Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Prompt Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.65% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% - 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Prompt Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 162 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.21% 89.50% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 114
10th Percentile £357 £287 £213
25th Percentile £438 £340 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £568 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £584
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +12.43% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 20
10th Percentile £17.95 £19.80 £16.75
25th Percentile £44.91 £24.40 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.50 £64.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Deep Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Foundry