Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Feature Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -61 - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.046% 0.050% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.057% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £448 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,549 1,757 2,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.08% 88.29% 81.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 1,154 1,504
10th Percentile £300 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £600
90th Percentile £669 £650 £699
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 93 171
10th Percentile £13.86 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.44 £14.70 £13.71
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +5.56% -19.68%
75th Percentile £53.13 £26.51 £34.13
90th Percentile £70.18 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
West Midlands -62 2 £550 +22.77% 1
Feature Engineering
England

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Siemens