OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

OpenAI
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.69% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £850 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £650 £625 £400
% change year-on-year +4.00% +56.25% -

All Vendors
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 152 91 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 35.10% 58.71% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 42 45
10th Percentile £203 £164 £160
25th Percentile £250 £222 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £356 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.74% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £547 £500 £525
90th Percentile £594 £598 £645
South East median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 7
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.28 £17.55
25th Percentile £18.49 £25.60 £20.54
Median hourly rate £38.31 £46.30 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +77.87% -13.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £84.66 £29.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.63 £55.80
South East median hourly rate £61.16 £19.46 £55.80
% change year-on-year +214.37% -65.13% +24.00%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Oxford - 2 £900 -
OpenAI
South East

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
1 2 (66.67%) LangGraph
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) LLM
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Signal Processing
1 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft