Hybrid/Remote ChatGPT Contract Job Trends

OpenAI ChatGPT
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ChatGPT skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 330 407
Rank change year-on-year +28 +77 -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.039% 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.048% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £458 -
25th Percentile £663 £469 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £335
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +49.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £544 £563
90th Percentile - £563 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £623 £350
% change year-on-year -11.65% +77.86% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

ChatGPT falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,149 4,816 7,953
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.35% 37.88% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,853 3,309 5,893
10th Percentile £338 £344 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -1.38% -0.91%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £780 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 40 127
10th Percentile £20.50 £14.53 £16.40
25th Percentile £27.51 £23.69 £22.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -28.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £66.13 £61.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.50 £77.77
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

ChatGPT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ChatGPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ChatGPT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ChatGPT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing ChatGPT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing ChatGPT

ChatGPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) Prophet
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ARIMA
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision Tree
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Logistic Regression
2 1 (50.00%) OCR
2 1 (50.00%) Random Forest
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sage