Vertex AI Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vertex AI skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 371 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 8 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.017% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £369 £471 -
25th Percentile £413 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% - -
75th Percentile £675 £534 -
90th Percentile £743 £544 -
UK median daily rate £575 £738 £725
% change year-on-year -22.03% +1.72% +11.54%

All Cloud 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 contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,846 4,887 6,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.60% 27.57% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 3,217 4,931
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £667 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 139 242
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.65 £18.17 £16.53
Median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.77% +12.15% +39.00%
75th Percentile £36.00 £66.74 £58.44
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +62.79%

Vertex AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Vertex AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in the UK excluding London

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vertex AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vertex AI

Vertex AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in the UK excluding London

Vertex AI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
North West -6 6 £440 -20.00% 2
North of England -9 6 £440 -20.00% 3
Midlands -10 1 £575 +21.05%
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
South East - 1 £600 - 10
Vertex AI
UK

Vertex AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon Bedrock
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure AI
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) CrewAI
2 4 (50.00%) LangChain
3 3 (37.50%) LangGraph
4 2 (25.00%) Faiss
4 2 (25.00%) Gradio
4 2 (25.00%) Streamlit
5 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
5 1 (12.50%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 4 (50.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
3 6 (75.00%) Data Protection
4 5 (62.50%) LLM
4 5 (62.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (50.00%) Conversational UI
5 4 (50.00%) Memory Management
5 4 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
5 4 (50.00%) Observability
5 4 (50.00%) Semantic Search
5 4 (50.00%) Use Case
6 3 (37.50%) API Integration
6 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (25.00%) Open Source
7 2 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
8 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
8 1 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
8 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EU AI Act
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Foundry