OpenAI Job Trends in Northern Ireland

OpenAI
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 25 July 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
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.40% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,349 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 - -
75th Percentile £78,312 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -22.22%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 319 119 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.26% 40.07% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 69 43 121
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,875 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +30.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £81,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

OpenAI
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
County Antrim - 5 £74,830 - 3
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Service Design
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) API Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
5 1 (20.00%) People Management
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Product Marketing
5 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Foundry
2 1 (20.00%) Workday