MySQL Job Trends in Scotland

MySQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 110 138
Rank change year-on-year -29 +28 +7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 2 37 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.071% 1.45% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.74% 7.58% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 26 54
10th Percentile - £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile - £50,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 271 488 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.68% 19.09% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 95 214 423
10th Percentile £26,100 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -4.77% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,274 £75,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

MySQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MySQL

MySQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 1 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Edinburgh -25 1 - - 4
MySQL
UK

MySQL
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens