ChatGPT Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenAI ChatGPT
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 399 -
Rank change year-on-year +66 - -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.019% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.024% 0.075% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £275 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.09% - -
75th Percentile £473 £288 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £458 £550 £225
% change year-on-year -16.82% +144.44% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,082 5,368 7,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.93% 25.98% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 3,804 5,903
10th Percentile £237 £213 £248
25th Percentile £388 £370 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 259 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%
75th Percentile £33.10 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £61.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ChatGPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ChatGPT in the UK excluding London

ChatGPT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ChatGPT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ChatGPT in the UK excluding London

ChatGPT
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ChatGPT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
East of England - 1 £465 - 5
ChatGPT
UK

ChatGPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI