OpenAI Contracts

OpenAI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 556 712
Rank change year-on-year +84 +156 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 47 44 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.10% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.24% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 1
10th Percentile £400 £317 -
25th Percentile £481 £478 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £300 £650
% change year-on-year +100.00% -53.85% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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 +70 40 £600 +9.09% 101
UK excluding London +69 20 £600 +100.00% 41
London +30 17 £513 -6.82% 67
South East - 15 £600 - 14
Work from Home +34 9 £575 -4.17% 59
Scotland - 2 £575 - 6
East of England - 1 £650 - 3
North of England - 1 £750 - 8
North West - 1 £750 - 5
South West - 1 £413 - 6

OpenAI
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 (2.13%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (74.47%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) Azure Machine Learning
3 10 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.02%) Power Automate
5 6 (12.77%) Azure AI
6 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.51%) AWS
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.38%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.26%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.26%) ChatGPT
9 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (4.26%) Serverless
9 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) MQTT
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.13%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.13%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Redis
3 1 (2.13%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Legal
4 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Games
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.13%) Social Housing
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.26%) Automation Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Machine Learning Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) .NET
2 11 (23.40%) CSS
2 11 (23.40%) HTML
3 6 (12.77%) PyTorch
4 5 (10.64%) Hugging Face
4 5 (10.64%) TensorFlow
5 3 (6.38%) LangChain
6 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.26%) Middleware
6 2 (4.26%) SpaCy
7 1 (2.13%) FHIR
7 1 (2.13%) Kafka
7 1 (2.13%) Matplotlib
7 1 (2.13%) NumPy
7 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.13%) Pandas
7 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.13%) RAML
7 1 (2.13%) RESTful
7 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cyberattack
2 5 (10.64%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.38%) FMCG
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.13%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (93.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (63.83%) LLM
3 21 (44.68%) Machine Learning
4 15 (31.91%) DevOps
5 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (25.53%) Agile
7 11 (23.40%) Integration Testing
7 11 (23.40%) Software Testing
7 11 (23.40%) System Testing
7 11 (23.40%) Unit Testing
8 10 (21.28%) SDLC
9 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.02%) Data Science
10 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
10 8 (17.02%) Generative AI
11 7 (14.89%) Data Protection
12 6 (12.77%) Product Backlog
12 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
12 6 (12.77%) Use Case
12 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) Python
2 14 (29.79%) C#
2 14 (29.79%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.13%) Go
4 1 (2.13%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.26%) PhD
3 1 (2.13%) OCP
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.38%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle