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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 330 415
Rank change year-on-year +33 +85 +191
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Feature Engineering 11 3 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.023% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.027% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £290 £454 £484
25th Percentile £403 £497 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -6.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £584 £672 £688
90th Percentile £719 £711 -
UK median daily rate £505 £725 £638
% change year-on-year -30.34% +13.73% +10.87%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,067 11,303 19,003
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.00% 87.23% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,024 7,496 13,401
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 344 464
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £17.51 £30.48 £25.38
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -14.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £68.75
90th Percentile £69.13 £75.00 £80.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Feature Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Feature Engineering

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 26 August 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 7 (63.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
5 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Big Data
1 6 (54.55%) Hadoop
2 4 (36.36%) Tableau
3 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (18.18%) QGIS
4 2 (18.18%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Data Science Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) scikit-learn
2 9 (81.82%) PyTorch
2 9 (81.82%) TensorFlow
3 8 (72.73%) Pandas
4 7 (63.64%) NumPy
5 4 (36.36%) Matplotlib
5 4 (36.36%) Seaborn
6 2 (18.18%) Dask
6 2 (18.18%) GeoJSON
6 2 (18.18%) GeoPandas
6 2 (18.18%) Hugging Face
6 2 (18.18%) Plotly
6 2 (18.18%) PostGIS
6 2 (18.18%) Streamlit
7 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
7 1 (9.09%) LangChain
7 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (81.82%) Data Science
3 6 (54.55%) Analytics
3 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
3 6 (54.55%) Data Munging
3 6 (54.55%) LLM
3 6 (54.55%) Visualisation
4 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
4 5 (45.45%) Generative AI
4 5 (45.45%) Reinforcement Learning
5 4 (36.36%) Data Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 4 (36.36%) MLOps
5 4 (36.36%) Open Source
5 4 (36.36%) Predictive Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Statistical Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Time Series Forecasting
6 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) R
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
1 6 (54.55%) Master's Degree
1 6 (54.55%) PhD
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI