OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

OpenAI
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 31 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 7.55% - -
As % of the Vendors category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £600 - -

All Vendors
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 26 28 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 49.06% 57.14% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 19
10th Percentile £425 - £415
25th Percentile £550 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year +55.22% -11.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £677 £577 £488
90th Percentile £688 £722 £570
Suffolk median daily rate £525 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +40.00% -21.05% -25.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £15.85 - -
25th Percentile £16.38 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £14.00
75th Percentile £21.38 - £14.50
90th Percentile £22.35 - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £22.38 - £14.00

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Foundry
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks