MuleSoft Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

MuleSoft
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 21 July 2026, 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.31% 1.85% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.45% 4.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £569 £509 -
90th Percentile £625 £549 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -6.50%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 87 97 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.99% 44.91% 49.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 32
10th Percentile £257 £200 £145
25th Percentile £425 £325 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £656 £530 £575
90th Percentile £694 £608 £613
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 17
10th Percentile £27.55 £12.38 £12.25
25th Percentile £39.88 £12.66 £21.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £13.77 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +223.17% -43.05% +40.46%
75th Percentile - £17.00 £31.88
90th Percentile - £24.15 £40.25
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.93% -3.27% -36.65%

MuleSoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

MuleSoft job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

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

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft in Northern Ireland

MuleSoft
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 MuleSoft within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 July 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 +5 3 £450 -5.26% 1
MuleSoft
UK

MuleSoft
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 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
1 1 (33.33%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Heroku
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Environment And Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce