Feature Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Feature Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Feature Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 760 733
Rank change year-on-year +184 -27 +123
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 4 15 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.020% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.025% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile £46,500 £38,250 £35,528
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,967 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £70,576 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +19.23% -4.14%
75th Percentile £58,938 £85,453 £62,331
90th Percentile £65,575 £98,474 £66,848
UK median annual salary £61,750 £75,288 £68,823
% change year-on-year -17.98% +9.39% -21.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Feature Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Feature Engineering in the UK excluding London

Feature Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Scotland +119 2 £60,000 - 1
Midlands +60 1 £53,500 -
West Midlands +56 1 £53,500 -
East of England - 1 £45,000 - 1
Feature Engineering
UK

Feature Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google