MuleSoft Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

MuleSoft
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of MuleSoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MuleSoft over the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within MuleSoft, Inc.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 56 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.18% 0.23% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.16% 0.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £474 - -
90th Percentile £727 - -
North West median daily rate £358 £546 £575
% change year-on-year -34.46% -5.00% -

All Vendors
Cheshire

MuleSoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 371 267 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 54.56% 60.96% 56.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 158 194
10th Percentile £313 £302 £265
25th Percentile £379 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +11.41%
75th Percentile £622 £580 £560
90th Percentile £716 £685 £614
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.10% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 19
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £13.40
25th Percentile £15.56 £24.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £22.01 £50.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -55.98% +182.17% +10.27%
75th Percentile £33.63 £86.00 £25.14
90th Percentile £86.00 - £36.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £16.94
% change year-on-year -8.92% +91.91% -49.82%

MuleSoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MuleSoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

MuleSoft job vacancy trend in Cheshire

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing MuleSoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing MuleSoft

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft in Cheshire

MuleSoft
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 MuleSoft within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 7 £358 - 2
MuleSoft
North West

MuleSoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (100.00%) Apigee
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Kong
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) Business Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) Technical Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) JWT
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
2 6 (75.00%) JSON
2 6 (75.00%) OpenAPI
2 6 (75.00%) REST
2 6 (75.00%) SOAP
2 6 (75.00%) Swagger
2 6 (75.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (25.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) API Management
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) API Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Business Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Business Process Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) GAP Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 6 (75.00%) Use Case
2 6 (75.00%) Validation
2 6 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (62.50%) Monetization
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 2 (25.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft