Vertex AI Contracts in Central London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Vertex AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vertex AI over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 125 159
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.087% 0.029%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.21% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £519 -
25th Percentile £875 £547 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £613 £850
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% -27.94% -
75th Percentile £925 £697 £875
90th Percentile - £736 -
London median daily rate £550 £613 £750
% change year-on-year -10.20% -18.33% +15.38%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Vertex AI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 796 934 1,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.04% 40.47% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 654 983
10th Percentile £334 £377 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £759 £751 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 4
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.95
25th Percentile £25.56 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -10.74% -27.11%
75th Percentile £54.46 £59.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £79.48 £79.40 £48.15
London median hourly rate £29.54 £28.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -43.50% +20.48%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Vertex AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in Central London

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Vertex AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Vertex AI

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vertex AI within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 August 2025. 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
City of London +2 2 £900 +80.00% 2
Vertex AI
London

Vertex AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Firebase
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) Snyk
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Faiss
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Highcharts JS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI