Google Gemini Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Gemini
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Google Gemini skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 354 -
Rank change year-on-year -82 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Gemini 16 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.030% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.092% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £438 £487 -
25th Percentile £475 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% - -
75th Percentile £675 £574 -
90th Percentile £700 £590 -
UK median daily rate £600 £520 £800
% change year-on-year +15.38% -35.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Google Gemini 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 7,674 4,330 5,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.61% 32.22% 25.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,037 2,964 3,818
10th Percentile £303 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 173 277
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -7.22% -23.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%

Google Gemini
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Gemini relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Google Gemini job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Google Gemini
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Google Gemini.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Google Gemini

Google Gemini
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Gemini in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google Gemini in the UK excluding London

Google Gemini
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 Google Gemini within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 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 -65 10 £593 +13.94% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £475 - 1
North East - 3 £593 -
North West -42 2 - - 3
East of England - 2 £475 - 1
South West - 2 £700 - 2
Scotland - 1 £350 - 1
South East - 1 £650 - 6
Google Gemini
UK

Google Gemini
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 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Vertex AI
2 10 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (31.25%) Anthropic Claude
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (12.50%) ChatGPT
6 2 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (12.50%) LangSmith
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
7 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.25%) SaaS
7 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Pinecone
2 1 (6.25%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Claude Code
1 1 (6.25%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) LangChain
2 6 (37.50%) PyTorch
2 6 (37.50%) TensorFlow
3 3 (18.75%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (12.50%) CrewAI
4 2 (12.50%) Hugging Face
5 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) AI
2 12 (75.00%) Generative AI
3 9 (56.25%) LLM
4 8 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 5 (31.25%) Microservices
6 5 (31.25%) MLOps
6 5 (31.25%) Observability
7 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Agile
8 3 (18.75%) Data Security
8 3 (18.75%) DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Use Case
9 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
9 2 (12.50%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Google
2 6 (37.50%) OpenAI
3 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.25%) SAP