OpenAI Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

OpenAI
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% -24.00%

All Vendors
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 855 511 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 45.75% 44.13% 49.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 303 556
10th Percentile £283 £230 £250
25th Percentile £375 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +0.26% -4.25%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £587
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 9
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.40 £15.71
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £22.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% +2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 -
90th Percentile - £98.79 £22.96
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.78 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.84% -32.91% +77.76%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in Yorkshire

OpenAI
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire - 3 £575 - 1
South Yorkshire - 2 £449 - 1
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ChatGPT
2 2 (40.00%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Presales
2 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft