Search Processing Language Contracts in the UK excluding London

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 369 417
Rank change year-on-year +7 +48 +108
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Search Processing Language 7 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.061% 0.046%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 8
10th Percentile £403 £533 £640
25th Percentile £436 £550 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £569 £790
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% -28.01% +50.48%
75th Percentile £500 £606 -
90th Percentile £582 £609 £793
UK median daily rate £454 £588 £613
% change year-on-year -22.72% -4.08% +8.89%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,229 4,371 5,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.53% 24.07% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 2,851 3,964
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £398 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 291 325
10th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £31.58
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.18 £48.32
Median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £78.71
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Search Processing Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Search Processing Language in the UK excluding London

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Search Processing Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Search Processing Language

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Search Processing Language in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Search Processing Language in the UK excluding London

Search Processing Language
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 £454 -
North of England -29 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands -10 1 £625 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £625 - 1
Search Processing Language
UK

Search Processing Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) STIX
3 1 (14.29%) TAXII
3 1 (14.29%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 3 (42.86%) SOAR
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Content Development
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Behavioural Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) GIAC
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) HIPAA
1 3 (42.86%) SOC 2
2 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) ArcSight
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) IBM