OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Leeds

OpenAI
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 20 December 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Vendors
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 323 238 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 43.77% 39.34% 49.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 141 276
10th Percentile £303 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £713 £713
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 0
10th Percentile - £15.00 -
25th Percentile - £15.62 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% - -
75th Percentile £15.29 £97.98 -
90th Percentile £21.30 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £36.75 £26.78
% change year-on-year -42.04% +37.23% +24.56%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Leeds

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft