OpenAI Job Trends in South Wales

OpenAI
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.23% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.87% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £52,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,415 - -
75th Percentile £78,312 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £72,415 - £50,000

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 461 247 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 26.80% 42.29% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 282 190 287
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,600 £25,850
25th Percentile £36,457 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -9.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £56,999
90th Percentile £76,075 £72,250 £68,750
Wales median annual salary £50,871 £38,094 £44,886
% change year-on-year +33.54% -15.13% -1.77%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in South Wales

OpenAI
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in South Wales

OpenAI
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Cardiff - 4 £72,415 - 3
OpenAI
Wales

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (75.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Service Design
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft