Feature Extraction Contract Job Trends

Feature Extraction
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Feature Extraction skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 539 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Feature Extraction 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.015% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £488 -
% change year-on-year -17.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £51.21 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.21 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Feature Extraction 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,537 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.36% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,461 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

Feature Extraction
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Feature Extraction job vacancy trend in the UK

Feature Extraction
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Feature Extraction.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Feature Extraction

Feature Extraction
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Extraction within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 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
England -32 2 £400 -17.95% 4
UK excluding London -39 2 £400 -17.95% 5
Work from Home -1 1 - - 5
South East - 1 £400 -
South West - 1 - - 3

Feature Extraction
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate