OpenAI Contract Job Trends in the City of London

OpenAI
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 118 146
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 9 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.24% 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 1.05% 0.54% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £567 £449 -
25th Percentile £653 £458 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £850 £517 £675
90th Percentile £888 £569 -
Central London median daily rate £750 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +57.89% -26.92% -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 858 928 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.31% 43.96% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 585 841
10th Percentile £325 £340 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 8
10th Percentile £19.79 £16.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £22.88 £22.13 £16.90
Median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.00% +140.96% -
75th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £42.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -32.14% +102.41% -1.19%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing OpenAI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in the City of London

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OpenAI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the City of London

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
OpenAI
Central London

OpenAI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Run
3 3 (33.33%) Google Gemini
3 3 (33.33%) Vertex AI
4 2 (22.22%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (22.22%) Firebase
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
4 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Pinecone
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Snyk
2 1 (11.11%) Ant
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) git-flow
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) CSS3
1 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) HTML5
1 2 (22.22%) Hugging Face
1 2 (22.22%) JWT
1 2 (22.22%) LangChain
1 2 (22.22%) Next.js
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) Redux
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Tailwind CSS
1 2 (22.22%) WebSockets
1 2 (22.22%) Zustand
2 1 (11.11%) Faiss
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) AI Agents
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) LLM
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (33.33%) RBAC
5 3 (33.33%) User Experience
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
6 2 (22.22%) Observability
6 2 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (22.22%) EU AI Act
3 2 (22.22%) NIST
4 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace