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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 382 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 8 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.025% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £406 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.25% - -
75th Percentile £510 £625 -
90th Percentile £515 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £600 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 13,264 16,919 20,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.28% 82.94% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,028 10,059 13,903
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 1,971 1,253
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.74 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.74 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -4.70% +86.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.47 £73.75 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prompt Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate 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 17 July 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 17 July 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
North of England +5 5 £507 -15.50% 15
North West - 3 £513 - 5
South East - 2 £350 - 11
North East - 2 £450 - 10
South West - 1 - - 4
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 2 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
3 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Code Climate
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (12.50%) CrewAI
3 1 (12.50%) Faiss
3 1 (12.50%) FHIR
3 1 (12.50%) Gradio
3 1 (12.50%) LangGraph
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (12.50%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 5 (62.50%) Generative AI
3 5 (62.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) API Design
6 1 (12.50%) Fintech
6 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
6 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) Semantic Search
6 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
3 2 (25.00%) Google