Hybrid/Remote Search Processing Language Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Search Processing Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 307 342
Rank change year-on-year -18 +35 +106
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.042% 0.020% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.053% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £315 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £430 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -28.33% +2.13% +6.82%

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 3,773 3,746 5,135
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 31.50% 37.33% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,571 2,653 3,705
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 59 146
10th Percentile £50.00 £24.60 £27.50
25th Percentile £64.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.55 £90.50 £89.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.92%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Search Processing Language and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Search Processing Language job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Search Processing Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Search Processing Language

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Search Processing Language over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Search Processing Language daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Search Processing Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) AIOps
2 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (20.00%) ChatOps
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nagios
1 2 (40.00%) Netcool
1 2 (40.00%) OpenView
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (20.00%) Fluentd
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds