Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Feature Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 98 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -51 - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.099% 0.28% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.30% -
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 - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £725 -
% change year-on-year -36.21% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 933 337 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 92.56% 95.20% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 217 225
10th Percentile £350 £226 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £15.27 £16.08 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.38 £12.63
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +37.60% +24.46%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.45 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.19 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +9.19% +57.33% +27.00%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 April 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
Sheffield -49 1 £463 -36.21%
Feature Engineering
Yorkshire

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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