Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North West

Feature Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.040% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.40% - -
75th Percentile £475 £416 -
90th Percentile - £451 -
England median daily rate £556 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -7.29% -7.69% +20.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,193 1,874 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.39% 86.48% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,055 1,596
10th Percentile £213 £265 £295
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 108 157
10th Percentile £16.67 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -11.97% +33.81%
75th Percentile £52.13 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.83 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in the North West

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Manchester -13 1 £450 - 1
Feature Engineering
England

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Transfer Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality