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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 90
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +36
Contract jobs citing Splunk 4 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.63% 0.84% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 1.47% 2.22% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £264 - -
25th Percentile £323 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.81% - -
75th Percentile £465 £788 -
90th Percentile £492 - -
Scotland median daily rate £503 £475 £613
% change year-on-year +5.89% -22.45% +13.95%

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 273 315 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.92% 37.82% 40.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 172 257
10th Percentile £337 £156 £181
25th Percentile £425 £235 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -10.53% +2.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £685 £590
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 3
10th Percentile - £13.36 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £40.00 £23.89 £35.74
90th Percentile £61.25 £24.18 £46.54
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.30 £17.72
% change year-on-year -0.34% +8.89% -

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Splunk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Splunk 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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Edinburgh

Splunk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Liquibase
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
2 3 (75.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Go
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google