ChatGPT Contract Job Trends in the North of England

OpenAI ChatGPT
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring ChatGPT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 - 183
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.084% - 0.022%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £433 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £275
75th Percentile £450 - £288
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £613 £275
% change year-on-year -6.12% +122.73% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

ChatGPT falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,802 1,182 1,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.81% 33.42% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,306 771 1,179
10th Percentile £214 £263 £260
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 59
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £35.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% +48.24% -2.05%
75th Percentile £58.81 £66.81 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.73 £95.73 £54.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ChatGPT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

ChatGPT job vacancy trend in the North of England

ChatGPT
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ChatGPT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ChatGPT

ChatGPT
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ChatGPT within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Yorkshire - 2 £449 - 18
North West - 2 £421 - 22
ChatGPT
England

ChatGPT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce