Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Prompt Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £429 - -
90th Percentile £433 - -
North West median daily rate £430 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 575 444 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.71% 86.38% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 280 194
10th Percentile £305 £328 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -4.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £642
North West median daily rate £450 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -9.82% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.44
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +55.56%

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prompt Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 3 £415 -
Prompt Engineering
North West

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Multivariate Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI