Search Processing Language Contracts in England

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Search Processing Language skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Search Processing Language over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 527 611
Rank change year-on-year +48 +84 +153
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 6 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.040% 0.083%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.073% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 22
10th Percentile £540 £515 £508
25th Percentile £563 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £606 £606 £620
90th Percentile £618 £613 £695
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +29.41%

All Programming Languages
England

Search Processing Language falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Search Processing Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Search Processing Language in England

Search Processing Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Search Processing Language in England.

Daily rate trend for Search Processing Language in England

Search Processing Language
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Search Processing Language within the England 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
London +39 5 £600 -
North of England +15 1 £600 +2.13% 1
North West +13 1 £600 +2.13% 1
Search Processing Language
UK

Search Processing Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (50.00%) AIOps
2 3 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) SANS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk