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 4 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 325 425
Rank change year-on-year +34 +100 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 24 16 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.12% 0.022%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 0.28% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 1
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £406 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +28.57% -
75th Percentile £606 £650 £375
90th Percentile £775 £725 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% -

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 4,637 5,727 9,826
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.76% 43.38% 43.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,864 3,648 6,423
10th Percentile £325 £325 £320
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £621 £623 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 143 233
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £16.61
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.19 £23.00
Median hourly rate £37.28 £44.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% -10.20% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £83.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year -10.18% -30.71% +83.69%

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 4 August 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 (4.17%) Anypoint
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 5 (20.83%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.33%) Vertex AI
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.17%) Google Gemini
7 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Pinecone
2 4 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 3 (12.50%) Weaviate
4 2 (8.33%) Redis
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) Neo4j
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Games
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Tech for Good
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) .NET Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Gen AI Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) LangChain
2 6 (25.00%) Faiss
2 6 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 6 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 5 (20.83%) TensorFlow
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (8.33%) CrewAI
5 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.33%) Google JAX
5 2 (8.33%) JAX
5 2 (8.33%) JSON
5 2 (8.33%) Kafka
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (8.33%) React
6 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.17%) FHIR
6 1 (4.17%) LangGraph
6 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (16.67%) Reinsurance
2 3 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 12 (50.00%) LLM
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 9 (37.50%) Generative AI
5 8 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 5 (20.83%) Data Science
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (16.67%) Cost Management
8 4 (16.67%) Open Source
8 4 (16.67%) RBAC
9 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (12.50%) MLOps
10 2 (8.33%) Conversational UI
10 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven
10 2 (8.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Bicep
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) OCP
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) GDPR
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.67%) NIST
3 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Ariba
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) SAP