Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Prompt Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 114 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.060% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.067% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £284 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - -
75th Percentile £285 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £700 £850
% change year-on-year -17.86% -17.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,338 1,497 2,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.80% 89.91% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 890 1,334
10th Percentile £241 £230 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 45 55
10th Percentile £13.93 £15.09 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £39.30 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Prompt Engineering job vacancy trend in Scotland

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 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
Glasgow +5 1 £285 -
Edinburgh - 1 - - 3
Prompt Engineering
UK

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) HBase
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes