MySQL Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

MySQL
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +43
Contract jobs citing MySQL 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.33% 0.15% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.74% 0.81% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -10.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £469 - £600
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% +8.72%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 115 123 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.23% 18.66% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 64 124
10th Percentile £406 £417 £395
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £568 £569
90th Percentile £670 £675 £626
Scotland median daily rate £470 £470 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +155.23% +0.46% -15.22%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing MySQL

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle