Vertex AI Contracts

Google Cloud Vertex AI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Vertex AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vertex AI over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 670 828
Rank change year-on-year +118 +158 -
Contract jobs citing Vertex AI 32 27 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.049% 0.023%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.13% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 12
10th Percentile £400 £675 -
25th Percentile £453 £713 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £850 £625
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +36.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £950 £630
90th Percentile £588 £1,100 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Vertex AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vertex AI in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vertex AI.

Daily rate trend for Vertex AI in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vertex AI over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vertex AI in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
England +91 30 £500 -41.18% 3
London +83 25 £500 -41.18% 1
Work from Home +110 6 £500 -41.18% 1
UK excluding London - 4 - - 2
North of England - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 4 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (75.00%) GCP
2 11 (34.38%) Google Compute Engine
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) IBM Watson
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (3.13%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Firebase
5 1 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) BigQuery
2 4 (12.50%) Bigtable
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Spanner
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MLflow
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Architect
1 11 (34.38%) GCP Architect
2 9 (28.13%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) TensorFlow
2 4 (12.50%) NumPy
2 4 (12.50%) Pandas
2 4 (12.50%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.25%) LangChain
3 2 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) Anaconda
4 1 (3.13%) BentoML
4 1 (3.13%) Flask
4 1 (3.13%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (96.88%) Artificial Intelligence
2 25 (78.13%) Machine Learning
3 19 (59.38%) Data Science
4 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (43.75%) Generative AI
6 13 (40.63%) Computer Science
7 11 (34.38%) Analytics
7 11 (34.38%) Resource Management
7 11 (34.38%) Security Monitoring
8 10 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (25.00%) MLOps
10 7 (21.88%) DevOps
10 7 (21.88%) LLM
10 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
11 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
11 6 (18.75%) Use Case
12 5 (15.63%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Degree
2 12 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Kubeflow
3 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Dataiku
3 1 (3.13%) DataRobot