ChatGPT Contracts in the Thames Valley

OpenAI ChatGPT
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ChatGPT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ChatGPT over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 134 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.31% 0.037% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 - -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

ChatGPT falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 590 741 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.74% 27.77% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 495 631
10th Percentile £256 £325 £320
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £662 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 22
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.50 £16.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.63 £58.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -48.91% +140.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £60.60 £34.33
90th Percentile £63.25 £61.60 £77.72
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing ChatGPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for ChatGPT in the Thames Valley

ChatGPT
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ChatGPT within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Buckinghamshire - 5 £425 - 9
ChatGPT
South East

ChatGPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (80.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (100.00%) NumPy
1 5 (100.00%) Pandas
1 5 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (100.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (60.00%) Prophet
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 4 (80.00%) A/B Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) OCR
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) Decision Tree
3 3 (60.00%) Linear Regression
3 3 (60.00%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (60.00%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Sage