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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 335 -
Rank change year-on-year -86 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Gemini 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.039% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £498 £488 -
25th Percentile £589 £493 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -
75th Percentile £596 £588 -
90th Percentile £681 £595 -
UK median daily rate £593 £550 -
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -

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 6,808 4,265 5,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.95% 33.18% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,699 3,015 4,024
10th Percentile £263 £231 £213
25th Percentile £393 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -1.74% -3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £659 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 145 264
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.95 £15.35
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +77.85% +35.44% -20.04%
75th Percentile £63.31 £34.46 £26.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.00 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%

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 23 March 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 23 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 -66 5 £593 +7.73% 4
North East - 3 £593 -
Yorkshire - 2 £725 - 3
South East - 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
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 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) Vertex AI
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (14.29%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (14.29%) Weaviate
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) LangChain
2 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
2 4 (57.14%) TensorFlow
3 2 (28.57%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (14.29%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (85.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 5 (71.43%) Generative AI
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) LLM
4 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
4 4 (57.14%) MLOps
4 4 (57.14%) Prompt Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
6 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 2 (28.57%) Data Security
6 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) Observability
6 2 (28.57%) Use Case
7 1 (14.29%) Analytics
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) OpenAI