MuleSoft Contract Job Trends in the North West

MuleSoft
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 December 2025, 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 116 131
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 +35
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 5 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.68% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile - £488 £550
25th Percentile £358 £544 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £625 £626
Median % change year-on-year -37.60% -0.20% +29.12%
75th Percentile £395 £650 £646
90th Percentile £616 - £681
England median daily rate £500 £650 £630
% change year-on-year -23.08% +3.17% +5.00%

All Vendors
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,271 1,022 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.76% 47.16% 46.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 566 808
10th Percentile £239 £303 £236
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 49 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.60 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +64.51%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.12 £57.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

MuleSoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

MuleSoft job vacancy trend in the North West

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft in the North West

MuleSoft
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 MuleSoft within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Cheshire -16 4 £374 -42.46% 1
Manchester -19 1 £391 -34.83% 6
MuleSoft
England

MuleSoft
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 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) Mule
1 1 (20.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Apigee
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Kong
2 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) JWT
2 3 (60.00%) OAuth
2 3 (60.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) Swagger
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Business Process Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (40.00%) Monetization
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk