Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Prompt Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £560 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +24.44% -25.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,913 1,532 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.63% 88.30% 81.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,803 977 1,036
10th Percentile £313 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £671 £650 £731
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 104 55
10th Percentile £13.44 £12.62 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.02 £14.85
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +15.90% -23.64%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.14 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.26 £50.00 £54.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Prompt Engineering job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Prompt Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
Birmingham - 7 £625 - 4
Coventry - 3 £575 - 1
Warwickshire - 3 £501 -
Prompt Engineering
England

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (15.38%) ChatGPT
3 2 (15.38%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Vercel
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.69%) Dropbox
4 1 (7.69%) Google Gemini
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Looker
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Metabase
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Conversational AI Designer
1 4 (30.77%) Designer
2 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Data Science Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Gen AI Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Logistics Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
1 3 (23.08%) LangChain
1 3 (23.08%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Next.js
2 2 (15.38%) OAuth
2 2 (15.38%) OpenID
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) AI Agents
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) AI
1 10 (76.92%) Generative AI
1 10 (76.92%) LLM
2 7 (53.85%) Conversational AI
2 7 (53.85%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (30.77%) Conversational UI
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (23.08%) User Experience
5 2 (15.38%) Memory Management
5 2 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (15.38%) OWASP
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) OpenAI
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.69%) HubSpot
4 1 (7.69%) Wrike