The first table below looks at the demand for Splunk skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Splunk over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Splunk
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Splunk 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £433
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
180 192 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.264% 7.175% 8.908%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 102 91
Average daily rate £370 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
Average hourly rate £82.89 £25.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+231.54% +21.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.77 £25.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £150.00 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Splunk across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Scotland Splunk Jobs Demand Trend

Splunk
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Splunk also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Splunk.

1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM

Splunk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Splunk also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Splunk. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM