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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 385 430
Rank change year-on-year +36 +45 +147
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 24 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.087% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.21% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 22
10th Percentile £388 £605 £514
25th Percentile £499 £681 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £794 £1,029
90th Percentile £781 £818 £1,100
England median daily rate £550 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -24.14% -3.33% +7.14%

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 5,786 6,628 9,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.22% 41.05% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,946 4,712 6,681
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 48 62
10th Percentile £23.00 £20.00 £16.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £31.00 £28.25 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -42.05% +17.47%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.65 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.08 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 2 £900 +24.14% 6
Vertex AI
England

Vertex AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) GCP
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (29.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (16.67%) dbt
5 4 (16.67%) GitHub
6 3 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (12.50%) Azure AI
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Run
6 3 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (8.33%) Dialogflow
7 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (8.33%) Google Gemini
8 1 (4.17%) Apigee
8 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (4.17%) Firebase
8 1 (4.17%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) BigQuery
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Pinecone
4 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MLflow
2 1 (4.17%) Ant
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) git-flow
2 1 (4.17%) Snyk
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Marketing
4 4 (16.67%) Advertising
4 4 (16.67%) Retail
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Electronics
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Product Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) GCP Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Conversational AI Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (4.17%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Gen AI Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) LangChain
2 5 (20.83%) PyTorch
2 5 (20.83%) TensorFlow
3 4 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 3 (12.50%) Hugging Face
4 3 (12.50%) LangGraph
4 3 (12.50%) NumPy
4 3 (12.50%) REST
4 3 (12.50%) XGBoost
5 2 (8.33%) CrewAI
5 2 (8.33%) Faiss
5 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
5 2 (8.33%) Gradio
5 2 (8.33%) Matplotlib
5 2 (8.33%) Pandas
5 2 (8.33%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Streamlit
5 2 (8.33%) WebSockets
6 1 (4.17%) BentoML
6 1 (4.17%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.83%) AI Agents
3 4 (16.67%) Digital Media
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
6 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 11 (45.83%) Data Science
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) MLOps
5 8 (33.33%) Use Case
6 7 (29.17%) Agile
6 7 (29.17%) Generative AI
6 7 (29.17%) Natural Language Processing
6 7 (29.17%) Personalization
7 5 (20.83%) Analytics
7 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) LLM
7 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (16.67%) Product Management
8 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Korn
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Kubeflow
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) OpenAI
3 3 (12.50%) Foundry
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Dataiku
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) DataRobot
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) SAP