OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

OpenAI
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 26 January 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
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.30% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 - -
75th Percentile £443 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
Scotland median daily rate £434 - -

All Vendors
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 326 295 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 49.70% 39.70% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 182 220
10th Percentile £273 £221 £221
25th Percentile £400 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £615
90th Percentile £642 £624 £676
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £478
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.76% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 13
10th Percentile £16.17 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.59 £11.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.45 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% +40.31% +21.58%
75th Percentile £39.58 £25.07 -
90th Percentile £55.00 £29.78 £16.56
Scotland median hourly rate £23.58 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -0.06% +20.97% +6.94%

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance