OpenAI Job Trends in Surrey

OpenAI
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 12 September 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.21% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £42,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +64.71% -29.17% -36.84%

All Vendors
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 692 459 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 28.95% 39.06% 41.52%
Number of salaries quoted 495 346 355
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £32,500 £39,161
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £66,461 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -3.05%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Surrey

OpenAI
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Staines - 5 £70,000 -
OpenAI
South East

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (60.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Pinecone
3 2 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Faiss
3 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (40.00%) Flask
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft