Search Processing Language Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Search Processing Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £505 - -
England median daily rate £456 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -23.96% +2.13% +11.90%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 659 292 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.37% 32.85% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 206 321
10th Percentile £358 £351 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +13.06% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £28.34 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.47 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.88
90th Percentile - - £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Search Processing Language relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Search Processing Language job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Search Processing Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Search Processing Language

Search Processing Language
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
West Yorkshire - 3 £456 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £514 - 2
Search Processing Language
England

Search Processing Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) API Integration
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Fluentd
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (50.00%) New Relic
3 1 (25.00%) Cribl.io
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow