Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in the South West

Google Cloud Vertex AI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £750
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +3.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 978 599 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.34% 30.36% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 409 462
10th Percentile £325 £213 £233
25th Percentile £425 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £613
90th Percentile £730 £695 £685
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 42
10th Percentile £13.90 £18.13 £20.85
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.51 £33.50
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +100.00%
75th Percentile £47.59 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £87.26 £36.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in the South West

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in the South West over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in the South West

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Bristol - 3 £425 - 6
Wiltshire - 2 £700 -
Vertex AI
England

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Run
3 2 (40.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Looker
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Architect
2 2 (40.00%) BigQuery Architect
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google