Mule Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mule
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 395 437
Rank change year-on-year +65 +42 +49
Contract jobs citing Mule 9 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.019% 0.042%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.60% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £375 £303 £400
25th Percentile £450 £308 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £311 £525
Median % change year-on-year +52.73% -40.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £509 - £538
90th Percentile £555 - £556
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +2.70% -26.00% -1.57%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,500 1,778 2,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.73% 8.57% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 1,188 1,917
10th Percentile £213 £211 £200
25th Percentile £350 £324 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 125 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.30 £15.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -10.31% +43.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -38.86% +104.55%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mule as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mule in the UK excluding London

Mule
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mule in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mule in the UK excluding London

Mule
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in the UK excluding London

Mule
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 5 £455 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 -
Mule
UK

Mule
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (100.00%) Anypoint
2 4 (44.44%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) iPaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) JSON
1 9 (100.00%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) RAML
2 8 (88.89%) RESTful
2 8 (88.89%) SOAP
3 4 (44.44%) OpenAPI
3 4 (44.44%) Swagger
4 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (22.22%) REST
6 1 (11.11%) JMS
6 1 (11.11%) JWT
6 1 (11.11%) Kafka
6 1 (11.11%) MUnit
6 1 (11.11%) OAuth
6 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) API Management
2 7 (77.78%) API Development
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (44.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (44.44%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (33.33%) API Design
5 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) DataWeave
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) CloudHub
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow