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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 373 422
Rank change year-on-year +33 +49 +58
Contract jobs citing Mule 24 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.033% 0.055%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.41% 0.36% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 6
10th Percentile £278 £304 £344
25th Percentile £328 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £311 £550
Median % change year-on-year +46.30% -43.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 - £594
90th Percentile £555 £514 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £311 £673
% change year-on-year +52.73% -53.75% +12.08%

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 1,708 1,679 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.12% 9.25% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 1,128 1,576
10th Percentile £233 £225 £196
25th Percentile £350 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -1.42% +2.15%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -6.73% +0.97% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 74 108
10th Percentile £14.71 £15.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.89 £20.03 £18.27
Median hourly rate £44.64 £45.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +56.52% +43.75%
75th Percentile £71.49 £70.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £77.86 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £42.27 £32.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year +29.07% -31.77% +113.33%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 - 1
North of England -17 6 £280 -9.97% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 -
East Midlands - 4 £340 - 1
Midlands - 4 £340 - 1
North West -8 3 £533 +71.22% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £278 -
Scotland -5 2 £373 -42.69%
East of England - 2 £500 -
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 16 (66.67%) Anypoint
2 6 (25.00%) Mule ESB
3 1 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) iPaaS
5 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) AMQP
1 2 (8.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MariaDB
1 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.17%) JUnit
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) MuleSoft Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Platform Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Support Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) RAML
1 13 (54.17%) XML
2 12 (50.00%) SOAP
3 11 (45.83%) JSON
4 9 (37.50%) Kafka
4 9 (37.50%) RESTful
5 7 (29.17%) REST
5 7 (29.17%) Swagger
5 7 (29.17%) Web Services
6 5 (20.83%) J2EE
6 5 (20.83%) JWT
6 5 (20.83%) OAuth
6 5 (20.83%) Spring
6 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
7 4 (16.67%) OpenAPI
8 3 (12.50%) MUnit
8 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (12.50%) Spring Batch
8 3 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (62.50%) Microservices
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) API Development
4 9 (37.50%) API Management
4 9 (37.50%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
5 7 (29.17%) API Design
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Availability Management
8 4 (16.67%) Change Management
8 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
8 4 (16.67%) ITIL
8 4 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) DataWeave
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) CloudHub
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) MuleSoft
2 4 (16.67%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Checkmarx
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow