OpenAI Contract Job Trends in the North of England

OpenAI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 14 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 160 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.11% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £426 £585 -
25th Percentile £448 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £763 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.98% - -
75th Percentile £553 £813 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% -24.00%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,192 1,635 2,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.32% 45.18% 48.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 919 1,444
10th Percentile £250 £250 £231
25th Percentile £363 £394 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £587
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 72 98
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -4.41% +61.52%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.28 £56.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in the North of England

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the North of England

OpenAI
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 OpenAI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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 - 5 £450 - 17
North West -20 4 £450 -40.98% 17
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
3 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Firebase
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) C++ Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) D3.js
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) Flutter
2 1 (11.11%) Gradio
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
2 1 (11.11%) Next.js
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) CUDA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) AI
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
4 4 (44.44%) Generative AI
5 3 (33.33%) LLM
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Presales
5 3 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Conversational UI
6 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
6 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 2 (22.22%) Memory Management
6 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Use Case
7 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Netlify