Prompt Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Prompt Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prompt Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 396 -
Rank change year-on-year +62 - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.014% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £411 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - -
75th Percentile £601 £625 -
90th Percentile £652 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Prompt Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Prompt Engineering in the UK excluding London

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prompt Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prompt Engineering in the UK excluding London

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East - 1 £350 - 24
South West - 1 £640 - 5
Prompt Engineering
UK

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
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
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) 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
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAI