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 26 June 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
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 377 477
Rank change year-on-year +52 +100 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 25 27 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.15% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.37% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 1
10th Percentile £385 £338 -
25th Percentile £400 £525 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £575 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +64.29% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £375
90th Percentile £670 £619 -
England median daily rate £558 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +15.00% -

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 5,752 7,319 10,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.29% 41.59% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,731 5,026 7,131
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £684
90th Percentile £766 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 130 122
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.60 £17.78 £21.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £23.80 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.96% -12.66% -22.14%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £69.88
England median hourly rate £26.45 £24.18 £32.40
% change year-on-year +9.39% -25.37% +50.70%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +8 3 £750 +24.17% 40
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 4 (16.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.00%) Vertex AI
7 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) ChatGPT
7 1 (4.00%) Google Gemini
7 1 (4.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Big Data
2 4 (16.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
4 1 (4.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) git-flow
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (8.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Publishing
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Exchange Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (20.00%) LangChain
2 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.00%) Keras
3 3 (12.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (8.00%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.00%) Gradio
4 2 (8.00%) Middleware
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) FMCG
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
3 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (52.00%) LLM
3 10 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 9 (36.00%) Machine Learning
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (24.00%) Analytics
7 6 (24.00%) Conversational UI
7 6 (24.00%) Data Science
8 5 (20.00%) Agile
8 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 5 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
9 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
9 4 (16.00%) Deep Learning
9 4 (16.00%) DevOps
9 4 (16.00%) Use Case
10 3 (12.00%) API Development
10 3 (12.00%) Computer Vision
10 3 (12.00%) Scrum
10 3 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) R
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Argo
2 1 (4.00%) Istio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Google
3 6 (24.00%) Databricks
4 2 (8.00%) Foundry
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) VMware