OpenAI Contracts in London

OpenAI
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 336 369 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 17 22 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.12% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 0
10th Percentile - £315 -
25th Percentile £400 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £600 £588 -
90th Percentile £758 - -
England median daily rate £600 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in London

OpenAI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAI in London

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in London

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the London 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
Central London - 2 £750 - 2
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure AI
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Machine Learning
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) Google Gemini
5 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Big Data
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) FastAPI
1 2 (11.76%) LangChain
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) FMCG
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (52.94%) LLM
3 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
4 5 (29.41%) Generative AI
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) Data Science
5 3 (17.65%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Workflow
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) Conversational UI
6 2 (11.76%) Data Management
6 2 (11.76%) MLOps
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) User Experience
7 1 (5.88%) Business Case
7 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle