ChatGPT Contracts

OpenAI ChatGPT
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 586 710
Rank change year-on-year +77 +124 -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 10 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.032% 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.091% 0.099% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £263 -
25th Percentile £300 £328 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £225
Median % change year-on-year - +144.44% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £238
90th Percentile £700 £619 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £275 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ChatGPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ChatGPT in the UK

ChatGPT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ChatGPT.

Daily rate trend for ChatGPT in the UK

ChatGPT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ChatGPT over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ChatGPT in the UK

ChatGPT
Top 2 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +61 10 £550 - 49
London +39 9 £500 -11.11% 34

ChatGPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Communications Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Copywriter
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Copywriter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Blog
2 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) LLM
3 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Storytelling
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) Document Management
5 1 (10.00%) Information Security
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle