ChatGPT Contracts

OpenAI ChatGPT
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ChatGPT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ChatGPT over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 679 -
Rank change year-on-year +120 - -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 16 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.005% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.015% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £538 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% - -
75th Percentile £648 £238 -
90th Percentile £790 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

ChatGPT is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ChatGPT in the UK

ChatGPT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ChatGPT in the UK

ChatGPT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ChatGPT over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ChatGPT in the UK

ChatGPT
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ChatGPT within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +96 13 £600 +166.67% 9
London +99 8 £600 +166.67% 3
Work from Home +115 5 £550 +144.44% 4
UK excluding London - 3 - - 5
South East - 3 - - 3

ChatGPT
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 4 (25.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Flink
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Marketing
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Electronics
3 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Communications Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Junior
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) LangChain
2 7 (43.75%) TensorFlow
3 5 (31.25%) PyTorch
4 4 (25.00%) HTML
4 4 (25.00%) Hugging Face
4 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
4 4 (25.00%) Torch
5 3 (18.75%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) Apache Beam
6 1 (6.25%) Google JAX
6 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 2 (12.50%) Social Media
2 1 (6.25%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (56.25%) Machine Learning
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (25.00%) LLM
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) API Development
6 3 (18.75%) API Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Open Source
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Go
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Julia
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Grafana
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) UiPath
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe