OpenAI Job Trends in Edinburgh

OpenAI
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring knowledge or experience of OpenAI products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenAI over the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within OpenAI.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.086% - 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% - 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £85,000 - £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £57,500
75th Percentile £115,000 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +81.82% -4.35% -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

OpenAI falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 481 259 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.36% 23.67% 37.87%
Number of salaries quoted 176 106 346
10th Percentile £25,342 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,486 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £66,367 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.73% +15.42% -6.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,938 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £37,750 £50,000 £42,850
% change year-on-year -24.50% +16.69% -22.09%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

OpenAI
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL