Full Text Search Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Full Text Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Full Text Search 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,814 12,057 17,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.18% 89.09% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 7,181 11,188
10th Percentile £238 £232 £248
25th Percentile £381 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -0.77% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 648 1,728
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.12 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.79
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
% change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%

Full Text Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Full Text Search job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Full Text Search
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Full Text Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Full Text Search

Full Text Search
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Full Text Search.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Full Text Search

Full Text Search
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
East of England - 1 - -
South East - 1 £600 - 1
South West - 1 - - 1
Full Text Search
UK

Full Text Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NEC Housing
1 1 (33.33%) SAP EWM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP MM Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP MM Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP WM Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Design
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Housing Management
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) NEC
1 1 (33.33%) SAP