Feature Engineering Contracts in England

Feature Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Feature Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Feature Engineering 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 458 536 645
Rank change year-on-year +78 +109 +103
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 27 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.016% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.019% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 7
10th Percentile £455 £525 £288
25th Percentile £500 £534 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £551
90th Percentile - £775 £566
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £518
% change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% +6.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Feature Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Feature Engineering in England

Feature Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Feature Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Feature Engineering in England

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Engineering in England

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Engineering within the England region 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
East of England - 15 £650 -
North of England - 7 £500 - 2
North West - 7 £500 - 1
London +36 3 £525 -8.70% 38
Midlands - 1 £448 - 2
South East - 1 - - 9
West Midlands - 1 £448 - 2
Feature Engineering
UK

Feature Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (51.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 3 (11.11%) Google Gemini
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Big Data
1 14 (51.85%) Hadoop
2 12 (44.44%) Tableau
3 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (11.11%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 15 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Automotive
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Senior
3 12 (44.44%) Data Science Developer
4 10 (37.04%) Senior Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
8 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation
9 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) TensorFlow
2 16 (59.26%) PyTorch
3 14 (51.85%) scikit-learn
4 13 (48.15%) NumPy
4 13 (48.15%) Pandas
5 12 (44.44%) Matplotlib
5 12 (44.44%) Seaborn
6 1 (3.70%) OLE
6 1 (3.70%) Prophet
6 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 19 (70.37%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Machine Learning
2 19 (70.37%) Artificial Intelligence
2 19 (70.37%) LLM
3 18 (66.67%) Data Science
3 18 (66.67%) Generative AI
4 17 (62.96%) Reinforcement Learning
5 16 (59.26%) Decision-Making
6 13 (48.15%) Computer Science
6 13 (48.15%) Data Analysis
6 13 (48.15%) Statistical Modelling
6 13 (48.15%) Time Series Forecasting
6 13 (48.15%) Visualisation
7 12 (44.44%) Analytics
7 12 (44.44%) Data Analytics
7 12 (44.44%) Data Munging
7 12 (44.44%) Predictive Analytics
8 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
9 6 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (18.52%) Mathematics
11 4 (14.81%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) Python
2 13 (48.15%) R
3 2 (7.41%) Scala
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Degree
1 14 (51.85%) Master's Degree
2 13 (48.15%) PhD
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Ariba
1 1 (3.70%) Databricks
1 1 (3.70%) Google
1 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
1 1 (3.70%) SAP