OpenAI Contracts

OpenAI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of OpenAI products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenAI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within OpenAI.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 694 -
Rank change year-on-year +137 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 45 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.002% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 0
10th Percentile £324 - -
25th Percentile £400 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £600 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £650 -
% change year-on-year -38.46% - -

All Vendors
UK

OpenAI is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,423 24,197 35,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 43.55% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 16,129 23,703
10th Percentile £268 £269 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,152 641 857
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +7.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £48.59
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAI.

Daily rate trend for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +127 33 £513 -21.15% 31
Work from Home - 25 £600 - 15
London - 19 £550 - 17
UK excluding London +51 9 £400 -38.46% 10
West Midlands - 5 £300 - 3
Midlands - 5 £300 - 5
South East - 3 £400 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.11%) Serverless
3 5 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
4 4 (8.89%) Azure AI
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.11%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.44%) Big Data
3 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) LoadRunner
1 5 (11.11%) NeoLoad
2 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Law
4 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Danish Language
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Developer
2 16 (35.56%) Software Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 4 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Scientist
5 4 (8.89%) Performance Test Leader
6 3 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Programmer
7 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Python Programmer
8 1 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Junior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) RESTful
2 15 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 12 (26.67%) WebSockets
4 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
4 2 (4.44%) PySpark
4 2 (4.44%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) .NET
5 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.22%) Life Science
2 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (48.89%) LLM
3 17 (37.78%) Analytics
3 17 (37.78%) API Development
4 12 (26.67%) Data Encryption
4 12 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 12 (26.67%) Integration Testing
4 12 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 10 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.56%) Data Science
7 7 (15.56%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (13.33%) Generative AI
9 5 (11.11%) Defect Management
9 5 (11.11%) IT Strategy
9 5 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 5 (11.11%) Runbook
9 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.89%) R
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) C++
6 2 (4.44%) Java
6 2 (4.44%) Scala
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) SysTrack
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (11.11%) Citrix
1 5 (11.11%) iManage
1 5 (11.11%) Intapp
1 5 (11.11%) New Relic
2 4 (8.89%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft