Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Prompt Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 86 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.28% 0.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £449 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 689 282 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.43% 92.16% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 162 233
10th Percentile £319 £220 £390
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £621 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) ChatGPT
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft