Mustache Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Mustache
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mustache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 343 407
Rank change year-on-year -81 +64 +67
Contract jobs citing Mustache 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.045% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.24% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £523 £365 £475
% change year-on-year +43.22% -23.16% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Mustache falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,677 2,504 3,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.09% 18.60% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 1,612 2,269
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £410 £405 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.44%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £683
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.59% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 57 164
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 £21.39
25th Percentile £53.03 £59.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.54 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%

Mustache
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mustache relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Mustache job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Mustache
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mustache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mustache

Mustache
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mustache within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
North of England -69 1 £596 -0.75%
Yorkshire - 1 £596 -
Mustache
UK

Mustache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bundler
1 1 (100.00%) ESLint
1 1 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (100.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Enzyme
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Handlebars
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Backends for Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Web App
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility