Feature Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Feature Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Feature Engineering over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 908 1086
Rank change year-on-year +40 +178 -177
Permanent jobs citing Feature Engineering 27 44 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.045% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.047% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 15 31 51
10th Percentile £42,023 - £55,225
25th Percentile £65,875 £56,052 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,823 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.24% -21.35% +16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £108,125
90th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £59,191 £61,750
% change year-on-year +19.23% -4.14% +54.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Feature Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Feature Engineering in the UK

Feature Engineering
Top 11 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 23 May 2024. 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
England +73 19 £75,288 +9.39% 8
UK excluding London +2 15 £70,576 +19.23% 4
London +105 9 £80,000 +6.67% 6
Work from Home +47 7 £80,000 +35.16% 4
Scotland -51 7 - - 1
South West -21 4 £82,606 +39.56%
South East +11 2 £39,500 -
North of England +38 1 £47,683 +29.70% 1
West Midlands +2 1 - - 1
Midlands -16 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £47,683 - 1

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 8 (29.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) Azure
3 9 (33.33%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (11.11%) IaaS
6 3 (11.11%) PaaS
6 3 (11.11%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
1 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (22.22%) Big Data
2 6 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 4 (14.81%) BigQuery
4 4 (14.81%) Flink
4 4 (14.81%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Looker
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Parquet
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
1 10 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Law
3 7 (25.93%) Marketing
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Data Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Python Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Python Software Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Scientist
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Head of Data Science
6 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) PyTorch
2 9 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 7 (25.93%) Flask
3 7 (25.93%) Keras
3 7 (25.93%) SpaCy
4 5 (18.52%) Kafka
5 4 (14.81%) Apache Beam
6 2 (7.41%) JSON
6 2 (7.41%) Matplotlib
6 2 (7.41%) Seaborn
6 2 (7.41%) XML
7 1 (3.70%) CSS
7 1 (3.70%) HTML
7 1 (3.70%) jQuery
7 1 (3.70%) LangChain
7 1 (3.70%) Node.js
7 1 (3.70%) React
7 1 (3.70%) REST
7 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (55.56%) Algorithms
2 10 (37.04%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
4 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 12 (44.44%) Data Science
3 12 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 11 (40.74%) Data Analysis
4 11 (40.74%) Deep Learning
5 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 8 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
6 8 (29.63%) Support Vector Machines
7 7 (25.93%) Community of Practice
7 7 (25.93%) Computer Vision
7 7 (25.93%) Decision Tree
7 7 (25.93%) LLM
7 7 (25.93%) Operational Stability
7 7 (25.93%) Reinforcement Learning
7 7 (25.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Java
4 6 (22.22%) Scala
5 4 (14.81%) Go
5 4 (14.81%) R
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) PhD
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Teradata
3 3 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) StreamSets