OpenAI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 551 529
Rank change year-on-year +56 -22 +238
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 22 29 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.078% 0.072%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 21
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.38% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £63,125 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £102,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12,736 13,161 12,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.36% 35.32% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,044 6,421 9,682
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £60,250 £65,000 £62,833
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in the UK excluding London

OpenAI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Midlands +18 7 £43,750 -56.25% 17
South East +19 6 £42,500 -41.38% 37
West Midlands +18 4 £57,500 - 10
North of England +25 3 £60,000 - 32
East Midlands -10 3 £40,000 -60.00% 6
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 14
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 - 11
North West +24 1 £42,500 - 19
Scotland +10 1 - - 6
South West +8 1 £42,500 -15.00% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (13.64%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (13.64%) SAP Business One
3 1 (4.55%) NetSuite
3 1 (4.55%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Machine Learning
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (18.18%) ChatGPT
5 4 (18.18%) dbt
5 4 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (18.18%) Fivetran
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (18.18%) Google Data Studio
5 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (18.18%) SaaS
5 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) Power BI
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (22.73%) Tableau
4 4 (18.18%) BigQuery
4 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (18.18%) Looker
5 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 2 (9.09%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Law
3 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 4 (18.18%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) PHP Developer
3 3 (13.64%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (4.55%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Hugging Face
2 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
2 5 (22.73%) React
2 5 (22.73%) scikit-learn
3 4 (18.18%) NumPy
3 4 (18.18%) Pandas
3 4 (18.18%) Vue
4 3 (13.64%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) jQuery
4 3 (13.64%) Kafka
4 3 (13.64%) Laravel
4 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 3 (13.64%) PyTorch
4 3 (13.64%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) Next.js
5 2 (9.09%) Nuxt
5 2 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Code
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) FMCG
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) AI
2 10 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 8 (36.36%) Analytics
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) API Integration
5 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Customer Engagement
5 6 (27.27%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (22.73%) ETL
6 5 (22.73%) LLM
6 5 (22.73%) Use Case
7 4 (18.18%) A/B Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (18.18%) Customer Insight
7 4 (18.18%) Data Munging
7 4 (18.18%) Data Science
7 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
7 4 (18.18%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (13.64%) PHP
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) C++
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Alteryx
2 4 (18.18%) Google
2 4 (18.18%) HubSpot
2 4 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 4 (18.18%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) Talend
2 4 (18.18%) Zoho