Splunk Contract Job Trends 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 17 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 94 120
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing Splunk 36 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.25% 0.91% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 4.91% 2.33% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 16
10th Percentile £398 £275 £431
25th Percentile £424 £406 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -22.45% +13.95%
75th Percentile £576 £641 £790
90th Percentile £591 £788 -
UK median daily rate £525 £574 £600
% change year-on-year -8.50% -4.38% +4.35%

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 733 729 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 45.78% 39.15% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 447 619
10th Percentile £229 £164 £205
25th Percentile £370 £313 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £550
90th Percentile £618 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 39 29
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.48 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.07 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.23 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +7.22% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £46.23 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -16.17% -31.56% +83.33%

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

Splunk
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Splunk

Splunk
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Splunk in Scotland

Splunk
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 17 September 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 +1 31 £550 +18.92% 6
Edinburgh +3 5 £420 -45.81% 5
Splunk
UK

Splunk
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 13 (36.11%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Azure
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.78%) Datadog
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 9 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) JUnit
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.89%) GitLab
4 4 (11.11%) Git
4 4 (11.11%) Liquibase
5 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.78%) Mockito
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Python Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Core Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Design Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) CSS
1 9 (25.00%) React
1 9 (25.00%) Spring
2 8 (22.22%) Kafka
3 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
3 7 (19.44%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (11.11%) RESTful
6 3 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (8.33%) SOAP
7 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
7 2 (5.56%) pytest
8 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (8.33%) Equities
5 3 (8.33%) Fixed Income
5 3 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (8.33%) Market Risk
5 3 (8.33%) Security Posture
6 2 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.78%) STIX
7 1 (2.78%) TAXII
7 1 (2.78%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 19 (52.78%) Agile
3 17 (47.22%) Software Engineering
4 14 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 12 (33.33%) DevOps
5 12 (33.33%) Microservices
6 11 (30.56%) Incident Response
6 11 (30.56%) SDLC
7 10 (27.78%) Performance Testing
8 9 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (25.00%) Community of Practice
8 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 9 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
8 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 9 (25.00%) Visualisation
9 8 (22.22%) Front End Development
9 8 (22.22%) Observability
9 8 (22.22%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (22.22%) Go
5 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.33%) C++
6 3 (8.33%) PromQL
6 3 (8.33%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.33%) CISM
1 3 (8.33%) CISSP
1 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.56%) CEH
2 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) GIAC
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Grafana
2 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 7 (19.44%) Prometheus
3 7 (19.44%) Terraform
4 4 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (5.56%) Podman
5 2 (5.56%) RSA Archer
6 1 (2.78%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) ArcSight
3 3 (8.33%) Google
3 3 (8.33%) Netskope
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) PagerDuty
3 3 (8.33%) Proofpoint
3 3 (8.33%) Symantec
4 2 (5.56%) Cribl.io