OpenAI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenAI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 320 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 9 25 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.16% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 0
10th Percentile £384 £338 -
25th Percentile £453 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £626 £618 -
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

OpenAI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OpenAI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenAI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenAI.

OpenAI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenAI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OpenAI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAI
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 (11.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
4 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) Neo4j
1 1 (11.11%) Pinecone
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
1 1 (11.11%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) PyTorch
2 4 (44.44%) Hugging Face
2 4 (44.44%) TensorFlow
3 2 (22.22%) LangChain
3 2 (22.22%) SpaCy
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) FHIR
4 1 (11.11%) Google JAX
4 1 (11.11%) JAX
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (11.11%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Machine Learning
3 6 (66.67%) LLM
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Science
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
5 2 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
5 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
6 1 (11.11%) Conversational AI
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) OCP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce