Hybrid/Remote Vertex AI Job Trends

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 437 435
Rank change year-on-year +77 -2 -
Permanent jobs citing Vertex AI 14 4 54
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.092% 0.024% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.052% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 31
10th Percentile £66,750 - -
25th Percentile £78,250 £70,097 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £71,991 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% -9.60% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £73,886 £90,673
90th Percentile - - £97,290
UK median annual salary £87,500 £71,991 £79,632
% change year-on-year +21.54% -9.60% -6.32%

All Cloud Computing 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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,537 7,623 10,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.56% 46.40% 46.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,938 4,857 8,735
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,625 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vertex AI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Vertex AI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Vertex AI
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vertex AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vertex AI

Vertex AI
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vertex AI over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Vertex AI salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Vertex AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (78.57%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (14.29%) Apache
3 2 (14.29%) Confluence
4 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
1 12 (85.71%) GCP
2 9 (64.29%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) Snowflake
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Machine Learning
4 5 (35.71%) Dagster
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Run
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (21.43%) Google Compute Engine
5 3 (21.43%) Vercel
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 1 (7.14%) Collibra
7 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) BigQuery
2 8 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (57.14%) Pinecone
2 8 (57.14%) Tableau
3 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (35.71%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (35.71%) Delta Lake
4 5 (35.71%) Looker
4 5 (35.71%) Weaviate
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (7.14%) Power BI
6 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) MLflow
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Advertising
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Data Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (14.29%) GCP Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Faiss
1 5 (35.71%) PyTorch
1 5 (35.71%) TensorFlow
1 5 (35.71%) vLLM
2 3 (21.43%) LangChain
2 3 (21.43%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) AI
2 10 (71.43%) LLM
3 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 7 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 6 (42.86%) Data Science
5 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 6 (42.86%) Use Case
6 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
6 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
6 5 (35.71%) Customer Experience
6 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (35.71%) Feature Engineering
6 5 (35.71%) Mathematics
6 5 (35.71%) MLOps
6 5 (35.71%) Open Source
6 5 (35.71%) Statistics
6 5 (35.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) Bash
3 5 (35.71%) Go
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Google
2 5 (35.71%) Databricks
2 5 (35.71%) Palantir
3 3 (21.43%) Informatica
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) OpenAI
4 1 (7.14%) DataRobot
4 1 (7.14%) Foundry
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Talend