Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Prompt Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.23% - 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £433 £600 -
% change year-on-year -27.92% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,166 1,259 1,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.55% 81.75% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 460 893
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £400 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £631
90th Percentile £684 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 382 369
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.59 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.39 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +100.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.95 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 - - 4
Prompt Engineering
England

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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