OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Scotland

OpenAI
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 October 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
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £417 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £617 - -
90th Percentile £719 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -24.00%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 712 712 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.50% 39.58% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 410 578
10th Percentile £213 £165 £181
25th Percentile £371 £313 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £478
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -9.95% +6.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 27
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.45 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £12.50
Median hourly rate £20.01 £19.94 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +12.51% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £42.00 £29.34 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -23.53% +70.00%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Scotland

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenAI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in Scotland

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Edinburgh - 3 £775 - 2
Glasgow - 2 £434 - 2
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (60.00%) Legal
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (40.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Hugging Face
3 2 (40.00%) LangChain
3 2 (40.00%) Next.js
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) API Design
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) OCR
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft