Mule Contract Job Trends in London

Mule
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Mule skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 362 394
Rank change year-on-year -72 +32 +62
Contract jobs citing Mule 14 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.030% 0.006%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.69% 0.26% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £370 £542 -
25th Percentile £425 £654 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £741 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.64% - -
75th Percentile £655 £775 -
90th Percentile £656 - -
England median daily rate £638 £470 £311
% change year-on-year +35.64% +51.13% -53.75%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,020 1,562 2,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.06% 11.65% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,059 1,511
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £761
90th Percentile £713 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 24
10th Percentile £18.67 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £20.89 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.72% -25.29%
75th Percentile £41.44 £51.88 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.15 £82.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.59% +14.34% -20.33%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Mule job vacancy trend in London

Mule
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mule

Mule
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule in London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in London

Mule
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (100.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GoCD
1 2 (14.29%) Gradle
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Billing
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (85.71%) MuleSoft Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) REST
2 6 (42.86%) JSON
2 6 (42.86%) XML
3 5 (35.71%) SOAP
4 3 (21.43%) JMS
4 3 (21.43%) JWT
4 3 (21.43%) OAuth
4 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
5 2 (14.29%) JSF
5 2 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (14.29%) Middleware
5 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
5 2 (14.29%) RAML
5 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) Spring
5 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 2 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) API Management
2 6 (42.86%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) API Design
5 3 (21.43%) API Development
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
7 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk