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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 810 985
Rank change year-on-year +191 +175 +228
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 65 75 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.076% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.21% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 27 60 2
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £83,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,938 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.32% -
75th Percentile £95,625 £75,625 £104,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £107,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

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 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Top 9 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 30 April 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 +194 63 £70,000 -6.67% 101
UK excluding London +199 31 £70,000 +27.27% 41
London +106 31 £85,000 -5.56% 67
South East +128 19 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Work from Home +162 13 £70,000 +3.70% 59
Midlands +54 11 £70,000 -5.08% 4
West Midlands +49 11 £70,000 -6.67% 2
North of England +83 1 £57,500 -23.33% 8
Yorkshire +69 1 £57,500 -23.33% 3

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:

Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.00%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) Azure AI
2 15 (23.08%) Vertex AI
3 14 (21.54%) Microsoft Copilot
4 13 (20.00%) SaaS
5 11 (16.92%) Power Platform
6 10 (15.38%) AWS
7 9 (13.85%) Power Automate
8 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.77%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (10.77%) PowerApps
9 6 (9.23%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (4.62%) ChatGPT
11 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.62%) Serverless
12 2 (3.08%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
13 1 (1.54%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) Data Mining
2 4 (6.15%) Power Query
3 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.08%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (55.38%) Law
2 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (23.08%) Retail
4 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 7 (10.77%) Legal
5 4 (6.15%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (38.46%) Senior
2 23 (35.38%) Lead
3 13 (20.00%) Architect
4 12 (18.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 11 (16.92%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (15.38%) IT Manager
7 8 (12.31%) Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Development Manager
8 5 (7.69%) Gen AI Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) IT Development Manager
8 5 (7.69%) IT Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior IT Manager
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Manager
8 5 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Software Manager
10 3 (4.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) .NET
1 6 (9.23%) LangChain
2 5 (7.69%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (7.69%) Laravel
2 5 (7.69%) Node.js
3 4 (6.15%) RESTful
4 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.62%) CSS
4 3 (4.62%) Flask
4 3 (4.62%) HTML
4 3 (4.62%) Kafka
4 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (4.62%) React
5 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.08%) Django
5 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.08%) ML.NET
5 2 (3.08%) pytest
5 2 (3.08%) YAML
6 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 11 (16.92%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Android
1 6 (9.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (98.46%) Artificial Intelligence
2 44 (67.69%) Machine Learning
3 38 (58.46%) LLM
4 36 (55.38%) Generative AI
5 33 (50.77%) DevOps
5 33 (50.77%) Roadmaps
6 29 (44.62%) Agile
6 29 (44.62%) Data Science
6 29 (44.62%) Natural Language Processing
7 27 (41.54%) Analytics
8 26 (40.00%) MLOps
8 26 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 24 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (32.31%) Use Case
11 19 (29.23%) Computer Science
11 19 (29.23%) DataOps
11 19 (29.23%) Mentoring
12 17 (26.15%) Conversational UI
12 17 (26.15%) Customer-Centricity
13 16 (24.62%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Python
2 11 (16.92%) SQL
3 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.69%) Java
4 5 (7.69%) PHP
5 4 (6.15%) C
5 4 (6.15%) C++
6 3 (4.62%) C#
6 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.54%) SHACL
7 1 (1.54%) SOQL
7 1 (1.54%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (32.31%) Degree
2 17 (26.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (16.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (24.62%) GDPR
2 11 (16.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.08%) QA
5 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (41.54%) Google
3 15 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 11 (16.92%) SAP
4 11 (16.92%) Workday
5 4 (6.15%) Remedy
6 1 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.54%) Genesys
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce