Feature Engineering Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Feature Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Feature Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 - 223
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.046% - 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% - 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £39,500
75th Percentile £52,500 - £40,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 - £56,000
% change year-on-year - - +41.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,423 3,047 4,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.60% 93.24% 87.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 1,284 3,425
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,700 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Feature Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £50,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Feature Engineering
South East

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) QGIS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GeoPandas
1 1 (50.00%) MapLibre
1 1 (50.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (50.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Mapbox