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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 375 419
Rank change year-on-year +1 +44 +100
Contract jobs citing Mule 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.036% 0.006% 0.010%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.32% 0.052% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £542 - £572
25th Percentile £654 £506 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £741 £513 £624
Median % change year-on-year +44.63% -17.84% -4.04%
75th Percentile £775 £519 £660
90th Percentile - - £674
England median daily rate £358 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -30.15% -6.82% -8.33%

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 1,566 1,921 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.42% 12.37% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,282 1,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £667
90th Percentile £775 £850 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 25
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.39 £18.60
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +20.25% +14.58%
75th Percentile £46.75 £40.46 £44.54
90th Percentile £88.25 £72.75 £66.80
England median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -3.53% +57.41% +35.00%

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 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in London

Mule
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Central London +3 1 - -
Mule
England

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 5 (100.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (20.00%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
1 1 (20.00%) DSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) RAML
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) API Design
1 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) API Development
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) DataWeave
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) CloudHub
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (40.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft