Feature Engineering Jobs

Feature Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 703 886 918
Rank change year-on-year +183 +32 +163
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 6 26 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.025% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.030% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 31
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,080 -
25th Percentile £50,438 £65,438 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £75,288 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% +9.39% -21.35%
75th Percentile £75,625 £90,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,474 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,750 £70,576 £59,191
% change year-on-year -26.67% +19.23% -4.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Feature Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Feature Engineering in the UK

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Feature Engineering.

Salary trend for Feature Engineering in the UK

Feature Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Feature Engineering in the UK

Feature Engineering
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
Work from Home +118 5 £53,500 -37.06% 152
UK excluding London +183 4 £51,750 -26.67% 236
England +144 4 £64,250 -8.96% 231
Scotland +113 2 £60,000 - 10
London +108 2 £75,000 -6.25% 24
Midlands +86 1 £53,500 - 45
West Midlands +58 1 £53,500 - 24
East of England - 1 £45,000 - 36

Feature Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Health Technology
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) MLOps
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (33.33%) Computer Vision
5 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (33.33%) Deep Learning
5 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 2 (33.33%) Physics
5 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Statistics
5 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Foundry
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Palantir