MySQL Jobs in Edinburgh

MySQL
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 122
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 -13
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 16 18 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.74% 1.18% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.79% 5.96% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 9
10th Percentile £50,200 - £47,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £72,500
90th Percentile - £91,934 £83,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -12.20%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 182 302 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.85% 19.78% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 114 185 241
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,188 £46,306 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,750 £82,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +14.29%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Edinburgh

MySQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for MySQL in Edinburgh

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Edinburgh

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) npm
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Games
3 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Agriculture
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Senior
3 10 (62.50%) PHP Developer
3 10 (62.50%) Senior Developer
3 10 (62.50%) Senior PHP Developer
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Laravel
2 8 (50.00%) CSS
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 8 (50.00%) React
3 7 (43.75%) Node.js
4 6 (37.50%) LAMP
5 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (18.75%) RESTful
7 2 (12.50%) .NET
7 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
7 2 (12.50%) Web Services
8 1 (6.25%) gRPC
8 1 (6.25%) Jest
8 1 (6.25%) REST
8 1 (6.25%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 5 (31.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) OOP
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 6 (37.50%) MVC
2 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Web Development
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) Fintech
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) PHP
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Twitter
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle