6 (1.43%) Front Office
8 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.19%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.95%) Retail
10 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.71%) Aviation
10 3 (0.71%) Games
10 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.48%) Military
11 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (15.95%) Analyst
2 44 (10.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (9.76%) Senior
4 39 (9.29%) Security Engineer
5 38 (9.05%) Splunk Engineer
6 35 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
7 34 (8.10%) Developer
8 29 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (6.19%) Lead
10 24 (5.71%) Architect
11 23 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (5.48%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.05%) Data Analyst
12 17 (4.05%) Programmer
12 17 (4.05%) Systems Programmer
12 17 (4.05%) z/OS Systems Programmer
13 16 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) Consultant
14 14 (3.33%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (5.00%) Kafka
3 19 (4.52%) ISPF
3 19 (4.52%) JSON
4 17 (4.05%) REST
5 11 (2.62%) HTML
5 11 (2.62%) LDAP
5 11 (2.62%) Spring Boot
6 10 (2.38%) YAML
7 9 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
7 9 (2.14%) XML
8 7 (1.67%) CSS
9 6 (1.43%) Web Services
10 5 (1.19%) Drools
10 5 (1.19%) OLE
10 5 (1.19%) Spring
10 5 (1.19%) Swagger
11 4 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (0.95%) Loki
11 4 (0.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.43%) Public Cloud
2 26 (6.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.52%) Mainframe
5 18 (4.29%) Clustering
5 18 (4.29%) Data Structures
6 17 (4.05%) Cyberattack
6 17 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 13 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.86%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (2.38%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.67%) Replication
12 7 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 107 (25.48%) Linux
2 97 (23.10%) Windows
3 26 (6.19%) Unix
4 22 (5.24%) zOS
5 21 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 18 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (1.43%) Solaris
8 5 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.95%) CentOS
10 2 (0.48%) Android
10 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (30.71%) DevOps
2 95 (22.62%) Agile
3 76 (18.10%) CI/CD
4 68 (16.19%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (15.24%) SIEM
6 63 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 50 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 45 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (10.00%) Security Operations
10 42 (10.00%) Use Case
11 36 (8.57%) Analytics
11 36 (8.57%) Containerisation
11 36 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (8.10%) Project Management
13 33 (7.86%) Scrum
14 32 (7.62%) Microservices
15 29 (6.90%) Risk Management
16 28 (6.67%) Migration
17 27 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (35.71%) Python
2 61 (14.52%) SQL
3 56 (13.33%) Bash
4 54 (12.86%) PowerShell
5 48 (11.43%) Java
6 29 (6.90%) Go
7 21 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.52%) JCL
8 19 (4.52%) REXX
9 16 (3.81%) Search Processing Language
10 15 (3.57%) Assembly Language
10 15 (3.57%) Ruby
10 15 (3.57%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.33%) Perl
12 9 (2.14%) Groovy
13 8 (1.90%) C
13 8 (1.90%) C++
14 6 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.19%) C#
16 4 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.24%) Degree
4 14 (3.33%) CISSP
5 13 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.19%) CISM
7 5 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.19%) SANS
8 4 (0.95%) CCNP
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.71%) CCDP
9 3 (0.71%) CCNA
9 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.48%) CCSP
10 2 (0.48%) CEH
10 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.48%) ISSEP
11 1 (0.24%) CISA
11 1 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.33%) QA
2 20 (4.76%) NIST
3 15 (3.57%) GDPR
4 11 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.67%) NCSC
6 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.95%) SLA
8 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.71%) GRC
8 3 (0.71%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.24%) COBIT
10 1 (0.24%) COSO
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (19.52%) Docker
2 23 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 19 (4.52%) Time Sharing Option
5 15 (3.57%) ACF2
5 15 (3.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.95%) Snort
6 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.48%) XenApp
8 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.24%) HDFS
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (22.38%) Kubernetes
2 78 (18.57%) Terraform
3 70 (16.67%) Ansible
4 54 (12.86%) Prometheus
5 51 (12.14%) Grafana
6 37 (8.81%) Kibana
6 37 (8.81%) Puppet
7 29 (6.90%) Progress Chef
8 24 (5.71%) Nagios
9 19 (4.52%) OMEGAMON
10 18 (4.29%) Graylog
10 18 (4.29%) logstash
11 12 (2.86%) HP Fortify
12 11 (2.62%) Docker Swarm
12 11 (2.62%) Opsgenie
13 10 (2.38%) Nessus
14 9 (2.14%) Netcool
14 9 (2.14%) QRadar
15 8 (1.90%) Podman
15 8 (1.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.43%) Cisco
2 27 (6.43%) VMware
3 26 (6.19%) IBM
4 24 (5.71%) Dynatrace
5 19 (4.52%) Broadcom
5 19 (4.52%) LogRhythm
5 19 (4.52%) Oracle
6 17 (4.05%) AppDynamics
6 17 (4.05%) Darktrace
6 17 (4.05%) FireEye
6 17 (4.05%) New Relic
7 15 (3.57%) Adobe
8 12 (2.86%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.86%) Palo Alto
9 11 (2.62%) PagerDuty
9 11 (2.62%) Qualys
10 10 (2.38%) F5
11 9 (2.14%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.90%) ArcSight