OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Central London

OpenAI
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of OpenAI products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenAI over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within OpenAI.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 131 145
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 12 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.60% 0.13% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 0.30% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £486 £448 -
25th Percentile £551 £453 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £850 £488 £675
90th Percentile £865 - -
London median daily rate £575 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +21.05% - -

All Vendors
Central London

OpenAI falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 983 1,009 1,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.95% 43.16% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 643 845
10th Percentile £325 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £669 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £19.05 £18.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.18 £33.07 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.94 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £54.90 £137.50 £57.38
London median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year -26.17% -9.58% +48.41%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenAI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Central London

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenAI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in Central London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in Central London

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
City of London +2 12 £675 +42.11% 6
Southwark - 1 £800 -
OpenAI
London

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 4 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Run
4 3 (25.00%) Google Gemini
4 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) Vertex AI
5 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (16.67%) Firebase
5 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Pinecone
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Snyk
2 1 (8.33%) Ant
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) LangChain
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) CSS3
2 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) HTML5
2 2 (16.67%) Hugging Face
2 2 (16.67%) JWT
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (16.67%) Next.js
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Redux
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 2 (16.67%) Zustand
3 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 6 (50.00%) LLM
2 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Data Security
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) RBAC
6 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (16.67%) EU AI Act
3 2 (16.67%) NIST
4 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (25.00%) Databricks
4 2 (16.67%) Guidewire
5 1 (8.33%) Foundry