Mule Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Mule
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Mule skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mule 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.88% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £626 - -
25th Percentile £628 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £672 - -
90th Percentile £674 - -
UK median daily rate £638 £381 £425
% change year-on-year +67.21% -10.29% -24.44%

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 7 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.10% 8.20% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 11
10th Percentile £101 £300 £123
25th Percentile £103 £349 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £410 £425
Median % change year-on-year -37.20% -3.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £597 £482 £488
90th Percentile £669 £534 -
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +2.94%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Mule job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Mule
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mule.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mule

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 13 September 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
County Antrim - 2 £650 -
Mule
UK

Mule
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Anypoint
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce