Hybrid/Remote Prompt Engineering Contract Job Trends

Prompt Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 299 364
Rank change year-on-year +47 +65 -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 64 8 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.073% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.082% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 0
10th Percentile £356 £421 -
25th Percentile £469 £584 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £735 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% - -
75th Percentile £755 £776 -
90th Percentile £900 £787 -
UK median daily rate £584 £700 £850
% change year-on-year -16.61% -17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.95 - -
Median hourly rate £57.30 - -
75th Percentile £58.65 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.30 - -

All Process & 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 9,000 9,799 14,446
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.31% 89.53% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,909 6,151 9,801
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 187 377
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.80 £16.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -29.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prompt Engineering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Prompt Engineering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Prompt Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Prompt Engineering over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Prompt Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (4.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) AWS
3 10 (15.63%) GitHub
4 9 (14.06%) Snowflake
5 8 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (10.94%) Anthropic Claude
7 6 (9.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 6 (9.38%) Google Gemini
8 5 (7.81%) Serverless
8 5 (7.81%) Vertex AI
9 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.69%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (4.69%) GCP
11 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
11 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Pinecone
2 7 (10.94%) Weaviate
3 3 (4.69%) Redis
4 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.13%) Metadata
4 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
5 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (57.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 22 (34.38%) Gen AI Engineer
3 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
3 6 (9.38%) Data Scientist
3 6 (9.38%) Senior
4 5 (7.81%) Architect
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 2 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Web Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.56%) Senior Data Scientist
8 1 (1.56%) Senior Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.44%) FastAPI
2 10 (15.63%) PyTorch
2 10 (15.63%) TensorFlow
3 9 (14.06%) LangChain
4 8 (12.50%) Faiss
4 8 (12.50%) Node.js
5 7 (10.94%) LangGraph
5 7 (10.94%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (6.25%) React
7 3 (4.69%) CrewAI
7 3 (4.69%) Middleware
8 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.13%) Hugging Face
8 2 (3.13%) JSON
8 2 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (3.13%) Vue
9 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.56%) NestJS
9 1 (1.56%) NLTK
9 1 (1.56%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) AI Agents
2 9 (14.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) AI
2 54 (84.38%) LLM
3 48 (75.00%) Generative AI
4 37 (57.81%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 36 (56.25%) Machine Learning
6 22 (34.38%) CI/CD
7 20 (31.25%) Agile
7 20 (31.25%) Data Engineering
7 20 (31.25%) Roadmaps
8 19 (29.69%) Data Science
9 16 (25.00%) Use Case
10 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
10 13 (20.31%) Conversational UI
10 13 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (18.75%) Data Governance
12 11 (17.19%) Data Ingestion
12 11 (17.19%) Data Privacy
13 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
13 10 (15.63%) Information Retrieval
13 10 (15.63%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (64.06%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) SQL
3 5 (7.81%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.13%) Bash
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) ABAP
5 1 (1.56%) Go
5 1 (1.56%) PHP
5 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) MCP
4 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.13%) PhD
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) GxP
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Istio
3 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) OpenAI
2 9 (14.06%) Databricks
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) SAP