OpenAI Job Trends in England

OpenAI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 March 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
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 581 737
Rank change year-on-year +36 +156 +222
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 104 47 53
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.071%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 52 26 38
10th Percentile £45,209 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,813 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,375 £99,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +21.43% -1.75% -22.97%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,001 15,309 28,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.22% 39.68% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,323 9,151 22,218
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -13.04%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in England

OpenAI
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in England

OpenAI
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the England region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +74 84 £85,250 +0.29% 60
Midlands -22 6 £45,000 -35.71% 3
North of England - 6 £97,500 - 12
West Midlands +2 3 £58,750 -16.07% 2
South East -20 3 £42,500 -41.38% 17
North West - 3 £77,500 - 8
Yorkshire - 3 £100,000 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 1
South West - 1 £65,000 - 3
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (15.38%) Appian
2 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.92%) Apache
4 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.92%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.96%) Odoo
2 1 (0.96%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 67 (64.42%) Azure
2 35 (33.65%) Azure AI
3 31 (29.81%) AWS
4 25 (24.04%) Anthropic Claude
5 17 (16.35%) Azure Machine Learning
6 16 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (14.42%) GCP
7 15 (14.42%) Power Automate
8 12 (11.54%) GitHub
9 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
10 8 (7.69%) LangSmith
10 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (6.73%) Google Gemini
11 7 (6.73%) SaaS
12 5 (4.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (4.81%) Vertex AI
13 4 (3.85%) ChatGPT
13 4 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.85%) Prefect
13 4 (3.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.96%) Pinecone
2 15 (14.42%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.65%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.77%) Power BI
7 5 (4.81%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (4.81%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.92%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.92%) MySQL
9 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.92%) Power Query
9 2 (1.92%) Redis
10 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.96%) Metadata
10 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (24.04%) MLflow
2 9 (8.65%) Git
3 7 (6.73%) Vite
4 4 (3.85%) GitLab
4 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.96%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) Mocha
General
1 49 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.77%) Legal
5 5 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Law
6 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Advertising
8 1 (0.96%) Back Office
8 1 (0.96%) Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Front Office
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Local Government
8 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 22 (21.15%) Developer
3 17 (16.35%) Senior
4 14 (13.46%) Lead
5 13 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (10.58%) Consultant
7 10 (9.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Data Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 8 (7.69%) Data Science Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (5.77%) Architect
11 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.81%) SaaS Developer
13 4 (3.85%) Development Manager
13 4 (3.85%) Gen AI Engineer
13 4 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (32.69%) LangChain
2 28 (26.92%) FastAPI
2 28 (26.92%) PyTorch
3 27 (25.96%) TensorFlow
4 24 (23.08%) React
4 24 (23.08%) REST
5 21 (20.19%) Hugging Face
5 21 (20.19%) scikit-learn
6 18 (17.31%) LangGraph
7 17 (16.35%) Django
8 16 (15.38%) Pandas
9 15 (14.42%) Faiss
9 15 (14.42%) OAuth
9 15 (14.42%) RESTful
10 14 (13.46%) pytest
11 12 (11.54%) CrewAI
11 12 (11.54%) Flask
11 12 (11.54%) NumPy
11 12 (11.54%) Swagger
11 12 (11.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.92%) AI Agents
2 16 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 12 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (9.62%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.85%) Hackathon
7 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.92%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.92%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) Social Media
8 2 (1.92%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.96%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (96.15%) AI
2 68 (65.38%) LLM
3 56 (53.85%) Machine Learning
4 48 (46.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 43 (41.35%) CI/CD
5 43 (41.35%) Generative AI
6 37 (35.58%) Prompt Engineering
7 35 (33.65%) MLOps
8 33 (31.73%) Data Engineering
9 27 (25.96%) Containerisation
9 27 (25.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (25.00%) Analytics
10 26 (25.00%) Open Source
11 24 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (21.15%) Decision-Making
13 21 (20.19%) Data Science
13 21 (20.19%) Software Engineering
14 20 (19.23%) Clean Code
15 19 (18.27%) Data Modelling
15 19 (18.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 68 (65.38%) Python
2 35 (33.65%) SQL
3 21 (20.19%) TypeScript
4 17 (16.35%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.58%) Java
6 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.81%) C#
7 5 (4.81%) PHP
7 5 (4.81%) R
8 4 (3.85%) Go
9 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.96%) Bicep
10 1 (0.96%) C++
10 1 (0.96%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) SC Cleared
2 10 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.92%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.85%) SLA
3 3 (2.88%) GRC
3 3 (2.88%) QA
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (36.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.38%) Terraform
3 6 (5.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.27%) Databricks
3 12 (11.54%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (11.54%) UiPath
4 10 (9.62%) Foundry
5 4 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (3.85%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.88%) Google
6 3 (2.88%) Revolut
6 3 (2.88%) SAP
7 2 (1.92%) Aderant
7 2 (1.92%) Adobe
7 2 (1.92%) iManage
7 2 (1.92%) Intapp
7 2 (1.92%) Palantir
7 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.96%) Informatica
8 1 (0.96%) SimCorp