Feature Engineering Contracts in England

Feature Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Feature Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 640 755
Rank change year-on-year +108 +115 -142
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 6 8 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.016% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.018% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £525 £288 £347
25th Percentile £534 £448 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +15.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £691 £551 £588
90th Percentile £775 £566 £715
UK median daily rate £575 £518 £487
% change year-on-year +11.11% +6.34% -18.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Feature Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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
London +103 5 £575 +17.95% 11
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Watson
3 1 (16.67%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Statistics
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) MLOps
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Computer Vision
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (33.33%) Model Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
5 2 (33.33%) Personalization
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (50.00%) PhD
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM