MariaDB Contract Job Trends in Scotland

MariaDB
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MariaDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 115 112
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing MariaDB 10 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.45% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.75% 1.51% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £384 £477 £355
25th Percentile £398 £487 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £497 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +3.44% -9.43%
75th Percentile £470 £509 £496
90th Percentile £476 £526 £498
UK median daily rate £393 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -16.49% -1.05% +0.57%

All Database & BI Skills
Scotland

MariaDB 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 364 397 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.46% 23.57% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 227 207
10th Percentile £313 £300 £315
25th Percentile £355 £411 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £488 £545 £505
90th Percentile £550 £600 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £26.16 £26.17 £17.45
25th Percentile £35.63 £36.05 £18.26
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -44.03%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £36.67
90th Percentile - - £46.92
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +11.43% -1.41% -35.45%

MariaDB
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

MariaDB job vacancy trend in Scotland

MariaDB
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MariaDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MariaDB

MariaDB
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MariaDB within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Glasgow -5 7 £440 -8.62% 3
Edinburgh -2 2 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
MariaDB
UK

MariaDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 5 (50.00%) SSH
1 5 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (30.00%) SQLPlus
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) Gradle
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) SUSE
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) BDD
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) SDET
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
2 5 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Groovy
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Ceph
1 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Squid
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) SaltStack