Feature Engineering Job Trends in England

Feature Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 649 668
Rank change year-on-year +69 +19 +271
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 22 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.041% 0.027% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.030% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 15
10th Percentile £53,125 £55,000 £65,666
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +6.27% +28.32%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £81,875 £85,420 £121,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.27% +28.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Feature Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,077 43,814 44,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.14% 90.86% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25,929 21,493 34,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Feature Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Feature Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Feature Engineering in England

Feature Engineering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +71 14 £77,500 +3.33% 24
South East +28 3 £57,500 -25.81% 18
South West - 2 £62,500 - 5
East of England - 2 - - 8
North of England +12 1 £80,000 +23.08% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £80,000 - 2
Feature Engineering
UK

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) Appian
2 6 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Anthropic Claude
2 9 (40.91%) Azure AI
2 9 (40.91%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (40.91%) Power Automate
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) dbt
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (40.91%) Pinecone
3 5 (22.73%) Tableau
4 4 (18.18%) Big Data
5 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
6 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 2 (9.09%) Power BI
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
7 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
7 1 (4.55%) Looker
7 1 (4.55%) Metadata
7 1 (4.55%) QGIS
7 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) MLflow
2 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Science Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) PyTorch
1 16 (72.73%) TensorFlow
2 15 (68.18%) scikit-learn
3 12 (54.55%) NumPy
3 12 (54.55%) Pandas
4 10 (45.45%) Hugging Face
5 9 (40.91%) Django
5 9 (40.91%) Faiss
5 9 (40.91%) FastAPI
5 9 (40.91%) Flask
5 9 (40.91%) JWT
5 9 (40.91%) OAuth
5 9 (40.91%) OpenAPI
5 9 (40.91%) pytest
5 9 (40.91%) REST
5 9 (40.91%) RESTful
5 9 (40.91%) Swagger
5 9 (40.91%) Web Services
6 2 (9.09%) Matplotlib
6 2 (9.09%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Low-Code
2 7 (31.82%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Genomics
3 1 (4.55%) Omics
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 21 (95.45%) AI
3 16 (72.73%) Natural Language Processing
4 15 (68.18%) Generative AI
5 13 (59.09%) LLM
6 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
6 12 (54.55%) Data Modelling
6 12 (54.55%) MLOps
6 12 (54.55%) Validation
7 11 (50.00%) A/B Testing
7 11 (50.00%) API Development
7 11 (50.00%) Open Source
7 11 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 10 (45.45%) Clean Code
8 10 (45.45%) Data Engineering
8 10 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (45.45%) Data Science
8 10 (45.45%) ETL
9 9 (40.91%) Change Management
9 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) R
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) PhD
4 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.55%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Automation Anywhere
1 9 (40.91%) OpenAI
1 9 (40.91%) UiPath
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Mapbox
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Samsung