OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

OpenAI
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 28 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
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.48% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £447 - -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 251 281 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.48% 37.02% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 153 243
10th Percentile £343 £156 £164
25th Percentile £425 £230 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £513 £550
90th Percentile £625 £633 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +4.65% -9.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 3
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £18.03 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.80 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.01% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.18 £39.61
90th Percentile £65.75 - £52.74
Scotland median hourly rate £20.01 £19.94 £17.72
% change year-on-year +0.38% +12.51% -

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) OCR
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft