OpenAI Contracts in England

OpenAI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 509 652
Rank change year-on-year +64 +143 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 40 33 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.089% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.21% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 1
10th Percentile £400 £306 -
25th Percentile £481 £338 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £628 £594 £675
90th Percentile £700 £615 -
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% -

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in England

OpenAI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAI in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenAI in England

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in England

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +33 17 £513 -6.82% 78
South East - 15 £600 - 22
South West - 1 £413 - 6
East of England - 1 £650 - 3
North of England - 1 £750 - 8
North West - 1 £750 - 5
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.50%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (77.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 5 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.00%) ChatGPT
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Social Housing
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Automation Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Data Scientist
7 2 (5.00%) Machine Learning Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) .NET
2 8 (20.00%) CSS
2 8 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (10.00%) Hugging Face
3 4 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 3 (7.50%) TensorFlow
5 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (5.00%) LangChain
5 2 (5.00%) Middleware
5 2 (5.00%) SpaCy
6 1 (2.50%) FHIR
6 1 (2.50%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.50%) NumPy
6 1 (2.50%) Pandas
6 1 (2.50%) RAML
6 1 (2.50%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.50%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (7.50%) Cyberattack
1 3 (7.50%) FMCG
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (60.00%) LLM
3 15 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 11 (27.50%) DevOps
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (22.50%) Agile
7 8 (20.00%) Integration Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 8 (20.00%) System Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
8 7 (17.50%) Generative AI
8 7 (17.50%) SDLC
9 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (15.00%) Data Science
9 6 (15.00%) Use Case
9 6 (15.00%) Visualisation
10 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
10 5 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) C#
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.00%) PhD
3 1 (2.50%) OCP
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle