Mule Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Mule
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Mule skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 - 189
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing Mule 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.059% - 0.020%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.49% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £256 - -
25th Percentile £265 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £458 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -10.73% +2.50% -20.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 617 405 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.08% 12.06% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 254 245
10th Percentile £200 £193 £189
25th Percentile £329 £330 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £410
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.76% -13.68%
75th Percentile £537 £564 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £615
England median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 6 39
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.44 £17.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £43.23 £22.13 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +95.35% +26.46% -21.35%
75th Percentile £69.44 £37.32 £38.60
90th Percentile £74.26 £48.38 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.42 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% +76.47% +22.89%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mule relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Mule job vacancy trend in the North of England

Mule
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mule.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mule

Mule
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Yorkshire - 3 £280 -
Mule
England

Mule
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google