OpenAI Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

OpenAI
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.79% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £675 £600 -
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Vendors
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 151 80 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 59.92% 60.15% 58.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 60 102
10th Percentile £205 £170 £213
25th Percentile £268 £376 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +3.36%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £518
90th Percentile £649 £638 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £15.10 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.00 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +22.45% -42.49%
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile £23.55 - -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £40.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.35% -23.33% +113.63%

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Crawley - 2 - -
OpenAI
South East

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks