Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Google Cloud Vertex AI
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% - 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £685 - -
England median daily rate £584 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -6.60% +25.00% -41.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 950 353 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.79% 36.21% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 256 319
10th Percentile £308 £256 £213
25th Percentile £408 £361 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -0.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -24.47%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in Yorkshire

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Yorkshire - 6 £475 - 1
South Yorkshire - 3 £725 - 1
Vertex AI
England

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) Google Gemini
3 4 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (22.22%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Pinecone
2 1 (11.11%) Weaviate
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Quarkus
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) A2A Protocol
2 3 (33.33%) LangChain
3 2 (22.22%) Hugging Face
3 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
3 2 (22.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) Generative AI
2 5 (55.56%) LLM
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) MLOps
5 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAI