MySQL Contracts in Scotland

MySQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 97 121 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +31
Contract jobs citing MySQL 19 8 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.36% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.31% 2.01% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 33
10th Percentile £449 £488 £463
25th Percentile £475 £497 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -5.37% +26.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £675
90th Percentile £714 £678 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.45 £70.00 £44.32
% change year-on-year -59.36% +57.96% +106.12%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
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 MySQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +9 12 £581 +16.10% 8
Edinburgh +9 5 £500 - 2
Aberdeen - 1 £500 - 1
Highlands - 1 £375 - 1
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) CloudFront
3 3 (15.79%) Route 53
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Yarn
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) MariaDB
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.53%) Power Query
4 2 (10.53%) Redis
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) webpack
2 2 (10.53%) Ant
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Gatling
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead Developer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Spring
1 8 (42.11%) Spring Boot
2 5 (26.32%) JSON
2 5 (26.32%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) Node.js
4 3 (15.79%) JSON Schema
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth
5 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
5 2 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (10.53%) TypeORM
5 2 (10.53%) YAML
6 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.26%) CSS
6 1 (5.26%) CSS3
6 1 (5.26%) HTML
6 1 (5.26%) HTML5
6 1 (5.26%) Kafka
6 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
6 1 (5.26%) Redux
6 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Low-Code
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Mentoring
2 10 (52.63%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (42.11%) TDD
4 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (26.32%) Cost Reduction
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Service Management
6 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) API Development
7 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
7 3 (15.79%) Fintech
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) SOA
8 2 (10.53%) Human-Centred Design
8 2 (10.53%) Inclusive Design
8 2 (10.53%) Log Analytics
8 2 (10.53%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) TypeScript
3 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
4 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
5 4 (21.05%) Bash
6 3 (15.79%) Python
7 2 (10.53%) Bicep
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Packer
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft