Google Gemini Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Google Gemini
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Google Gemini skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Gemini 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.031% - 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £625 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £28.50
75th Percentile - - £29.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £28.50

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 895 600 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.13% 36.39% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 354 444
10th Percentile £325 £254 £363
25th Percentile £425 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £663 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 23 16
10th Percentile £19.75 - £18.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £20.39
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.87 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +297.46% -46.85% +9.91%
75th Percentile £87.99 £36.70 £60.11
90th Percentile £110.75 £46.30 £61.33
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £26.75
% change year-on-year +245.38% -29.64% -3.88%

Google Gemini
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Google Gemini job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Google Gemini
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 - 2
Google Gemini
South East

Google Gemini
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft