Search Processing Language Contracts with Work from Home Options

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Search Processing Language skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Search Processing Language over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 455 620
Rank change year-on-year +116 +165 -151
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 6 22 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.085% 0.027%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.23% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 3
10th Percentile - £505 £380
25th Percentile £550 £507 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £552 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% +16.11% +7.95%
75th Percentile - £600 -
90th Percentile - £645 -
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +6.82% +29.41% -15.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Search Processing Language is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,133 9,659 16,959
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,702 7,073 12,579
10th Percentile £350 £393 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 213 194
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £49.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.95% +10.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £86.50 £79.20 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%

Search Processing Language
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Search Processing Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Search Processing Language trend for jobs with a WFH option

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Search Processing Language.

Search Processing Language daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Search Processing Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (16.67%) SANS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft