OpenAI Contract Job Trends in East London

OpenAI
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 6 October 2026, 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.01% - 1.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.89% - 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £450
London median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +20.00%

All Vendors
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 53 66 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 53.54% 57.89% 55.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 66
10th Percentile £175 £221 £300
25th Percentile £240 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +5.53% -7.87%
75th Percentile £583 £675 £585
90th Percentile £600 £790 £698
London median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £16.78 - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.43% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile £47.50 - -
London median hourly rate £37.00 £25.58 £33.50
% change year-on-year +44.67% -23.66% -16.25%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in East London

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

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

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google