Search Engineer Contracts in England

Search Engineer
UK > England

The median Search Engineer daily rate in England is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Search Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £563 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Search Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Search Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Search Engineer in England

Search Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Search Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Search Engineer in England

Search Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Search Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Search Engineer in England

Search Engineer
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 Search Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 1 £563 - 1
Search Engineer
UK

Search Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Search Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Search Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI

Search Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python