Vertex AI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 578 513
Rank change year-on-year +68 -65 -
Permanent jobs citing Vertex AI 7 2 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.005% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.051% 0.017% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 27
10th Percentile - £73,087 £72,140
25th Percentile £57,500 £77,572 £74,646
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,996 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +7.99% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £93,471 £84,056
90th Percentile - £97,389 £97,290
UK median annual salary £86,250 £85,996 £79,632
% change year-on-year +0.30% +7.99% -4.92%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,615 12,002 11,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.46% 32.21% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,814 6,573 9,550
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,106
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Vertex AI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Vertex AI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vertex AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vertex AI

Vertex AI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vertex AI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
South East - 7 £60,000 - 3
Vertex AI
UK

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure AI
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
General
1 6 (85.71%) Law
1 6 (85.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Product Delivery Manager
1 6 (85.71%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) B2B
2 6 (85.71%) B2C
2 6 (85.71%) Backlog Refinement
2 6 (85.71%) Change Management
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 6 (85.71%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Matrix Organization
2 6 (85.71%) PLM
2 6 (85.71%) Product Management
2 6 (85.71%) Prototyping
2 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (85.71%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 6 (85.71%) Use Case
2 6 (85.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Google
2 6 (85.71%) Foundry