OpenAI Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

OpenAI
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 20 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 402 290 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.79% 41.25% 49.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 172 354
10th Percentile £290 £263 £311
25th Percentile £393 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £588
90th Percentile £642 £661 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £480 £479
% change year-on-year +2.08% +0.26% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 1
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.15 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £17.13 -
Median hourly rate £21.30 £36.75 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -42.04% +37.23% +24.56%
75th Percentile £81.25 £82.86 -
90th Percentile - £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £54.00 £22.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +140.00% +2.27% +2.33%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenAI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

OpenAI job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leeds - 2 £575 - 1
Huddersfield - 1 - -
OpenAI
Yorkshire

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Sharing
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft