Feature Engineering Contracts in London

Feature Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 350 386 490
Rank change year-on-year +36 +104 +94
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.028% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.032% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £438 - £426
25th Percentile £466 £525 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +17.95% -15.22%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £522
90th Percentile £788 £785 £539
England median daily rate £600 £575 £518
% change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Feature Engineering in London

Feature Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Feature Engineering in London

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Feature Engineering in London

Feature Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Reinforcement Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Gradient Boosting
2 1 (33.33%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Psychology
2 1 (33.33%) Random Forest
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks