The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 64 55 58
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 110 108 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 3.520% 3.137% 3.094%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.69% 12.15% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 90 100 89
Average salary £34,000 £34,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.72% -2.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,400 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,800 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1029 889 1052
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 32.93% 25.82% 29.86%
Number of salaries quoted 630 673 779
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MySQL across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Scotland MySQL Jobs Demand Trend

MySQL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MySQL across the Scotland region.

Scotland MySQL Salary Trend

MySQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MySQL across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland MySQL Salary Histogram

MySQL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +2 43 £37,500 -
Glasgow -27 34 £28,000 -6.66%
West Lothian +3 14 £36,000 +4.34%
Aberdeen +9 7 £36,000 +10.76%
North Lanarkshire - 3 £30,000 -
Dundee -11 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 £18,000 -
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing MySQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MySQL.

1 107 (49.08%) SQL
2 104 (47.71%) Java
3 101 (46.33%) Linux
4 95 (43.58%) CSS
5 94 (43.12%) PHP
6 85 (38.99%) JavaScript
6 85 (38.99%) HTML
7 77 (35.32%) Oracle
7 77 (35.32%) Apache
8 44 (20.18%) Python
8 44 (20.18%) SQL Server
9 39 (17.89%) jQuery
10 38 (17.43%) Degree
11 37 (16.97%) Ruby
11 37 (16.97%) UNIX
12 36 (16.51%) JSP
12 36 (16.51%) Spring
13 35 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
13 35 (16.06%) J2EE
14 33 (15.14%) Tomcat
15 32 (14.68%) TDD
16 31 (14.22%) Ruby on Rails
16 31 (14.22%) XML
17 30 (13.76%) Perl
17 30 (13.76%) RDBMS
18 28 (12.84%) Finance
19 26 (11.93%) Windows
20 23 (10.55%) OO
20 23 (10.55%) XSLT
20 23 (10.55%) MVC

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing MySQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MySQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 95 (43.58%) CSS
2 85 (38.99%) HTML
3 39 (17.89%) jQuery
4 36 (16.51%) JSP
4 36 (16.51%) Spring
5 35 (16.06%) J2EE
6 31 (14.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 31 (14.22%) XML
7 23 (10.55%) XSLT
7 23 (10.55%) Hibernate
8 21 (9.633%) Servlets
9 17 (7.798%) Web Services
9 17 (7.798%) HTML5
10 16 (7.339%) WebSphere
11 15 (6.881%) .NET
12 14 (6.422%) CSS3
13 13 (5.963%) Ajax
13 13 (5.963%) SOAP
13 13 (5.963%) JMS
14 12 (5.505%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 77 (35.32%) Apache
2 33 (15.14%) Tomcat
3 18 (8.257%) Drupal
4 16 (7.339%) WebLogic
5 14 (6.422%) CMS
6 13 (5.963%) Magento
7 10 (4.587%) nginx
8 9 (4.128%) IIS
9 5 (2.294%) Amazon AWS
9 5 (2.294%) OpenStack
9 5 (2.294%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.835%) WordPress
11 3 (1.376%) Joomla!
11 3 (1.376%) SharePoint
11 3 (1.376%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.917%) GlassFish
13 1 (0.459%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.459%) MS Exchange
13 1 (0.459%) lighttpd
13 1 (0.459%) Jetty
Applications
1 2 (0.917%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.459%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.459%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.716%) Internet
2 7 (3.211%) HTTP
3 6 (2.752%) SMTP
4 5 (2.294%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.294%) Network Security
5 4 (1.835%) TACACS
6 3 (1.376%) Firewall
6 3 (1.376%) DNS
7 2 (0.917%) NAS
7 2 (0.917%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.917%) DHCP
7 2 (0.917%) FTP
7 2 (0.917%) LAN
7 2 (0.917%) SMS
7 2 (0.917%) VPN
8 1 (0.459%) VLAN
8 1 (0.459%) SAN
8 1 (0.459%) OSPF
8 1 (0.459%) Intranet
8 1 (0.459%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (20.18%) SQL Server
2 35 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (13.76%) RDBMS
4 19 (8.716%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (6.881%) Informix
5 15 (6.881%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.587%) DataStage
7 8 (3.670%) Redis
7 8 (3.670%) Hadoop
7 8 (3.670%) DB2
8 7 (3.211%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.752%) SQLite
10 5 (2.294%) Oracle 8/8i
11 3 (1.376%) Big Data
12 2 (0.917%) Oracle 11g
13 1 (0.459%) Oracle 10g
13 1 (0.459%) Oracle 9i
13 1 (0.459%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (8.716%) Subversion
2 14 (6.422%) Ant
3 11 (5.046%) CruiseControl
4 9 (4.128%) Git (software)
5 8 (3.670%) Eclipse
5 8 (3.670%) JMeter
6 7 (3.211%) Maven
6 7 (3.211%) Hudson
7 6 (2.752%) JUnit
8 3 (1.376%) EasyMock
8 3 (1.376%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.917%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.917%) Gradle
9 2 (0.917%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.917%) JIRA
9 2 (0.917%) Selenium
10 1 (0.459%) NetBeans
10 1 (0.459%) HttpUnit
10 1 (0.459%) NUnit
10 1 (0.459%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (12.84%) Finance
2 22 (10.09%) Telecoms
3 14 (6.422%) Banking
4 10 (4.587%) Games
5 5 (2.294%) Billing
5 5 (2.294%) Retail
6 4 (1.835%) Marketing
6 4 (1.835%) Back Office
7 3 (1.376%) Publishing
8 1 (0.459%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 147 (67.43%) Developer
2 41 (18.81%) Java Developer
3 27 (12.39%) Senior Developer
4 25 (11.47%) Software Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Web Developer
6 19 (8.716%) Software Developer
7 18 (8.257%) PHP Developer
8 16 (7.339%) J2EE Developer
9 11 (5.046%) Administrator
10 10 (4.587%) Senior J2EE Developer
11 9 (4.128%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.128%) Junior Developer
11 9 (4.128%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 9 (4.128%) Junior
11 9 (4.128%) Analyst
12 8 (3.670%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.670%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.670%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 7 (3.211%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (3.211%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.798%) Computer Science
2 10 (4.587%) Replication
3 6 (2.752%) Data Extraction
4 5 (2.294%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.294%) Eucalyptus
5 4 (1.835%) IPTV
5 4 (1.835%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.376%) Clustering
6 3 (1.376%) W3C
6 3 (1.376%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.376%) Open Source
7 2 (0.917%) Social Network
7 2 (0.917%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.917%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.459%) E-Learning
8 1 (0.459%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.459%) Statistics
8 1 (0.459%) EPoS
8 1 (0.459%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.459%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 101 (46.33%) Linux
2 37 (16.97%) UNIX
3 26 (11.93%) Windows
4 12 (5.505%) Solaris
5 11 (5.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.376%) Android
6 3 (1.376%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.917%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.917%) CentOS
8 1 (0.459%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.459%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.459%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.459%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.68%) TDD
2 23 (10.55%) OO
2 23 (10.55%) MVC
2 23 (10.55%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (9.174%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (8.716%) ETL
4 19 (8.716%) UML
4 19 (8.716%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (8.257%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (5.505%) E-Commerce
6 12 (5.505%) Web Development
7 11 (5.046%) Software Engineering
8 10 (4.587%) Scrum
9 7 (3.211%) Load Balancing
9 7 (3.211%) SOA
10 6 (2.752%) Analytics
10 6 (2.752%) Database Security
10 6 (2.752%) ITIL
10 6 (2.752%) Predictive Analytics
11 5 (2.294%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (49.08%) SQL
2 104 (47.71%) Java
3 94 (43.12%) PHP
4 85 (38.99%) JavaScript
5 44 (20.18%) Python
6 37 (16.97%) Ruby
7 30 (13.76%) Perl
8 22 (10.09%) C#
9 15 (6.881%) Korn
10 13 (5.963%) C++
11 9 (4.128%) PL/SQL
11 9 (4.128%) Groovy
11 9 (4.128%) Bash shell
12 8 (3.670%) PHP5
12 8 (3.670%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.376%) XPath
13 3 (1.376%) VB
13 3 (1.376%) C
14 2 (0.917%) sed
14 2 (0.917%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.43%) Degree
2 6 (2.752%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.459%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.459%) ISEB
3 1 (0.459%) HND
3 1 (0.459%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.752%) SLA
2 2 (0.917%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.128%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.917%) Xen
3 1 (0.459%) Samba
3 1 (0.459%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (4.128%) Puppet
2 8 (3.670%) Munin
2 8 (3.670%) Nagios
3 6 (2.752%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (1.835%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (35.32%) Oracle
2 19 (8.716%) JBoss
2 19 (8.716%) Netezza
3 18 (8.257%) Informatica
4 16 (7.339%) Ab Initio
5 14 (6.422%) Teradata
6 10 (4.587%) VMware
7 7 (3.211%) Microsoft
8 6 (2.752%) Cisco
9 5 (2.294%) IBM
9 5 (2.294%) Citrix
9 5 (2.294%) Zend
10 4 (1.835%) Rackspace
10 4 (1.835%) Sybase
11 3 (1.376%) Dell
12 2 (0.917%) EMC
12 2 (0.917%) HP
12 2 (0.917%) Juniper
12 2 (0.917%) Alterian
13 1 (0.459%) Google
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: £27000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
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