Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Prompt Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £516 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
South East median daily rate £508 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 364 343 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 84.65% 88.86% 85.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 221 438
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £313 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -6.17% -1.22%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £595
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £506 £513
% change year-on-year -1.23% -1.27% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 36
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.63 £16.38
25th Percentile £28.63 £23.21 £27.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £59.81
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -59.57% +32.91%
75th Percentile £58.13 £28.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £52.82 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £43.94 £54.44
% change year-on-year -46.35% -19.29% +20.98%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Prompt Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Prompt Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prompt Engineering in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Prompt Engineering in Surrey

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. 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
Redhill - 2 £588 - 1
Staines - 2 £425 -
Prompt Engineering
South East

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (50.00%) Weaviate
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (50.00%) Faiss
2 2 (50.00%) Keras
2 2 (50.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Vision
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI