Feature Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Feature Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Feature Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 465 615
Rank change year-on-year +118 +150 -145
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.004% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.004% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £584 - £548
25th Percentile £616 £413 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -34.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £766 £438 £730
90th Percentile £801 - £739
UK median daily rate £575 £518 £537
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -10.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Feature Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Feature Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Feature Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Feature Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Feature Engineering.

Feature Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Feature Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Feature Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Watson
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Understanding
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM