Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Prompt Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £570 - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £888 - -
90th Percentile £910 - -
Central London median daily rate £800 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,950 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 91.76% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,226 1,833
10th Percentile £325 £365 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £789 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 17
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.88 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +40.00% -34.52%
75th Percentile £50.25 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Prompt Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Prompt Engineering in the City of London

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prompt Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prompt Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prompt Engineering in the City of London

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 25 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
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Prompt Engineering
Central London

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
2 1 (33.33%) Faiss
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Search
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) EU AI Act
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (33.33%) Foundry
2 1 (33.33%) Google