Hybrid/Remote Search Engineer Contract Job Trends

Search Engineer
UK > Work from Home

As of 19 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Search Engineer daily rate in Work from Home.

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Search Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,533 10,861 16,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 93.14% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 6,881 11,057
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 197 360
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.59
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.50 £27.19
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -30.52% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.55
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

Search Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Search Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Search Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Search Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Search Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Search Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Personalization
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking

Search Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Personalization
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python