OpenAI Job Trends in the Midlands

OpenAI
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 15 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
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 212 283
Rank change year-on-year -22 +71 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 6 12 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.060% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.54% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 13
10th Percentile - £53,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £56,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £67,250 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -18.92%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,392 2,226 3,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.93% 42.37% 38.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 1,304 3,036
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OpenAI
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in the Midlands

OpenAI
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
West Midlands -3 3 £58,750 -16.07% 2
East Midlands -36 3 £42,500 - 1
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (16.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (16.67%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) ChatGPT
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) Laravel
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Code
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) AI Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Data Science
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) LLM
3 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft