Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Feature Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.11% 0.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% - -
75th Percentile £469 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £725 -
% change year-on-year -36.21% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 292 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.08% 95.42% 92.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 189 185
10th Percentile £355 £281 £358
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -0.10% +8.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £15.74 £16.08 -
25th Percentile £16.34 £17.38 £10.90
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.45 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.23
% change year-on-year -8.43% +37.60% +24.46%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk