Splunk Contracts in Scotland

Splunk
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 111 133
Rank change year-on-year +19 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Splunk 24 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.48% 0.81% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 3.34% 2.03% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 11
10th Percentile £388 £275 £425
25th Percentile £408 £409 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £475 £613 £644
90th Percentile £513 - £650
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +9.09%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 719 888 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.25% 40.05% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 546 823
10th Percentile £234 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 52 16
10th Percentile £16.11 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.58 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Splunk in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Splunk in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Splunk in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Glasgow +4 14 £435 -24.35% 4
Edinburgh +10 10 £315 - 8
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (20.83%) OpenShift
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.17%) Apigee
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.17%) Datadog
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
3 4 (16.67%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.50%) JUnit
5 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (4.17%) HP UFT
6 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (45.83%) Banking
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Applications Support Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Support Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Support
3 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Loki
2 4 (16.67%) Middleware
3 3 (12.50%) CSS
3 3 (12.50%) React
3 3 (12.50%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Unix
3 5 (20.83%) Windows
4 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) ITIL
4 7 (29.17%) High Availability
4 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 5 (20.83%) SDLC
6 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (12.50%) Change Management
8 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 3 (12.50%) Investment Management
8 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Shell Script
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 6 (25.00%) Docker
3 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Terraform
2 11 (45.83%) Grafana
3 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
4 9 (37.50%) Ansible
5 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (8.33%) Podman
6 2 (8.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Veritas
1 8 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.50%) Netskope
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Proofpoint
3 3 (12.50%) Symantec
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) Google