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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 338 408
Rank change year-on-year -75 +70 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 13 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.047% 0.014%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.14% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £523 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £317 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.20% - -
75th Percentile £618 £320 -
90th Percentile £726 £321 -
UK median daily rate £584 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +45.94% -20.00% -40.30%

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 6,590 4,294 5,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.22% 33.36% 27.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,554 3,006 4,132
10th Percentile £255 £232 £213
25th Percentile £384 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +1.12% -3.55%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 128 265
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.15 £24.09 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +79.11% +35.34% -19.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £34.36 £32.50
90th Percentile £80.14 £68.75 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -14.52%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 - 9 £593 - 13
North West - 5 £617 - 3
South East - 3 £513 - 10
North East - 3 £593 -
Yorkshire - 1 £725 - 10
South West - 1 - - 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 4 (30.77%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) GCP
4 4 (30.77%) Azure AI
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (30.77%) Google Gemini
4 4 (30.77%) IBM Watson
5 1 (7.69%) Dataform
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Pinecone
1 4 (30.77%) Weaviate
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Gen AI Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.69%) BigQuery Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) LangChain
2 7 (53.85%) PyTorch
3 4 (30.77%) scikit-learn
4 3 (23.08%) Faiss
4 3 (23.08%) Node.js
4 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
5 1 (7.69%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (84.62%) Generative AI
3 10 (76.92%) Machine Learning
4 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 7 (53.85%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
5 6 (46.15%) Prompt Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) LLM
7 4 (30.77%) Analytics
7 4 (30.77%) Conversational UI
7 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (30.77%) Data Privacy
7 4 (30.77%) OWASP
7 4 (30.77%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (30.77%) SIEM
7 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 4 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (30.77%) Use Case
7 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft