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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 188 129
Rank change year-on-year +35 -59 +31
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 18 69 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 1.06% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.64% 4.37% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10 36 42
10th Percentile £49,400 £38,750 £39,280
25th Percentile £51,563 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £56,480
% change year-on-year - -7.05% +2.69%

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 388 1,580 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.83% 24.33% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 140 427 484
10th Percentile £33,625 £33,750 £35,888
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £44,949
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,577
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.82% +4.69%
75th Percentile £77,005 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £75,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £61,182 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.40% -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 July 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 July 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
Glasgow +91 11 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Edinburgh +28 7 £60,000 +50.00%
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 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 11 (61.11%) GCP
3 6 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) npm
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
3 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.11%) DB2
5 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (5.56%) CockroachDB
6 1 (5.56%) Couchbase
6 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Gradle
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Maven
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) JUnit
3 2 (11.11%) Mockito
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Games
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) PHP Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior PHP Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 2 (11.11%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) HTML
2 6 (33.33%) CSS
2 6 (33.33%) RESTful
3 5 (27.78%) LAMP
3 5 (27.78%) Laravel
3 5 (27.78%) React
3 5 (27.78%) Spring
3 5 (27.78%) Spring Boot
4 3 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 3 (16.67%) JPA
4 3 (16.67%) Kafka
5 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) gRPC
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) MVC
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) OOP
3 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Web Development
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.11%) Prototyping
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) PHP
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) C
6 1 (5.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Sybase
2 1 (5.56%) Twitter
2 1 (5.56%) WooCommerce