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 27 June 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
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 395 437
Rank change year-on-year +58 +42 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 18 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.028% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.067% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £458 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -38.46% -
75th Percentile £675 - £675
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £529 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -11.88% +20.00% -

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 6,710 8,994 10,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.13% 42.56% 44.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,115 5,365 6,962
10th Percentile £220 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 1,009 435
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.00 £14.29
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -29.69% +64.10%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.68 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.30 £24.14 £40.55
% change year-on-year +4.81% -40.46% +87.36%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +50 8 £625 +56.25% 67
Scotland - 4 £675 - 11
Midlands +10 3 £410 - 56
East Midlands - 2 £410 - 26
East of England - 2 £558 - 31
West Midlands +11 1 £558 - 29
South West - 1 - - 22
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 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure AI
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Metadata
2 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) Neo4j
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Code Climate
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (33.33%) Legal
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Data Science Developer
7 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
1 4 (22.22%) React
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) Hugging Face
2 2 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) FHIR
3 1 (5.56%) JSR 170
3 1 (5.56%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) OSGi
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) RAML
3 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.56%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning
3 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
4 5 (27.78%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (22.22%) API Design
5 4 (22.22%) Use Case
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (16.67%) OCR
6 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 3 (16.67%) Sentiment Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 2 (11.11%) PhD
2 1 (5.56%) OCP
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Consul
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk