Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Cloud Vertex AI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 170 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.048% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £745 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +3.57%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,451 1,320 1,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.99% 31.82% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 854 1,298
10th Percentile £298 £291 £264
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £630 £650 £675
England median daily rate £501 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 66
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.44 £31.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -8.82% +49.45%
75th Percentile £61.81 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.25 £71.50 £66.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vertex AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vertex AI

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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
North West -6 6 £440 -20.00% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Pinecone
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CrewAI
1 4 (66.67%) LangChain
2 2 (33.33%) Faiss
2 2 (33.33%) Gradio
2 2 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 2 (33.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Autonomous Agent
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Conversational UI
3 4 (66.67%) LLM
3 4 (66.67%) Memory Management
3 4 (66.67%) Multi-Agent System
3 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (66.67%) Semantic Search
3 4 (66.67%) Use Case
4 3 (50.00%) API Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
6 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Foundry