Prompt Engineering Contracts in England

Prompt Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prompt Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 537 -
Rank change year-on-year +66 - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 14 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.013% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 0
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £498 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £735 £625 -
90th Percentile £794 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Prompt Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Prompt Engineering in England

Prompt Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prompt Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Prompt Engineering in England

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prompt Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prompt Engineering in England

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 11 £700 - 76
South East - 1 £350 - 23
South West - 1 £640 - 5
Prompt Engineering
UK

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.14%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) MLflow
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Scientist
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Gen AI Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Trainer
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) LangChain
2 5 (35.71%) Hugging Face
3 3 (21.43%) FastAPI
4 2 (14.29%) NumPy
4 2 (14.29%) Pandas
5 1 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (7.14%) Django
5 1 (7.14%) FHIR
5 1 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
5 1 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) Graphic Design
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
1 1 (7.14%) Photography
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (85.71%) Generative AI
3 11 (78.57%) LLM
4 9 (64.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 8 (57.14%) Data Science
6 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
7 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
7 4 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
9 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
9 2 (14.29%) MLOps
9 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
10 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
10 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
10 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Dataiku
2 1 (7.14%) DataRobot
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI