Full Text Search Contract Job Trends in England

Full-Text (also Free Text) Search/Indexing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Full Text Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 - 563
Rank change year-on-year - - +186
Contract jobs citing Full Text Search 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £278
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.28%
75th Percentile - - £338
90th Percentile - - £428
UK median daily rate - - £280
% change year-on-year - - -53.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Full Text Search falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,324 27,092 35,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.37% 86.76% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,372 16,558 24,038
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 983 1,478
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%

Full Text Search
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Full Text Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Full Text Search job vacancy trend in England

Full Text Search
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Full Text Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Full Text Search

Full Text Search
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Full Text Search.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Full Text Search

Full Text Search
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Text Search within the England region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 1 - -
Full Text Search
UK

Full Text Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash