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 citing Vertex AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 428 | 376 | 358 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -52 | -18 | - |
| Contract jobs citing Vertex AI | 56 | 9 | 6 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London | 0.20% | 0.055% | 0.035% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 0.68% | 0.17% | 0.12% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 29 | 8 | 5 |
| 10th Percentile | £419 | £378 | £316 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £417 | £318 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £588 | £320 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -19.15% | +83.59% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £582 | £741 | £488 |
| 90th Percentile | £625 | £750 | £525 |
| UK median daily rate | £538 | £575 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | -6.52% | +4.55% | -24.14% |
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 contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 8,246 | 5,424 | 4,928 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London | 29.23% | 33.28% | 29.06% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,229 | 3,658 | 3,147 |
| 10th Percentile | £263 | £235 | £250 |
| 25th Percentile | £402 | £375 | £388 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £575 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £650 | £667 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 524 | 181 | 123 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.42 | £13.25 | £16.06 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.48 | £16.00 | £21.15 |
| Median hourly rate | £30.00 | £20.50 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +46.34% | -41.43% | +55.56% |
| 75th Percentile | £70.00 | £40.65 | £69.22 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.93 | £67.00 | £70.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £30.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +19.28% | -28.14% | +16.67% |
Vertex AI Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vertex AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised 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.
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 25 October 2026.
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 25 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North of England | -46 | 32 | £475 | -18.45% | 32 |
| North West | -28 | 24 | £450 | -22.75% | 13 |
| Scotland | - | 13 | £535 | - | 5 |
| South West | - | 9 | £575 | - | 9 |
| Yorkshire | - | 8 | £500 | - | 8 |
| South East | -56 | 1 | - | - | 17 |
| Wales | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| East of England | - | 1 | - | - | 7 |
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Vertex AI Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GCP | 78.6% | 44 |
| 2 | AWS | 35.7% | 20 |
| 3 | Azure | 32.1% | 18 |
| 4 | Azure AKS | 21.4% | 12 |
| 4 | Cloud Run | 21.4% | 12 |
| 6 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 19.6% | 11 |
| 7 | Cloud Composer | 17.9% | 10 |
| 8 | Amazon SageMaker | 16.1% | 9 |
| 9 | Google Gemini | 14.3% | 8 |
| 10 | Serverless | 12.5% | 7 |
| 11 | Apigee | 10.7% | 6 |
| 11 | AWS Lambda | 10.7% | 6 |
| 11 | Azure AI | 10.7% | 6 |
| 11 | Azure Machine Learning | 10.7% | 6 |
| 11 | Cloud Functions | 10.7% | 6 |
| 16 | Power Platform | 8.9% | 5 |
| 17 | Amazon Bedrock | 5.4% | 3 |
| 18 | Entra ID | 3.6% | 2 |
| 18 | IBM Watson | 3.6% | 2 |
| 18 | LangSmith | 3.6% | 2 |