OpenAI Contracts in the Thames Valley

OpenAI
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £567 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £693 - -
South East median daily rate £600 - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAI in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OpenAI in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the Thames Valley

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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 OpenAI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire - 14 £600 - 5
OpenAI
South East

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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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Automation Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
1 6 (42.86%) CSS
1 6 (42.86%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) FHIR
2 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (64.29%) LLM
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 6 (42.86%) System Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (35.71%) SDLC
4 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
5 4 (28.57%) Channel Management
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
6 3 (21.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) C#
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft