OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Telford

OpenAI
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 13 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.35% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median daily rate £558 - -

All Vendors
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 173 66 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 60.70% 66.67% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 54 8
10th Percentile £421 £320 £413
25th Percentile £476 £379 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -5.61% -8.92%
75th Percentile £538 £526 £522
90th Percentile £552 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £463 £478
% change year-on-year +11.35% -3.14% -11.25%

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk