MySQL Contracts in Scotland

MySQL
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for MySQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MySQL over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 123 162
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 -33
Contract jobs citing MySQL 12 43 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 1.57% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.10% 7.38% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 9
10th Percentile £309 £449 £350
25th Percentile £344 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £566 £650 £488
90th Percentile £660 £688 £505
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.92% +102.33% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

MySQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 387 583 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.87% 21.27% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 454 409
10th Percentile £324 £400 £360
25th Percentile £400 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £482
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +1.30% +13.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £643 £657 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.03
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £19.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +18.64% -26.25%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £39.13
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £44.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +69.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Scotland

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -1 9 £488 -2.40% 6
Edinburgh +30 2 £283 -50.87% 4
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MariaDB
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) Impala
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (8.33%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
2 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (8.33%) Gatling
4 1 (8.33%) Gradle
4 1 (8.33%) gulp
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Maven
4 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
4 1 (8.33%) Travis CI
4 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) German Language
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (8.33%) CakePHP
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Redux
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (25.00%) SDET
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 2 (16.67%) GitOps
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) PHP
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Elixir
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) FreeIPA
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Icinga
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) VMware