Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Data Engineering
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 10.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £464 £453
% change year-on-year +7.82% +2.37% -9.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dumfries and Galloway

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dumfries and Galloway.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway 89.47% 66.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £430 £461 -
25th Percentile £475 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -
75th Percentile - £506 -
90th Percentile - £514 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +3.33% -5.26%

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Dumfries and Galloway region over the 6 months to 12 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 Engineering
Scotland

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Neo4j
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Cypher
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality