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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 339 -
Rank change year-on-year -69 - -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 10 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.037% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £508 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £318 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% - -
75th Percentile £613 £320 -
90th Percentile £750 £321 -
UK median daily rate £593 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +18.50% -9.09% -33.33%

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 6,239 4,408 5,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.92% 32.45% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,349 2,949 4,310
10th Percentile £240 £233 £215
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.57%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 106 233
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.19 £19.87 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £24.42 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% +16.29% +5.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.08 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.51
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 - 5 £593 - 1
South East - 3 £513 - 2
North East - 3 £593 -
North West - 2 £738 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
South West - 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Google Gemini
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
7 1 (10.00%) Dataform
7 1 (10.00%) GitHub
7 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (30.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (30.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Faiss
1 3 (30.00%) LangChain
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (10.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (10.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (10.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (70.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 6 (60.00%) Generative AI
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
6 3 (30.00%) Conversational UI
6 3 (30.00%) MLOps
6 3 (30.00%) Model Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Use Case
6 3 (30.00%) Validation
7 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry