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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 23 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.43% - 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £553 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £561 £700 £850
% change year-on-year -19.82% -17.65% -

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 1,356 957 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.49% 84.24% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 794
10th Percentile £192 £240 £239
25th Percentile £363 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £586 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 182 355
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prompt Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Prompt Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Prompt Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prompt Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prompt Engineering in the East of England

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 December 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 - 17 £560 -
Bedfordshire - 6 £625 - 1
Prompt Engineering
England

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Azure AKS
2 10 (43.48%) GitHub
2 10 (43.48%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (39.13%) PaaS
4 8 (34.78%) Serverless
5 7 (30.43%) AWS
5 7 (30.43%) Azure Functions
5 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
6 6 (26.09%) Azure AI
6 6 (26.09%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (26.09%) GCP
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JMeter
1 2 (8.70%) Postman
1 2 (8.70%) Selenium
General
1 6 (26.09%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.70%) QA Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) PyTorch
1 17 (73.91%) TensorFlow
2 14 (60.87%) .NET
3 10 (43.48%) RESTful
3 10 (43.48%) Semantic Kernel
4 8 (34.78%) scikit-learn
5 6 (26.09%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) Pandas
7 1 (4.35%) Node.js
7 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (47.83%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) AI
1 23 (100.00%) LLM
2 22 (95.65%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 20 (86.96%) Machine Learning
4 16 (69.57%) Agile
5 15 (65.22%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (65.22%) Test Automation
6 14 (60.87%) Data Science
7 12 (52.17%) Data Privacy
7 12 (52.17%) DevOps
8 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
9 10 (43.48%) API Management
9 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (43.48%) Deep Learning
9 10 (43.48%) Scrum
10 9 (39.13%) API Design
10 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
11 8 (34.78%) Validation
12 7 (30.43%) Analytics
12 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) MCP
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) EU AI Act
2 14 (60.87%) NIST
3 4 (17.39%) QA
4 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (69.57%) Foundry
3 6 (26.09%) Google
3 6 (26.09%) OpenAI