Feature Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Feature Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Feature Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 - 442
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 26 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% - 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 0 5
10th Percentile £459 - £254
25th Percentile £500 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £518
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.76%
75th Percentile £675 - £551
90th Percentile - - £573
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £518
% change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% +6.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Feature Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
East of England - 15 £650 -
North West - 7 £500 - 1
North of England - 7 £500 - 2
South East - 1 - - 10
Wales - 1 £575 -
West Midlands - 1 £448 - 2
Midlands - 1 £448 - 2
Scotland - 1 £463 - 1
Feature Engineering
UK

Feature Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 17 (65.38%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (11.54%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (11.54%) Azure AI
5 3 (11.54%) Google Gemini
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Big Data
1 13 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 12 (46.15%) Tableau
3 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 3 (11.54%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) PyCharm
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Legal
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Automotive
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior
3 12 (46.15%) Data Science Developer
4 10 (38.46%) Senior Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Data Scientist
7 2 (7.69%) Digital Transformation
8 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) TensorFlow
2 16 (61.54%) PyTorch
3 15 (57.69%) NumPy
3 15 (57.69%) Pandas
3 15 (57.69%) scikit-learn
4 12 (46.15%) Matplotlib
4 12 (46.15%) Seaborn
5 1 (3.85%) OLE
5 1 (3.85%) Prophet
5 1 (3.85%) SciPy
5 1 (3.85%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 20 (76.92%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Machine Learning
2 20 (76.92%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (69.23%) Data Science
3 18 (69.23%) Generative AI
3 18 (69.23%) LLM
4 16 (61.54%) Decision-Making
5 15 (57.69%) Reinforcement Learning
6 13 (50.00%) Analytics
6 13 (50.00%) Data Analysis
6 13 (50.00%) Data Analytics
6 13 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
6 13 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
6 13 (50.00%) Visualisation
7 12 (46.15%) Computer Science
7 12 (46.15%) Data Munging
7 12 (46.15%) Predictive Analytics
8 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
9 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 13 (50.00%) R
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
1 12 (46.15%) Master's Degree
1 12 (46.15%) PhD
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (57.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Ariba
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.85%) SAP