Enterprise Search Contracts

Enterprise Search
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Enterprise Search skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Search over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 580 713
Rank change year-on-year +64 +133 +142
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Search 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.005% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £465 - £569
25th Percentile £488 £475 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £597
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.20% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £602
90th Percentile - - £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 -
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Enterprise 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Enterprise Search
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Search in the UK

Enterprise Search
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Search in the UK

Enterprise Search
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Search in the UK

Enterprise Search
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Search within the UK 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
England +60 4 £550 +10.00% 78
UK excluding London +65 3 £550 +10.00% 78
South East - 3 £550 - 21

Enterprise Search
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) Office Communications Server
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint Server
1 3 (75.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DDNS
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Support
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Content Management
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Brightmail
1 3 (75.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft