Mule Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Mule
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Mule skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 115 112
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Mule 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.084% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.92% 1.25% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £373 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.49% -42.69% -
UK median daily rate £638 £365 £425
% change year-on-year +74.54% -14.06% -24.44%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 217 160 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.12% 10.15% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 90 157
10th Percentile £170 £274 £177
25th Percentile £313 £351 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £434
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +3.69% -13.20%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £608 £626 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £25.13 £15.44
25th Percentile £14.75 £35.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £15.00 £57.50 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -73.91% +158.63% -50.59%
75th Percentile £15.25 £66.88 £24.18
90th Percentile - £70.25 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.89% -21.65%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Mule job vacancy trend in Scotland

Mule
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Mule.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Mule

Mule
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Glasgow -20 2 £460 +23.49% 2
Mule
UK

Mule
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Mule ESB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (100.00%) TIBCO