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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing MySQL 8 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.97% 1.31% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 6.94% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile £438 £316 £400
25th Percentile £458 £323 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £389 £528
Median % change year-on-year +24.68% -26.26% +11.05%
75th Percentile £528 £480 £569
90th Percentile £577 £497 £650
Scotland median daily rate £500 £389 £530
% change year-on-year +28.53% -26.60% +11.58%

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 215 144 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.93% 18.82% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 110 129
10th Percentile £294 £322 £376
25th Percentile £398 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £445 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.18% +1.87%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £575
90th Percentile £613 £576 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £26.17 £17.45 £24.95
25th Percentile £36.05 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -44.03% +8.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £36.67 £66.56
90th Percentile - £46.92 £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £20.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +166.80% -41.10% +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 13 July 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
3 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer in Test
3 1 (12.50%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) JPA
3 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle