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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 124 162
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 -36
Contract jobs citing MySQL 11 44 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.51% 1.63% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.89% 7.77% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 8
10th Percentile £309 £451 £378
25th Percentile £318 £467 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% +2.78%
75th Percentile £492 £650 £491
90th Percentile £509 £688 £523
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £27.00
% change year-on-year +76.77% +46.67% +22.73%

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 381 566 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.77% 20.99% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 437 442
10th Percentile £322 £390 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% -0.30% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £556
90th Percentile £621 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.63
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.19
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +60.92% -45.63%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £31.88
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £41.55
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 £375 -26.83% 7
Edinburgh +22 1 £283 -50.87% 1
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 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MariaDB
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Hive
2 3 (27.27%) Big Data
2 3 (27.27%) Impala
2 3 (27.27%) Spark SQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (9.09%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
3 1 (9.09%) Gatling
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Database Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer in Test
2 2 (18.18%) Manual Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) CakePHP
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Redux
3 1 (9.09%) Vue
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Service Management
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) BDD
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
3 3 (27.27%) SDET
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Load Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Google