Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Public Sector
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Dumfries and Galloway. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 12.50% - -
As % of the General category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -2.70%

All General Skills
Dumfries and Galloway

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Dumfries and Galloway.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway 62.50% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £450 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
75th Percentile - £469 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.65% +2.89% -5.26%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Dumfries and Galloway

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Dumfries and Galloway

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Dumfries and Galloway

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dumfries and Galloway citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dumfries and Galloway citing Public Sector

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Dumfries and Galloway region over the 6 months to 17 July 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 - 1 - -
Public Sector
Scotland

Public Sector
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Google