Prompt Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Prompt Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 295 339 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 9 6 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.039% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.045% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £770 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - -
75th Percentile £844 £625 -
90th Percentile £848 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Prompt Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Prompt Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Prompt Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Prompt Engineering.

Prompt Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Prompt Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Prompt Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Flink
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (88.89%) Generative AI
2 8 (88.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 7 (77.78%) LLM
4 6 (66.67%) Agile
5 5 (55.56%) Architectural Design
6 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
6 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
6 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
7 3 (33.33%) Data Science
7 3 (33.33%) User Research
8 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
8 2 (22.22%) High Availability
8 2 (22.22%) Microservices
8 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAI
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk