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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 113 200
Rank change year-on-year -21 +87 -75
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 5 23 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 1.18% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.11% 6.99% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 44
10th Percentile £47,875 £49,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,563 £52,500 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +18.92% +2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £57,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%

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 237 329 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.24% 16.89% 28.81%
Number of salaries quoted 71 166 469
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £74,375 £72,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,126 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

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 15 May 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 -21 4 £58,000 +5.45%
Edinburgh -7 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (40.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) ODBC
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens