diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vertex_ai_inference_it_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vertex_ai_inference_it_test.py
index 11643992c392..8908477dae7f 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vertex_ai_inference_it_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vertex_ai_inference_it_test.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 from apache_beam.io.filesystems import FileSystems
 from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import RunInference
 from apache_beam.testing.test_pipeline import TestPipeline
+from apache_beam.testing.vertex_ai_skip import skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled
 
 # pylint: disable=ungrouped-imports
 try:
@@ -53,8 +54,9 @@
 _INVOKE_OUTPUT_DIR = "gs://apache-beam-ml/testing/outputs/vertex_invoke"
 
 
+@skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled
+@pytest.mark.vertex_ai_postcommit
 class VertexAIInference(unittest.TestCase):
-  @pytest.mark.vertex_ai_postcommit
   def test_vertex_ai_run_flower_image_classification(self):
     output_file = '/'.join([_OUTPUT_DIR, str(uuid.uuid4()), 'output.txt'])
 
@@ -73,7 +75,6 @@ def test_vertex_ai_run_flower_image_classification(self):
         test_pipeline.get_full_options_as_args(**extra_opts))
     self.assertEqual(FileSystems().exists(output_file), True)
 
-  @pytest.mark.vertex_ai_postcommit
   @unittest.skipIf(
       not _INVOKE_ENDPOINT_ID,
       "Invoke endpoint not configured. Set _INVOKE_ENDPOINT_ID.")
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/transforms/embeddings/vertex_ai_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/transforms/embeddings/vertex_ai_test.py
index 50507c54e36d..5fc3bfa6d9ae 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/transforms/embeddings/vertex_ai_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/transforms/embeddings/vertex_ai_test.py
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@
 import unittest
 import uuid
 
+import pytest
+
 import apache_beam as beam
 from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import RunInference
 from apache_beam.ml.transforms import base
 from apache_beam.ml.transforms.base import MLTransform
+from apache_beam.testing.vertex_ai_skip import skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled
 
 # pylint: disable=ungrouped-imports
 # isort: off
@@ -58,6 +61,8 @@
 model_name: str = "text-embedding-005"
 
 
+@skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled
+@pytest.mark.vertex_ai_postcommit
 @unittest.skipIf(
     VertexAITextEmbeddings is None, 'Vertex AI Python SDK is not installed.')
 class VertexAIEmbeddingsTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -308,6 +313,8 @@ def _make_text_chunk(input: str) -> Chunk:
   return Chunk(content=Content(text=input))
 
 
+@skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled
+@pytest.mark.vertex_ai_postcommit
 @unittest.skipIf(
     VertexAIMultiModalEmbeddings is None,
     'Vertex AI Python SDK is not installed.')
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/testing/vertex_ai_skip.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/testing/vertex_ai_skip.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1196b29c720b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/testing/vertex_ai_skip.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+"""Centralized skip for Vertex AI tests when dependencies are missing.
+
+Test modules use skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled on classes that require
+the Vertex AI Python SDK to be installed.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+
+
+def _is_vertex_ai_available() -> bool:
+  """Return True if Vertex AI client dependencies are importable."""
+  try:
+    import vertexai  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+  except ImportError:
+    return False
+  return True
+
+
+skip_if_vertex_ai_disabled = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    not _is_vertex_ai_available(),
+    reason='Vertex AI dependencies not available.')