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 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.42% - 0.071%
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £400 -
% change year-on-year +56.25% - -

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 946 1,136 1,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 56.31% 49.31% 50.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 663 944
10th Percentile £293 £243 £263
25th Percentile £403 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £716 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 55 50
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £20.06 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.00 £55.08 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -67.32% +70.46% +97.01%
75th Percentile £36.89 £61.60 £63.69
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.42 £68.21
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.10% +27.44% +125.00%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 - 7 £625 - 6
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 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) FHIR
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Dashboard Development
2 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
2 5 (71.43%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
3 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Sentiment Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Use Case
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 2 (28.57%) LLM
5 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
6 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 1 (14.29%) Operations Research
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Salesforce
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft