The first table below looks at the demand for Mule skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mule over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mule
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mule 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £475
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
114 151 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 22.31% 18.06% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 98 56
Average daily rate £314 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.72% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £163 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 6
Average hourly rate £14.00 £23.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.13% +58.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £26.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Mule
South West

Mule
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mule across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bristol Mule Jobs Demand Trend

Mule
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mule across the Bristol region.

Bristol Mule Daily Rate Trend

Mule
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Mule also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Mule.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (100.00%) MarkLogic

Mule
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Mule also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Mule. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle