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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 517 601
Rank change year-on-year +24 +84 +182
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 23 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.076% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 21
10th Percentile £314 £400 £500
25th Percentile £406 £463 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -31.03% +20.83%
75th Percentile £600 - £950
90th Percentile £753 - £1,100
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £725
% change year-on-year +10.00% -31.03% +16.00%

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 10,311 11,455 16,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.34% 33.34% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,980 8,161 12,340
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 258 302
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +55.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.69 £69.69
90th Percentile £67.15 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.55% -37.14% +55.56%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +8 16 £500 - 32
North of England 0 5 £426 - 5
North West - 5 £426 - 3
South East - 1 £600 - 9
East of England - 1 £315 -
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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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP BPC
1 1 (4.35%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.35%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.35%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
1 11 (47.83%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon SageMaker
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) Azure AI
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (17.39%) dbt
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
7 1 (4.35%) Dialogflow
7 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) BigQuery
2 4 (17.39%) Pinecone
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Big Data
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Looker
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Redis
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MLflow
2 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) git-flow
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) LSMW
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Marketing
4 3 (13.04%) Advertising
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (13.04%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Product Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) GCP Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Manager
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) LangChain
2 6 (26.09%) CrewAI
3 5 (21.74%) LangGraph
4 4 (17.39%) Gradio
4 4 (17.39%) PyTorch
4 4 (17.39%) Streamlit
4 4 (17.39%) TensorFlow
5 3 (13.04%) Faiss
5 3 (13.04%) Hugging Face
5 3 (13.04%) NumPy
5 3 (13.04%) Pandas
5 3 (13.04%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) React
7 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.35%) Express.js
7 1 (4.35%) Kafka
7 1 (4.35%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (4.35%) SAP PI
7 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
7 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) AI Agents
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Autonomous Agent
2 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (13.04%) Digital Media
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (69.57%) Machine Learning
3 11 (47.83%) Use Case
4 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 8 (34.78%) Data Science
4 8 (34.78%) LLM
5 7 (30.43%) Analytics
5 7 (30.43%) Generative AI
5 7 (30.43%) MLOps
6 6 (26.09%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 5 (21.74%) Conversational UI
7 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
8 4 (17.39%) Agile
8 4 (17.39%) API Integration
8 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (17.39%) DevOps
8 4 (17.39%) Memory Management
8 4 (17.39%) Multi-Agent System
8 4 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
2 3 (13.04%) MCP
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Kubeflow
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Foundry
3 2 (8.70%) Dataiku
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.35%) Concur
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) DataRobot
4 1 (4.35%) SAP