diff --git a/docs/content-services/search-filter.component.md b/docs/content-services/search-filter.component.md
index 4f8d9a161f..36fabc8ab6 100644
--- a/docs/content-services/search-filter.component.md
+++ b/docs/content-services/search-filter.component.md
@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ results:
 }
 ```
 
+You can choose to filter facet field results using 'contains' instead of 'starts with', by using the `filterWithContains` boolean (default is `false`):
+
+```json
+{
+    "search": {
+        "filterWithContains": true
+    }
+}
+```
+
 You can also provide a set of queries that are always executed alongside the user-defined
 settings:
 
diff --git a/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.spec.ts b/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.spec.ts
index 673a3153fd..464083aa32 100644
--- a/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.spec.ts
+++ b/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.spec.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ describe('SearchFilterComponent', () => {
         const searchMock: any = {
             dataLoaded: new Subject()
         };
-        translationMock.instant = (key) => `translated${key}`;
+        translationMock.instant = (key) => `${key}_translated`;
         component = new SearchFilterComponent(queryBuilder, searchMock, translationMock);
         component.ngOnInit();
     });
@@ -217,6 +217,53 @@ describe('SearchFilterComponent', () => {
         expect(component.responseFacetFields.length).toEqual(2);
     });
 
+    it('should filter response facet fields based on search filter config method', () => {
+        queryBuilder.config = {
+            categories: [],
+            facetFields: { fields: [
+                    { label: 'f1', field: 'f1' }
+                ]},
+            facetQueries: {
+                queries: []
+            },
+            filterWithContains: false
+        };
+
+        const initialFields: any = [
+            { label: 'f1', buckets: [
+                { label: 'firstLabel', display: 'firstLabel', count: 5 },
+                { label: 'secondLabel', display: 'secondLabel', count: 5 },
+                { label: 'thirdLabel', display: 'thirdLabel', count: 5 }
+                ]
+            }
+        ];
+
+        const data = {
+            list: {
+                context: {
+                    facetsFields: initialFields
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        component.onDataLoaded(data);
+        expect(component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.visibleItems.length).toBe(3);
+
+        component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.filterText = 'f';
+        expect(component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.visibleItems.length).toBe(1);
+        expect(component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.visibleItems[0].label).toEqual('firstLabel');
+
+        component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.filterText = 'label';
+        expect(component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.visibleItems.length).toBe(0);
+
+        // Set filter method to use contains and test again
+        queryBuilder.config.filterWithContains = true;
+        component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.filterText = 'f';
+        expect(component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.visibleItems.length).toBe(1);
+        component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.filterText = 'label';
+        expect(component.responseFacetFields[0].buckets.visibleItems.length).toBe(3);
+    });
+
     it('should fetch facet fields from response payload and show the bucket values', () => {
         component.responseFacetFields = null;
 
diff --git a/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.ts b/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.ts
index 38eaf64252..d0e1263e1f 100644
--- a/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.ts
+++ b/lib/content-services/search/components/search-filter/search-filter.component.ts
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ export class SearchFilterComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
                     if (bucket && bucketList.filterText) {
                         const pattern = (bucketList.filterText || '').toLowerCase();
                         const label = (this.translationService.instant(bucket.display) || this.translationService.instant(bucket.label)).toLowerCase();
-                        return label.startsWith(pattern);
+                        return this.queryBuilder.config.filterWithContains ? label.indexOf(pattern) !== -1 : label.startsWith(pattern);
                     }
                     return true;
                 };
diff --git a/lib/content-services/search/search-configuration.interface.ts b/lib/content-services/search/search-configuration.interface.ts
index 22ff951d5d..43bf4c5ae3 100644
--- a/lib/content-services/search/search-configuration.interface.ts
+++ b/lib/content-services/search/search-configuration.interface.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ export interface SearchConfiguration {
     fields?: Array<string>;
     categories: Array<SearchCategory>;
     filterQueries?: Array<FilterQuery>;
+    filterWithContains?: boolean;
     facetQueries?: {
         label?: string;
         pageSize?: number;
diff --git a/lib/core/app-config/schema.json b/lib/core/app-config/schema.json
index 9100a767be..fbc0d3c8d4 100644
--- a/lib/core/app-config/schema.json
+++ b/lib/core/app-config/schema.json
@@ -905,6 +905,9 @@
             }
           }
         },
+        "filterWithContains": {
+          "type": "boolean"
+        },
         "facetFields": {
           "type": "object",
           "required": [