Google Gemini Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Gemini
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Google Gemini skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Gemini 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.25% 0.19% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £541 £487 -
25th Percentile £602 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.95% - -
75th Percentile £761 £574 -
90th Percentile £767 £590 -
England median daily rate £625 £520 £800
% change year-on-year +20.19% -35.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,149 676 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.32% 31.44% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 506 599
10th Percentile £300 £309 £283
25th Percentile £400 £386 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £545 £572
90th Percentile £687 £638 £639
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 22 56
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £14.25
25th Percentile £27.75 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +53.36% +152.74% -27.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £58.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.88 £70.63
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

Google Gemini
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Google Gemini job vacancy trend in the North West

Google Gemini
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Google Gemini.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Google Gemini

Google Gemini
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Gemini in the North West over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google Gemini in the North West

Google Gemini
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Manchester - 6 £744 - 6
Google Gemini
England

Google Gemini
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Claude Code
2 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Next.js
1 4 (44.44%) React
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) CrewAI
3 2 (22.22%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 3 (33.33%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) AI
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Generative AI
4 5 (55.56%) LLM
5 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
5 4 (44.44%) Customer Experience
5 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
5 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) Monorepo
5 4 (44.44%) Observability
5 4 (44.44%) Product Thinking
5 4 (44.44%) Technical Debt
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) OpenAI
2 3 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft