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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 394 471
Rank change year-on-year +33 +77 +124
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.059% 0.017% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.020% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £479 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £766 £581 £688
90th Percentile £816 £585 -
England median daily rate £538 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -2.27% -15.38% +20.93%

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 12,486 15,230 22,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.05% 88.71% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,361 10,818 16,605
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 265 256
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.81 £32.29 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -20.80% +14.85%
75th Percentile £50.25 £50.00 £65.03
90th Percentile £63.55 £69.20 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 18 July 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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) MLflow
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) scikit-learn
2 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 4 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (37.50%) Pandas
4 2 (25.00%) NumPy
5 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (12.50%) Matplotlib
5 1 (12.50%) Prophet
5 1 (12.50%) PySpark
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) Seaborn
5 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) MLOps
3 4 (50.00%) Deep Learning
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Reinforcement Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) LLM
5 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Linear Regression
6 1 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
1 3 (37.50%) PhD
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubeflow
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI