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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 342 400
Rank change year-on-year -79 +58 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 33 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.022% 0.019%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.069% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.10% - -
75th Percentile £609 £318 -
90th Percentile £700 £320 -
UK median daily rate £575 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +15.46% -0.40% -41.18%

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 7,667 4,326 5,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.62% 32.22% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,037 2,966 3,812
10th Percentile £303 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
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 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 174 277
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -22.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.49 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £66.31 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 - 24 £593 - 2
North West - 11 £590 - 2
Yorkshire - 10 £475 -
Scotland - 5 £275 - 1
North East - 3 £593 -
South West - 2 £700 -
East of England -35 1 - -
South East - 1 £515 - 1
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 (6.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) GCP
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 16 (48.48%) Azure
4 11 (33.33%) Google Gemini
5 10 (30.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (24.24%) Amazon SageMaker
7 7 (21.21%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (18.18%) Azure AI
8 6 (18.18%) Azure AKS
8 6 (18.18%) IBM Watson
8 6 (18.18%) Serverless
9 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (6.06%) LangSmith
12 1 (3.03%) Apigee
12 1 (3.03%) Cloud Run
12 1 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
12 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.06%) Pinecone
3 2 (6.06%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 6 (18.18%) Banking
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Data Science Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Security Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) LangChain
2 11 (33.33%) PyTorch
3 6 (18.18%) scikit-learn
4 5 (15.15%) PySpark
4 5 (15.15%) Quarkus
4 5 (15.15%) React
4 5 (15.15%) TensorFlow
5 3 (9.09%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (6.06%) Hugging Face
7 1 (3.03%) Faiss
7 1 (3.03%) LangGraph
7 1 (3.03%) Node.js
7 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) AI Agents
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (15.15%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) e-Learning
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) AI
2 22 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 22 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 18 (54.55%) LLM
4 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
5 14 (42.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 13 (39.39%) Roadmaps
7 11 (33.33%) DevOps
7 11 (33.33%) Observability
8 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (30.30%) MLOps
9 9 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (24.24%) Data Security
11 7 (21.21%) Threat Modelling
11 7 (21.21%) Use Case
12 6 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
12 6 (18.18%) Data Privacy
12 6 (18.18%) Microservices
12 6 (18.18%) SIEM
12 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) CISSP
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Google
2 8 (24.24%) OpenAI
3 6 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) Apple
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow