OpenAI
South East > Home Counties
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 8 February 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
8 Feb 2026 |
Same period 2025 |
Same period 2024 |
| Rank |
4 |
- |
- |
| Rank change year-on-year |
- |
- |
- |
| Contract jobs citing OpenAI |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties |
12.50% |
- |
- |
| As % of the Vendors category |
20.00% |
- |
- |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) |
- |
- |
- |
| South East median daily rate |
£594 |
£600 |
- |
| % change year-on-year |
-1.04% |
- |
- |
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 Home Counties.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services |
5 |
3 |
5 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties |
62.50% |
60.00% |
35.71% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| 10th Percentile |
- |
£496 |
£555 |
| 25th Percentile |
£650 |
£505 |
£563 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) |
£700 |
£545 |
£588 |
| Median % change year-on-year |
+28.44% |
-7.23% |
+6.82% |
| 75th Percentile |
£750 |
£610 |
£600 |
| 90th Percentile |
- |
£634 |
- |
| South East median daily rate |
£500 |
£513 |
£500 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.44% |
+2.50% |
-0.99% |
