OpenAI Job Trends in the East Midlands

OpenAI
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 143 160
Rank change year-on-year -32 +17 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAI 2 2 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.030% 0.086% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.21% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £72,750 - -
25th Percentile £73,125 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £42,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £77,250 - £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.97% -2.58%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,443 973 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.68% 41.62% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 814 474 416
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,563 £29,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,188 £58,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,625 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

OpenAI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

OpenAI job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

OpenAI
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenAI

OpenAI
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAI within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Nottinghamshire -17 1 £75,000 +87.50% 3
Leicestershire - 1 £75,000 - 1
OpenAI
England

OpenAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes