OpenAI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 January 2025, 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
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 707 1007
Rank change year-on-year +7 +300 +73
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 65 34 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.058% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.15% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 39 32 0
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,577 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% - -
75th Percentile £98,750 £77,500 -
90th Percentile - £110,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,864 23,271 45,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.11% 39.50% 41.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10,784 16,918 26,922
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,818 £47,557 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.86% -4.89% +5.26%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenAI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenAI.

Salary trend for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI over the 6 months to 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the UK over the 6 months to 16 January 2025. 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
England +10 62 £76,500 +2.00% 51
Work from Home +58 34 £72,500 -3.33% 26
London +42 33 £97,500 +60.49% 41
UK excluding London -28 30 £70,000 -6.67% 12
South East -13 14 £72,500 - 1
Midlands -22 11 £70,000 -6.67% 8
West Midlands -37 6 £63,750 -15.00% 7
East Midlands - 5 £100,000 - 1
North of England -28 3 - -
North West -35 3 - -
Scotland +12 1 £55,000 -4.35%
South West - 1 £50,000 -

OpenAI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.62%) nginx
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 51 (78.46%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) AWS
3 10 (15.38%) PaaS
4 9 (13.85%) Azure AI
4 9 (13.85%) Serverless
5 7 (10.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.77%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (9.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 6 (9.23%) Azure Functions
6 6 (9.23%) GitHub
6 6 (9.23%) Power Automate
6 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (7.69%) GCP
7 5 (7.69%) PowerApps
8 4 (6.15%) Google Workspace
8 4 (6.15%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) SMS
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.77%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.15%) Redis
5 3 (4.62%) MariaDB
5 3 (4.62%) MySQL
5 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.08%) Power Query
7 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
7 1 (1.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Law
3 10 (15.38%) Legal
4 9 (13.85%) Finance
5 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.62%) Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) Developer
1 28 (43.08%) Senior
2 17 (26.15%) Senior Developer
3 13 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Database Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Python Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Senior C# Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Senior Database Developer
6 8 (12.31%) .NET Developer
6 8 (12.31%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Azure Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Consultant
8 5 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.77%) React
2 13 (20.00%) .NET
2 13 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (18.46%) CSS
4 11 (16.92%) Blazor
4 11 (16.92%) FastAPI
5 10 (15.38%) LangChain
5 10 (15.38%) Node.js
6 7 (10.77%) Swagger
7 5 (7.69%) HTML
7 5 (7.69%) Kafka
8 4 (6.15%) Laravel
8 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (6.15%) SvelteKit
8 4 (6.15%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.62%) PHP-FPM
9 3 (4.62%) PyTorch
9 3 (4.62%) Vue
10 2 (3.08%) scikit-learn
10 2 (3.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Product Ownership
2 13 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 13 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 11 (16.92%) Data Structures
4 10 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.62%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Android
1 4 (6.15%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (92.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 45 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 29 (44.62%) LLM
4 28 (43.08%) CI/CD
5 27 (41.54%) Agile
6 26 (40.00%) DevOps
6 26 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
7 21 (32.31%) Design Patterns
8 18 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (26.15%) Computer Vision
9 17 (26.15%) Front End Development
9 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (24.62%) Generative AI
11 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
12 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (18.46%) Data Science
13 12 (18.46%) Event-Driven
13 12 (18.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (16.92%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 44 (67.69%) Python
2 25 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 25 (38.46%) SQL
3 23 (35.38%) TypeScript
4 15 (23.08%) C#
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) R
7 4 (6.15%) PHP
8 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.08%) Scala
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Degree
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.54%) GDPR
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (41.54%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (18.46%) Terraform
3 3 (4.62%) Galera Cluster
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (47.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Google
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Genesys