Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Google Cloud Vertex AI
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.55% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 425 223 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 38.92% 42.16% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 153 199
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -10.91%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £598
90th Percentile £625 £684 £669
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +3.62% -1.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile - £29.90 -
25th Percentile - £31.69 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +338.05% -72.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £99.42 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Leeds - 6 £475 - 1
Vertex AI
Yorkshire

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (33.33%) Google Gemini
3 2 (33.33%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) BigQuery
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Quarkus
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace