Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 364 400
Rank change year-on-year +22 +36 +160
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 38 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.092% 0.069%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 13
10th Percentile £447 £500 -
25th Percentile £513 £631 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £788
90th Percentile £769 £809 £830
England median daily rate £550 £725 £713
% change year-on-year -24.14% +1.75% +1.79%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,310 6,233 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.94% 41.16% 38.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 4,220 5,334
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 42 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -4.28% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in London

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in London

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Central London +6 6 £750 - 1
Vertex AI
England

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Jupyter
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) GCP
2 19 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) AWS
4 10 (26.32%) Google Gemini
5 8 (21.05%) GitHub
6 7 (18.42%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (15.79%) Azure AI
7 6 (15.79%) Cloud Run
7 6 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (13.16%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (10.53%) dbt
9 4 (10.53%) Dialogflow
9 4 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (7.89%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (7.89%) Serverless
11 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
11 2 (5.26%) Firebase
11 2 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) BigQuery
2 8 (21.05%) Pinecone
3 5 (13.16%) Weaviate
4 3 (7.89%) Redis
5 2 (5.26%) Metadata
5 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) MLflow
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Snyk
3 1 (2.63%) Ant
3 1 (2.63%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (2.63%) git-flow
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Retail
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Advertising
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Data Scientist
4 5 (13.16%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (7.89%) Gen AI Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) GCP Architect
7 1 (2.63%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) LangChain
1 13 (34.21%) PyTorch
2 9 (23.68%) Faiss
2 9 (23.68%) scikit-learn
3 8 (21.05%) TensorFlow
4 6 (15.79%) Matplotlib
4 6 (15.79%) Pandas
4 6 (15.79%) XGBoost
5 5 (13.16%) CrewAI
5 5 (13.16%) FastAPI
5 5 (13.16%) Hugging Face
5 5 (13.16%) Next.js
5 5 (13.16%) React
6 4 (10.53%) Node.js
6 4 (10.53%) pgvector
6 4 (10.53%) REST
7 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.89%) LangGraph
7 3 (7.89%) WebSockets
8 2 (5.26%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Algorithms
2 7 (18.42%) AI Agents
3 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (2.63%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (89.47%) AI
2 32 (84.21%) Machine Learning
3 20 (52.63%) LLM
4 17 (44.74%) Data Science
5 15 (39.47%) Generative AI
6 14 (36.84%) Computer Science
7 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
7 12 (31.58%) MLOps
7 12 (31.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 10 (26.32%) Deep Learning
8 10 (26.32%) Natural Language Processing
9 9 (23.68%) Agile
9 9 (23.68%) Observability
9 9 (23.68%) Use Case
10 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
11 7 (18.42%) Analytics
12 6 (15.79%) Logistic Regression
12 6 (15.79%) LSTM
12 6 (15.79%) Time Series Forecasting
12 6 (15.79%) Transfer Learning
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Korn
7 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 4 (10.53%) MCP
3 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Knative
3 2 (5.26%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Google
2 7 (18.42%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.26%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) Foundry
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) SAP