OpenAI Job Trends in London

OpenAI
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 390 482
Rank change year-on-year +90 +92 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 89 35 4
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.23% 0.019%
As % of the Vendors category 1.72% 0.57% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 41 19 4
10th Percentile £67,500 £60,900 £56,775
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,750 £57,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +30.87% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 - -
England median annual salary £83,000 £75,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.93% +0.67% -

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,171 6,155 8,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.00% 40.96% 39.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,232 3,327 6,430
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,716
% change year-on-year -8.70% +11.18% -10.06%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in London

OpenAI
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in London over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in London

OpenAI
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the London region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Central London +28 14 £85,000 +12.58% 23
West London - 4 - - 2
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (17.98%) Appian
2 9 (10.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.25%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 62 (69.66%) Azure
2 33 (37.08%) Azure AI
3 25 (28.09%) AWS
4 20 (22.47%) Anthropic Claude
5 17 (19.10%) Power Automate
6 13 (14.61%) Azure Machine Learning
6 13 (14.61%) GCP
6 13 (14.61%) GitHub
7 12 (13.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (13.48%) Power Platform
8 8 (8.99%) Google Gemini
8 8 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (8.99%) n8n
9 7 (7.87%) LangSmith
10 6 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.74%) SaaS
11 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (5.62%) Vertex AI
12 4 (4.49%) Prefect
12 4 (4.49%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.09%) Pinecone
2 16 (17.98%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.48%) SQL Server
4 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.62%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (4.49%) Weaviate
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.12%) Metadata
8 1 (1.12%) Power BI
8 1 (1.12%) Power Query
8 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) MLflow
2 6 (6.74%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) Vite
3 4 (4.49%) GitLab
3 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 39 (43.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.09%) Finance
3 11 (12.36%) Legal
4 8 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.49%) Law
5 4 (4.49%) Retail
6 1 (1.12%) Advertising
6 1 (1.12%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Front Office
6 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) Developer
3 15 (16.85%) Lead
4 12 (13.48%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Senior
6 8 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 8 (8.99%) Consultant
6 8 (8.99%) Data Science Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Automation Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.74%) SaaS Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Data Consultant
10 4 (4.49%) Development Manager
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (4.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (39.33%) LangChain
2 31 (34.83%) PyTorch
3 28 (31.46%) REST
4 25 (28.09%) FastAPI
4 25 (28.09%) Hugging Face
5 24 (26.97%) TensorFlow
6 22 (24.72%) React
7 20 (22.47%) scikit-learn
8 16 (17.98%) Django
8 16 (17.98%) Pandas
9 15 (16.85%) OAuth
10 14 (15.73%) Faiss
10 14 (15.73%) pytest
10 14 (15.73%) RESTful
11 13 (14.61%) LangGraph
12 12 (13.48%) Flask
12 12 (13.48%) JWT
12 12 (13.48%) Node.js
12 12 (13.48%) OpenAPI
12 12 (13.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (33.71%) AI Agents
2 24 (26.97%) Low-Code
3 13 (14.61%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.49%) Hackathon
7 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.25%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.12%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (95.51%) AI
2 68 (76.40%) LLM
3 55 (61.80%) Machine Learning
4 41 (46.07%) CI/CD
4 41 (46.07%) Generative AI
4 41 (46.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 38 (42.70%) Prompt Engineering
6 31 (34.83%) Data Engineering
6 31 (34.83%) MLOps
7 26 (29.21%) Open Source
8 25 (28.09%) Containerisation
9 24 (26.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (23.60%) Clean Code
10 21 (23.60%) Data Science
10 21 (23.60%) Workflow
11 20 (22.47%) Analytics
11 20 (22.47%) API Development
12 18 (20.22%) Decision-Making
12 18 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (20.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (73.03%) Python
2 37 (41.57%) SQL
3 25 (28.09%) TypeScript
4 14 (15.73%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.24%) Java
6 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.49%) Go
7 4 (4.49%) PHP
7 4 (4.49%) R
8 3 (3.37%) C#
9 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.49%) MBA
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.49%) SLA
3 3 (3.37%) GRC
3 3 (3.37%) QA
System Software
1 34 (38.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (37.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.61%) Terraform
3 4 (4.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) Databricks
3 12 (13.48%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (13.48%) UiPath
4 7 (7.87%) Foundry
5 6 (6.74%) iManage
6 4 (4.49%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.49%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.49%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.37%) Revolut
8 2 (2.25%) Adobe
8 2 (2.25%) Google
8 2 (2.25%) Palantir
8 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.12%) Informatica
9 1 (1.12%) SimCorp