Vertex AI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vertex AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vertex AI over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 387 -
Rank change year-on-year +47 - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.019% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.073% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £314 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - -
75th Percentile £325 - -
90th Percentile £333 - -
UK median daily rate £498 £500 £825
% change year-on-year -0.40% -39.39% +32.00%

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 4,451 5,491 7,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.80% 25.99% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,014 3,790 5,431
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £649 £669 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 275 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.68 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.97 £25.73
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -18.48% +33.64%
75th Percentile £33.33 £43.75 £61.11
90th Percentile £62.75 £70.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vertex AI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend 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 2 July 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
East of England - 3 £315 - 1
North of England +7 2 £325 - 17
North West - 2 £325 - 14
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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) dbt
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (60.00%) Looker
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) NumPy
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) LangChain
3 1 (20.00%) Gradio
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (60.00%) Data Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Security
1 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (60.00%) DataOps
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace