Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 347 -
Rank change year-on-year -46 - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 11 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.034% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £397 £316 -
25th Percentile £437 £318 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £320 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% - -
75th Percentile £706 £488 -
90th Percentile £750 £525 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +4.55% -13.73% -8.93%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,913 4,590 6,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.11% 31.15% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 3,029 4,353
10th Percentile £240 £238 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 112 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.42 £24.18 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% +15.78% +5.59%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.41 £68.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -3.64% +9.17% +11.96%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in the UK excluding London

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North West -13 6 £583 +5.91% 41
North of England -42 6 £583 +5.91% 85
South East - 3 £513 - 73
Midlands -40 1 £575 +21.05% 66
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 30
South West - 1 - - 39
Vertex AI
UK

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (9.09%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon Bedrock
3 5 (45.45%) Azure AI
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) Google Gemini
6 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Pinecone
2 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Architect
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) CrewAI
2 3 (27.27%) Faiss
2 3 (27.27%) LangChain
3 2 (18.18%) LangGraph
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) Gradio
4 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (9.09%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (9.09%) Streamlit
4 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) AI Agents
2 3 (27.27%) Autonomous Agent
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
2 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 6 (54.55%) LLM
3 6 (54.55%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 6 (54.55%) Use Case
4 5 (45.45%) Conversational UI
4 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Observability
6 3 (27.27%) API Integration
6 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
6 3 (27.27%) Memory Management
6 3 (27.27%) Model Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Multi-Agent System
6 3 (27.27%) Prompt Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Semantic Search
6 3 (27.27%) Validation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) MCP
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Foundry