Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Feature Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 86 86
Rank change year-on-year -42 0 -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% 0.40% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.45% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £514 £448 -
25th Percentile £516 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £566 - £475
90th Percentile £571 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,647 895 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.60% 88.88% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 571 658
10th Percentile £302 £305 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £677 £675 £704
North West median daily rate £495 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +8.79% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 54 50
10th Percentile £21.00 £17.14 £15.92
25th Percentile £28.75 £19.07 £23.96
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.63 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -41.60% +98.72%
75th Percentile £75.50 £60.00 £67.19
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £84.00
North West median hourly rate £45.97 £27.90 £34.21
% change year-on-year +64.73% -18.44% +0.62%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks