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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 338 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Gemini 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.014% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.069% 0.046% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £563 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -
75th Percentile £604 £575 -
90th Percentile £609 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 -

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 5,776 4,375 5,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 31.50% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,884 4,206
10th Percentile £240 £243 £214
25th Percentile £375 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 107 178
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.64
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +17.18% +7.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.33 £64.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%

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
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 11 January 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 -38 2 £593 +7.73% 19
North East - 2 £593 - 4
South East -7 1 - - 33
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 11
Midlands - 1 £575 - 15
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LangChain
2 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
3 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
2 3 (75.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI