OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Manchester

OpenAI
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 10 June 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
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.61% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 627 427 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.95% 46.51% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 289 340
10th Percentile £287 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £564 £598
90th Percentile £665 £672 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 14 44
10th Percentile £22.63 - £11.85
25th Percentile £24.19 £13.00 £12.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.49 £18.43
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +125.20% -11.01%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.13 £60.00
North West median hourly rate £30.49 £34.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -11.62% +114.82% -45.19%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Manchester

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OpenAI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in Manchester

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
Bolton - 4 £600 -
OpenAI
North West

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) Serverless
3 7 (63.64%) Azure Machine Learning
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (45.45%) Azure AI
5 5 (45.45%) Azure AKS
5 5 (45.45%) GCP
5 5 (45.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (45.45%) Vertex AI
6 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
7 3 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
1 5 (45.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) PySpark
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
2 10 (90.91%) LLM
3 9 (81.82%) DevOps
3 9 (81.82%) Generative AI
3 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 9 (81.82%) Observability
3 9 (81.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 8 (72.73%) Analytics
5 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
5 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (54.55%) Dependency Management
6 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
7 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (45.45%) Cost Optimisation
7 5 (45.45%) ETL
7 5 (45.45%) MLOps
8 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (36.36%) Prompt Engineering
9 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
9 3 (27.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Foundry
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks