Search Processing Language Contracts

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 668 829
Rank change year-on-year +94 +161 -167
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 17 50 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.085% 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.24% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 9
10th Percentile £550 £507 £359
25th Percentile £559 £513 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £606 £603 £475
90th Percentile - £670 £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £569 £367
% change year-on-year +3.30% +55.08% -26.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,769 20,649 32,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.91% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,080 14,885 23,465
10th Percentile £350 £394 £384
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.46% +14.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 467 511
10th Percentile £31.70 £26.20 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.40 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
% change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +17.75%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Search Processing Language in the UK

Search Processing Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Search Processing Language over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Search Processing Language in the UK

Search Processing Language
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England +83 15 £588 +6.82% 3
UK excluding London +64 11 £588 +3.30% 3
Work from Home +113 6 £600 +8.79% 3
North of England +19 5 £588 +3.30% 3
North West - 5 £588 - 3
South West - 5 £550 -
London +81 4 - -
East Midlands - 1 £625 -
Midlands - 1 £625 -

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 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Banking
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Splunk Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Onboarding
1 7 (41.18%) Security Posture
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (17.65%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Use Case
2 7 (41.18%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Data Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Data Mapping
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) ETL
2 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
3 6 (35.29%) Change Management
3 6 (35.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Threat Detection
3 6 (35.29%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
5 4 (23.53%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (23.53%) Escalation Management
5 4 (23.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) RBAC
5 4 (23.53%) Security Operations
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CEH
3 1 (5.88%) CREST Certified
3 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Splunk
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft