OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

OpenAI
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 10 September 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - -
North West median daily rate £490 £775 -
% change year-on-year -36.77% - -

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 332 230 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 52.95% 44.75% 51.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 130 102
10th Percentile £305 £325 £214
25th Percentile £358 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +5.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £500 £585 £586
90th Percentile £638 £653 £593
North West median daily rate £466 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 19
10th Percentile - £12.68 £12.27
25th Percentile £12.82 £14.81 £17.20
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -24.55% +80.53%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £56.53 £29.90 £36.05
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +56.32%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing OpenAI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in Cheshire

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Knutsford - 1 £405 -
OpenAI
North West

OpenAI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Traceability Matrix
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft