Vertex AI Contracts in the City of London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 161
Rank change year-on-year -3 +42 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Vertex AI 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.055% 0.097% 0.031%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.24% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile £875 £472 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £488 £850
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -42.65% -
75th Percentile £925 £497 £875
90th Percentile - £499 -
Central London median daily rate £900 £500 £850
% change year-on-year +80.00% -41.18% -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 756 834 1,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.38% 40.47% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 576 896
10th Percentile £335 £383 £325
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £759 £755 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 4
10th Percentile £23.93 - £14.95
25th Percentile £24.66 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -10.74% -39.50%
75th Percentile £56.75 £59.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £84.11 £79.40 £48.15
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year +25.93% -10.74% -27.11%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in the City of London

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Vertex AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Vertex AI

Vertex AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI