OpenAI Job Trends in Wales

OpenAI
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 4 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.16% - 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% - 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £52,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,415 - £50,000
75th Percentile £78,312 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -19.44%

All Vendors
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 628 316 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.72% 41.74% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 376 234 357
10th Percentile £26,450 £24,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,871 £38,094 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year +33.54% -15.13% -1.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,600 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,475 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.48% - -8.70%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in Wales

OpenAI
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAI in Wales over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAI in Wales

OpenAI
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
South Wales - 4 £72,415 - 3
OpenAI
UK

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (75.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Service Design
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft