Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Google Cloud Vertex AI
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.69% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 366 201 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.21% 44.47% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 136 172
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £725 £674
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 0
10th Percentile - £31.64 -
25th Percentile - £36.13 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £90.42 -
Median % change year-on-year -84.24% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.28 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -78.31% +338.05% -72.22%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vertex AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in Leeds

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (33.33%) Google Gemini
3 2 (33.33%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) BigQuery
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Quarkus
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace