OpenAI Contracts in the West Midlands

OpenAI
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 22 August 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
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OpenAI 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.058% 0.053% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £554 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% - -
75th Percentile £561 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -5.45%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 836 868 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.32% 45.76% 50.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 596 681
10th Percentile £231 £263 £220
25th Percentile £358 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 25
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.95 £16.54
25th Percentile £24.66 £14.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £43.25 £45.50 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £84.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £28.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year -10.97% -20.42% +57.78%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing OpenAI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in the West Midlands

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenAI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenAI

OpenAI
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Shropshire - 1 £558 -
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk