Hybrid/Remote Feature Engineering Job Trends

Feature Engineering
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 435 475
Rank change year-on-year +69 +40 +216
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 10 4 10
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.066% 0.024% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.026% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £53,750 £65,250 £68,210
25th Percentile £59,375 £69,375 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +9.81% -7.44%
75th Percentile £80,313 £82,085 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,125 £84,086 £80,250
UK median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.79% -0.82% +17.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,281 15,500 19,599
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.95% 93.36% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,418 9,178 15,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,620 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Feature Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Feature Engineering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Feature Engineering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Feature Engineering
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Feature Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Feature Engineering

Feature Engineering
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Feature Engineering salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Feature Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Dagster
3 4 (40.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Tableau
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (50.00%) Looker
3 4 (40.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (40.00%) Delta Lake
3 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (40.00%) Pinecone
3 4 (40.00%) Weaviate
4 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
5 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MLflow
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Data Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (70.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (40.00%) Faiss
2 4 (40.00%) vLLM
3 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
4 1 (10.00%) LangChain
4 1 (10.00%) NumPy
4 1 (10.00%) Pandas
4 1 (10.00%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Genomics
2 1 (10.00%) Omics
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (90.00%) Data Science
3 8 (80.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (80.00%) Generative AI
4 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) LLM
4 6 (60.00%) Open Source
4 6 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 6 (60.00%) Statistics
5 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
5 5 (50.00%) Coaching
5 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (50.00%) Mathematics
5 5 (50.00%) MLOps
5 5 (50.00%) Use Case
6 4 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (40.00%) Presales
6 4 (40.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) Java
4 5 (50.00%) Scala
5 4 (40.00%) Bash
5 4 (40.00%) Go
6 3 (30.00%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (20.00%) PhD
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
1 4 (40.00%) Palantir
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Samsung