Mule Contracts in Cheshire

Mule
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Mule skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mule over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Mule 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.49% 0.81% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.68% 7.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £375 £303 -
25th Percentile £427 £308 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £311 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% - -
75th Percentile £657 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
North West median daily rate £533 £311 £550
% change year-on-year +71.22% -43.45% -10.20%

All Application Platform Skills
Cheshire

Mule falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 112 57 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.21% 11.59% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 47 22
10th Percentile £268 £311 £245
25th Percentile £323 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% +2.95% +16.71%
75th Percentile £438 £551 £638
90th Percentile £527 £577 £649
North West median daily rate £410 £456 £485
% change year-on-year -10.14% -5.93% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.16
25th Percentile - - £22.40
Median hourly rate - - £22.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.54%
75th Percentile - - £26.90
90th Percentile - - £34.76
North West median hourly rate £45.11 £40.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +12.76% +95.12% -67.96%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Mule as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Mule in Cheshire

Mule
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mule in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Mule in Cheshire

Mule
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in Cheshire

Mule
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester - 2 £725 - 2
Knutsford -19 1 £340 +9.32%
Mule
North West

Mule
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (66.67%) Mule ESB
2 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) RAML
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft