ChatGPT Contract Job Trends in the North West

OpenAI ChatGPT
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ChatGPT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.065% - 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 - £275
75th Percentile £435 - £288
90th Percentile £444 - -
England median daily rate £588 £550 £350
% change year-on-year +6.82% +57.14% +55.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,005 665 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.73% 33.83% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 509 673
10th Percentile £220 £230 £295
25th Percentile £369 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £550
90th Percentile £643 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 15 72
10th Percentile £19.10 £22.30 £13.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £25.53 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +68.03% -51.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 £43.39 £24.33
90th Percentile £93.00 £74.75 £45.94
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -16.00%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

ChatGPT job vacancy trend in the North West

ChatGPT
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
Manchester - 2 £421 - 2
ChatGPT
England

ChatGPT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce