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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 374 420
Rank change year-on-year +17 +46 -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.005% 0.014%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.020% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £225
% change year-on-year -13.33% +166.67% -

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 4,721 4,915 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 26.85% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,162 3,369 5,117
10th Percentile £254 £243 £223
25th Percentile £385 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 190 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £16.06 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -14.52% +29.90%
75th Percentile £36.00 £53.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £24.18 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -26.73% +53.49%

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 14 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
South East +28 5 £425 - 11
East Midlands - 2 £518 - 2
Midlands - 2 £518 - 3
East of England - 2 £465 - 1
Wales - 1 £400 -
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 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (20.00%) Textract
5 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (10.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (40.00%) Big Data
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (50.00%) NumPy
1 5 (50.00%) Pandas
1 5 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (30.00%) Prophet
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) JSR 170
4 1 (10.00%) Next.js
4 1 (10.00%) OSGi
4 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) LLM
3 5 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 5 (50.00%) Use Case
4 4 (40.00%) A/B Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 4 (40.00%) OCR
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Linear Regression
5 3 (30.00%) Logistic Regression
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Sage
2 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow