MySQL Contracts in Glasgow

MySQL
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 76 61
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 12 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.50% 0.68% 2.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.74% 3.39% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile £492 £486 £445
25th Percentile £507 £496 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -9.09% +49.97%
75th Percentile £679 £655 £675
90th Percentile £727 £682 £709
Scotland median daily rate £518 £538 £568
% change year-on-year -3.67% -5.37% +26.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 178 177 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.31% 20.18% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 137 146
10th Percentile £288 £303 £376
25th Percentile £372 £381 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £638
90th Percentile £589 £645 £750
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £20.16 - £24.95
25th Percentile £21.01 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.10% +50.00% -25.53%
75th Percentile £25.71 £53.75 £66.56
90th Percentile £26.93 - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Glasgow

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Glasgow

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Glasgow

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Glasgow

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Gatling
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 10 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
4 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Redux
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) CentOS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 9 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (66.67%) TDD
4 6 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (41.67%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (33.33%) Service Management
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
7 3 (25.00%) Migration
7 3 (25.00%) SOA
8 2 (16.67%) Agile
8 2 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
8 2 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
8 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Runbook
8 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 1 (8.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
2 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Packer
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle