Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Prompt Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
South East median daily rate £388 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,501 1,924 2,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.97% 85.28% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 1,080 1,681
10th Percentile £293 £281 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 89 90
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.84 £16.39
25th Percentile £15.12 £32.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.46 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.40% +20.91% +166.67%
75th Percentile £44.68 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £87.46 £74.81
South East median hourly rate £21.82 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.95% +9.24% +61.54%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Prompt Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Prompt Engineering in the Thames Valley

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Berkshire - 2 £350 - 11
Prompt Engineering
South East

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI