The first table below looks at the demand for Mule skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mule over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mule
Rank 480 538 558
Rank change year-on-year
+58 +20
Contract jobs citing Mule 30 20 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.072% 0.037% 0.025%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.394% 0.228% 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 7
Average daily rate £400 £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £475
% change year-on-year
+0.66% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7610 8762 9528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.31% 16.42% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4375 4958 5146
Average daily rate £360 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 395 531
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Mule
UK

Mule
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Mule Daily Rate Trend

Mule
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mule across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Mule Daily Rate Histogram

Mule
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +35 20 £413 -17.50%
South East - 8 £383 -
North West - 2 £375 -
Mule
UK

Mule
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 46 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (69.57%) Spring
2 32 (69.57%) ESB
3 23 (50.00%) XML
3 23 (50.00%) Apache
4 19 (41.30%) SOAP
4 19 (41.30%) SQL
5 17 (36.96%) Tomcat
6 16 (34.78%) J2EE
7 15 (32.61%) E-Commerce
7 15 (32.61%) TDD
8 13 (28.26%) Hibernate
8 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
8 13 (28.26%) JUnit
8 13 (28.26%) XSLT
8 13 (28.26%) REST
9 12 (26.09%) Groovy
9 12 (26.09%) Web Services
9 12 (26.09%) JSP
9 12 (26.09%) Maven
9 12 (26.09%) JSON
10 11 (23.91%) EJB
10 11 (23.91%) jQuery
11 10 (21.74%) MongoDB
11 10 (21.74%) JMS
12 9 (19.57%) SOA
12 9 (19.57%) Servlets
12 9 (19.57%) C#
12 9 (19.57%) MVC
13 8 (17.39%) Spring Roo

Mule
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 32 (69.57%) Spring
2 23 (50.00%) XML
3 19 (41.30%) SOAP
4 16 (34.78%) J2EE
5 13 (28.26%) XSLT
5 13 (28.26%) Hibernate
5 13 (28.26%) REST
6 12 (26.09%) JSON
6 12 (26.09%) Web Services
6 12 (26.09%) JSP
7 11 (23.91%) EJB
7 11 (23.91%) jQuery
8 10 (21.74%) JMS
9 9 (19.57%) Servlets
10 7 (15.22%) Velocity
11 6 (13.04%) Spring MVC
12 5 (10.87%) Spring Web Flow
12 5 (10.87%) HTML
12 5 (10.87%) Middleware
13 4 (8.696%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 32 (69.57%) ESB
2 23 (50.00%) Apache
3 17 (36.96%) Tomcat
4 3 (6.522%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (4.348%) CMS
5 2 (4.348%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (2.174%) GemFire
6 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
6 1 (2.174%) GlassFish
6 1 (2.174%) nginx
6 1 (2.174%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) LDAP
1 2 (4.348%) HTTP
1 2 (4.348%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.174%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.04%) MySQL
3 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Hazelcast
4 2 (4.348%) MarkLogic
4 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.174%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.174%) Jackrabbit
5 1 (2.174%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.174%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.174%) Big Data
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) JUnit
2 12 (26.09%) Maven
3 8 (17.39%) Spring Roo
4 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
5 6 (13.04%) Subversion
5 6 (13.04%) Git (software)
6 5 (10.87%) JIRA
7 2 (4.348%) XMLSpy
8 1 (2.174%) Ant
8 1 (2.174%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.174%) Jasmine
General
1 7 (15.22%) Banking
2 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Publishing
3 5 (10.87%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.696%) Front Office
5 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (84.78%) Developer
2 25 (54.35%) Java Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (8.696%) Web Developer
5 4 (8.696%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.522%) Designer
6 3 (6.522%) SOA Designer
6 3 (6.522%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.522%) Systems Designer
7 2 (4.348%) Senior Web Developer
7 2 (4.348%) Java Web Developer
8 1 (2.174%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.174%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.174%) Senior J2EE Developer
8 1 (2.174%) Windows Administrator
8 1 (2.174%) Senior Windows Administrator
8 1 (2.174%) Windows Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.174%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (2.174%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Equities
1 5 (10.87%) Derivative
2 4 (8.696%) Open Source
3 3 (6.522%) Data Integration
4 2 (4.348%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.174%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.174%) RIA
5 1 (2.174%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) UNIX
2 2 (4.348%) Solaris
2 2 (4.348%) Linux
3 1 (2.174%) Windows
3 1 (2.174%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) E-Commerce
1 15 (32.61%) TDD
2 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (19.57%) SOA
3 9 (19.57%) MVC
4 7 (15.22%) Scrum
5 6 (13.04%) BDD
6 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (10.87%) Multithreading
7 4 (8.696%) Web Application Development
8 3 (6.522%) Unit Testing
8 3 (6.522%) System Testing
8 3 (6.522%) Data Analysis
8 3 (6.522%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (6.522%) OO
8 3 (6.522%) Workflow
8 3 (6.522%) B2C
9 2 (4.348%) ERP
9 2 (4.348%) UML
9 2 (4.348%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (41.30%) SQL
3 12 (26.09%) Groovy
4 9 (19.57%) C#
5 7 (15.22%) C++
5 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.522%) XPath
7 2 (4.348%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.174%) Scala
8 1 (2.174%) Perl
8 1 (2.174%) Smalltalk
8 1 (2.174%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.174%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) MCSE
1 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.174%) Sun Certification
1 1 (2.174%) MCITP
1 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.348%) OpenSSO
2 1 (2.174%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) JBoss
2 5 (10.87%) TIBCO
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle
3 4 (8.696%) IBM
4 2 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.348%) Google
5 1 (2.174%) Terracotta
5 1 (2.174%) RightScale
5 1 (2.174%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.174%) Sun
5 1 (2.174%) Informatica
5 1 (2.174%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.174%) Perforce
5 1 (2.174%) VMware
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013