Vertex AI Job Trends in the North of England

Google Cloud Vertex AI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers permanent 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 317 260 380
Rank change year-on-year -57 +120 +35
Permanent jobs citing Vertex AI 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.012% 0.015% 0.012%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.034% 0.045% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52,563
25th Percentile £92,500 - £56,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £63,807
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +56.72% -2.36%
75th Percentile £97,500 - £71,787
90th Percentile - - £75,567
England median annual salary £85,000 £71,991 £76,086
% change year-on-year +18.07% -5.38% -10.49%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Vertex AI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,848 2,241 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.19% 32.84% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,659 1,713 4,890
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,750 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vertex AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in the North of England

Vertex AI
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vertex AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vertex AI

Vertex AI
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vertex AI within the North of England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North East - 2 £95,000 - 1
Vertex AI
England

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST