Feature Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Feature Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -38 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.12% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.13% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £452 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +35.29% -22.73% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,579 1,521 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.02% 91.68% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 910 1,084
10th Percentile £325 £300 £263
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £708 £676 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 111 108
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.41 £15.12 £22.50
Median hourly rate £63.24 £25.15 £55.44
Median % change year-on-year +151.45% -54.63% +10.88%
75th Percentile £87.16 £46.30 £66.25
90th Percentile £103.53 £77.50 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £53.20 £24.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +121.67% -58.15% +14.70%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Engineering in the Thames Valley

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 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
Berkshire -24 2 £479 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Feature Engineering
South East

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) AIOps
3 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
3 1 (25.00%) Biomedicine
3 1 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Control
3 1 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (25.00%) Data Annotation
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce