Vertex AI Contracts in England

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 508 641
Rank change year-on-year +37 +133 +130
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 14 34 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.091% 0.024%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.29% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 7
10th Percentile £315 £403 -
25th Percentile £318 £481 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £850
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -41.18% +41.67%
75th Percentile £775 £538 £913
90th Percentile - £755 £928
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £850
% change year-on-year -10.00% -41.18% +36.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vertex AI in England.

Daily rate trend for Vertex AI in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +19 11 £700 +40.00% 30
East of England - 3 £315 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (21.43%) Apache
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP BPC
1 1 (7.14%) SAP CO
1 1 (7.14%) SAP FI
1 1 (7.14%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 6 (42.86%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (21.43%) dbt
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
6 2 (14.29%) Azure AI
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (7.14%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) BigQuery
2 3 (21.43%) Looker
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Tableau
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) LSMW
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Financial Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) LangChain
1 5 (35.71%) NumPy
1 5 (35.71%) Pandas
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 3 (21.43%) Kafka
3 3 (21.43%) PySpark
3 3 (21.43%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) scikit-learn
4 2 (14.29%) Hugging Face
4 2 (14.29%) Matplotlib
4 2 (14.29%) XGBoost
5 1 (7.14%) Express.js
5 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (7.14%) SAP PI
5 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 9 (64.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (57.14%) Data Science
4 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
5 5 (35.71%) Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Generative AI
6 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 4 (28.57%) Data Security
6 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (28.57%) Open Source
6 4 (28.57%) Use Case
6 4 (28.57%) Workflow
7 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (21.43%) Data Management
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 3 (21.43%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
2 1 (7.14%) Concur
2 1 (7.14%) Dataiku
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP