Search Processing Language Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Search Processing Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.29% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £525 - £588
% change year-on-year - - -25.63%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 50 50 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.62% 27.17% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 11
10th Percentile £353 £338 £246
25th Percentile £392 £419 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -11.37%
75th Percentile £563 £556 £478
90th Percentile £628 £725 £515
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.61% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £36.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.00%
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £53.13
% change year-on-year -7.14% +31.76% +15.04%

Search Processing Language
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 1 - -
Search Processing Language
North West

Search Processing Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk