Search Processing Language Jobs

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Search Processing Language skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Search Processing Language over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 911 938
Rank change year-on-year +209 +27 +296
Permanent jobs citing Search Processing Language 6 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.003% 0.015%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.037% 0.009% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £59,750 - -
25th Percentile £70,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +14.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £96,250 - £80,000
90th Percentile - - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +84.21%

All Programming Languages
UK

Search Processing Language falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,314 33,562 41,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.74% 32.71% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,612 25,071 26,942
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,772 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.28% -2.23% +4.76%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Search Processing Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Search Processing Language in the UK

Search Processing Language
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Search Processing Language.

Salary trend for Search Processing Language in the UK

Search Processing Language
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Search Processing Language over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Search Processing Language in the UK

Search Processing Language
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Search Processing Language within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +179 6 £92,500 +15.63% 4
London - 4 £92,500 - 2
UK excluding London +194 2 - - 3
South East - 2 - - 2

Search Processing Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft