Splunk Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Splunk
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring knowledge or experience of Splunk products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Splunk over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 66 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +31
Contract jobs citing Splunk 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.84% 0.61% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 2.16% 1.68% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £264 - -
25th Percentile £323 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
Scotland median daily rate £454 £350 £613
% change year-on-year +29.71% -42.86% +16.67%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

Splunk falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 231 238 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.63% 36.12% 43.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 112 242
10th Percentile £263 £158 £164
25th Percentile £413 £338 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £684 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 6
10th Percentile £16.43 £18.62 £17.72
25th Percentile - £20.82 £19.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £41.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -43.07% +120.99%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.75 - £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +6.61% +24.62% +6.83%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Splunk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Splunk job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Splunk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Edinburgh

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Liquibase
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Data Security
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Go
3 2 (40.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (20.00%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google