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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 353 388
Rank change year-on-year -63 +35 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 37 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.042% 0.019%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.13% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 0
10th Percentile £433 £314 -
25th Percentile £490 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £321 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% - -
75th Percentile £604 £338 -
90th Percentile £700 £578 -
UK median daily rate £566 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +13.25% - -39.39%

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 requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,844 4,543 5,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.67% 31.92% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,069 3,800
10th Percentile £300 £250 £225
25th Percentile £402 £381 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 183 274
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.85
Median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +102.70% -10.08% -20.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £34.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 job vacancy trend 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 4 July 2026.

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 4 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -51 26 £582 +10.86% 8
North West -31 12 £582 +10.86% 7
Yorkshire - 12 £475 - 1
Scotland - 7 £275 - 2
North East - 2 £593 -
South West - 2 £700 - 1
East of England -31 1 - -
South East - 1 £515 - 4
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (78.38%) GCP
2 18 (48.65%) AWS
3 17 (45.95%) Azure
4 11 (29.73%) Google Gemini
4 11 (29.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (24.32%) Azure AKS
6 8 (21.62%) Amazon SageMaker
7 7 (18.92%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (16.22%) Azure AI
8 6 (16.22%) IBM Watson
8 6 (16.22%) Serverless
9 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (8.11%) Apigee
10 3 (8.11%) Cloud Run
10 3 (8.11%) LangSmith
11 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
12 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
12 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
3 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) BigQuery
2 6 (16.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.41%) Pinecone
3 2 (5.41%) Weaviate
4 1 (2.70%) DataStage
4 1 (2.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 9 (24.32%) Banking
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Financial Institution
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Science Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) GCP Architect
6 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Gen AI Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) LangChain
2 11 (29.73%) PyTorch
3 6 (16.22%) scikit-learn
4 5 (13.51%) PySpark
4 5 (13.51%) Quarkus
4 5 (13.51%) React
4 5 (13.51%) TensorFlow
5 3 (8.11%) A2A Protocol
5 3 (8.11%) Hugging Face
5 3 (8.11%) LangGraph
6 1 (2.70%) Faiss
6 1 (2.70%) Node.js
6 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) AI Agents
2 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.51%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) IVR
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) AI
2 26 (70.27%) Machine Learning
3 23 (62.16%) Generative AI
4 21 (56.76%) LLM
5 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
6 16 (43.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 13 (35.14%) Observability
7 13 (35.14%) Roadmaps
8 12 (32.43%) DevOps
8 12 (32.43%) MLOps
9 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (24.32%) Microservices
12 8 (21.62%) Analytics
12 8 (21.62%) Data Security
13 7 (18.92%) Data Science
13 7 (18.92%) Threat Modelling
13 7 (18.92%) Use Case
14 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
14 6 (16.22%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) CISSP
2 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.70%) CCSP
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Istio
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Google
2 8 (21.62%) OpenAI
3 6 (16.22%) IBM
4 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.70%) Apple
6 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.70%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) Genesys
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) SAP
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow