Prompt Engineering Contracts

Prompt Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prompt Engineering 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Prompt Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prompt Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prompt Engineering in the UK

Prompt Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prompt Engineering.

Daily rate trend for Prompt Engineering in the UK

Prompt Engineering
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Work from Home - 7 £600 - 6
England - 6 £600 - 10
Yorkshire - 4 £600 -
UK excluding London - 4 £600 - 1
North of England - 4 £600 - 1

Prompt Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Functions
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (14.29%) ChatGPT
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) InterSystems Cache
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (71.43%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Node.js
2 5 (71.43%) SignalR
3 2 (28.57%) LangChain
4 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Deployment
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
1 5 (71.43%) Prototyping
1 5 (71.43%) Rapid Prototyping
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Data Interpretation
4 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (14.29%) LLM
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google