Feature Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Feature Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 343 476
Rank change year-on-year +44 +133 +151
Contract jobs citing Feature Engineering 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.013% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.015% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £584 -
25th Percentile £506 £616 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £688 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +61.76% -37.04%
75th Percentile £616 £766 £438
90th Percentile £756 £801 -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £518
% change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% +6.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Feature Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Feature Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Feature Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Feature Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Matplotlib
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Reinforcement Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Gradient Boosting
4 1 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) PhD
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks