Prompt Engineering Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Prompt Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Prompt Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 578 550
Rank change year-on-year +76 -28 -
Permanent jobs citing Prompt Engineering 15 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.005% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.006% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £66,250 £107,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -41.30% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £68,750 £122,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £86,250 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.81% +14.29% -

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,380 32,892 27,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.58% 88.28% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,063 15,104 20,736
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,755 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Prompt Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Prompt Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Prompt Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prompt Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prompt Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Prompt Engineering in the UK excluding London

Prompt Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prompt Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +32 6 - - 27
North of England +27 3 £80,000 +18.52% 14
West Midlands - 3 £87,500 -
Midlands - 3 £87,500 -
North East - 2 - - 2
South West - 2 £45,000 - 14
East of England - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £80,000 - 7
Prompt Engineering
UK

Prompt Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 8 (53.33%) Azure AI
4 6 (40.00%) GCP
4 6 (40.00%) Vertex AI
5 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (6.67%) PaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Law
1 6 (40.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Product Delivery Manager
1 6 (40.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
2 2 (13.33%) Head of Data Science
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Trainer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) Next.js
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (13.33%) Reinsurance
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Machine Learning
2 12 (80.00%) AI
2 12 (80.00%) Data Science
2 12 (80.00%) LLM
3 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (53.33%) Change Management
4 8 (53.33%) Data Privacy
4 8 (53.33%) Generative AI
4 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
5 7 (46.67%) Agile
5 7 (46.67%) Prototyping
6 6 (40.00%) B2B
6 6 (40.00%) B2C
6 6 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (40.00%) PLM
6 6 (40.00%) Product Management
6 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (40.00%) Use Case
6 6 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.67%) EU AI Act
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Foundry
2 6 (40.00%) Google
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Databricks
5 1 (6.67%) OpenAI