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 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 172 122 121
Rank change year-on-year -50 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 3 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.079% 0.32% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.36% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £515 £455 -
25th Percentile £519 £489 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £625 - £475
90th Percentile £655 £550 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -

All Process & 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 3,157 1,955 1,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.14% 88.58% 84.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,265 1,208
10th Percentile £276 £279 £309
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £664 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 126 171
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.18 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.97 £27.90 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +64.73% -18.44% +0.62%
75th Percentile £73.25 £57.57 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.38 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Engineering in the North West

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 9 August 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
Manchester -42 2 £538 +7.50% 4
Cumbria - 1 £650 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Modeller
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) Plotly
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) Seaborn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Backtesting
3 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Pricing Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks