Mule Contract Job Trends in the North West

Mule
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Mule skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Mule 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.032% - 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.28% - 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £303
25th Percentile £713 - £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £311
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.76%
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £499 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.25% -23.08%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 353 288 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.39% 14.69% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 202 119
10th Percentile £140 £164 £207
25th Percentile £325 £321 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £516 £523
90th Percentile £600 £588 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 25
10th Percentile £19.63 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.01 £13.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.59 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +55.21% +26.39% +56.66%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.13 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £77.50 £46.18
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.75 £27.51
% change year-on-year -47.87% +91.77% +22.26%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Mule job vacancy trend in the North West

Mule
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Mule
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cheshire - 1 £725 - 1
Mule
England

Mule
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle