OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

OpenAI
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 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
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.15% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £447 - -

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 348 199 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 52.57% 54.97% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 116 89
10th Percentile £313 £234 £373
25th Percentile £400 £452 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £534 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -9.19% +11.90%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £650
90th Percentile £651 £683 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £533 £581
% change year-on-year -9.66% -8.30% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £13.14 £18.65
25th Percentile - £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +70.53%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +90.43%

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture