OpenAI Contract Job Trends in the North West

OpenAI
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.35% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £588 £558 £513
% change year-on-year +5.38% +8.78% -21.15%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,352 1,017 1,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 39.52% 51.26% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 660 634
10th Percentile £275 £288 £271
25th Percentile £394 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £660 £649
England median daily rate £505 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.61% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 60 152
10th Percentile £19.46 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.19 £18.61 £12.00
Median hourly rate £30.49 £34.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +114.82% -45.19%
75th Percentile £62.00 £63.10 £26.54
90th Percentile £86.00 £85.33 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £23.80
% change year-on-year +19.82% +13.97% -39.82%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in the North West

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the North West

OpenAI
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 OpenAI within the North West 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
Manchester - 11 £550 - 13
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Serverless
3 7 (58.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 6 (50.00%) AWS
5 5 (41.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (41.67%) Azure AI
5 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
5 5 (41.67%) GCP
5 5 (41.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (41.67%) Vertex AI
6 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) BigQuery
1 5 (41.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) PySpark
2 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (91.67%) LLM
3 10 (83.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 9 (75.00%) DevOps
4 9 (75.00%) Generative AI
4 9 (75.00%) Machine Learning
4 9 (75.00%) Observability
5 8 (66.67%) Analytics
6 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
6 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (50.00%) Dependency Management
7 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (41.67%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (41.67%) ETL
8 5 (41.67%) MLOps
9 4 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
10 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 3 (25.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Foundry
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks