Vertex AI Contracts

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Vertex AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vertex AI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 547 701
Rank change year-on-year +45 +154 +137
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 18 35 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.080% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.25% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 7
10th Percentile £315 £404 -
25th Percentile £329 £491 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £850
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -41.18% +36.00%
75th Percentile £744 £550 £913
90th Percentile £775 £751 £928
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in the UK

Vertex AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vertex AI.

Daily rate trend for Vertex AI in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +37 14 £600 +20.00% 37
London +19 11 £700 +40.00% 30
Work from Home +43 7 £350 -39.13% 17
UK excluding London +63 3 £315 - 17
East of England - 3 £315 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP BPC
1 1 (5.56%) SAP CO
1 1 (5.56%) SAP FI
1 1 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) GCP
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 3 (16.67%) dbt
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) BigQuery
2 3 (16.67%) Looker
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (16.67%) Tableau
3 2 (11.11%) Big Data
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
4 1 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (5.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) LSMW
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) GCP Developer
3 3 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Financial Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) LangChain
2 5 (27.78%) NumPy
2 5 (27.78%) Pandas
3 4 (22.22%) Kafka
3 4 (22.22%) React
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) Hugging Face
4 3 (16.67%) PySpark
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
5 2 (11.11%) Matplotlib
5 2 (11.11%) PyTorch
5 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
5 2 (11.11%) XGBoost
6 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.56%) Express.js
6 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (5.56%) SAP PI
6 1 (5.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Machine Learning
2 10 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Data Science
4 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 6 (33.33%) LLM
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
5 5 (27.78%) Open Source
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Data Security
6 4 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (22.22%) Use Case
6 4 (22.22%) Workflow
7 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Data Management
7 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (16.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.56%) Concur
2 1 (5.56%) Dataiku
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Okta
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.56%) SAP