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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 814 977
Rank change year-on-year +167 +163 +250
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 64 81 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.082% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.22% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 27 65 2
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £83,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.32% -
75th Percentile £95,625 £75,000 £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 21,121 36,284 41,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.58% 41.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,933 24,849 23,857
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £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 £75,000
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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +149 60 £70,000 -6.67% 202
London +106 31 £88,750 +4.41% 130
UK excluding London +175 28 £70,000 +27.27% 106
South East +110 16 - - 52
Work from Home +107 15 £68,000 +0.74% 120
Midlands +57 11 £70,000 -5.08% 15
West Midlands +55 11 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Yorkshire +67 1 £57,500 -23.33% 7
North of England +50 1 £57,500 -23.33% 21

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 7 (10.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (59.38%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Copilot
2 15 (23.44%) Vertex AI
3 14 (21.88%) Azure AI
4 13 (20.31%) Power Platform
4 13 (20.31%) SaaS
5 11 (17.19%) AWS
6 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (10.94%) Power Automate
7 7 (10.94%) PowerApps
8 6 (9.38%) Amazon Bedrock
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (6.25%) ChatGPT
11 2 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.13%) GCP
11 2 (3.13%) Google Gemini
11 2 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Data Mining
2 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) Power Query
2 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) MLflow
General
1 36 (56.25%) Law
2 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
3 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (23.44%) Retail
4 8 (12.50%) Finance
5 7 (10.94%) Legal
6 4 (6.25%) Marketing
7 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Games
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Senior
2 23 (35.94%) Lead
3 14 (21.88%) Architect
4 13 (20.31%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 11 (17.19%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (15.63%) IT Manager
7 6 (9.38%) Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Development Manager
8 5 (7.81%) Gen AI Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) IT Development Manager
8 5 (7.81%) IT Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Senior IT Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Senior IT Manager
8 5 (7.81%) Senior Manager
9 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) LangChain
2 5 (7.81%) .NET
2 5 (7.81%) .NET Framework
2 5 (7.81%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (7.81%) Laravel
2 5 (7.81%) Node.js
3 4 (6.25%) ML.NET
3 4 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (4.69%) Flask
4 3 (4.69%) React
5 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.13%) Django
5 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.13%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.13%) Kafka
5 2 (3.13%) pytest
5 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.13%) YAML
6 1 (1.56%) CSS3
6 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (46.88%) Algorithms
2 11 (17.19%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Android
1 6 (9.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 43 (67.19%) Machine Learning
3 36 (56.25%) Generative AI
3 36 (56.25%) LLM
4 33 (51.56%) DevOps
4 33 (51.56%) Roadmaps
5 30 (46.88%) Data Science
6 29 (45.31%) Natural Language Processing
7 28 (43.75%) Agile
8 27 (42.19%) Analytics
8 27 (42.19%) MLOps
9 26 (40.63%) Performance Monitoring
10 24 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (32.81%) Mentoring
11 21 (32.81%) Use Case
12 19 (29.69%) Computer Science
12 19 (29.69%) DataOps
13 18 (28.13%) Conversational UI
14 17 (26.56%) Customer-Centricity
15 16 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) Python
2 11 (17.19%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) Java
4 5 (7.81%) PHP
5 4 (6.25%) C
5 4 (6.25%) C++
6 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.56%) SHACL
7 1 (1.56%) SOQL
7 1 (1.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (31.25%) Degree
2 16 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (17.19%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.00%) GDPR
2 11 (17.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.13%) QA
5 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.56%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (57.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (43.75%) Google
3 15 (23.44%) ServiceNow
4 11 (17.19%) SAP
4 11 (17.19%) Workday
5 4 (6.25%) Remedy
6 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.56%) Genesys
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce