Mule Contracts in Northern Ireland

Mule
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mule 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.52% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +2.70% -26.00% -1.57%

All Application Platform Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 23 17 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.47% 11.41% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 6
10th Percentile £302 £283 £341
25th Percentile £410 £398 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £494 £388
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +27.42% -13.89%
75th Percentile £530 £514 £483
90th Percentile £610 £538 £523
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.32 - -
Median hourly rate £48.82 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +202.82% - -
75th Percentile £52.31 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Mule in Northern Ireland

Mule
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
County Antrim - 4 £475 -
Mule
UK

Mule
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (100.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (100.00%) RAML
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Swagger
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) API Management
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow