Feature Engineering Job Trends in the South East

Feature Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 329 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.022% 0.016% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.020% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £51,250 - -
25th Percentile £53,125 £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% - -
75th Percentile £63,125 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £65,750 - -
England median annual salary £73,750 £73,750 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +4.50% -19.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,955 10,235 7,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.38% 81.51% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 5,418 5,534
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £31,325
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,520 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +1.67%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Feature Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Feature Engineering in the South East

Feature Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 October 2025. 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
Surrey - 2 £57,500 - 2
Feature Engineering
England

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Samsung