Feature Engineering Job Trends in London

Feature Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 418 433
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 +244
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 14 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.10% 0.044% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.047% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £77,250 £58,500 £83,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £63,750 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -31.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £90,625 £85,420 £125,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £101,668 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +14.81% -4.36% +22.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Feature Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Feature Engineering in London

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 7 (50.00%) Appian
2 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 7 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Prefect
5 1 (7.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) Pinecone
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Head of AI
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) PyTorch
1 12 (85.71%) TensorFlow
2 11 (78.57%) scikit-learn
3 8 (57.14%) Hugging Face
4 7 (50.00%) Django
4 7 (50.00%) Faiss
4 7 (50.00%) FastAPI
4 7 (50.00%) Flask
4 7 (50.00%) JWT
4 7 (50.00%) NumPy
4 7 (50.00%) OAuth
4 7 (50.00%) OpenAPI
4 7 (50.00%) Pandas
4 7 (50.00%) pytest
4 7 (50.00%) REST
4 7 (50.00%) RESTful
4 7 (50.00%) Swagger
4 7 (50.00%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) Google JAX
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Low-Code
2 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Genomics
3 1 (7.14%) Omics
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (7.14%) Robotics
3 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) AI
1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 13 (92.86%) Natural Language Processing
3 12 (85.71%) MLOps
4 10 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (71.43%) Validation
5 9 (64.29%) A/B Testing
5 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
5 9 (64.29%) Generative AI
5 9 (64.29%) LLM
5 9 (64.29%) Prompt Engineering
6 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
6 8 (57.14%) Data Cleansing
6 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
6 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
6 8 (57.14%) ETL
6 8 (57.14%) Open Source
6 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
6 8 (57.14%) Workflow
7 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) R
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 3 (21.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Automation Anywhere
1 7 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 7 (50.00%) UiPath
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft