Search Processing Language Contracts in the North of England

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 165 180 207
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 -
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 1 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.41% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £575 £569 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £606 £625
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Search Processing Language in the North of England

Search Processing Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Search Processing Language in the North of England

Search Processing Language
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +13 1 £600 +2.13% 1
Search Processing Language
England

Search Processing Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk