Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Google Cloud Vertex AI
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.12% - 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% - 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £725 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 385 69 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 45.67% 29.24% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 54 72
10th Percentile £366 £400 £186
25th Percentile £417 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £639 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £513 £519
% change year-on-year -4.98% -1.20% -5.68%

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google