OpenAI Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 316 394 461
Rank change year-on-year +78 +67 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 20 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.024% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.056% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £525 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £650
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.85% -
75th Percentile £625 - £675
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAI in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
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 OpenAI within the UK excluding London 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
South East - 15 £600 - 22
Scotland - 2 £575 - 6
East of England - 1 £650 - 3
North of England - 1 £750 - 8
South West - 1 £413 - 6
North West - 1 £750 - 5
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
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 (5.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.00%) Legal
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Science Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) .NET
2 7 (35.00%) CSS
2 7 (35.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.00%) FHIR
4 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.00%) Matplotlib
4 1 (5.00%) NumPy
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) RAML
4 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (55.00%) LLM
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Integration Testing
3 7 (35.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (35.00%) System Testing
3 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (30.00%) SDLC
4 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (20.00%) Channel Management
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft