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 2 October 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
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 109 128
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 +10
Permanent jobs citing Splunk 6 41 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.14% 1.60% 1.04%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% 3.47% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 13
10th Percentile - - £42,343
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% -0.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,125 £80,000
90th Percentile - £74,300 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% -

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 859 1,182 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.65% 45.99% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 375 504 429
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,875 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,851 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.20% -34.30% +13.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £50,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £71,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -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
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 2 October 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
Glasgow -9 5 £65,000 +23.81% 19
South Lanarkshire - 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 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (50.00%) Datadog
2 3 (50.00%) dbt
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (66.67%) Law
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Memcached
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) GitOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Argo
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) OneLogin
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (16.67%) YouTube