Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Prompt Engineering
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 2.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43 22 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 86.00% 78.57% 84.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 55
10th Percentile £257 £244 £206
25th Percentile £372 £459 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +31.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £550
90th Percentile £639 £681 £656
Oxfordshire median daily rate £455 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -9.00% +17.65% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £16.71 £45.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.88% +246.15% -48.00%
75th Percentile £21.47 £47.50 £14.86
90th Percentile £23.68 - £20.74
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript