Mule ESB Contract Job Trends

Mule ESB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Mule ESB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mule ESB 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £756 - -
90th Percentile £760 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Mule ESB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,794 3,814 4,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.41% 11.12% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 2,345 2,991
10th Percentile £290 £251 £256
25th Percentile £400 £390 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £713 £766 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 84 136
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.19 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +32.63% +42.65%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.11 £72.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £23.13
% change year-on-year -17.65% +83.78% +32.14%

Mule ESB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mule ESB job vacancy trend in the UK

Mule ESB
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mule ESB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mule ESB

Mule ESB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule ESB over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule ESB in the UK

Mule ESB
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule ESB within the UK over the 6 months to 15 December 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
England - 4 £725 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £725 -
North of England - 2 £725 -
London - 2 £614 - 1
North West - 2 £725 -

Mule ESB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) Mule
2 3 (75.00%) Anypoint
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) iPaaS
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CloudHub
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk