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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 366 377
Rank change year-on-year -71 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 43 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.052% 0.017%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.16% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 2
10th Percentile £341 £369 £471
25th Percentile £475 £413 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +12.20% -
75th Percentile £599 £675 £534
90th Percentile £640 £743 £544
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £725
% change year-on-year -2.17% -20.69% -

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 8,261 4,873 4,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.36% 31.49% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,321 3,257 3,269
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £570 £598
90th Percentile £675 £643 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 173 145
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%
75th Percentile £69.56 £40.65 £64.73
90th Percentile £83.51 £67.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -52 26 £475 +7.95% 7
Yorkshire - 14 £475 - 2
North West -40 12 £541 +22.95% 5
Scotland - 10 £575 - 7
South West - 5 £700 - 2
South East -58 1 - - 13
East of England - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (86.05%) GCP
2 17 (39.53%) AWS
3 15 (34.88%) Azure
4 11 (25.58%) Google Gemini
4 11 (25.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (20.93%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (20.93%) Azure AKS
6 7 (16.28%) Serverless
7 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (13.95%) Azure AI
7 6 (13.95%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (11.63%) Cloud Run
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (9.30%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (9.30%) LangSmith
10 3 (6.98%) Apigee
11 2 (4.65%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.65%) IBM Watson
11 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) LAN
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (51.16%) BigQuery
2 6 (13.95%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.98%) Looker
4 2 (4.65%) Power BI
4 2 (4.65%) Tableau
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.33%) DataStage
5 1 (2.33%) Flink
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Pylint
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.98%) Legal
4 3 (6.98%) Marketing
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Architect
2 9 (20.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) GCP Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Data Science Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
8 2 (4.65%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) BigQuery Architect
8 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) Terraform
2 6 (13.95%) LangChain
2 6 (13.95%) PyTorch
3 5 (11.63%) Langfuse
3 5 (11.63%) PySpark
3 5 (11.63%) Quarkus
3 5 (11.63%) React
4 4 (9.30%) Hugging Face
4 4 (9.30%) LangGraph
4 4 (9.30%) TensorFlow
5 3 (6.98%) .NET
5 3 (6.98%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (6.98%) TFX
6 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.33%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (2.33%) CrewAI
7 1 (2.33%) Kafka
7 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
7 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (46.51%) AI Agents
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) AI
2 24 (55.81%) LLM
2 24 (55.81%) Machine Learning
3 20 (46.51%) Generative AI
4 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
5 17 (39.53%) DevOps
6 16 (37.21%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 12 (27.91%) Analytics
7 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (27.91%) MLOps
7 12 (27.91%) Observability
8 11 (25.58%) Roadmaps
9 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (20.93%) Data Engineering
10 9 (20.93%) Data Science
10 9 (20.93%) ETL
11 8 (18.60%) Microservices
12 7 (16.28%) Data Architecture
12 7 (16.28%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 5 (11.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.98%) CISSP
1 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.98%) Istio
3 3 (6.98%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Google
2 8 (18.60%) OpenAI
3 4 (9.30%) Dynatrace
3 4 (9.30%) Foundry
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Apple
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Genesys
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow