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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 693 -
Rank change year-on-year +157 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAI 43 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 22 1 0
10th Percentile £317 - -
25th Percentile £478 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% - -
75th Percentile £600 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £650 -
% change year-on-year -53.85% - -

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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAI in the UK

OpenAI
Top 6 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 20 May 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 +146 32 £550 -15.38% 40
Work from Home - 24 £600 - 17
London - 21 £550 - 28
UK excluding London +56 5 £300 -53.85% 16
Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £300 - 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 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Functions
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.63%) Serverless
3 5 (11.63%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) LoadRunner
1 5 (11.63%) NeoLoad
2 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Law
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Legal
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.33%) Danish Language
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (44.19%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Software Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Python Developer
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 5 (11.63%) Test Leader
5 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Performance Test Leader
6 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Data Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.65%) Programmer
7 2 (4.65%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Python Programmer
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Specialist
8 1 (2.33%) Cloud Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Junior
8 1 (2.33%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (39.53%) RESTful
2 15 (34.88%) FastAPI
3 12 (27.91%) WebSockets
4 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
4 2 (4.65%) PySpark
4 2 (4.65%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) LangChain
5 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.33%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.33%) Life Science
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) LLM
2 23 (53.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (41.86%) Analytics
4 17 (39.53%) API Development
5 12 (27.91%) Data Encryption
5 12 (27.91%) End-to-End Testing
5 12 (27.91%) Integration Testing
5 12 (27.91%) Unit Testing
6 8 (18.60%) Machine Learning
7 6 (13.95%) Data Science
8 5 (11.63%) Defect Management
8 5 (11.63%) Incident Management
8 5 (11.63%) IT Strategy
8 5 (11.63%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Performance Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Problem Management
8 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.63%) Runbook
8 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) SQL
3 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) R
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) SysTrack
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (11.63%) Citrix
1 5 (11.63%) iManage
1 5 (11.63%) Intapp
1 5 (11.63%) New Relic
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) SAP