Vertex AI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 340 468
Rank change year-on-year +43 +128 +152
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 7 5 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.033% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.090% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £333 £448 -
25th Percentile - £500 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £825
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% -30.30% +32.00%
75th Percentile £669 £588 £894
90th Percentile £775 £730 £905
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £850
% change year-on-year -10.00% -41.18% +36.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Vertex AI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Vertex AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vertex AI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Vertex AI.

Vertex AI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vertex AI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vertex AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) Jupyter
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Looker
1 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
1 1 (14.29%) Weaviate
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) GCP Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) Matplotlib
1 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
1 2 (28.57%) XGBoost
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Google JAX
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) JAX
2 1 (14.29%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) LLM
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Business Forecasting
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Deep Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Logistic Regression
3 2 (28.57%) LSTM
3 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Random Forest
3 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Time Series Forecasting
3 2 (28.57%) Transfer Learning
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) DataOps
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI