Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 52.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 58.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £424 -
% change year-on-year +29.79% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dumfries and Galloway

Generative AI 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 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway 89.47% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -
75th Percentile - £519 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £450
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -5.26%

Generative AI
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 Generative AI 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 - 10 - -
Generative AI
Scotland

Generative AI
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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) dbt
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (20.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Process Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 6 (60.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) Architectural Design
3 4 (40.00%) Webhook
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) LLM
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) RDF
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Cypher
2 2 (20.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible