Search Processing Language Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 302 339 455
Rank change year-on-year +37 +116 +165
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 2 6 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.039% 0.085%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.054% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile - £550 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year - +8.79% +16.11%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - £645
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +29.41%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Search Processing Language
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Search Processing Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Search Processing Language trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) AIOps
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 Search Processing Language jobs Nationwide