Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Feature Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
South East median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,217 645 1,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.30% 88.84% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 464 730
10th Percentile £329 £325 £371
25th Percentile £458 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.93% +9.05%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £739 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 37 118
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.06 £12.19
25th Percentile £16.38 £30.00 £18.32
Median hourly rate £21.36 £57.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.02% +21.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £40.00 £71.25 £63.44
90th Percentile £54.13 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Feature Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Basingstoke - 2 £588 - 2
Feature Engineering
South East

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) UiPath