Mule Contracts in England

Mule
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Mule skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mule over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 535 615
Rank change year-on-year +42 +80 +82
Contract jobs citing Mule 14 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.016% 0.042%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.46% 0.16% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 20
10th Percentile £340 £304 £396
25th Percentile £420 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £311 £625
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -50.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £529 - £700
90th Percentile £775 £439 -
UK median daily rate £475 £311 £625
% change year-on-year +52.73% -50.24% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,060 3,793 4,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.25% 10.38% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 2,709 3,489
10th Percentile £289 £268 £263
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £735 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 134 145
10th Percentile £17.33 £13.51 £16.40
25th Percentile £26.45 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £47.12 £32.31 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% -31.98% +111.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £47.12 £32.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +44.98% -38.10% +112.72%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Mule as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mule in England

Mule
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mule in England.

Daily rate trend for Mule in England

Mule
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in England

Mule
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the England region over the 6 months to 16 July 2025. 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
South East - 7 £455 - 2
London +42 3 £750 +50.00% 5
East of England - 2 £500 -
North West +8 1 £340 +9.32%
North of England +5 1 £340 +9.32% 1
East Midlands - 1 £340 -
Midlands - 1 £340 -
Mule
UK

Mule
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (92.86%) Anypoint
2 4 (28.57%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) iPaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) AMQP
1 2 (14.29%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Architect
4 3 (21.43%) MuleSoft Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Applications Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) SOAP
2 7 (50.00%) RAML
2 7 (50.00%) XML
3 6 (42.86%) RESTful
4 5 (35.71%) JSON
4 5 (35.71%) Kafka
4 5 (35.71%) Web Services
5 4 (28.57%) JWT
5 4 (28.57%) OAuth
5 4 (28.57%) REST
6 3 (21.43%) MUnit
7 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (14.29%) Apache Camel
7 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
7 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (7.14%) J2EE
8 1 (7.14%) Spring
8 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
8 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) API Design
3 6 (42.86%) API Development
4 5 (35.71%) API Management
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 3 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
7 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) OO
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (14.29%) Scrum
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) DataWeave
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) CloudHub
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) MuleSoft
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
4 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx