Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Feature Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.048% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.052% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £420 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% - -
75th Percentile £540 £638 -
90th Percentile £560 - -
Central London median daily rate £488 £625 -
% change year-on-year -22.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Feature Engineering 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Feature Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Feature Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Engineering in the City of London

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
2 1 (33.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Model Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Time Series Forecasting
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI