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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 364 374
Rank change year-on-year -55 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 45 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.15% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 1
10th Percentile £430 £314 -
25th Percentile £475 £338 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £426 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.84% -10.26% -
75th Percentile £620 £565 £488
90th Percentile £693 £669 -
UK median daily rate £558 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +1.36% +10.00% -31.03%

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 8,140 4,723 5,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.87% 31.19% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,224 3,161 3,455
10th Percentile £288 £250 £240
25th Percentile £404 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £645 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 191 208
10th Percentile £15.68 £14.75 £14.04
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.67 £47.14
90th Percentile £87.16 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -44 31 £554 +29.91% 7
North West -41 16 £579 +35.72% 5
Yorkshire - 15 £475 -
Scotland - 9 £547 - 1
South West - 3 £700 - 3
East of England -17 1 - - 1
South East -64 1 - - 14
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 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) GCP
2 20 (44.44%) AWS
3 18 (40.00%) Azure
4 12 (26.67%) Google Gemini
5 11 (24.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 9 (20.00%) Azure AI
6 9 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 7 (15.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 7 (15.56%) Serverless
8 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (13.33%) IBM Watson
9 5 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (8.89%) Cloud Run
10 4 (8.89%) LangSmith
11 3 (6.67%) Apigee
12 2 (4.44%) Cloud Composer
12 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
12 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
13 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
3 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (44.44%) BigQuery
2 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.44%) Looker
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.22%) DataStage
4 1 (2.22%) Flink
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
4 1 (2.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
1 2 (4.44%) Pylint
2 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 9 (20.00%) Banking
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Financial Institution
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing
3 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Architect
2 11 (24.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Data Science Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) GCP Architect
7 3 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) LangChain
2 10 (22.22%) PyTorch
3 6 (13.33%) scikit-learn
4 5 (11.11%) Langfuse
4 5 (11.11%) PySpark
4 5 (11.11%) Quarkus
4 5 (11.11%) React
5 4 (8.89%) Hugging Face
5 4 (8.89%) LangGraph
5 4 (8.89%) TensorFlow
6 3 (6.67%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (4.44%) .NET
7 2 (4.44%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (4.44%) TFX
8 1 (2.22%) CrewAI
8 1 (2.22%) Kafka
8 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
8 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (46.67%) AI Agents
2 10 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) AI
2 27 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 26 (57.78%) LLM
4 24 (53.33%) Generative AI
5 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
6 17 (37.78%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 15 (33.33%) DevOps
8 14 (31.11%) Observability
8 14 (31.11%) Roadmaps
9 13 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (26.67%) MLOps
11 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (22.22%) Microservices
13 9 (20.00%) Analytics
13 9 (20.00%) Data Science
14 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (17.78%) Data Security
15 7 (15.56%) Data Architecture
15 7 (15.56%) ETL
15 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
1 4 (8.89%) CISSP
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) Terraform
2 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.67%) Istio
5 2 (4.44%) Kubeflow
6 1 (2.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (71.11%) Google
2 9 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 6 (13.33%) IBM
4 4 (8.89%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.67%) Foundry
6 2 (4.44%) Databricks
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.22%) Apple
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Genesys
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow