MySQL Jobs in Scotland

MySQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 7 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 154 145
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -22
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 38 79 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 1.78% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.44% 6.77% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28 56 39
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £51,813 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,659 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +23.69% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £91,934 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +7.78%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 511 1,167 828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.73% 26.32% 17.95%
Number of salaries quoted 226 478 494
10th Percentile £36,125 £34,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,144 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £63,900 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.13% -8.00% +4.17%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 February 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Scotland

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 7 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +5 25 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Glasgow +86 9 £55,000 +7.84% 5
Fife - 2 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 33 (86.84%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) GCP
3 7 (18.42%) SaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) npm
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Mocha
3 1 (2.63%) PHPUnit
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (21.05%) Games
4 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (81.58%) Developer
2 24 (63.16%) Senior
3 19 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 17 (44.74%) PHP Developer
5 12 (31.58%) Senior PHP Developer
6 6 (15.79%) Software Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (10.53%) Backend Developer
8 4 (10.53%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (10.53%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
10 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
10 2 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 2 (5.26%) Senior WordPress Developer
10 2 (5.26%) WordPress Developer
11 1 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 1 (2.63%) Computer Vision Engineer
11 1 (2.63%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (57.89%) CSS
1 22 (57.89%) HTML
1 22 (57.89%) Laravel
2 16 (42.11%) React
3 14 (36.84%) Node.js
4 11 (28.95%) AngularJS
5 8 (21.05%) LAMP
5 8 (21.05%) RESTful
6 5 (13.16%) Vue
7 4 (10.53%) Jest
8 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
9 2 (5.26%) Chai
9 2 (5.26%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (5.26%) Express.js
9 2 (5.26%) jQuery
9 2 (5.26%) koa
9 2 (5.26%) OAuth
9 2 (5.26%) Symfony
9 2 (5.26%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (21.05%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Software Engineering
2 13 (34.21%) DevOps
2 13 (34.21%) Web Development
3 11 (28.95%) Process Improvement
4 10 (26.32%) OOP
5 9 (23.68%) Mentoring
5 9 (23.68%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (21.05%) E-Commerce
6 8 (21.05%) MVC
7 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (13.16%) Customer Experience
8 5 (13.16%) Project Planning
9 4 (10.53%) Clean Code
9 4 (10.53%) Front End Development
9 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.89%) Design Patterns
10 3 (7.89%) Microservices
11 2 (5.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (76.32%) PHP
2 22 (57.89%) JavaScript
3 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) Ruby
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) Python
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) PhD
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Google
1 2 (5.26%) WooCommerce
2 1 (2.63%) Twitter