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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 421 455
Rank change year-on-year -12 +34 -12
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 562 749 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.74% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 1.76% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 291 467 597
10th Percentile £42,238 £43,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £73,125 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.65% +6.67%

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 36,515 42,452 61,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.89% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25,000 24,240 32,762
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 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 9 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 9 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 +45 423 £56,500 -2.27% 57
England -70 350 £60,000 -14.29% 90
Scotland +55 192 £90,000 +20.00% 9
Work from Home -112 144 £60,000 -17.24% 54
London -72 121 £72,500 -3.33% 42
North of England +24 96 £57,500 -0.54% 15
South East -5 66 £55,000 +2.33% 16
Yorkshire +88 49 £65,000 -6.40% 6
East of England +46 32 £60,000 +126.42% 5
North West -24 32 £56,391 +7.41% 8
North East +7 17 £52,500 -38.24% 1
Midlands -15 17 £50,000 -23.08% 6
South West -62 16 £55,000 -4.86% 6
East Midlands -8 12 £53,750 +13.16% 1
West Midlands -1 5 £50,000 -24.53% 5
Wales -3 2 - -
Isle of Man -17 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 8 (1.42%) Apache
3 7 (1.25%) Confluence
4 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.89%) JBoss
5 5 (0.89%) nginx
5 5 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.89%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.71%) IIS
7 3 (0.53%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 191 (33.99%) AWS
2 141 (25.09%) Datadog
3 132 (23.49%) Azure
4 79 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 37 (6.58%) Azure Sentinel
6 33 (5.87%) IaaS
7 29 (5.16%) Cloud Computing
8 28 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (4.45%) GCP
11 23 (4.09%) GitHub
12 22 (3.91%) PaaS
13 21 (3.74%) BlazeMeter
14 15 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (2.67%) SaaS
15 14 (2.49%) Serverless
16 13 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.96%) Power Platform
18 10 (1.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 59 (10.50%) Firewall
2 57 (10.14%) TCP/IP
3 44 (7.83%) Network Security
4 25 (4.45%) VPN
4 25 (4.45%) WAN
5 19 (3.38%) LAN
6 18 (3.20%) Wireshark
7 15 (2.67%) DNS
7 15 (2.67%) SNMP
8 13 (2.31%) SSH
9 10 (1.78%) Internet
10 9 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (1.60%) SAN
11 7 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (1.07%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.89%) SSL
14 3 (0.53%) DHCP
14 3 (0.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.90%) Relational Database
2 46 (8.19%) NoSQL
3 41 (7.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 29 (5.16%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.74%) Hazelcast
5 21 (3.74%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.20%) MySQL
7 16 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.96%) Power BI
11 9 (1.60%) Redis
12 6 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.07%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.89%) Pentaho
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.71%) Big Data
14 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (9.79%) Jenkins
2 38 (6.76%) JUnit
3 33 (5.87%) GitLab
4 29 (5.16%) Jaeger
5 28 (4.98%) Git
6 27 (4.80%) JIRA
7 20 (3.56%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.67%) Eclipse
9 11 (1.96%) Maven
10 10 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.60%) JMeter
12 8 (1.42%) Selenium
12 8 (1.42%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.25%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.07%) Postman
15 5 (0.89%) Cypress.io
16 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
16 4 (0.71%) Jasmine
16 4 (0.71%) Mockito
16 4 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 283 (50.36%) Finance
2 210 (37.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 202 (35.94%) Law
4 180 (32.03%) Social Skills
5 96 (17.08%) Marketing
6 80 (14.23%) Banking
7 54 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (6.41%) Investment Banking
9 33 (5.87%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.74%) Private Banking
11 20 (3.56%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.49%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.14%) Legal
14 10 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.53%) Retail
17 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
18 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 165 (29.36%) Software Engineer
2 115 (20.46%) Lead
3 86 (15.30%) Senior
4 76 (13.52%) Analyst
5 73 (12.99%) Lead Software Engineer
6 62 (11.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (9.25%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 47 (8.36%) Java Engineer
8 47 (8.36%) Java Software Engineer
9 43 (7.65%) Security Engineer
10 42 (7.47%) SOC Analyst
11 32 (5.69%) Splunk Engineer
12 27 (4.80%) Architect
13 26 (4.63%) Support Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Lead Java Engineer
15 23 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (4.09%) SIEM Engineer
16 21 (3.74%) Developer
17 20 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.51%) OpenTelemetry
2 83 (14.77%) Spring
3 81 (14.41%) Kafka
4 68 (12.10%) Spring Boot
5 59 (10.50%) REST
6 33 (5.87%) HTML
7 32 (5.69%) JPA
8 28 (4.98%) .NET
9 23 (4.09%) Web Services
10 21 (3.74%) CSS
11 19 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (3.20%) RESTful
13 17 (3.02%) AngularJS
14 13 (2.31%) Ajax
14 13 (2.31%) Fluent Bit
14 13 (2.31%) JDBC
14 13 (2.31%) ODBC
14 13 (2.31%) SOAP
14 13 (2.31%) XHTML
14 13 (2.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 99 (17.62%) Public Cloud
3 73 (12.99%) Management Information System
4 45 (8.01%) Algorithms
5 37 (6.58%) Security Operations Centre
6 33 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (4.27%) Data Centre
8 21 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.74%) Replication
9 16 (2.85%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (2.31%) CMDB
12 12 (2.14%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.96%) PKI
14 10 (1.78%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.78%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 121 (21.53%) Windows
2 95 (16.90%) Linux
3 55 (9.79%) Unix
4 23 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.49%) Android
5 14 (2.49%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.60%) CentOS
7 9 (1.60%) Windows 10
7 9 (1.60%) zOS
8 8 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (1.25%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.07%) Mac OS X
10 6 (1.07%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.89%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.71%) Solaris
13 2 (0.36%) AIX
13 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (43.06%) Agile
2 234 (41.64%) CI/CD
3 210 (37.37%) Software Engineering
4 167 (29.72%) Community of Practice
5 156 (27.76%) Operational Stability
6 152 (27.05%) SDLC
7 142 (25.27%) Cybersecurity
8 137 (24.38%) Observability
9 134 (23.84%) SIEM
10 127 (22.60%) Continuous Delivery
11 120 (21.35%) Artificial Intelligence
12 106 (18.86%) DevOps
13 104 (18.51%) Architectural Design
13 104 (18.51%) Machine Learning
14 96 (17.08%) Identity Access Management
14 96 (17.08%) Information Architecture
15 93 (16.55%) Microservices
16 90 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
17 84 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 193 (34.34%) Java
2 141 (25.09%) Python
3 89 (15.84%) SQL
4 86 (15.30%) PowerShell
5 36 (6.41%) Bash
6 32 (5.69%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.80%) C#
8 21 (3.74%) Groovy
9 18 (3.20%) Perl
10 13 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.78%) Go
12 7 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.89%) JCL
14 5 (0.89%) REXX
15 4 (0.71%) C++
15 4 (0.71%) R
16 3 (0.53%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.53%) C
17 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.07%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.83%) Degree
4 42 (7.47%) CISSP
5 23 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.85%) CEH
7 16 (2.85%) SSCP
8 14 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (2.49%) CCSP
8 14 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.49%) SANS
9 9 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.42%) GIAC
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%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (6.94%) NIST
3 22 (3.91%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.78%) NCSC
5 9 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (1.42%) QA
7 5 (0.89%) JSP 440
7 5 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.53%) HMG Infosec
8 3 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.53%) RMADS
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) IASME
System Software
1 76 (13.52%) Docker
2 28 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.78%) vSphere
6 7 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.89%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.53%) ACF2
8 3 (0.53%) RACF
8 3 (0.53%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) KVM
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 217 (38.61%) Grafana
2 120 (21.35%) Terraform
3 110 (19.57%) Prometheus
4 71 (12.63%) Kubernetes
5 44 (7.83%) Kibana
6 36 (6.41%) Ansible
7 26 (4.63%) ITRS Geneos
8 23 (4.09%) QRadar
9 22 (3.91%) Nagios
10 21 (3.74%) HAProxy
10 21 (3.74%) Zipkin
11 19 (3.38%) logstash
12 17 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (2.67%) Puppet
14 14 (2.49%) Nmap
15 13 (2.31%) Fluentd
15 13 (2.31%) WMI
16 11 (1.96%) Progress Chef
17 10 (1.78%) Graphite
18 9 (1.60%) Kiali
Vendors
1 197 (35.05%) Dynatrace
2 69 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.16%) Cisco
3 29 (5.16%) Oracle
3 29 (5.16%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.98%) Google
4 28 (4.98%) IBM
4 28 (4.98%) VMware
5 22 (3.91%) Rapid7
6 21 (3.74%) New Relic
7 20 (3.56%) Qualys
8 17 (3.02%) AppDynamics
9 15 (2.67%) Juniper
9 15 (2.67%) Red Hat
10 14 (2.49%) Thycotic
11 13 (2.31%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
13 8 (1.42%) Ivanti
14 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.25%) McAfee