Splunk Job Trends in Scotland

Splunk
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Splunk products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Splunk over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Splunk, Inc.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 135 150
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 -37
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 23 14 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.85% 0.52% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.04% 1.78% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 15
10th Percentile £63,725 £41,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £68,563 £43,981 £58,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £50,309 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -28.72% +15.36%
75th Percentile £83,188 £73,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,425 £80,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,127 785 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.42% 29.11% 40.01%
Number of salaries quoted 428 367 791
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £26,500 £37,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £55,125 £68,114 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,900 £88,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

Splunk
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Splunk job vacancy trend in Scotland

Splunk
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Splunk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Splunk

Splunk
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Splunk in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Splunk in Scotland

Splunk
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Splunk within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -15 10 £77,000 +25.20% 3
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 3
Midlothian - 1 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Splunk
UK

Splunk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) CICS
1 2 (8.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
1 5 (21.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Broadband
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) LAN
2 5 (21.74%) WAN
3 4 (17.39%) BGP
3 4 (17.39%) MPLS
3 4 (17.39%) Wireless
4 3 (13.04%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) GitLab
1 15 (65.22%) Jenkins
1 15 (65.22%) SonarQube
2 6 (26.09%) JIRA
General
1 15 (65.22%) Games
1 15 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (65.22%) Marketing
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Architect
2 14 (60.87%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Technical Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Systems Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.35%) CRM Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) Lightning Web Components
1 15 (65.22%) REST
1 15 (65.22%) SOAP
1 15 (65.22%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 20 (86.96%) Product Ownership
2 5 (21.74%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
1 22 (95.65%) DevOps
1 22 (95.65%) Roadmaps
2 21 (91.30%) Agile
2 21 (91.30%) Scrum
3 15 (65.22%) Community of Practice
3 15 (65.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 15 (65.22%) Continuous Delivery
3 15 (65.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (65.22%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (65.22%) Design Patterns
3 15 (65.22%) Event-Driven
3 15 (65.22%) OO
3 15 (65.22%) PLM
3 15 (65.22%) Static Code Analysis
3 15 (65.22%) Technical Analysis
3 15 (65.22%) Technology Roadmap
3 15 (65.22%) TOGAF
4 7 (30.43%) Observability
4 7 (30.43%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Apex Code
1 15 (65.22%) SOQL
1 15 (65.22%) SOSL
2 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 6 (26.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) CEH
1 1 (4.35%) GIAC
1 1 (4.35%) GREM
1 1 (4.35%) OSCP
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Grafana
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (4.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Salesforce
2 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
2 5 (21.74%) SolarWinds
3 4 (17.39%) F5
3 4 (17.39%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.70%) Broadcom
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.35%) Google