Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Data Engineer
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

As of 11 September 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Data Engineer daily rate in Dumfries and Galloway.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 10.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £463 £468
% change year-on-year -4.86% -1.07% -6.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Dumfries and Galloway

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dumfries and Galloway. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Dumfries and Galloway with a recognized job title 17 2 0
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £430 £278 -
25th Percentile £475 £316 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £384 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.29% - -
75th Percentile - £453 -
90th Percentile - £493 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Dumfries and Galloway

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Dumfries and Galloway region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Moffat - 2 - -
Data Engineer
Scotland

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dumfries and Galloway

For the 6 months to 11 September 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Dumfries and Galloway region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Webhook

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dumfries and Galloway 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared